Rick

One half of TeamCave, living the dream 💭 with my dream girl 😍, how lucky am I ? I get told to go away and work on the bikes 🔧🏍. We've ridden on the road 🛣 and track, raced at State Championships and embarked on open road tours. Living the dream 💑🏍🛫🐨🇦🇺🏖

Louise and I have been on some pretty long rides.

I chatted about wouldn’t it be great to have some kind of retro fit throttle cruise control.

So after much internet surfing found the KAOKO Throttle Stabilizer.

Link to where I purchased them https://www.cruisingbikers.com.au/

Bling Factor Rating

This rating for the moment after the long ride and testing, this will go up or down.

OK

OK, has a purpose

Looks awesome, has purpose

Looks awesome, stands out

Frostbite Cool

Remove the Bar End

The OEM Bar End has to come off first. You should have fitted the bolt with a dab of Medium (Blue) strength Loctite. This make make it a tad stiff and difficult to take off. Make sure you use the correct sized screwdriver or allen head head. Place in the bolt head and give the end of the screwdriver a short sharp tap. With the screwdriver still in the bolt head with a short strong rotation to the left (anti-clockwise) the bolt should break free from the Loctite grip. Remove the bolt and bar end.

Internal OEM Bar End Bolt

Once the Bar End is off you should see the OEM Bar end internal bolt. This has an internal thread for taking the bar end fixing bolt and an outer thread for fixing into the handle bar. If you do not have one and it's an aftermarket one because you opted years ago to go for some fancy blingy bar ends. Think twice, I would always go for the OEM inner bolt as you know that is going to be solid and more importantly the inner thread is going to be TDC (True Dead Centre) If the inner thread is 'off centre' the KAOKO stabiliser will not work properly.

FRICTION BABY

The KAOKO friction washer goes in first. The job of this washer is, to engage with the end of the throttle tube only, not the end of the grip. I had to source a new throttle tube as the previous owner had munted it for some reason? Yeah I know right all these extra jobs to rectify previous bright ideas. Still all good to find these and rectify. There is an inner raised lip on the washer - this faces and should be able to make contact with the end of the throttle tube.