For a little bit more money and a little more time fitting it, you can have a Vista Cruise throttle lock that works far, far better and is always on the bike at all times.
I took a look at the Vista cruise, and the operation looks simple enough, but it's kind of an ugly contraption on the bike
It kind of looks like a hose clamp latched onto the bar at the grip
Not critical for function I know, but, well
THe other thing that made me a bit nervous about it is that you have to clicked it upwards with your thumb to release it? Does this mean that you can't roll off the throttle and back on smoothly and easily until you disengage it with the switch?
My worry is that you'll have to roll off quickly, and then back on for some kind of evasive manuever, and to find and manipulate the thumbswitch in a panic situation (and missing it) would mean that you had to fight the tension of the device to resist smooth throttle action in an emergency? If the throttle would even move at all? The operation videos were a bit unclear on that point.
With the other one, once you rolled off teh throttle manually, the device is angled up and out of the way so that subsequent throttle actions are unaffected after the initial roll off...
I guess I have to reserve judgement till the throttle lock gets here and I give it a whirl... I just like the simplicity of it, no springs, screws, clamps etc...
We'll see how it goes... Oh, and I would just leave it on the bike all the time, no need to remove it unless I was working on the bars... The ease of removal was just a fringe benefit I suppose
I also looked at the breakaway throttle device... nicely made, and I would get one if I was into long LONG trips and had a metric cruiser with a lot of chrome on it
and it's almost $200 I would actually rather spend that money on a variable ratio throttle that gave me smoother throttle action with machined parts, rather than looking for a way to lock it down
Interesting information to digest though
