A guy i knew (who was local to my work place) ran an electronics company, and repaired the machines in our factory every so often. We got friendly as he has an ex race TL1000R with carbon Dymags, race Ohlins etc. Turns out he used to race an RG500, his son races an RS125. He used to make bike alarms & ended up branching into fixing bikes too.
Anyway i wasn't in too much of a rush for the bike as i was getting married last July, and A) money was an issue & B) I hadn't told my finance that I'd bought it (and still haven't!)
To cut a long story short they got the engine repaired during last year, repaired the fork seals, replaced the wheel bearings etc. But the engine's been sat on their work bench ever since! As you probably understand I've started to loose patience so i told him that i wanted the bike ready end of last year....this didn't happen. In January i gave the guy an ultimatum, i wanted the bike completed by my birthday in April. That gave him 3 MONTHS to basically put the engine back together & get it back into the frame etc, to which agreed.
It's now July and the only progress has been that he's got the top end back on. He's got all the bits required to finish the job, but he just takes too much work on that he can't cope. He has THREE engines on benches, and all 3 of us owners are on his case. He's also having a lot of building work done to his unit, not my problem i know.
You're probably thinking that i'm a tit for leaving it so long, but he kinda has me over a barrel as A) My wife doesn't know i have it still & B) As she doesn't know that i have it, i can't really get the bike shipped anywhere else as i don't have a van. Otherwise i would've taken it somewhere else a long time ago
I'm posting this to see if there's anyone on here fairly local to me that could possibly help me get this finished? If so, at least i'd have an option after i tell this guy to give me my bike back how it is & pay him for the parts that he's fitted. Would i have to pay him for the (little) work that he's done on the engine? I'm hoping that he'll feel bad about how much he's taken the piss & let me take it. Also i'm starting to feel as though i don't trust his workmanship as even though he has knowledge of 2T's, he hasn't worked on an NSR before. And how i've been treated is the icing on the cake. The last thing i want is to spend £1k+ fixing this bike for it to break sooner rather than later!
I know that NSR-World has a work shop service....where is this based please? Could you collect the bike from Chippenham?
I can't believe that I've let this go on for almost TWO years!!
Cheers
Scott
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