I'm a biker who only has the one machine, it gets me to work and it does my weekends too, it's nothing special to look at but to me it is all I have and so is special in that respect. I look after it the best I can with the limited resources and time I've got, service it myself etc. What I really need (and I'm guessing quite a few others need too) is a cheaper alternative to 'shop' prices as sometimes there are things that need doing that I dont have the tools for or the tech know-how for, like valve clearance checks, carbs setting up etc. I do not earn a great deal of money and cannot afford to be spending huge sums on my machine, so I was thinking ... If there are any good bike mech's around who will do the work for a reasonable price then why not create a database so that we poor people can look them up and put some cash their way? 
Cheers
Hugh.
Posted: 07/04/2009 at 18:25