How to Set Up Your Motorcycle Workshop: Tips and Tricks for Building and Equipping Your Dream Workshop (Whitehorse Tech)

This book is not trying to sell you a $13k tool chest or a $20 4-pack of soap stone that will somehow make it all happen. It's been put together by the kind of guy who get's dressed up in his best pair of jeans and t-shirt to pose next to the incredible thing he just built. Written in a way that anyone could design their own shop even if all they have is a bucket of loose 1970's no-name sockets, some scrap wood, a 1980's stripped Honda, a pile of half-rusted wrenches, and a garage like those you rent in an apartment complex. I am a pro mechanic, welder, and fabricator and my home shop is a compilation of not so pretty stuff that works great. Half the time I walk through the door of my shop and wonder how anything comes out alive! This book is designed so anyone, regardless of budget, can dream up a shop and not worry about going broke in the process. I enjoy books like this because they remind me that skill and vision trump high-dollar tools and a glistening shop that looks like the only thing that's even been run in it was a mop.

This book offers a fairly simplistic view of "How to set up---". There is not much value here, BUT, the book goes way beyond the promise in the title to provide valuable insight into motorcycle maintenance. For this reason I am glad it is in my library ----- now if only it had an appropriate title-----

Great book to read. Enjoyable, good hints & information. It is not an authoritative or technical manual by any stretch, though. The book did omit details on many pertinent topics, or provided just one vague paragraph on many important items (especially on equipment required). It is the personal ramblings of an experienced home do-it-yourselfer and the lessons he has learned. They are good ramblings in some cases, and unsubstantiated personal preferences in other cases. Worth reading before you set up a home MC workshop if you just get 4-5 useful hints (which is really all I got out of it, but they were enough to be worth it - barely).I am glad I bought it and used a highlighter on a couple chapters......

laid out well

This book not only gives you an enormous complete insight in how to set up your workplace (private or business), it also gives you all kinds of explaination and tips concerning the use of tools, which tools you actually need, and even some tips on motorcycle maintenance. But best of all this book is incredibly fun to read. More than once I was caught laughing out loud for the way the book is written and the recognizable situations the writer describes.

I gave it three stars because it is lacking in providing dimensions for setting up a shop

good idea from this book but and helpful information, but I didn't love it

nice read and ideas...if you have a good wallet :)

If you are setting up an automotive workshop, this is probably a good book to get to advise and inform about what a good workshop should look like and contain. While it does not go into great detail, there is enough to set you on the right track. One thing that it helps you avoid is the serendipitous approach of a bit of this and that, evolve over time, which is the most common approach and, in my own experience, the most costly in the end. So a good book that helps to avoid the pitfalls of setting up a motorbike workshop with practical advice and examples from people who do it for a living. I have found much to value in it.

Lots off good ideas, surprised by how much room you really need, lovely bike lift, going to build one myself as I don't think this type is available in the uk, uses one tube like the old Tecamit car lfts of the 60's used, this idea alone worth the price of the book to me.

Not what I expected. It is mostly aimed at American audience with huge sheds/garages. A lot of info in it is not for me. I couldn't put all the stuff that they talk about in a small shed

Always worth reading about how pros utilise the space available.

Very useful if you want to set up or upgrade your mencave...