Post your tips, tricks and any learnings to do with rebuilding bikes.
MY tip, after years of learning... Buy a complete bike
FIRST choose a financially very rewarding career path, so you can fund your projects...
FIRST choose a financially very rewarding career path, so you can fund your projects... I don't see the rich list guys tinkering on old motorcycles....apart from J Leno.
Hammers do have a usefull place in ones tool kit.
On a similar note, if you can't fix it with a hammer, it's probably electrical.
NEVER, NEVER, estimate a finish time for a project
NEVER, NEVER, estimate a finish time for a project or how much $$$$$
never tell the missus how much or how long......
Remember the law of the Power Of Three. Any project will take three times longer than originally planned, cost three times more than initially budgeted, take up three times more space than originally envisaged, etc.
I always have a finish date for a project or else how am I going to get it done? My current project has a finish date of "I better get it run and torqued up in by the time I take it to the South Island" Lack of money only extends the amount you do yourself. If you have concerns about telling the missus how much or how long it's time for a new missus. Any project will take three times longer than originally planned, cost three times more than initially budgeted, take up three times more space than originally envisaged, etc. Any project properly researched and planned will take none of the above.
Any project properly researched and planned will take none of the above. My experience would suggest otherwise, and not for a lack of planning or research. The vagaries of rearing children will always provide more than ample diversions for funds previously allocated to a particular project. School trips, sporting pursuits, dental correction programs, home computers & software, etc etc. School holidays always provide ample opportunity for kids to find expensive and unbudgeted activities to get involved in too. My R90S project languished for years due to the project fund being robbed regularly to pay for competitive BMX bikes bristling with more titanium than a surgical ward, expensive music lessons, sports trips to Australia, travel to (and accommodation at) BMX tracks around NZ, musical instruments, etc, not to mention a brief but expensive toe-dip into competitive motorcross at one stage . . . .
Any project properly researched and planned will take none of the above. Can I come and live on your planet?
I now know that if I had a new project and was realistic about it I would have to say that "it could take me up to five years and $10k to complete it, provided no other "diversions" occured". Under those terms though I'd never ever get another project... Much easier to think, "oh, well, it's only a grand to buy that bike on trademe and it's a pretty tidy bike anyway, I should be able to fix those couple of isues easily and be on the road by next summer", lol!
