Couple of bike-specific translations needed please: "Front brake reservoir mounting bracket" and "bar end weight". Ta. -- _______ ..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) \`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 `\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2 `\|/` `
Oddly enough, I've seen that site before. Not very reliable on technical terms though, hence the post. Well I've got plenty of German colleagues to ask, but I wanted to get the bike-specific terms that would be used to tell the bike shop what to order in for when I take it in for a service next week. -- _______ ..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) \`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 `\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2 `\|/` `
Sadly I have a Euro-spec 2003 K3 model. All good stuff, but I just want to tell them over the phone what it is they'll need to order. If I was going to go to the shop I could just point at the bike and say "fix that". -- _______ ..'_/_|_\_'. Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) \`\ | /`/ GSX-R1000K3 `\\ | //' BOTAFOT#3, SbS#2, UKRMMA#13, DFV#8, SKA#2 `\|/` `
Two main reasons. 1. Lack of interest in customer service, or simple lack of imagination. 2. An attitude of: What? Let the customers into the secrets? It's our ball and if you don't like it, bugger off. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Every post contains Nutri-Ceramide-R and Pre-Biotics for your reading pleasure. Folding@Home Team UKRM http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957
There's a lot of UK bike owners do their own too, and the whole service history thing is, as you might expect, a crock of shit put about by the manufacturers. It's been established that owners may either service their own or pay a non-franchised workshop to do services within the warranty period. Trouble is, most owners of bikes and cars don't know this and seem to attach an almost reverential significance to the stamping in the service book. I think from what Ivan said, Germany may be different, in that it might be compulsory to have the vehicle serviced by an approved dealer, but since the law relating to non-franchised servicing is, afair, an EU ruling, again it's another lot of smoke and mirrors. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Every post contains Nutri-Ceramide-R and Pre-Biotics for your reading pleasure. Folding@Home Team UKRM http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=47957
Hmm, I had to sign a form that I understood that they'd removed [restrictions] on Black Kat at her first service, and there was even paperwork involved when I got them to replace a braided brake hose (my original fitment having famously broken due to poor routing as I rolled onto the ferry at Folkestone, leaving me without front brakes from Ostende to Untersiggenthal). ISTR there was even a flap about them replacing the foam grips I'd installed, when they got worn, because they weren't an original part (IIRC they let me off without paperwork, that time). -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
It's often a case of 'needs must' in the US. We Yurpeens grumble about being 30/40/50 miles from the nearest franchised dealer. They could be 300/400/500 miles away, and thus simply *have* to be half-way competent mechanics.
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Véritable Rosbif Ah yes. "Britain where 200 miles is a long way, America where 200 years is a long time." -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41 SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner", Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big" Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
