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Hi There, I'm trying to help a buddy with a bike he just bought. It worked fine for a few days but now it won't start This is a video of the issue (Hopefully) https://youtu.be/-JxLaVytxLo Any ideas as to how to fix

My daughter's scooter seat is finished

Does anyone know where I can get spring write for making springs *Edit* Friggen predictive text

need to lift this off my trailer. Have a block and tackle tackle and slings and beer. According to the manual it weighs 445kg The trusses look like in the pic

Hi There, Does anyone know where in Cape Town I can get a bit of powder coat. Looking for a Coke Red but beggars can't be choosy I have another hairbrained thing I want to try but seems you have to buy large quantities of the powder.

My holiday project was to build a rotary tumbler. The goal was to make it from kak lying in my workshop or someone else's I had to buy nuts, bolts, washer, and threaded rod. Some bar stock to turn the shafts. and the pillar bearings The rest was scrounged. Finished it this morn but... Motor...

Hey There After years of wishing I had one and making a plan, normally the Chinese drill press lying on it's side, finally gumtree and momentary fiscal easing coincided to create opportunity. The trigger was needing a part for my shotgun, seeing it for $2.50 but then seeing they wanted nearly...

Hey Guys 'n Gals, The simplest little thing that could make a would of difference: Tighten your helmet chin strap! That's it. An extra click or a tug on the strap. ... someone pulled in front of my son and he T boned them. With the impact the force caused his helmet to flick off and then he...

I was on the N1 on Friday and saw a notice that said "Look twice for bikes" I thought how cool is that then ... A little later there was another notice that said "Bikes, Same road same rules" that's not correct because a bike can share a lane with a car but a car cant. There was an...

I need a Flare-nut spanner set, anyone know where I can get one. Before I chop a piece out of a Ringset spanner with the grinder and possibly bugger up that set. I tried Toolquip but their numbers don't work. Adendorff don't have. Look like this or equivalent.

Goal: I need to make a part for my petrol weedeater. No longer available. When it was you had to buy the whole motor to get that bit. It is the slot/socket on the motor drive shaft into which the flexible spring shaft slides. It has an OD of 11mm and OL of 28.5mm. I need to put an M8 thread with...

Calling the the electrical guru's I bought my daughter a Big Boy scooter. She had it an hour and crashed it :-\ Damage was just to the bottom body panels on the one side. No wiring at all in the crash site. So i stripped it down and fixed the body panels. The bike worked fine before and during...

has anyone tried these blind spot jobbies out? https://riderscan.co.za/action

Hey there, Calling out to the guys that know. I have this part that is worn and causing kak. I need to build up the worn bit. Can i use my Arc welder. In the pics below you will see that the shoulders of the bent bit are worn. The part on the white background is a new part off the net. Is it...

Hey there, Broke my screen on Dwarsbar run the other day. Does anyone have a screen lying around. Maybe you put on and extended one and still have the original. Can pay, just not what the stealers are asking

Hi There, So I popped a fork seal on our new years ride to the Dwarsbar. Obviously this time of year the fiscal drag has set in and costs must be curtailed. How hard is it to do the job  ;)

Hi Guys 'n Gals, I need to drill a 0.5mm hole in a s/s M8 bolt (see CAD workup below for detail) Does anyone know where I can get a 0.5 bits, tried builders whorehouse but .08 was as close as I got and would have had to buy a whole dremel set to get it. Are there other ways to make such a small...

Hi There, A friend of mine had a bike stolen out of their flats parking lot was gone this morning. Flat is in Cambridge st, Goodwood. Bike is a black Skygo GY200 Scrambler it has green monster stickers and the left mirror is bigger than the right one Reg: CY 190812 If you spot it call Charl 082...

Ok so i was heading home on the N1 on Wednesday night. I was late so i doing about 140kph I was very consistent with the throttle Next thing I had a distinct lack of thrust. The chain had about 15 000kms on it if that. Was a 'Primary Drive' chain I was not able to recover the chain so i don't...

So I  had an interesting evening. went to drop my daughter at her friend in Paarl, on the way back I got a flat as I was going under the Kraaifontein bridge. I pulled off about 200m past the bridge. I didn't know which tire so I didn't pull right into the dirt. I unpacked the spare and got the...