I'm giving away all my assortedhand tools…… Here is why.

[Chris Mad dog]

A bit of a story.

Many years ago I was riding my much loved Honda 250 everywhere. I think it's the only time my mother has heard me volunteer to go to the shops for her! Anyway to the point riding along a dual carriageway which is a two lane highway and all the traffic up in front started to slow up in an accident or something and I went for my brakes and I gotta mushy front disc and practically no back break at all well two seconds later I was wide awake hauling on the front brake standing on what was left of the rear brake and the God's were with me and I got it stopped.

As I was sitting there waiting for the front Break stop smoking, a guy on a very nice Triumph pulled in next to me.
What's the problem mate, I explained that I had lost my brakes, he stood back looking at my rear wheel, went to his bike and from inside the side panel took out a green roll of tools.
Now anyone who knows the early Honda's knows how the back breaker is adjusted and a great big long thread to take up the tension between pedal and brake shoes. He pulled out a spanner and within five minutes I had the best back breaks I'd had for months…… A simple adjustment I knew nothing about. As he was putting away the tool roll he handed me a cross head screwdriver, he explained that that was the first piece of the toolkit that I should always have with me whenever I'm out riding and what's more I should know how to maintain my own bike. Well I thanked him and off he went and off I went with a new screwdriver stuck in my pocket.
Over the years I have learned to maintain any bike riding and in the panel wrapped up in a piece of rag there is a full toolkit for the bike any simple repair job can be done on the road once you know what you're doing and if you have the tools with you. I saw a guy a few weeks ago parked outside a shop his chain was bright orange rust was it that he just didn't care or was it that he didn't know how to lubricate it?
Now I know not everybody can afford tools for their bike so I thought I would do what that fine gentlemen did for me, he got me started on learning about my bike he got me started always carry a toolkit from then till now I always have.

Anyway the point of all this is that I am giving away all my basic hand tools and a few other odds and ends some useful some may be not so.
I have spoken to Udaipur moderator who is going to arrange to have them picked up and taken to Bulletiapa and tipped out on tarpaulin with the simple instruction if you need it and can use it take it with my blessings. The idea is that someone with no tools may end up with the beginnings of their own tool kit.
There is some good stuff in there, a couple of socket sets spanners et cetera and because nobody else wanted it I have thrown in a chainsaw! Quite what you would use it for the bike I have no idea but it's there for somebody who needs one.
Well that's it guys my hope is that one day stuck in the middle of nowhere with a simple repair to do I may just have encouraged someone to carry those tools with them.