Basically my throttle cable has snapped on my bike. I can do very basic stuff, like changing oil, spark plugs, batteries and the like - and I have been told this is fairly straightforward too - but it involves stripping the bike down basically. I've an old 1990 XJ600, so it needs the fairing removed, then the petrol tank removed, then a new cable routed through where the old one is.
So my question is: how much would you expect a mechanic / garage to charge labour + parts to fix it for me? As I don't want to end up bodging a job - anything else I do is only going to mean the bike isn't going to start, whereas if I do this wrong I could end up with the throttle jammed open or worse.
I would ask on VD where I used to post, but it seems they've lost my account, and it's all changed into some commercial rubbish site, due to some magazine or something. If anyone knows any motorbike enthusiast forums based in the UK feel free to point me that way
I was hoping someone was a bit of a grease monkey on here though and knew a bit about that kind of thing. (looking at one website it seems the throttle cable is about a tenner)