Anyway, enough of that crap, what pisses me off now, is my own lack of self-confidence and imagination.
I bought some beaut new(ish) 17 inch wheels for my Yammy FJ1200 recently. The back wheel will go on with some minor engineering, but I need to change the wheel bearings in the front wheel as the axles are different sizes.
Last Friday week I dropped into All Tools and bought an ex-hire bearing puller kit for the bargain price of $100.00. Sadly, all of the pullers therein didn't come close to removing it.
No worries, I bought a better looking blind bearing puller kit on ebay for $37.00 bucks, with postage. The kit arrived on Wednesday, I attempted to pull the bearing, and one of the claws snapped off. The seller was great, he accepted that it was faulty, and he's sending me a new one on Monday.
Today I saw another kit on eBay for $89.00 which is specifically for removing motorcycle wheel bearings. Fcuk it, I did the "Buy it now" thing, and it should arrive by mid next week.
Tonight, after probably pissing Pete off a bit, (sorry mate) I flicked over to google and did a search for "motorcycle wheel bearing remover" where I found a simple device that you can make in your own garage in 10 minutes, that'll pop those pesky wheel bearings out lickety split. I made said device and popped the wheel bearings right out. Fantastic!
Anyone wanna buy 3 different wheel bearing removal kits? Cheap?
http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Motorcycle-Wheel-Bearing-Puller/