anyone been shopping lately? Need a rear diablo. wheel on or off.
Apparently there's a guy in Chester Hill looking to get rid of some sets of Super Corsa's. 120/70R17 & 180/55R17 sizes only. Each should have 8-20 laps on them and with about 80% thread left.....call to confirm. His number is 0438410485...dunno his name. Cheers, justAL
Wasnt there a shop down Oxford St that specialises in rears? Nice chaps too, handlebar moustaches and all. Must be passionate about their work.
I've tried many different shops around Sydneys West/South-west, including RRP once (it's a very short detour on the way home from work, so easy to get to). The one place I keep going back to is Chivos at Granville, it might be a grubby old fashioned workshop, but they have competitive prices, good people, offer friendly service, have the best range of motorcycle tyres I've seen in one shop in Sydney and they don't bullshit you at all. The only downside is I have to make a special trip to go there, it's a long way from being close to home. Al
I remember fondly the days of the bike shop with the grease sodden timber floors and the owner of the shop in dirty overalls serving you. The new air conditioned shiny showrooms with slick salesman and finance agents are a real step backwards. Boxer
In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:05:07 +1000 Chivos are really a tyre place that does mechanicking I can recommend MMT who are also now more or less at Granville, just a lot closer to the railway station than Chivos. THey are a no nonsense bike shop of that kind. Unlike many other shops they didn't blink at the Guzzi - you wouldn't believe how many spanner twirlers have been scared of a simple old nail like an 850T! But then I remember a bike shop in Melbourne being tentative about the MZ, if you can't handle a piston port 2 stroke what are you doing in business?[1] John at MotoCiclo in St Peters has been doing right by me. He's a eurobike only type though, so those with older Japanese bikes would be better off at MMT. John doesn't keep tyres in stock but gets in what I ask for. I know a good spannerman out of work now due to busting his collarbone in a crash, if anyone knows of a shop who wants a good mech or wants maybe a house call, let me know. He's not able to get about yet, but give him a week or so. Zebee [1] And I'm also looking at *you* Jim Eade's who claimed to be a bloody MZ specialist and did indeed fix the clutch but introduced an airleak that holed a piston. And didn't recognise the symptoms when explained. Should have bloody rung Phil when it happened, he'd have known what it was....
And they have a workshop dog that plays catch with you while they change and balance your tyres, couldn't be better. Seems to be the only place outside of a BMW dealer that can balance BMW rear wheels too. For Maries bike of course. The shop posters date back 20 years or so also, back to when they were active and very competitive sidecar racers, always interesting stuff to look at there. Al
