Rick Monahan, owner of Black Kat Motorwerks, as part of a series by the League of Gentlemen Riders, will present a lesson covering most of the routine maintenance items all vintage bikes need. Along the way he’ll cover common repairs you might need to make in the field and in your garage, as well as the tools you should keep with you always.
Join us for free, August 21st at 2:00 PM.
As time allows we’ll cover:
- Engine Oil Change
- Gearbox Oil Change
- Spark Plug Cleaning/Gap Adjustment
- Valve Checking/Adjustment
- Points Checking/Adjustment
- and much more…
This event is expected to last about two to three hours.
We’re trying something new, broadening our group from just rides to the other aspects of bike ownership. If it goes well we may repeat and expand on the bike mechanics lessons to share the knowledge and help people help themselves.
The lessons will be heavily biased towards vintage bikes, in particular BMWs. Demonstrations will be done on pre-1975 BMWs. If you sign up and have a modern bike I reserve the right to ask you to give up your place for a vintage bike owner if we start to fill up; the vintage people probably need the help and would find the lessons more directly applicable than you. Rick’s expertise is BMW, so if you have a non-BMW don’t expect him to know everything about your bike! He’ll have general information and advice but without a manual may not know any specifics. 
The location for the lesson is at Quinxy’s house in Venice. Contact me or go to the League of Gentlemen Riders, will site to RSVP.
Look forward to seeing you!
Hello- I just brought a CJ750 from China and would love to understand basic maintinance better. It is such a shame that I just missed your August 21st deal. The changjiangexperience.com website says that your shop has done some work on CJ750s. Do you think the lessons you teach on BMWs are worthwhile and transferrable to CJ750s? If yes, are you going to have another workshop any time soon? Thank you.Rick Cabanes
BMW knowledge is all applicable to Chang Jiangs. Obviously knowledge of 1930s BMWs is most helpful, but 1960s BMW knowledge is almost as good, given a quick check with online CJ resources for specs and specific info.
Rick is happy to do minor things on the Chang Jiangs, things that don\’t require ordering parts from China. He prefers not to deal with the mixed bag of sourcing the parts in China and delays in shipping them over. But he\’s always happy to discuss any particular repair or service to see if something can be done.
Quinxy (the author of this post) has a fair number of basic repairs under his belt on his own CJ and may also be able to assist.
As for further maintenance classes, we may try again in the spring, the number of people signing up was disappointingly low and prevented us from making them a regular feature.
Q
Are you guys still planning something for the spring? Please notify me, as I’d surely attend.
Thanks,
Pat