January 2009 - Posts

• When you think you've seen it all!

  A tyre within a tyre! That the only way I can explain what I found with one of the Domino's Pizza TGB scooters yesterday. I was doing my usual check over of the scooters sitting outside one of the pizza stores when I came across this. Two golf ball sized lumps sticking out of the tyre. At first I thought the rider must have hit a rock in the road or tried to bump up a kerb too fast but after inspecting the wheel I couldn't find any impact damage at all. The only option was to replace the tyre. A whipped a Continental Twist off the shelf and fitted it up to the wheel. It was only when the old tyre was sitting on the floor of the workshop that I noticed the lumps were on the inside too but, even stranger was that the lumps were inflated. I couldn't resist and got a sharp spike out of my tool box and gave them a poke. Both lumps deflated with a FFFFFFFFF sound. Don't ask me how, it's one I just can't explain.     Posted Jan 21 2009, 04:51 PM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Sava tyres

• CBR1000F Electrical problem (part 2)

  After a dig around in the wiring looms box of the local wreckers I managed to find a smashed up loom from another Honda which had all the same colour coded wires as the CBR1000F. I was now just a case of snipping out the section we needed and soldering it in to the bikes damaged loom. I chopped out all the melted section and cut all the wires to the right lengths. Once the soldering iron was hot I went to work on fixing the new section in. All the wires were also individually heat shrinked after being soldered to ensure there were no short circuits further down the track. Once I was happy with the wires it was a case of tape them all up and put the loom back into its place and after clipping it all back in you'd never be able to tell I was ever in there. The rest of the job was easy. It was just a case of fitting the new starter solenoid and replacing the old tired worn out battery with a new one. All fixed and back on the road and all for a fraction of the cost of a re-loom.  Posted Jan 21 2009, 04:28 PM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Honda

• Continental Road Attack CBR1000RR

  Summer is in full swing and the sports bike riders are out in full force. Sales of Continental Road Attack tyres are on the increase amongst this type of rider too. Today we put a set of Road Attack's on a CBR1000RR. The rider had been through all the other brands and felt trying something different. Early feedback has indicated that he's happy with the choice. If you want to give them a try ring Everything Two Wheels on 03 90777312. Posted Jan 21 2009, 04:06 PM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Continental tyres.

• CBR1000F Electrical problem (part 1)

  I've never understood why some dealers won't touch bikes with high mileages or if there over a certain age? The owner of this 1990 CBR1000F dropped by the shop and told me no one wanted to fix the electrical problems he was having with his bike. Dealers were saying at 152,000k's on the clock and at 19 years of age that they just didn't want to take on the job. I booked the bike in and the next day it turned up on a truck. I pushed it on to my bench and started to have a look. With the ignition turned on the dash lit up like normal but hit the starter button and things went a bit haywire. Experience told me we had a bad connection somewhere in the loom. I started checking for a voltage drop from the battery backwards and it wasn't long before the problem was found. The main power wires into the starter solenoid had burnt out and causing the bike to either not start or stop once it was running. The options were to re-loom the bike which would be an expensive exercise or we could repair the burnt out section of the loom. The owner opted for the cheaper repair option. So it's off to the wreckers to find a damaged loom off a crashed bike that we can chop a section out of and get the CBR back on the road. Posted Jan 14 2009, 09:46 AM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Honda

• Select scooters customer service

  The TGB spare part situation has really been giving me a head ache of late and sitting down trying to match other spare parts from other brands of scooter is consuming so much time. Once again the guys at Select scooters have well and truly pulled me out of the poo. I had one of the TGB pizza scooters here with a failed crank shaft oil seal and right from the off I knew this was going to be a pain in the *** to find parts to fix it. My best option was the guys at Select scooters. After ringing Justin the spare parts manager and explaining the situation he asked me for some dimensions of the seal that had failed and said he'd be in touch. No more that five minutes later he was back on the phone with not only the correct oil seal but he had located an engine case gasket as well. By 10am this morning the parts were here and ready to be fitted into the engine. The customer service from these guys has well and truly been fantastic in helping out with spare parts and all for a brand of scooter that they don't even sell. I think if I was in the market for a new scooter I would seriously have Select at the top of the list. Not just because the scooters are great value for money but the after sales customer support is second to none. Posted Jan 06 2009, 03:33 PM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Sym

• The Rabbit

  In the immortal words of Rolf Harris "can you guess what it is yet"? That's what I thought as I looked out the window of the shop and saw a green and white Rabbit. No not the type you feed lettuce to but a 1958 Rabbit scooter. Mat the owner of this amazingly clean example of a classic scooter was just riding by and decided to drop in to say hello. Yes, the Rabbit is his daily ride and I'm surprised with Mat living local to the shop that I've never seen this one go whizzing passed the window before. He's a rabbit fanatic and this is only one of the examples that he's restored over the years. He also has another one in the shed at home that is about to restored to its original pristine condition. Posted Jan 06 2009, 03:09 PM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Customers

• Business as usual!

  It's a good job the hang over from new year eve has cleared up and is just a distant (and very blurred) memory because even this early into the new year it's business as usual at Everything Two Wheels. I was hoping for a quiet start to the new year in a bid to get some of those niggling jobs done that need doing around the shop but I just never seem to have time to do. But once again the phone is ringing and customers want their motorcycles and scooter serviced so the odd jobs have gone to the bottom of the list again. The holiday season seems to have increased the amount of two wheeled visitors to the shop too. Today Chris dropped by on his Vespa PX200 just to come see what the shop is all about. After a quick chat he'd decided to book his scooter in for a pre-trip service. Chris is off to the National Scooter Rally in Tasmania later in the month and to ensure he gets there and back without any dramas he wants his scooter in tip top condition. If you want to see what the fuss is all about check out the National Scooter Rally website here: www.nationalscooterrally.org.au Posted Jan 03 2009, 01:54 PM by E2W with no comments Filed under: Customers