What do you hate most about working on bikes?

What do you hate most about working on bikes?

explaining the "time warp" to the wife...

"I'll be in in 10 minutes..."

2 hours later...

"Sorry honey... footrub?"

only the married guys can relate to this

the low pay that we got for years and just when everybody started to make a decent live along came the big elephant that nobody has control off, the recession so what will be the first thing to go every bodies toys and hobbies so hopefully it comes around faster than last time it happened in the early 80's.

The un-ending desire to make everything work/look as perfect as possible... :blink:

that i am limited in ability can get to me...that i'm a veg and the tool im looking for for a half hour is in my back pokett.........limited funds ,,,,as i would love to build a killer shop and buy all top notch goodies....and #1 i just am not as into working as riding....
but am grateful that i am in ok health and have a bike to work on....

Fixing stupid shit that the P.O. did because they were a drunk idiot and had no business having access to tools...i.e. drilling out and tapping threads for the points cover where some jack ball had used a wood screw when they misplaced the correct screw, rewiring an entire harness because some D-bag used a crimp over tap connector to splice into the main power wire and taped it up solid inside the loom. These are my two "favorite" instances...

Hmmmm.....I'd have to say cleaning, generally. Some cleaning is rewarding....like cleaning a really filthy sump pan.
Other cleaning is just really tedious....getting bugs and crap off the front of the engine after a long trip really sucks. Scraping gaskets sucks too.
Pretty much everything else is duck soup....although I have yet to do the valve clearance checking/shimming on my 650 yet !!!:ohmy: :S
Well, we'll soon see if I've learned anything about that process, what with my fooling around with my "practice" motor.:laugh:

Hmm... waiting for the money for more parts and trying to decide which bike gets what first! :laugh:

anarki650 wrote:

Fixing stupid shit that the P.O. did because they were a drunk idiot and had no business having access to tools...i.e. drilling out and tapping threads for the points cover where some jack ball had used a wood screw when they misplaced the correct screw, rewiring an entire harness because some D-bag used a crimp over tap connector to splice into the main power wire and taped it up solid inside the loom. These are my two "favorite" instances...

have to agree with that one, fixing stuff the PO did wrong. like on my B3 I am rebuilding, SOME A HOLE put a rear brake caliper and Rotor from a different model that had a different offset and did NOT fit. but ran it anyway. took me a while to figure that one out and get the right ones for it.

Changing tires is at the very bottom of my fun chores list.

Ok, maybe it's chasing down a short...

most definatly ONE of those.

Had to come back and edit after it hit me that changing tires is the toughest thing (for me) physically and electrical shorts are the toughest thing (for me)mentally.

breeze is right on,tires.i hate doing tires.

I don't do tires! I have a shop that mounts them for me free. I pay for the tire desposal.

I hat changing shims. I usally have one clearance that is not in spec. and have to hunt just one down. Roy