A five minute job, ten tops, and yet, hours later,...

[rocketonarail]

Clean?
Paul

Gotta keep the cosmetics in order Paul.....these are appreciating investments we`re riding around on after all......

Although there is a difference between cleaning for the sake of cleaning , and cleaning in order to prepare properly for a maintenance task...after all , you wouldn`t eat your fish and chips off a dirty plate would you ? ....

 

[Eurocycleguy]

And after all those years, you're still surprised?
You know when you start, never when you'll finish.
There's no such thing as a straightforward job on these old heaps.

Paul

Boy o boy is that ever correct!
When I get into a job on the Lav, any job. I recall the Ol days working on bikes from the the far East; basically three size sockets and spanners plus some time and the job was done. (The Beemers need 4 Torx drivers and no two parts are connected)
On GT Gina I need seven spanners, six sockets and pry bar. I have to remove the saddle to get to the tank, to get to the upper fork yoke to get to the lower fork to replace the speedo cable. Don't even think about replacing the rear tire. Remove rear panniers frames, silencers, whatnot. Geez

 

[Vince]

My original plan was to fix my non-working headlight and while there the non-working tacho backlights, and while there do a simple fairing mount mod, and while there add some weld to the steering stop, and while there swop out the rotted oil cooler mounts, and while there tidy the wiring past the triple trees. No bloody wonder it took a month. BTW I still don't have a tacho backlight. That's been broken for maybe who knows how many years.

 

[Paul Marx]

Gotta keep the cosmetics in order Paul.....these are appreciating investments we`re riding around on after all......

Although there is a difference between cleaning for the sake of cleaning , and cleaning in order to prepare properly for a maintenance task...after all , you wouldn`t eat your fish and chips off a dirty plate would you ? ....

What's fish and chips? Maybe frite fricadelle is approaching?
I go over my bikes every time I stop, but don't do much cleaning.

As for investment, the top is always skimmed when scrap metal is molten down.


Paul