What sort of work do you do on your bike at home? (Road riders only)

[Forest]

Most of my recent bikes had fairings.

I can't be bothered messing around with fairings. So to the bike shop they go.

[Gubb]

I'm keen to learn how to do a lot of this, i'm not particularly mechanically minded, but I can do some simple things.

What's the best way to learn, just send out a help message when I think that I need to do something, or go to a night class or summat?

[Ixion]

I have heard that the peregrinatory gentleman may be reinstituting his spanner nights. If so turn up at one and ask meaningful questions.

[Gubb]

I'll reply to that after I find my Thesaurus.

[codgyoleracer]

I keep my basic maintenance limited to setting piston head squish, shot peening conrods & shimming gearboxes. Dont trust myself to change the oil though & pay good money to have that done.

[GSVR]

I keep my basic maintenance limited to setting piston head squish, shot peening conrods & shimming gearboxes. Dont trust myself to change the oil though & pay good money to have that done.

Hope your using the good oil. (I know the answer to this)



Spose I'd better put down a few words about what I do in the way of bike maintenance at home.

Like painting 90% of the job is preparation so I spend most of my time thinking about the next maintenance job, as well as thinking I do alot of talking about it (right Glen) not always maint as the subject is complicated and you can get sidetracked onto MotoGP or the ultimate F3 bike. Then I do the preparation this can take quite some time and involves alot of standing in places like supercheap reading oil containers and coming online and debating oil filters with experts like Robert Taylor. Then I get up see its a nice day put my bike on the axle stand start it up and spray the chain with lube and take the bike for a short spin to get the oil hot. This can take a while (2 days in the case of the Gisbourne sendoff) and by the time I get home I'm pretty much to tired for anything else.