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Posted by Troll
 - May 19, 2016, 08:50:58 AM

Question: Are you people lubing these cables, and routing them correctly? I lost more speedo drive units on H-Ds over the years than cables. Put 3 drives on my 1980 FLT, and 1 cable in 200,000 miles....

Posted by RockinRollin
 - May 19, 2016, 08:37:00 AM

Yep, mine just went.

Posted by Old Drifter
 - May 16, 2016, 09:13:19 AM

Same problem I had. When I bought my '99 and rode it from South Florida to North Georgia, the spedo cable snapped.

Posted by pcarrell
 - May 16, 2016, 08:21:15 AM

Yeah, it's a known problem on the early 1500's.  The Nomad cable is a couple of inches longer and solves the problem.

Posted by JagLite
 - May 15, 2016, 20:36:03 PM

Mine was broken when I bought the bike so I ordered the longer Nomad (?) cable.
Considering how tight it is I can't picture a shorter cable lasting any time at all.

Posted by Jobi
 - May 15, 2016, 15:15:27 PM

Happened for the second time within one year apart. Both times were when averaging around 150km/h (93mph) (NOT my usual riding speed, but my riding buddies really wanted to get from A to B fast!). Both speedo cables were Drifter models. Just wanted to confirm that the higher speeds really do seem to kill these cables.

Now getting the Nomad ;)

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