jigmoore
Member
hello! sorry for my first post being a request for help. (damn newbies).
about me: i've been riding street bikes for close to 20 years...have over half a million miles under my belt. started road racing with wera in 2004, now am an instructor for sportbiketracktime.com. i'm a regular over on the wera forum: http://forums.13x.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3
but figured you guys know way more about v-max's than a bunch of us racers.
the short story at hand, is my dad and i were quite tight and our relationship revolved around motorcycles. he was killed in a motorcycle accident last june while we were riding. i kept his v-max....it's now broken....and my local shop has screwed me on fixing it and left me with a bike in pieces. i'm looking for someone to diagnose the problem on a hopped up v-max and put it back together into a reasonable reliable bike without losing too much of the performance.
the long story is cut and pasted from here http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=142785(again...another newbie stupid move...but i really need some suggestions, guys).
here's the cut and paste from the thread i posted on the wera forum:
local shop that convinced him to build it....just sent me down the street with the bike in pieces.
i'm so friggin pissed, sad, worked up, upset i can't even type straight.
i started dealing with this shop almost ten years ago. as i got my dad involved in bikes he really enjoyed the whole bike atmosphere and the shop. they deal mainly in high performance stuff...and my dad really got into that.
they convinced him to do some work to his '95 v-max. they bored it out, put cams in it, converted it from shaft to chain drive, added r1 wheels/brakes, put a hindle 4-1. that was all good intentions...but they ended up keeping it for over 18 months and they raped dad for over $12k on the deal. he wasn't really happy with the deal....but always wanted a bike done by this performance shop...had plenty of money...it ended up making 160rwhp.....so didn't make a big deal about it. the bike ended up meaning alot to him...but had troubles after they built it (felt out of balance, leaked oil, wouldn't start hot). between dad and me, we've only put about 1000 miles on the bike since all the work was done. both dad and i rode it gently because both of us felt that something just wasn't right on it.
after dad's wreck last june, i felt the v-max was the one thing that most captured his spirit. i decided to keep it forever. i didn't really ride any motorcycle for months after dad's wreck, but when i started back, it was on the v-max. it brought back the original enjoyment of riding that i had missed for so long. i became even more attached to it.
so back in march the v-max started a real bad knock. needless to say....i was sad. i took it back to the shop and asked them to look into it since it was only 1k miles after the rebuild. they agreed. well, two months go by and i call and they still haven't dug into it. this is not abnormal for this shop. it's one guy, who's meticulous and busy...but over booked. i told him i felt stuck. this was a returned bike, i felt it should take a higher priority. he agreed that he would do the same thing in my position and decided to make it a priority and open it up.
so, he called me friday and said he's got it all apart, looks like a heat problem in the top and bottom of two different rod bushings. and then tells me he's not interested in dealing with the project any more.
i still can't get over how a shop can have so much money, time, emotional story in a bike...and just decide they want someone else to deal with the problems they've created.
sorry for the long story....i just need some suggestions on who can put this bike together again. i certainly don't have a clue how to get it back together. the shop didn't just throw the stuff in milk crates and shove it out the door. he labelled it all, put it in baggies, and packed the bags in boxes. a competent performance shop should be able to easily take care of this.
help. i'm sad and i want dad's bike back together. i've given up on getting it back together anytime soon....so if you guys have any suggestions...i'm all ears.
about me: i've been riding street bikes for close to 20 years...have over half a million miles under my belt. started road racing with wera in 2004, now am an instructor for sportbiketracktime.com. i'm a regular over on the wera forum: http://forums.13x.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3
but figured you guys know way more about v-max's than a bunch of us racers.
the short story at hand, is my dad and i were quite tight and our relationship revolved around motorcycles. he was killed in a motorcycle accident last june while we were riding. i kept his v-max....it's now broken....and my local shop has screwed me on fixing it and left me with a bike in pieces. i'm looking for someone to diagnose the problem on a hopped up v-max and put it back together into a reasonable reliable bike without losing too much of the performance.
the long story is cut and pasted from here http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=142785(again...another newbie stupid move...but i really need some suggestions, guys).
here's the cut and paste from the thread i posted on the wera forum:
local shop that convinced him to build it....just sent me down the street with the bike in pieces.
i'm so friggin pissed, sad, worked up, upset i can't even type straight.
i started dealing with this shop almost ten years ago. as i got my dad involved in bikes he really enjoyed the whole bike atmosphere and the shop. they deal mainly in high performance stuff...and my dad really got into that.
they convinced him to do some work to his '95 v-max. they bored it out, put cams in it, converted it from shaft to chain drive, added r1 wheels/brakes, put a hindle 4-1. that was all good intentions...but they ended up keeping it for over 18 months and they raped dad for over $12k on the deal. he wasn't really happy with the deal....but always wanted a bike done by this performance shop...had plenty of money...it ended up making 160rwhp.....so didn't make a big deal about it. the bike ended up meaning alot to him...but had troubles after they built it (felt out of balance, leaked oil, wouldn't start hot). between dad and me, we've only put about 1000 miles on the bike since all the work was done. both dad and i rode it gently because both of us felt that something just wasn't right on it.
after dad's wreck last june, i felt the v-max was the one thing that most captured his spirit. i decided to keep it forever. i didn't really ride any motorcycle for months after dad's wreck, but when i started back, it was on the v-max. it brought back the original enjoyment of riding that i had missed for so long. i became even more attached to it.
so back in march the v-max started a real bad knock. needless to say....i was sad. i took it back to the shop and asked them to look into it since it was only 1k miles after the rebuild. they agreed. well, two months go by and i call and they still haven't dug into it. this is not abnormal for this shop. it's one guy, who's meticulous and busy...but over booked. i told him i felt stuck. this was a returned bike, i felt it should take a higher priority. he agreed that he would do the same thing in my position and decided to make it a priority and open it up.
so, he called me friday and said he's got it all apart, looks like a heat problem in the top and bottom of two different rod bushings. and then tells me he's not interested in dealing with the project any more.
i still can't get over how a shop can have so much money, time, emotional story in a bike...and just decide they want someone else to deal with the problems they've created.
sorry for the long story....i just need some suggestions on who can put this bike together again. i certainly don't have a clue how to get it back together. the shop didn't just throw the stuff in milk crates and shove it out the door. he labelled it all, put it in baggies, and packed the bags in boxes. a competent performance shop should be able to easily take care of this.
help. i'm sad and i want dad's bike back together. i've given up on getting it back together anytime soon....so if you guys have any suggestions...i'm all ears.
