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I unfortunately have to work on a gravel driveway. Those little fasteners are damn near invisible on gravel. Also fascinating is just how far a little screw can bounce.

I remember cursing all afternoon trying to replace the tire on a little garden tractor. Soft, small tire with rims I absolutely didn’t care about. I get little enough time to ride as it is. I do want to remove the wheel myself, not so much to save the money but so that I can do it if I end up...

Who’s your guy in Barrie?

Yeah, I know most places will charge me more to mount tires I didn’t buy from them, so now I am on the hunt for a guy in the Orillia area who charges reasonable money for tires. Is this something any tire guy can do? In an emergency I found a small place in Orillia that I liked when I recently...

I don't know how you guys feel about reviving old threads - some hate it, but I don't see the purpose of starting a new thread over adding to an old thread with valuable information in it. Anyhow...I needed to replace the tires on my bike. I found this very thread that recommended Pete's . I...

I mostly ride in the Simcoe/Muskoka/Kawartha areas, and I seek out the twisties available, but the amount of time I'm leaned over is minuscule compared to the time I'm not, and that's not by choice. This has to be true for the vast majority of riders, moreso for riders who are riding anything...

I don’t care about the holes. That’s a better idea then trying to use plastic weld or JB Weld plastic putty over an entire hole.

Ugh. As usual, you’re right. I didn’t think about that. Maybe I could plastic weld it. I have four bins at our cottage we never use and my wife wanted to toss (we haul trash and recycling back to the city because of inconvenient cottage collection day).

“new” charger worked great. I experimented with a rusty vise- results were pretty good for a first real try, and I only had my e-tank running for maybe six hours. Results were encouraging enough for me to take apart the vise and plan another go. I also picked up a big 151L Rubbermaid tote for...

I had a chance to meet @85K100 today- he showed me around his garage and very generously gave me some cutting tools that will hopefully fit my tool posts, and gave me a lot of advice. We talked for a few hours about machining, bikes, and a bunch of other things. Thank you @85K100 - it was a...

You’d think, right? Fuse was definitely blown. Of course dumb me goes to Canadian Tire and *forgets to bring the bad fuse OR the specs”…. Fortunately I ended up finding another old school “dumb” charger for reasonable money. Apparently, prices on those things have skyrocketed due to...

For a while I've been toying with the idea of seeing if electrolysis could rescue some rusted things I've had lying around. Today was the day. I bought some rebar and tried to connect it to an old battery charger I had. Unfortunately that kept reporting an overload. I opened it up and...

Not sure why but I kind of like it!

I’m surprised battery powered tools are said to work nearly as well as I hear. It’s certainly not the case with drills that I’ve used… my corded drills have always been way more powerful than my expensive cordless ones!

After doing more reading - I see guys talking about having broken their breaker bars on these nuts. When I get the right socket, I think I'll buy an impact gun. I only have a small compressor that does 2.4 CFM at 90 PSI. Not sure if that will be enough. Or I could go electric. It's very...

Price is only a few dollars different... I was more worried with people claiming that using impacts marred their fasteners... but yeah, just as many users claiming that they couldn't get the fastener off without using an impact. What bums me is I ordered the tires a few days ago and could...

Thanks @Wingboy - that's very generous of you ! But I believe I need a 55mm for the rear and 30mm(could be wrong) up front. Plus it's a 12-point design with (supposedly) some inner taper to it.

So, I need to replace my front and rear tires. Given that the wheels need to be removed with a socket that is not common, I figured I would buy the tool, remove them myself and take them somewhere to have the tires mounted. It looks like this is pretty much the only option I can find in...

Motorcycle lift $349 Motorcycle lift table, in good working condition. Can be pumped up manually with foot pedal or with compressed air. Comes with safety bar and custom extension for bigger bikes. https://www.facebook.com/share/1DrYsrFGwz

LOL just came here to post that.