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Potching
ByMatthew Cashmore February 28, 2008

I’m not sure when it happened, but all of a sudden I seem to be a potcher. Anytime I find myself twiddling my thumbs I gravitate to the garage where I start taking things appart and attempting to make them better. It may seem harmless, but my poor motorbike is getting a little sick of…

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One should never start a job…
ByMatthew Cashmore April 16, 2007

…that you can’t finish. Blast. I have had the most frustrating afternoon. I started what I thought was a pretty straight-forward job. Replace my chain and sprockets. Nice and simple, just get the back wheel off, break the old chain, take off the sprockets and then put it all back together. What I didn’t learn…

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College… there was blood everywhere
ByMatthew Cashmore October 12, 2006

Brake blood as far as the eye could see… we were dripping in brake fluid as we finally got our hands dirty and stripped callipers, replaced brake pads, and used compressors to blow pistons out – and when that failed we hit them with hammers. It was so much fun to just mess around and…

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All stop, brakes on.
ByMatthew Cashmore October 5, 2006

Turns out I was right, Brakes are quite exciting. The disks that glow are made from Carbon Fibre and are REALLY expensive, the braided hoses are cheep but make a huge difference and it turns out my brakes are really bad and need replacing before I start scoring the disk 🙁 The course at Merton…

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Excited about brakes
ByMatthew Cashmore October 4, 2006

Yes it’s true… I’ve got all excited about brakes. Tonight at my Motorbike Mechanics couse at Merton College we’re learning how to deal with brakes and it’s got me all turned on… there’s all kind of geeky things I didn’t know… like special kinds of lines that improve the performance, you can buy disks that…

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