Skills

I have always liked taking thing apart. I started working on cars 17 years ago, primarily as a hobby. Over the past 10 years I have worked on cars more and more, now I have been working as a mechanic for the last 4.5 years and am working on getting a licence. I have not work on bikes much but there is nothing I would be afraid to with a manual.

Started wrenching on cars in grade 11 when I was finally able to take Autoshop. Took it every semester through grade 11, 12 and my victory lap of grade 12. On the victory lap (some call it going back for an extra year for some extra credits..) I was fortunate enough to land a co-op work placement working at an engine shop in my hometown rebuilding mostly musclecar motors and alot of stock car engines (as we have a dirt oval track just outside of the city) Thats pretty much where I learnt the most of my knowledge

DEFINITLY PICK UP THE MANUAL AND FOR SMALLER PROJECTS YOU COULD TRY A YOUTUBE.COM SEARCH. I HAD DONE 1 OTHER OIL CHANGE ON MY PREVIOUIS BIKE, AND I JUST QUICKLY SEARCHED IT ON YOUTUBE AND FOUIND ALL THE INFORMATION I WAS LOOKING FOR.

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Originally Posted by tribaltim

I notice it seems a lot of the riders in this forum do their own tire changing and general maintence on their bikes. Have most of you just learned by going for it or is it something someone else as sat down with you and walked you through it?

Chain adjustment.

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Somethings you can learn from others, some things you read , and some you have to try yourself !.

Self taught, tear it apart, throw away the extra parts, if I pooch it, there is always someone that can fix it

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Originally Posted by MSGT-R

I'm not your normal shade tree mechanic. I have a BA in Industrial Education, and used to teach Auto Tech for a number of years. The Corps taught me to fix helicopters.

Bikes are lighter, cleaner and easier than cars, and cheaper than aircraft.

My father was a mech, I have no brothers.

The Corps did the same for me. If you can't fix it with a hammer, you need a bigger hammer. CH-53E SuperStallions (God's chariot) were my forte. When I got out I did some contractor work on Blackhawks.

When you learn on a helicopter with six transmissions, three turbo-shaft engines and 11 rotor blades, everything else seems pretty simple.

I use a heinz manual it will show you in degrees of difficulty which jobs you can do yourself if you are inexperienced and which jobs should be carried out by a professional