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VermilionX wrote:
what's in the shop manual that the owner's manual doesn't have regarding the pre-ride inspection?

You'll never know unless you read both, now will you?

You say you want to learn about your bike and becoming more skilled, etc., but refuse to take the most basic steps to achieve that.

Maybe you can find one with bright, shiny stickers all over it. That should spark your interest. Or leather bound....

Oh, fergit it....

I pity your mechanic.

I envy is mechanic. Can you imagine getting paid $20 an hour to lube a chain? Or to install a windscreen? And that's probably a conservative shop rate. Plus the poor guy has no idea how long it should take, so you could tack on an extra couple of hours claiming the turbine displacer was out of allignment and the hyperspace drive needed more coolant.

yeah i do want to learn more about my bike.

but for now... i only want to learn the simple stuff regarding maintaining it so that i don't have to always bring it to my mechanic even though he generously offered. he didn't charge me when he inspected, lubed, and adjusted my chain and he said to bring it back to him anytime.

i don't wanna abuse his generosity so i wanna do the simple stuff on my own like cleaning the chain.

Almost everything here that has been talked about is the simple stuff. We aren't talking about taking apart the carbs, starter, or something with the ignition. It might not seem simple to you or me maybe because of no prior mechanical experience. The way you learn is to do it. Reading only does so much.

I'm learning how to sync my carbs. God help me...

I just purchased a digital carb synchronization tool from http://www.adventurersworkshop.com/twinmax.htm

hopefully it'll make things slightly easier and give more precise results. I've pretty much decided that'll I'll do my own 500 mile initial maintenance. I think out of everything I'd need to do, this will be the most work for me.

Why dont you all just let him buy what he wants? And leave him alone about it.

I remember a thread where heimdall was being jumped all over for his opinions about why people buy stuff pointlessly. The group opinion seemed to be that people can do what they want and buy what they want for the reasons they want too.

So why has the opinion changed for Vermi? Let the guy do what he wants, and lets help with what he wants help with.
Just my thoughts.

You do realize, that the shop manual that you could buy for probably 60 bucks does cover the basic stuff you want to know about as well as this advanced stuff... the owners manual will show you where everything is, the shop manual will tell you what to do with it. I mean, why buy those stands to lube your chain, when not having them will save you X amount of $$ and only take you maybe 10 minutes longer?