Teflon stainless steel braided brake hose

[Nessism]

Limit the search phrase to just one or two words too.

 

[BiPolarBear]

I have been a Wrencher all my life, worked at the service station in high school, was a Jet Mech in the Navy and I used to do all the work on my cars, trucks and motorcycles...Now, I don't monkey with my car or truck, just the bike...I have the money now to have it all done. however, there is really a sense of satisfaction when I am on a bike that I have rebuilt and know every inch of....

Hear, hear! I work at a computer all day, and when I cannot stand it for another minute, I go to my shop, and use my hands, instead.

A large part of my misspent youth was on a farm, which is about as thorough a mechanical finishing school as there is, teaching not only the practical aspects, but the pleasures of diagnosing problems, spinning wrenches, and -- finally -- getting it right.

I've worked on motorcycles for forty years, usually selling them, but keeping the more interesting ones. I also work on optical equipment, telescopes, aircraft, stained glass windows, and other things, but it's always motorcycles that I gravitate to. Even in appearance, they're arresting to me.

And when I can no longer ride (which I'm beginning to see on the horizon, due to old injuries and new rheumatoid arthritis), I believe I'll do what the magnificent Barber Museum does -- build wall niches and permanently display them as the art that they are.

 

[Guest]

Guess thats some would call the difference between a builder and a parts changer!!

Yeah sure...

 

[Guest]

Or a rider and a mechanic.

Yeah sure again...

 

[koolaid_kid]

For certain things, like the stainless steel lines I fabricated for my oil cooler, I will do my own work. However, in a cost/benefit analysis I would prefer to purchase pre-made brake lines, install them, and go riding. Which is what I did, with no regrets.
AFA wrenching, yes, I have a full shop at home, restored both the GS and the GPz, built an engine for my TransAm, etc. I just don't see the value in building brake lines when they are so readily available commercially. I purchased my Galfer lines for my GS at the Chicago bike show for $75. Install, ride. Win/win.

 

[Guest]

For certain things, like the stainless steel lines I fabricated for my oil cooler, I will do my own work. However, in a cost/benefit analysis I would prefer to purchase pre-made brake lines, install them, and go riding. Which is what I did, with no regrets.
AFA wrenching, yes, I have a full shop at home, restored both the GS and the GPz, built an engine for my TransAm, etc. I just don't see the value in building brake lines when they are so readily available commercially. I purchased my Galfer lines for my GS at the Chicago bike show for $75. Install, ride. Win/win.

My apologizes koolaid, I misunderstood your last comment. I'm a rider/mechanic as well, believe me over the years I have fabricated enough parts etc for our grain trucks, combines and what not to last me for a life time. I do 95% of my own work on the bike, 2% are the tires and the other 3% is like machine work. I won't mount a tire myself, just not my thing. With my age and arthritis as it is, I try and find the easy/easier way to do things. I don't have the strength I once had to tackle projects like I use too.

 

[koolaid_kid]

No apology needed. I wondered at how to word it, what I meant is that I would rather spend my time riding than building the lines.
Sorry to hear about your arthritis, getting old is difficult but beats the alternative. At the moment I am chipping up a bunch of branches I cut down last week; I know I will feel it tomorrow.
I am fortunate that I live near bwringer; he mounts my tires for me. In exchange I do some wrenching on his cages, it works out.

 

[Wester Cooley]

I probably get as much enjoyment and satisfaction from fabricating something from what was once a pile of metal sitting on a workbench as I do from riding a bike. To design something in your mind, then overcome the challenge and the technical problems of actually making that piece come to life is the real enjoyment for me. To end up with a motorcycle that is covered from end to end with all these one off design exercises in metal, some of which took days to make is very satisfying to ones own soul.

Taking some part out of a box and putting it on your bike is nowhere near as satisfying as making something with your own two hands and tools. Especially when someone ask you where did you get that piece, and you can look at him and say I made it!!!

The real challenge is over once you finish the bike. All you can do then is take it out and beat the living daylights out of it. But its getting harder and harder to find public roads where you can use it to its full potential anymore. Plus I am just too damn old and hurting to go back to the race track.