01-01-14, 08:25 PM
For me, it was taking a bike to bits.
I've been a mechanical engineer for 15 years, and I've got to say I learned more with a Suzuki DR400 I bought in boxes and built up from scratch than I have from any textbook.
Readings well and good, but buying an old wreck of a bike and playing with it will give you a better practical understanding, far over and above reading about the suck, squeeze, bang, blow ever will IMO.
I've been a mechanical engineer for 15 years, and I've got to say I learned more with a Suzuki DR400 I bought in boxes and built up from scratch than I have from any textbook.
Readings well and good, but buying an old wreck of a bike and playing with it will give you a better practical understanding, far over and above reading about the suck, squeeze, bang, blow ever will IMO.