Some things, like putting new brake shoes in the back wheel, are so simple that you can just look at it and do it. For other things, a shop manual is useful, You can find one for your bike at http://www.glennevanish.com/manual . For the third level of repairs, you need to find a second-tier shop that you can trust. The dealerships won't touch a bike that old. Mine won't even change a tire for me unless the wheel is off the bike because all my bikes are old. These old bikes have things going bad on them all the time (just like us old humans), so cheap can be expensive, as with everything else in life. Each person decides for himself how much he wants to do for himself and when it's time to take the bike in somewhere.
At my local shop, the repair department has a list of charges on the wall behind the counter. One is "chain lube and adjust - $18.00." It personally blows my mind that someone would actually ride into a shop and pay $18 every time he lubes the chain, but the sign leads me to believe that such people do exist. Your mileage my vary. On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 12:17:16 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Thank you for the replies, everyone. I appreciate the advice. I have to > start doing more research on this site, I can see. Have a good day. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
