JC, sorry to hear about Terrie's mishap! Hope she recovers quickly. Will this incident lead you to remove the throttle boss, change glove types or take any other action? I have throttle boss's on all 3 bikes and could see this happening after you described it? Trying to decide if I'm going to change anything.
She's already told me that she's changing gloves.....something with a velcro wrist to secure any loose flap. We've also talked about removing the throttle boss from both bikes. I don't think that will be necessary as long as she changes gloves and they sure are convienent on the long haul rides.
Interestingly, Jon (jonga) rode her bike back from LA on Thurs. He said that when he stopped for gas it happened to him, also.
Sat morning I left the house at 6:30 a.m. to run down to Eagles Nest HD in Lathrop to get my LED tail light changed out. When I left there, I had my shorty gloves on and left the sleeve unzipped on my leather Screamin Eagle jacket. As I left their drive way, I twisted the wick pretty good, but when I left off the throttle, it just kept right on going......my jacket sleeve caught on it. She and I have had those things for a couple of years and neither of us has ever had any problems and now we both experience it in the same week.
Sure makes you think about the things that we take for granted (gloves, jacket sleeves, etc.). I used to wonder why the hell they'd put velcro on the sleeves of shorty (no gauntlet) gloves.......now we know.
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