Left hand throttle sticking

[dre]

I have a Goldfinger left hand throttle on my M6 & a Lefty Sidehiller2 on my M8.

On Friday both of them started to stick. They felt frozen. It was a deep snow day. Cold but not exceptionally chilly. I lubed both of them recently. I used Bombardier spray lube but am thinking oil might be better? The Lefty SH2 is only 8 rides old.
Anyone had this happen. Suggestions?
Dre

 

[m8magicandmystery]

think maybe it was the lube...???...try flushing them by lubing with wd 40 and see if they perform better

 

[Arctic Thunder]

Had the same problem with my goldfinger lefty. I don't think this is a Goldfinger thing. It's a "Any" cable thing. Can happen if it gets moisture in it.

Almost sent the sled wide open into the trees but was able to hold on long enough to hit the kill switch. (Should have a tether if you have a lefty)

I know the problem is the moisture in the cable. When riding it is warm from the engine. Then stopping it cools down and mine froze.

Bad deal. I would also suggest WD40 to displace the water/moisture in the cable sheath.

Thunder

 

[Zone28M7]

I personally stopped riding with a lefty altogether. I have seen some serious whipes happen from these sticking. Including two weekends ago, a buddy was side hillings and ended up in a gnarly tree well with some busted A arms. If you compare your safety to how often you actually use the lefty, you may want to just remove it..Just a few words. They're not exactly safe.

 

[dre]

cable lube fix

thanks for the feedback folks.
If anyone is interested, I dismantled both lefty throttles & lubed the hell out of the cables. I used engine fuel oil - because that's all I had on hand.
Both throttles are working great. Rode all day yesterday in fresh snow. No problems. I think these devices need a regular lube to keep them safe - advice which should be posted on the product 'installation & use' instructions IMO.
Dre

PS: yes, one day I will get some skills so I don't need a lefty.

 

[backcountryislife]

lefty's work the best on a bench or in the trash.

You don't one day wake up with the skills to not need one, you get rid of it & change the way you approach certain situations. I wanted one a few years back, and the guy who I ended riding for a few years later told me to stop riding like a girl & said he wouldn't order me one, I'm SO glad he was a prick!!!!

Unless you're riding an older chassis, or a 4 stroke I really see no need for them.

Just seen too many of them screw up & send sleds flying, doing their best to hurt some people on their way to the nearest tree.

 

[smokin800]

Get rid of them and learn how to ride. No, I don't think they are worth having.

 

[Desperado]

I've had 2 bad experiences with a lefty throttle. (gold finger) although in the end the brand didn't matter. Anyway I was side hilling on a fairly gentile setup hill and ended up falling off my sled. My toe stayed hooked in the footwell as the sled was rolling, I fell off on the left side of my sled. Every time I reached up to grab the handle bar my stupid finger would hook in that gold finger throttle and off the sled would go. After doing this for abou 50 yrds I finally came loose from the sled. I tweeked my back pretty good from that one. That darn throttle kept me from pulling myself back up on the sled. Second time was when I actually let someone ride my sled, (it turned into a spare since I upgraded). Well he was a fairly inexperienced rider. We all took out of the parking lot and climbed this little hill to intersect the trail. All of us were parked waiting for my friend. He came up the hill no problem and when he got to us grabed the brake, well the brake turned out to be that damn left hand throttle. He tea boned another buddys sled and then my sled went ghost riding down the hill into a tree. My fault for not informing him about the throttle. 1400 dollars later all is good, my left hand goldfinger is now in a box collecting dust...Will sell cheap if anyone is interested.

 

[Trashy]

Had one once.
Don't miss it.
I also can't say I have seen any of the better riders using one.... its sorta like the "mountain bar" in that it just teaches you bad habits.

 

[DLish715]

This is all because of a lefty. Putting the sled on the trailer with no ramp and the skis were already on the bed with the track up against the end of the trailer and my buddy ends up going to hit the brake and pins it sending my rail right through one of the windows of my track

 

[BigRed118]

So your lefty went through the track???? It seems like you have alot of problems. BDX is junk, lefty caused this. Maybe you should have someone else work on your sled.

 

[Zone28M7]

So your lefty went through the track???? It seems like you have alot of problems. BDX is junk, lefty caused this. Maybe you should have someone else work on your sled.

No, he's saying the left hand throttle got pinned and when it came to a hault the rails on the chassis went through a track window....not sure how a left throttle would go through a track?

 

[BigRed118]

No, he's saying the left hand throttle got pinned and when it came to a hault the rails on the chassis went through a track window....not sure how a left throttle would go through a track?

Just a joke with that comment. If you read the rest of his threads they are mostly complaining about one product or another. Maybe it's not the product or in this case products........

 

[DLish715]

Just a joke with that comment. If you read the rest of his threads they are mostly complaining about one product or another. Maybe it's not the product or in this case products........

haha actually we were loading the sled on the trailer with no ramp and lined the rail up with the track window. My friend went to go to grab the bars and grabbed my lefty. It was all his fault. FYI BDX sent me the wrong idler wheel kit so kiss my ***

 

[arcticcat38]

I could not ride without my lefty. Mine freezes up from time to time so I put a graphite spray in it and it worked for a season before I had to do it again.