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PostPosted: 12:52 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
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A garage will charge you a small fortune.

You could DIY but as you repeatedly keep posting in the wrong section I'm starting to wonder whether or not you're thick.


Must be the end of days, I agree with Ashley calling someone thick....
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PostPosted: 12:53 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Socket wrote:
A garage will charge you a small fortune.

You could DIY but as you repeatedly keep posting in the wrong section I'm starting to wonder whether or not you're thick.


I could DIY it, I'm not sure I have the time which is why my main question is if anyone has a recommendation of somewhere in Manchester to refurbish - a specialist perhaps

which is the correct section of the forum to ask for a recommendation?

and which is the correct section to go and FUCK YOURSELF YOU GIT
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PostPosted: 12:55 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
You could use the workshop section, just a thought?
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GT200Fan79 wrote:
You could use the workshop section, just a thought?


for 'how do I...' I usually would, my main question however was for recomendations of where to go to get it done but also musing if I should just do it myself so I felt it fitted in 'general' better than workshop
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PostPosted: 13:02 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
i only know of 1 garage in manchester, called mr pigs.

I wouldn't personally use them after the apprentice bloke inflated my 125cc tyres to 60psi Shocked

apparently the main bloke is ok though, i've always done my own work since though

*this is going back about 5-6 years...
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PostPosted: 13:07 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Peter Gothard - Bike Medic (07713 567 770)he's at Heap Bridge in Bury. He's very good and well trusted by everybody and for £50 will pick your bike up outside your home and deliver it back.

I could go and get my brake rebuild kit out of storage and do them but I'm in Leeds later.

He always like to try and convince you to do it yourself though before reluctantly accepting the job.
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PostPosted: 13:11 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Itchy wrote:
Peter Gothard - Bike Medic (07713 567 770)he's at Heap Bridge in Bury. He's very good and well trusted by everybody and for £50 will pick your bike up outside your home and deliver it back.

I could go and get my brake rebuild kit out of storage and do them but I'm in Leeds later.

He always like to try and convince you to do it yourself though before reluctantly accepting the job.


wheres he based? i lived in heap bridge for 22 years (parents still live there)
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Itchy wrote:
Peter Gothard - Bike Medic (07713 567 770)he's at Heap Bridge in Bury. He's very good and well trusted by everybody and for £50 will pick your bike up outside your home and deliver it back.

I could go and get my brake rebuild kit out of storage and do them but I'm in Leeds later.

He always like to try and convince you to do it yourself though before reluctantly accepting the job.


cheers, that's what I was after
Does he prefer customers to supply the parts or does he prefer to source them himself to be sure he's not fitting cheap crap
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wheres he based? i lived in heap bridge for 22 years (parents still live there)


Him? He lives in Bacup Very Happy .His workshop is in Bury. He only moved to Heap Bridge to Heap Brow ~IIRC from Bury direction you turn right before Crown Oil and onto the small industrial units at the top about a year ago. Previously he was at the old paint factory in Bury near Warth industrial estate.
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cheers, that's what I was after
Does he prefer customers to supply the parts or does he prefer to source them himself to be sure he's not fitting cheap crap


I've always bought parts from David Silvers and put them in a jiffy bag when dropping off my bike. Phone him, he'll give you a list of what you need and recommend what can be pattern and what needs to be genuine.
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PostPosted: 13:41 - 09 Sep 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Itchy wrote:
Shinigami wrote:


wheres he based? i lived in heap bridge for 22 years (parents still live there)


Him? He lives in Bacup Very Happy .His workshop is in Bury. He only moved to Heap Bridge to Heap Brow ~IIRC from Bury direction you turn right before Crown Oil and onto the small industrial units at the top about a year ago. Previously he was at the old paint factory in Bury near Warth industrial estate.


i know that area well, it's about 40 seconds walk from my parents house. Handy to know if i'm up visiting and have any bike issues while there Thumbs Up
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I've always bought parts from David Silvers and put them in a jiffy bag when dropping off my bike. Phone him, he'll give you a list of what you need and recommend what can be pattern and what needs to be genuine.


I might struggle with parts from Silvers, it's for the ZZR Smile
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Fit nissin 4 pots. Doesn't cost alot more than redoing the crappy stock toc's and provides something novel to the ZZR.... actual decent brakes.
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Fit nissin 4 pots. Doesn't cost alot more than redoing the crappy stock toc's and provides something novel to the ZZR.... actual decent brakes.


had nissin 4 pots, they just won't fit right on my bike causing the disk to flex under braking and the pads to wear at an odd angle so gone back to stock callipers.
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PostPosted: 11:31 - 10 Sep 2016    Post subject: Re: brake refurbishment - manchester - recommendations pleas Reply with quote
Banana_B1 wrote:

BTW' if you don't remove the reservoir cap the pistons will never go in all the way until fluid is drawn from it.


That depends on the volume of the reservoir.

I can get all the pistons on one brake calliper all the way in on my bike without touching the MC. If I wanted to push all the pistons on both callipers in, I would need to remove some fluid then top it up again as I pumped them back but I always work on one calliper at a time unless I intend to drain the system entirely.
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