The Best Repair Shop for My Big Bike?
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The Best Repair Shop for My Big Bike?
This IS my Djebel XC 250cc.
It is in one piece, but has been left sitting motionless for the best part of 6 months. I have just asked Moto Cambodge what they could do to help me out in terms of fixing it back up and modding it out, but they referred me to Dara's.
My friends who have since left to go back to the US have warned me (in the past) about Dara's, but other friends have recommended him.
I have been to a few local places which had, at the time, fixed the problems, but each time (every 2/3 months or so), i'd spend well over $50 in repairs.
I just want a place to fix it up, tune it up, and help me maintain it forever and ever, but not for over $50 a time. It's cheaper to have a car with these costs!
Anyone recommend a good place? I have searched for this kind of topic, but none sprung up.
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It's as heavy as a Rhino. Wouldn't exactly call it a scooter. A Yamaha Mio, I can lift by myself. The Djebel is a 3 or 4 man job.
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Is $50 a lot to repair a motionless bike?
I'm not a bike expert, but that one looks to be in pieces.0zirC wrote: It is in one piece, but has been left sitting motionless for the best part of 6 months.
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I just wanted some impartial advice Rice. I don't want to date the guy!ricecakes wrote:That bike needs reassembly and then a service. Most likely parts too. Several hundred bucks minimum
Dara does most of my work. He's fine.
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The picture of my beloved Suzuki is an old one. Yes, rightly so the repairs will cost more than $50, but once that's been handled, the cost to keep it maintained shouldn't be any more than $30 (for Cambodia) as changing of the oil and replacing a clutch cable once in a blue moon is inexpensive.
Unless I have it all wrong, and that riding a Suzuki is the motorbike version of driving a BMW.
Unless I have it all wrong, and that riding a Suzuki is the motorbike version of driving a BMW.
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My old djebel is in the same position.
Do not got to Angkor Motos St51 (like I was advised), they fucked everything up even more.
Dara were pretty shit, fixed the timing chain, but didn't even fix an oil leak I asked them to, and didn't even look at any of the other problems I was having.
Save up and go to Tony or buy a scooter and stop wasting money on a dream is my advice with old big bikes.
Do not got to Angkor Motos St51 (like I was advised), they fucked everything up even more.
Dara were pretty shit, fixed the timing chain, but didn't even fix an oil leak I asked them to, and didn't even look at any of the other problems I was having.
Save up and go to Tony or buy a scooter and stop wasting money on a dream is my advice with old big bikes.
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You said you had been "warned about him" . I simply told you in my experience he is fine. That is IMPARTIAL advice you dolt.0zirC wrote:I just wanted some impartial advice Rice. I don't want to date the guy!ricecakes wrote:That bike needs reassembly and then a service. Most likely parts too. Several hundred bucks minimum
Dara does most of my work. He's fine.
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Any shop is only as good as the staff working on it at the time! Sometimes a western owned place may assign a job to an untrained or lazy worker and they bodge a repair that won't last. I have seen some of these guys do some amazing repairs considering they do not have access to factory special tools. There are some good engineering shops about too! It can depend on the materials> There are mostly copy, bad quality parts here such as bearings/cables/ inner tubes that just fall apart in a few weeks The khmers do not like to pay for quality so the shops buy the cheapest crap stock to fix your moto or car! I know Dara at least, has some genuine parts sourced from overseas and they use the engineering shops that produce good results.(have had rebore/honing and valve work done) And have heard good reports from Tony's too, Its up to you to insist they use these parts, it will cost more than a cheap temporary fix!
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I've been going to the mechanics on st.432 for 4+ years now and always get really good service. It's 1 street north of the Russian Market and i always go to a garage that is owned by Mr.Run (?)
Anyway, this is the phone number of a really cool khmer dude who works at there and speaks fairly decent English: 092 787 990
You'll definitely get a cheaper price there than dara/tony
Anyway, this is the phone number of a really cool khmer dude who works at there and speaks fairly decent English: 092 787 990
You'll definitely get a cheaper price there than dara/tony
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