Anyone know where to get good brake hose & speedo cable clips?

Scrappy

Legendary Knight
I'm trying to find some good plastic clips for keeping the brake hose and speedo cable together, as the ones currently on my FTR are pretty useless as they keep coming undone. In the past I brought some decent ones for my Bonneville and other bikes, that fold around both hose & cable snapping shut, and requiring a small flat head screw driver to release. However these are too large for the hose & cable on my FTR, and I can't remember where I brought them from anyway 🤔

This is what's currently on the FTR...
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And the larger one below is what I used to use on my Bonneville etc, but the whole diameters are too large so it would just slide around...

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I'd like to find similar to the above but slightly smaller, to fit a 7mm diameter brake hose, and 5mm speedo cable. I don't want metal alloy, as the inevitable movement when riding I believe the weight might damage other components and/or paint.

I been looking for ages and can't find anything other than aluminum items that close with a screw ☹️

If any of you have any ideas, I'd be grateful, thanks.
 
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Don the Don

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The vast majority appear to be alloy, found some plastic items and would you believe it they are Landy parts
If possible modifying those Amazon bike parts may be the cheapest option.

 

Scrappy

Legendary Knight
Ok so those little clips from Amazon didn't work, too small, and would have been destroyed if I tried to adapt them.

So next attempt will be these 7mm clips, and a small piece cut from some 5mm-7mm silicon tube as padding for the 5mm accelerator cable. The clips look like they will surround more of the brake line diameter than the original clips, so hopefully they should be more likely to stay in place.

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Should work I think :unsure:, I might have to super glue the tube offcut into the clip, or possibly not.
 
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