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[QUOTE="firecracker22, post: 113322, member: 20316"] The biggest problem is that let’s say this is how it’s done—in a fabrication shop with all the correct tools and instruments required. The average guy couldn’t and shouldn’t take his swingarm home, fire up his oxy-acetylene torch, and go to town on it. THAT is how people get hurt—what should be one of the strongest links in a bike’s frame/suspension now has a weak spot. That is the danger of accepting ANYONE, especially an average rider’s advice without further investigation and research. Someone told me I could straighten my subframe with either a prybar, a big press, or by laying it down and standing/jumping on it. Sure, any one of these solutions might work if performed correctly, but I wasn’t going to run out there with a prybar and start shoving things around with it. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do anything. I worked at a car parts store for 2 years and experienced this firsthand. Guy borrows a battery to jump his car—runs it dead trying, and also fries his hot wire/fuseblock by HOLDING THE KEY ON. Guy asks for "clutch fluid"—so I hand him DOT 4, which the manual recommended for his model—and he comes back and tries to get us to pay for his new tranny because he meant to say "tranny fluid." Guy asks for carb cleaner spray—we sell him a can of $1.99 Gumout—he goes outside, pops his hood, holds his throttle open and sprays the stuff down the throat of the carb until his engine revs to the moon and blows up. Our fault? NO. But all the little tricks I learned at the shop—like dribbling a bit of water down your carb before going to emissions test (it works) or using a different plug than recommended or spraying starting fluid on your tire and lighting it to re-seat the bead on the trail—these are all valid techniques that work, but I’m not gonna tell somebody who has never done it and doesn’t know WHY it works, to give it a try. Does that make sense? You can incorrectly pass along or mis-use good information so easily, especially on the Internet where no one is responsible for their actions and most are unwilling to retract incorrect statements "because they might look bad." BBR simply didn’t want someone to get hurt by trying something that they heard "BBR said it would work." Makes sense to me. [/QUOTE]
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