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Bendy
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PostPosted: 17:58 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Book recommendation... Reply with quote
Can anyone recommend a good book for someone who knows sod all about bike maintenance, something that covers the basic stuff (a dummy's guide if you will) and doesn't rely on the reader being very mechanically minded?

Ta!
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TiN
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PostPosted: 18:01 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
Have you tried the "Yellow Pages"?...you just flick onto the pages with "mechanics", and then pick up the telephone...Laughing

Tin
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Robby
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PostPosted: 18:01 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
get either the haynes or clymer manual for the cb500. halfords will stock it. clymer are better.
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Kris
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PostPosted: 18:01 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
bus time-table?

1-1 Wink
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Bendy
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PostPosted: 18:05 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
thank you robby for your deep helpfulness.

kris, tin.... I'll see you after class Twisted Evil
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TJ NSR
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PostPosted: 18:25 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keith would be a good 1!!!
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Bendy
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PostPosted: 18:26 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
maybe I can just keep Keith on my bookshelf...
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PsychoHippy
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PostPosted: 18:31 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree with Robby, Haynes manuals are pritty much 'Bake Maint For Dummies'. Everything is every clear and well explained. Don't know about the Clymer ones, but they may be worth a look.
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Kickstart
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PostPosted: 18:49 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
EvilBendy wrote:
maybe I can just keep Keith on my bookshelf...


Thanks, I know I am short, but not that short!

Good luck finding a book. We spent a while hunting for one for a friend, and finally found a suitable one that was about 30 years old. Difficult to find anything that doesnt assume some knowledge of how an engine works

All the best

Keith
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Robby
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PostPosted: 19:09 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeh i have a haynes manual for my cb. its mouldy. but i have found that haynes will often take the part off to draw and photograph it, and work on it like this, whereas clymer are supposed to be a lot better for working while it is on the bike - which means that haynes sometime make silly mistakes, like saying something should be somewhere when it is in fact somewhere else, and also the method they suggest isn't always possible.
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Keen
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PostPosted: 19:58 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
has anyone read 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance'?

just bought but I'm in the middle of another book so I haven't started it. Any good? better be with all the hype!
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Doddmaster
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PostPosted: 20:22 - 04 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
as far as I can tell, it is not actually about motorbikes???

From the reviews I read, it sounds like prose
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Keen
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PostPosted: 11:45 - 05 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah inside the cover it says something like "this book actually has nothing to do with zen and very little on motorcycle maintenance" Very Happy

but it is a bout a bike journey I think?
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Ropehead
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PostPosted: 15:36 - 05 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
WELL WORTH A LOOK Wink

good animated pics Laughing

https://www.howstuffworks.com/two-stroke.htm https://www.howstuffworks.com/engine.htm


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Bendy
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PostPosted: 15:56 - 05 Jul 2002    Post subject: Reply with quote
i do know how engines work as in how they technically work, what I need to know is which bits of my bike I need to check, what they look like and so on. Stuff like how to adjust your chain, basic guff like that.

I'm gonna go pick up a Haynes/Clymer tomorrow and have a good preuse - sounds like it's what I'm looking for.
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