Topic: Book: How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop

[Brunow]

How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop: Tips and Tricks for Building and Equipping Your Dream Workshop (Paperback)

has anyone read it. I'm planning to buy it...

From a corner of the garage set up for routine maintenance to a dream shop housing precious classic machines, How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop, Second Edition will help you make the most of your space. Packed with easy-to-read practical advice, author Charles Masi walks the reader through designing, building, and equipping the workshop you need - whether you plan to restore, repair, and maintain your own bikes or hope to open a small commercial facility.How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop starts by helping readers determine their work space and storage needs and create a shop layout that matches their budget. The author then addresses basics such as providing adequate electrical power, lighting, and heat and air conditioning. With the workshop design in place, Masi helps readers identify the must-have and want -to-have tools to appropriately equip the space. This new second edition of the book includes additional profiles of real world workshops, from small garage spaces to purpose-built restoration and race-prep shops, and features a new comprehensive and up-to-date directory of resources for equipment and tools.

http://www.amazon.ca/How-Set-Your-Motorcycle-Workshop/dp/1884313434

[Klark Kent]

does he tell yo uhow to not live in a one bedroom rowhouse in baltimore with no garage?  does he tell you how to build this workshop on the public sidewalk without getting hassled by the fuzz/your landlord?

if so send me a photocopy 
-KK

[Raul CB750K1]

I bought the first edition in 2002 for a song, in one of those discount bookstores. Nevertheless, the book is worth the cover price. It gives a lot of advice about tools, machine tools, workshop practice, storage, workshop layout, and even tips when you don't have space and just repair your bike in a parking lot. Along with it I would recommend "Ultimate motorcycle detailing", and the best one, "How to restore your motorcycle" by Zimmerman. The former and the latter should go in every old bike owner bookshelf.


Raul

[angeldeville]

thanks for the link, I'm setting up my shop in my 20X30 garage now!

[Brunow]

I bought the first edition in 2002 for a song, in one of those discount bookstores. Nevertheless, the book is worth the cover price. It gives a lot of advice about tools, machine tools, workshop practice, storage, workshop layout, and even tips when you don't have space and just repair your bike in a parking lot. Along with it I would recommend "Ultimate motorcycle detailing", and the best one, "How to restore your motorcycle" by Zimmerman. The former and the latter should go in every old bike owner bookshelf.


Raul

Hmm maybe i'll ask them to santa 

[mrbreeze]

Sell enough copies of the book and anyone can set up a shop like that!!!!

[WJL75]

I want to see him set it up while only having one underground garage spot (shared with a Jeep) and poor lighting.  There is room for a tool kit and the mechanic...not much else.