girlies with spanners?

[Sparky Bills]

HEY!!
You use chewing gum to hold your chain together too!?

I thought i was the only one

[Ixion]

HEY!!
You use chewing gum to hold your chain together too!?

I thought i was the only one

No, silly, it's not to hold the chain together. She just parks her chuddy wad there until she's ready for another chew.

[Sparky Bills]

No, silly, it's not to hold the chain together. She just parks her chuddy wad there until she's ready for another chew.

Yeah ive heard that chain lube has a nice tangy taste (or was it a burning sensation?)

One of the two anyway

[Ixion]

Yeah ive heard that chain lube has a nice tangy taste (or was it a burning sensation?)

One of the two anyway

Going for a run over a country road just after cows have been moved on it gives the chuddy an interesting flavour also

[surfchick]

No, silly, it's not to hold the chain together. She just parks her chuddy wad there until she's ready for another chew.

Ba HA HA

[FROSTY:Me]

Actually I saw this thread and remembered I need to say thanks to mrs SVS
She really helped me at the first race meeting at pukie

[pete376403]

I do as much as I can, which includes all ongoing maintenance, but I tend to take my bike to a proper mechanic for internal engine work.

I'm hoping to take the head off it in the near future to check the valve clearances with the able assistance of The Man. But I'm the type of person who prefers to do it herself under instruction ... not let the instructor take control of the tools & do it for me! You can't learn anything that way.

Hey Slim, if your Daytona is the new 4 cylinder, you shouldn't have to pull the head off to check the clearances - cam covers maybe, but pulling the head seems a bit extreme. And if you're talking about the old twin cylinder Daytona (which I recall was a 500) definitely no to pulling the head to check clearances, seeing as how they are a pushrod motor.
But more power to you for getting into it and finding out how it works.

[Slim]

Hey Slim, if your Daytona is the new 4 cylinder, you shouldn't have to pull the head off to check the clearances - cam covers maybe, but pulling the head seems a bit extreme. And if you're talking about the old twin cylinder Daytona (which I recall was a 500) definitely no to pulling the head to check clearances, seeing as how they are a pushrod motor.
But more power to you for getting into it and finding out how it works.

I was talking about the CBR600 I had at the time ... but it was never required, thanks to quick sale.

[skidMark]

girls with tools....and grease and oil ....damn thats a nice thought

[crashe]

girls with tools....and grease and oil ....damn thats a nice thought

Settle petal......hehehehe

[Mitch]

I think one thing that's coming out loud and clear in this thread is that due to our Western society's inherent preconditioning of girls as mechanical numpties, the best and fastest route to fixing your own bike is to find a husband or boyfriend who knows what he's doing.

That is a crock of shit!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have always worked on cars and started with bikes about 8 years ago. Found that the car experience wasn't quite enough to get me through so am currently in my second year of a motorcycle mechanics course in Wellington and can now do everything myself. With the exception of corse of any engineering work that's why there are engineering courses!!!
There are some really great books that can help you with the basics and would really recommend picking one up!! One trip to the mechanics for simple maintence work and you have paid for the book and some basic tools.
Best of luck mate!!!!!!!!!

[crashe]

I think one thing that's coming out loud and clear in this thread is that due to our Western society's inherent preconditioning of girls as mechanical numpties, the best and fastest route to fixing your own bike is to find a husband or boyfriend who knows what he's doing.

I'm glad *my* wife wasn't choosing on that basis, though...

AHEM.... I have always worked on all my old cars.... started learning about them years ago... sure the new cars are a tad different now. But still do what I can.
I also work on my bike as much as I can or I help a mate working on it to learn more about it.

Now JRandom, did you not now that many men have no idea what a spanner is let alone a hammer.

[Stroker Girl]

I'm feeling bit chuffed with myself as I've just done my first oil and filter change! Still a way to go to get up to the skills of some of the other angels on this forum but it's a step in the right direction.

Got a very helpful partner (almost too helpful as I had to scream at him to drop the screwdriver and step away from the bike!) who wants to do it all for me. Unfortunately you will rarely learn anything this way. Only had to get him to help me undo the sump plug as I couldn't untighten the bastard Incidentally, do Honda go hard out with their fairing screws or what!

Next it's the air filter change, trying to get a nice foam number to replace the grotty paper one.

Cool career move Slim. I was ready one of the aussy bike mags the other day and there was a photo of a girl who had just won 'bike apprentice of the year' over there.