:w00t: Clutch cable snapped:w00t:
Luckily I was pulling away from traffic lights at the time and no harm done to me or machine.
This shouldn’t happen to a 6mth old bike should it!!! OMG…just calming down now- recovery (for bike) on its way:crying:
you in the middle of London? if not then shame on you 
ride the sucker home without the clutch! its good for your self-respect and pocket, and as long as you do it right will cause no damage to the bike, as to the break? no it should’nt happen at that age, to be honest it should’nt happen at any age.when all is repaired, check over to make sure the cable isnt rubbing, or bent at a sharp angle, otherwise its just Sod and his law 
Bad luck m8, you were only just saying last night that short-shifting was a no-no and then this.
Bad luck I’d say.
Happened a few times on my old scoot. I used to get them replaced at my 6 months service as a precaution.
Out of interest, did they fix it road side or did they tow you back?
Back in the time when the Thames froze over every January, we used to tape spare cables alongside the originals because we expected them to break.
I kind of hoped the days were gone when I’d be pulled up under a tree changing the xxxxx cable in the rain using the crappy tool kit that came with the bike.
Seems I may have been optimistic and need to go get a couple of (no doubt outrageously expensive) spares.
Yeah back in them days I had a spare solderless nipple in my pocket and a spare chain link permanently attatched to my leather jacket zip.
Praise the Lord for hydraulic clutches;)
Can you still get those temporary screw-on nipples ?, when i had a passion for bsa singles i used to carry spare inner wires for each bowden cable with one end made off already, dont even have to remove the cable just pull out the snapped item , thread thro a new one and screw on a nipple which would be replaced with a solder one when i got home.
Yes you can still get them.
http://www.gprdirect.com/OnlineShop/Product.do;jsessionid=31d44a3152e63faffa2e9d8bcc22?c=237&g=795
The RAC bloke did a temporary fix by fabricating a new cable by the roadside- tried three times before he got the solder to hold but in the end it seems to have done the trick, at least it was fine to get me home. Said I should get it in to the dealer to get a proper replacement asap so prob take it in tomorrow. I do use the clutch a hell of a lot on my commute so I suppose it’s not that surprising that it went but I have only done 2500 miles on the thing- you would have thought a cable would last longer than that.
Thanks for the advice guys. Kenny, yes I was right in the middle of London- you must be more of a man then I am- I reckon my left ankle would give way trying to jam it out of first without a clutch for the 13 miles home through traffic! 
Ah you see, thats where you are mistaken, I would never crash it into first, you need to wobble along a bit and then go for second while moving and as you were in the center then that obviously wasn’t practical , under those circumstances I would reach for the cable repair kit I bought about 6 years ago from my local bike shop and hope one of the bits fitted 
How would you start the bike though? Presumably it would be pretty much impossible to get it in neutral without the clutch?
If stationary, neutral is easy. You just push the bike gently to and fro. It’s pulling away that’s the bu**er. Paddle like crazy with the engine off, hit the starter and select first all at once. It works, but not on a London commute.
Yeah back in them days I had a spare solderless nipple in my pocket and a spare chain link permanently attatched to my leather jacket zip.
Yes you can still get them.
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Somewhere in the garage is still a plastic ziplock bag with a length of cable, a selection of solderless nipples and a pair of decent wire cutters.
The bikes might have been s*it but we didn’t own credit card and RAC cards, so getting the bloody thing home was a point of honour.
Do I miss those days? NO. That’s why I don’t remember where all this rubbish is. “Point of honour?” Give me modern reliability.
+1
Heh, i had that happen on my vespa. but i could still get into first and second gear and i wasn’t too far away from home, so 15mph and i rode back home, i had huge arctic lorries overtaking me and beeping at me
Found out today that clutch cables snapping is something MT-03’s might be particularly prone to.
Said hello to a bloke on another (coincidently) white MT-03 at the traffic lights on my way home today and the first thing he said was ‘has your clutch cable snapped yet?’ :w00t: Strange you should say that but yes it did snap a couple of days ago. He said he had 3 go in a year!!! Don’t know what Yamaha could do about it but this sounds like it should be a possible recall matter to me- if it’s affecting all MT-03’s?
Sounds like the routing of the MT-03 clutch cable is causing it to come into contact with something (frame/engine etc) resulting in premature wear and failure.
Hydraulic clutch used to fail on my SV - dirt was getting into the slave cylinder and contaminating the fluid - Suzuki issued a rubber boot to cover cylinder - solved the problem.
If it’s snappinganywhere other than close to the nipple(s), there is either a routing or quality problem.
If it’s snpping next to the nipples, there’s a quality or leverage set up problem.
If the nipple(s) are pulling off, it’s a quality problem.
On balance, it’s sounds like a quality problem.
There are lots of cable making companies out there. It’s probably worth taking the old broken bits to one of them to get a decent build quality one made up using the old outer and adjusters. Probably cost less than the OE spare.
I suppose you remembered to keep all of the bits? No? Well make sure you do if it goes again.