How bad of an idea is my friend's cheap throttle lock?

How many times do you get out and ride? How many times have you cleaned your bike? What road trips have you had to cancel? I was going from Melbourne to the Atherton Tablelands ..... looks like that...

Looked so good but definitely was a bad idea. The lights kept turning on even after I made sure they were off and killed my battery ?...

8 days till i jump out of a airplane and soar like a bird or fall like a rock...

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Was riding my bike to work, and someone had dropped a can of white paint on the road. It was spilt all across the road, and I tried to cross it at the spot which seemed there was the least paint but n...

BMW did it in the late 80s by chopping a cylinder off their K100 to make the K75, they could do it again, right?...

  A lot of unanticipated work went into this assembly.  The geometry of the new body halves was different enough that I had some binding of the rotor when everything was tightened down. &nbs...

The throttle twist grip assembly is a two cable unit. The housing halves were in good shape except for severely pitted chrome on the top half.  ...

I determined that since the original screws are enough larger than the repro ones, that I could drill and re-tap the body for the original screws. After buying the special taps, I probably would have...