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Photo by Alessio Corradini, on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, of two locals

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but it's on my list!


Photo by Alessio Corradini,
on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia,
of two locals



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Thumbs up Motorcycle maintenance course - technical stuff, so it belongs here!!

I'm not sure that this is the right place for this thread, but here goes - there does not seem to be anything for general maintenance points; the sort of thing that comes up, over and over again, no matter what bike you have (Moderator; scope for a new thread area/section??).

I have just done a load of work on a Yam TT600R and have been looking around on the web, here and elsewhere, for good information.

The threads in here have been invaluable AND I came across an online bike maintenance course/advice quite recently (I wish I had seen it a few weeks ago and it would have saved me some grief, but that's another story).

So, I commend this to anyone interested; as the author kind of says at the start, it is multi-functional i.e. everyone can get something out of it:-

Motorcycle Repair Course


Apologies if this has been put on here before; can't really see which forum is the best for this.

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Very good resource of info for riders (like me) with not much experience in mechanic and specific terms. Thank you!
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Ah man, this guy deserves a NOBEL PRIZE.

I've donated generously, since I knooooww I'm goin to use it oodles.

FINALLY I don't have to ask my husband ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!
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Ah man, this guy deserves a NOBEL PRIZE.

I've donated generously, since I knooooww I'm goin to use it oodles.

FINALLY I don't have to ask my husband ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!
Too late, Al Gore got the prize!!!!!!!!!! ROTFL.

Glad you like it, and nice to see that it is of some use: I certainly rated it highly when I first came across this website.
It could be very usefully cross referenced in all that stuff over on the left as part of prepping and maintaining bikes - good generic stuff.
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