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From: Bill_h on 10 Mar 2010 05:22 Anyone have any hints on disassembling single sided brake callipers? The front brake on the Revere is binding. Ta, Bill
From: Lars Chance on 11 Mar 2010 18:22 Kevin Gleeson wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:33:23 +1100, GWD <gwd(a)nsw.chariot.net.au> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:04:26 GMT, Lars Chance wrote: >>> Plize exploin. >> Erm... brake failure is no fun at any speed..? > > Wot he said. I'd rather engine failure than brake failure. Yes, I am > still alive, but have had a couple of instances where brakes have let > me down, and trust me, it is NOT FUN. > So what was the catastrophic failure then Kev? Did you just cook them through "normal" abuse or wear them beyond their operational limits (in which case you still had some brakes but you had to be more careful) or did you really suffer one of these mysterious catastrophic failures that only affects friends-of-friends and Prius drivers? -- Elsie.
From: Zebee Johnstone on 11 Mar 2010 18:56 In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:45:32 +1100 GWD <gwd(a)nsw.chariot.net.au> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:22:58 GMT, George W Frost wrote: > > >>George, I have to disagree with you there, >>In times gone by, and I am only going back 30 - 40 years, there was no such >>thing as a motorcycle mechanic, an owner had to do any repairs himself or >>take it to a motor car garage and get the mechanic there to fix the problem, >>or attempt to fix it. What? it is now 2010. 30 years ago was, I regret to inform you, 1980. Rather a lot of motorcycle mechanics around in 1982 when I started riding, can't believe they all sprung up in 2 years? Even 40 years was 1970. Now it might be that there weren't massive numbers of motorcycle shops with mechanics in Oz then, but considering there were ones in the 1920s there had to be some. Hey Theo, when did Ted Stolarski start? Pitmans in Adelaide dates from at least the mid 70s, ditto The Bike Factory. I'm pretty sure Central had been in business since the mid 50s. Then there's all the ads in my early 70s copies of 2 Wheels for shops and people offering service. Even in country towns! So better sigh, count the grey hairs, and change the whine to "50-60 years, in country towns" (Because in those aforementioned 70s mags are ads for places announcing they've been in the motorcycle business for 20 years...) Zebee
From: atec 77 "atec 77 on 11 Mar 2010 20:20 Zebee Johnstone wrote: > In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:45:32 +1100 > GWD <gwd(a)nsw.chariot.net.au> wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:22:58 GMT, George W Frost wrote: >> >> >>> George, I have to disagree with you there, >>> In times gone by, and I am only going back 30 - 40 years, there was no such >>> thing as a motorcycle mechanic, an owner had to do any repairs himself or >>> take it to a motor car garage and get the mechanic there to fix the problem, >>> or attempt to fix it. > > What? > > it is now 2010. 30 years ago was, I regret to inform you, 1980. > Rather a lot of motorcycle mechanics around in 1982 when I started > riding, can't believe they all sprung up in 2 years? > > Even 40 years was 1970. Now it might be that there weren't massive > numbers of motorcycle shops with mechanics in Oz then, but considering > there were ones in the 1920s there had to be some. > > Hey Theo, when did Ted Stolarski start? Pitmans in Adelaide dates > from at least the mid 70s, ditto The Bike Factory. I'm pretty sure > Central had been in business since the mid 50s. > > Then there's all the ads in my early 70s copies of 2 Wheels for shops > and people offering service. > > Even in country towns! > > So better sigh, count the grey hairs, and change the whine to "50-60 > years, in country towns" > > (Because in those aforementioned 70s mags are ads for places > announcing they've been in the motorcycle business for 20 years...) > > Zebee When I was living in Unzud in the 1960's the local bike shop in Petone had started just post war , the same owners until the retired around 1970 and several of the larger shops in Wellington had traded from the 1920's. I would expect the same in Au
From: theo on 11 Mar 2010 20:42
On Mar 12, 7:56 am, Zebee Johnstone <zeb...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:45:32 +1100 > > GWD <g...(a)nsw.chariot.net.au> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:22:58 GMT, George W Frost wrote: > > >>George, I have to disagree with you there, > >>In times gone by, and I am only going back 30 - 40 years, there was no such > >>thing as a motorcycle mechanic, an owner had to do any repairs himself or > >>take it to a motor car garage and get the mechanic there to fix the problem, > >>or attempt to fix it. > > What? > > it is now 2010. 30 years ago was, I regret to inform you, 1980. > Rather a lot of motorcycle mechanics around in 1982 when I started > riding, can't believe they all sprung up in 2 years? > > Even 40 years was 1970. Now it might be that there weren't massive > numbers of motorcycle shops with mechanics in Oz then, but considering > there were ones in the 1920s there had to be some. > > Hey Theo, when did Ted Stolarski start? Pitmans in Adelaide dates > from at least the mid 70s, ditto The Bike Factory. I'm pretty sure > Central had been in business since the mid 50s. I bought my first Guzzi from Ted in 1976, but he was supplying scooters (real Italian ones) to Perth City parking Insoectors for at least 15 years before that. > Then there's all the ads in my early 70s copies of 2 Wheels for shops > and people offering service. > > Even in country towns! > > So better sigh, count the grey hairs, and change the whine to "50-60 > years, in country towns" I can't agree with that Zebee. My country town, Northam, with a population of 8000, had two motorcycle shops, both with excellent mechanics, in the mid-fifties. That's 65 years ago and they were both well-established businesses. Theo |