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Owners Handbook
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 3:23 pm
by Rhino
In the unlikely event that anyone out there with a 906 is as anal as me . . .
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOOK-GENUINE- ... 2c6dc7ef40
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 9:17 pm
by Mc tool
Never thought of myself as anal but GOTTIT

, Thanks Rhino

Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 10:06 am
by Rhino
No problem Mc tool we weirdos must stick together - Hell it's the only help we're going to get.
(Well that and my old mate Mr Jack Daniels maybe . . .)
Pleased someone on the forum got it and - I assume - will unite it with his bike, as it were.
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:39 pm
by Mc tool
Yeah , I shoulda asked him if he had the tool kit .The manual will probly never get near the bike ( least it get dirty ) till both are sold .......just after my funeral. Thanks Derek
Hamish
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:03 am
by paso750
Hamish, the solution is get a used manual and keep it on the bike. I keepo a new one at home and a more rancid one in the tools compartment. It does come handy sometimes
G.
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:23 am
by persempre907
Why do bring himself the handbook???
Could it help you in some way?
Ciao
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:39 am
by paso750
you never know. Could be the wiring diagram comes handy if there`re problems or you don`t remember the correct tire pressure...
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 12:05 pm
by persempre907
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 3:56 am
by Mc tool
I don't want to sound like a blowhard but there is nothing in that book ( and I havn't even seen one yet ) that could help me on the road side .... specially the wiring . There is nothing on my Paso I have not fully investigated ( pulled to bits and put back together at least as good as it was ). and a owners book will at best help with small problems ...... I mean if there is a rod poking out of the cases or the bike is engulfed in a fireball your not going to be lookin at the owners book

. I just want it to have that's all , ya know I probly wont even read it .

Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 6:49 am
by 900streetfighter
I carry wiring diagram with wire colour chart and 12v tester on my 907. On 999 I carry a handbook(2nd hand copy with all foreign languages removed) for codes and reset instructions. Never needed them though, most used item is breakdown/recovery card.
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 8:07 am
by Mc tool
I guess it what your used to . I have spent most of the last 30 years fixin home appliances and well a big bunch of wires ,either numbered or colour coded are 2nd nature to me . A wiring harness on a motorbike is a piece of piss ,slightly less so without a wiring diagram . but as a branch manager I really struggled , just not my thing , I mean I always got there but I had to work at it where others seemed to find it easy.

Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 10:05 am
by Rhino
My only skill - if skill it can be called- is a complete and fundamental knowledge of how to use my Visa card . . .
I only keep handbooks and toolkits etc. because I have an unnatural need for completeness on a concours bike.
Who knows, I may even sit on it one day . . ..
By the way 900streetfighter I have a complete and unmarked (and I mean unmarked) workshop manual, ring-bound, for a 2003 999S. I don't need/want it - let me know if you're interested.
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 5:55 pm
by Duc750
Rhino wrote:My only skill - if skill it can be called- is a complete and fundamental knowledge of how to use my Visa card . . .
Ah the voice of the legal proffesion

Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 7:33 pm
by Rhino
Hey guys - can anyone help . . .
I am not being notified of replies being posted
(even if it is only Duc750 laughing at me . . . )
Re: Owners Handbook
Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 6:41 pm
by persempre907
Rhino, I'm with you.
As a lawyer, I also am much more skilled using my Visa.
But... I don't know why, sometimes I try to use some screwdriver.
The results are often/always not so nice
Ciao