When I purchased my motorcycle it was pretty clear that I would need new tires real soon. Being a good friend that he is Motodisiac gave me a set of new tires as a birthday gift in the end of September. A couple of weeks ago I found a motorcycle shop near my work, called them in and dropped off the tires and my bike. A couple of hours and 80 dollars later the job was done. How complicated is it to change tires? It is a pretty basic job. With that school of thought I did not feel there was a need to double check that the job was done right. Boy was I wrong.

A couple of days ago we went to watch the Supermoto championship races. Early that morning I arrived at Motodisiac’s parking garage. As we both were getting ready to leave we noticed my chain being a little saggy on the bottom part. That did not look right. After a closer examination we discovered that the chain was not installed properly. And I had been riding like that for a couple of weeks at least. Of course we ended up fixing it. There was a big chance of me damaging my gear box had we kept it unchanged.

Fuming the anger about a sh*tty unprofessional job by that shop questions came to mind - how could a simple job be screwed up so royally? Does one have to double check everything after they leave a shop? May be it makes sense to do things yourself to be sure things done right? From now on I know I will be double checking everything and anything done to my motorcycle. The room for error is much smaller when you are riding than when you are driving …

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