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Linda, your confidence will return after you accumulate additional successful service jobs. As an RN, you first patient injection was likely very upsetting, yet I bet you don't give it a 2nd thought now. Rechecking the order of operations and torque values will make each service job incrementally easier.Let me just say, once I was on my way, I held on tightly, white knuckled the hand grips and anticipated my rear wheel flying off, the entire journey. I actually left out my ear plugs in anticipation of hearing the impending doom.
Luckily, I arrived home from my jaunt intact, lug nuts correctly torqued, but with the realization that the fearless confidence of my youth was long gone.
Not a bad idea to have somebody scan the job when done too. I changed the oil on a Yamaha a couple months ago, got distracted and was ready to ride off with the filler plug off. It was noticed by my wife and fellow rider before I left. Always good to have a backup !Sunbeemer wrote:As others have said, you will gain confidence in your work each time you successfully complete something. Then you can start getting over-confident and may overlook a detail thinking you've done this all before, but it might have been so long ago that you didn't recall all the steps!
I refer to a manual every time I work on the bike. I think that keeps me focused on the procedure and gives me the correct torque values. If I keep the bike healthy, it will help keep me healthy!
The others were loose.wncbmw wrote:In regards to the pros not necessarily being perfect: Years ago, I had the tires on my truck rotated at the local station/shop near our office. About 60 miles down the road, I heard a strange rattle. Stopping in a parking lot, I removed the hubcap and 2 of the 5 lug nuts fell out and rolled across the parking lot!
