Ok - I'm looking for more help now!

[Greggers]

Some of you may already know that I'm involved with the writing of the Adventure Motorcycling books that Haynes are now publishing - Volumes 1 and 2 are both doing well and have just been re-printed so a big "thank-you" to anyone who's bought them! Vol. 3 - Building the Ultimate Adventure Bike will be released at the end of June, with pre-market copies being released at Ripley.
For my sins, I have agreed to write the fourth book in the series which will be based on maintenance and repairs, and this one will be published sometime in mid-2011.

What I need is pictures, pictures and more pictures... As these are destined for high-quality printing (if you've seen the other books you'll know it's not the usual Haynes monochrome..!) I need image files with pretty high resolution - to give an idea a 1Mb picture file will translate to a quarter or half page image - to illustrate mechanical problems you might encounter while riding. If there is a fix involved, then pictures of the whole sequence from start to finish would be marvellous.

I haven't got a huge budget - in fact as the publishing editor told me "I know there's a lot of love in these books ..." which is his euphemism for "I'm not paying for any extra photos!", but any image that I can use will be fully credited to the photographer and for those special pictures that really hit the spot, I'm happy to 'pay' with a signed copy. of the finished book.
I've got the content just about sorted, but I'm always open to including other stuff, so if there's a special fix you've got, or a particular problem that you think others might appreciate being in the book then by all means let me know and again I'll do what I can to include it.

Ok - over to you ... Feel free to PM me here, or my personal mail address is [email protected]..

Cheers

Greg

 

[Canuck]

What is it exactly that you want photos of?

 

[Greggers]

....to illustrate mechanical problems you might encounter while riding. If there is a fix involved, then pictures of the whole sequence from start to finish would be marvellous.....


Greg

Anything ... literally anything that would impart some kind of 'get you home' knowledge ... I know quite a lot of things about quite a lot of stuff, but I don't know everything, and it's some of those gaps I need to fill with 'stuff' that's not always immediately obvious to me!

 

[Sooty09]

Is this the type of thing,

While touring Spain a few years back on a BMW R65 the float bowl spring was knocked off . We found the bowl, the needle and floats stayed in place but no sign of the gasket, fuel was peeing out. We managed to wrap a plastic bag over the carb and tie it in place with fencing wire. I was doubtful it would work, it only ticked over on the other pot but the bike ran for the 600 mile return home.

Sorry no picture available.

 

[Greggers]

It's all good ... keep them coming!

Cheers

 

[twisticles]

Hey Greggers,

If you can give us some narrative of the things you are talking about in the book, I am sure there are a few talented photogs on here capable of snapping the pix to accompany your text.

Next time I get the tool roll out I will see if I can remember the DLSR too

Or do another workshop and invite some amateur photogs?

 

[Dave Ett]

Is this going to be a generic guide to cover all bikes, or will it have dedicated chapters for the more common models (1200GS, 800GS, Airheads, KTM, Africa Twin, Tenere...)?

Bought the first book thought it was great. Was put off the latest cuz there was a picture of a 1200 and LOTS of stuff next to it on the front cover!

 

[Cuprinol Man]

Sorry no photo's but you could just photo your own bike for this one.

If you have ran out of adjustment on your clutch and its is dragging you can release the cable and remove the upper locking nut to allow more /or provide some free play / adjustment.

Not much I know but might be useful.