Reply To: Why are Jacks / Lifts / Stands so Overpriced?
Lol, it’s okay , this is the bike life, it’s always wise to have a garage full of backups for any situations. Unlike a car, if it breaks down, you need AA 100% and most cases you need a taxi home and the car is stuck in a garage if the clutch goes bang etc, on major things.
I’d recommend backup clutch cables , throttles cables and a small set of tools in your pannier boxes, then heaven forbid a cable snaps , then you can replace it on the road side! (A new bike? Should be OK for a long while, but as with buying used bikes, i usually overhaul everything and put the old parts in storage as backups in the future, saves the online crazy hunting you experienced) 🙂
I just literally had to send a cable to Jim from USA (he is on the forum) , rode fine to wherever he was summoned to, but something snapped on the way back home! 🤐