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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nobby25 on December 06, 2011, 02:39:46 pm
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I was just thinking of the bodgy repairs I have done before selling bikes back in the 70s
As some of you would be aware an RM125A has a different size top end pin and bearing (larger diameter)to every other RM,TM TS etc, so after a rebore and then realising that the dealer had sold me the wrong piston he suggested to get a small end sleeve machined up to make it fit, which I did. Sold it straight after, I wonder how long it lasted. :-X
(http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n546/nobby25/sleeve.jpg)
Banged up the tank on my RM250B the same as Roger did
(http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n546/nobby25/tank.jpg)
So I used circles of yellow contact to build up the dents until it looked like I was just protecting it with the contact.Sold it straight after I wonder how long it lasted :-X
Got a C2 after it ;D no more dents but the stickers never stayed on did they >:(.
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Sorry :P after recent events maybe I should have posted this in Tech Tips.
Cheers Nob
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Hey Nobby,
No much better in General Discussion. If you posted it in Tech Tips you could be accused of trying to promote such dubious behaviour. :D
VMX42
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The worst was on a bike I was intending to keep. The frame had been cut and raked. my cousin and I de raked it and there was a gap in the backbone so we shoved some smaller diameter water pipe in there and birdshit welded it up. It had a steering dampener bracket under the triple tree that bolted to the frame and I figured that would help hold it all together. I was young and clueless.
Twenty years later I sold the bike to a mate who was a boilermaker and I told him all about the dodgy repair and that it needed a serious seeing too. he passed away a few years later and I never knew what happened to the bike or if he fixed it.
Other than that I've never done a dodgy for sale repair. I always do my best to fix it right, more so if I'm selling it. I was selling something once and the first thing I did was tell the buyer everything that was wrong. They were so impressed with my honesty that they straight up bought it.