Nobody needs rear brakes!

[c50tiger]

Just to throw my one cent in (with gas prices going up, I gotta save that other penny)....

I don't take my car or my bike to just any 'ol mechanic. Which, I suppose, is one advantage of living in a smaller town. I personally know the owner of both shops. The bike mechanic looks like he couldn't count past 20 without dropping his drawers, but he knows his stuff (else he wouldn't have his job for long). The lead mechanic at my other friends shop (automotive) also happens to be my wife's uncle.

Do they ever screw up? Sure. After the balance shaft seal blew out on my old Accord (reminds me of another joke for the joke thread), he didn't get the bolt for the balance shaft pulley torqued down right. It spun off as I was pulling in front of my house, 3 miles after I picked it up. They paid for the tow back to the shop, re-did the repair, and also had to toss in a new timing cover since the bolt punched right through the old one, both timing belts as the new ones he had just installed were now coated in oil, refill the oil again, and clean everything up again. But do you think I was going to sit there in his shop, remove the timing cover, check his work, replace the timing cover and then pay the man? Not likely.

Nor is it likely that I'm going to redo everything I've just paid the motorcycle mechanic to do. Otherwise I might as well have just done it myself. I may give it a quick look over for anything obviously wrong, but that's about the extent of it. If you feel compelled to do more than that while in the process of picking up your bike from the shop, I have two suggestions. First, find another mechanic, because obviously you don't trust that one. Second, find another mechanic, 'cause you probably just made sure that particular one is never going to go out of his way to give you good service again.

[themeatmanlandry]

Originally Posted by GixxerNewbie

Had a new rear tire put on my Gixxer the other day. I get home, back my bike into the garage, put it on it's stand & I hear something hit the floor. I walk around it & there next to the back tire is one of the balancing weights. There were two on it spaced about a 1/2" apart & one just fell off on the floor. WTF!

Gotta ride back next week & get this corrected.

Hey! That just happened to me! My tire was clean as a whistle, so I don't see how.

I took it back and they gave me another one.