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Offline Duanob

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Motorcycle maintneance from the past.
« on: June 18, 2013, 08:39:57 AM »
I thought this was cool enough to share. I found it on my chair one morning last week when I got to work. There are a few people here that know I have an old Honda. Pretty cool nostalgia type stuff.
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Re: Motorcycle maintneance from the past.
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2013, 09:53:07 AM »
NICE.
any nuggets of wisdom hiding in those pages?
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Re: Motorcycle maintneance from the past.
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2013, 10:31:17 AM »
Next to this forum I learned a LOT out of those books.. Really made a difference.
 You young guys cant imagine how it was..very few stores had bike mags, no net.. Ask a question from a magazine.. Get an answer 3 MONTHS....later.. And try talking to older bikers before they knew you...
The information superhighway...was a single track dirt trail back then..

Cool part.. Everybody made stuff themselves,choppers ruled.. Cafe guys were wierdo geekfreaks...
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Re: Motorcycle maintneance from the past.
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2013, 10:58:19 AM »
One of my most prized possesions is a hard  cover copy " Motorcycle Maintenance and Speed Tuning" by the Nicholson Bros.  Nicholson Bros were a large bike dealer in Saskatoon and they published several of these maintenance books over the years.   Mine is from WW2 and covers english as well as American models.  They continued these books and included alot of the Japanese models in the later years.  It's not like I ever used the book on a regular basis but, it was interesting to read bike material that was produced with the war in mind and the fact that they covered a wide range of bikes. 
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Re: Motorcycle maintneance from the past.
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2013, 11:20:11 AM »
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Re: Motorcycle maintneance from the past.
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2013, 02:13:04 PM »
Quote from: flybox1 on June 18, 2013, 09:53:07 AM
NICE.
any nuggets of wisdom hiding in those pages?

Not much I already haven't firgured out from this board. My bike isn't covered as far as specs go. They list the Honda 750, 500T, 360T, XL350 and the rest non-Honda. Just basic stuff like the title says.

the pic of the brand spanking new CB750 on the cover is pretty nice.
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1974 CB360T
1976 CB550K2 Resurrected
1976 CB550F2 Barn Find
1979 CX500 VG "HONDA-GUZZI"
2007 Moto Guzzi Breva 750ie
2015 BMW F700GS
Another 1976 CB550K Cafe?

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