Good Mechanic Required For Friend

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Only for minor stuff on my old bike, but a couple of blokes I work with use him & rate him, he's also got quite a following with BMW  riders (clues in the name)

Sounds good enough to me fella, cheers  :thumbup

I am late to this thread, but can I add my 2pence?

He has a bike which is 18 years old - if he is looking for a mechanic to do brake-pads, chains, tyres etc then no problem; but, if he is having problems, then the pros will either steer clear or will charge a lot and if the problem is difficult to fathom it will get pricey quickly.

Can he not get himself on a Ninja forum (one with ZX9R knowledge) and get the lay of the land?

We are a knowlegeable lot on here, could he post exactly what he needs a mechanic for on here and perhaps we could give him useful input so he makes better decisions. It is very easy to throw money at older bikes (or someone else to do so, and to invoice the owner at the end) and not actually resolve things [it's why you see loads of bikes on ebay/gumtree with "not runnning right, probably needs new plugs" - which means 90% of the time "I replaced the plugs and it still won't run right, i give up"].

It's a good shout and justified. Trouble is, my mate is totally computer illiterate and fairly dyslexic - so doing what I can for him.


From what I can make out, he only gets 100 mile/17 litres riding sensibly (no fuel leaks), 1 plug is always fairly black, he's having trouble getting the butterflies to operate smoothly/not stick, pick up is snatchy and it runs a bit lumpy. This sounds predominately like carb balancing and valve clearance setting. He's just got to the stage that without the proper tools, he wants to get a decent mechanic to give it the once over.