Recovery Bikes Boca LLC

Ducatti Monster pick up. This bike has an interesting story, it spent its whole life in England, it has been shipped here last year and still has a UK license plate in an L reg lol. I told the customer I used to have an L reg truck back in England so know just from that is a 1993 bike.

A project like this for a customer is a combination of a nightmare, and at the end of it rewarding and satisfying to get a good result.

After he had an accident on the Kawaskai Ninja 650 the whole front and left side of the fairing was bent, smashed and broken, as well as the forks severely bent beyond repair. The customer said that he only wants to do the bare minimum to the bike, so that’s it rideable again, this included not being able to buy any new fairing. He had a very strict and relatively small budget here, but we were willing to give it ago and see what we could do.

I said that all we will be able to do here is get new forks fitted, everything working and safe but the best we can do is try and bend the brackets back, and zip tie the fairing back the best way we could.

So getting to work we were able to source a good used set of replacement forks, then got to it switching them out, as well as making sure everything works properly such as the brakes.

Bit by bit we built it back up and found ways to secure and fix the fairing, as well as re-paint the replacement front fender we got, from green to black. In the end we were almost shocked how well it came together, the customer was definitely very surprised m, especially how perfectly well the bike rode, when he came to pick it up when finished and tested it. Again this was a bit of a nightmare task but very rewarding and satisfying at the end.

A customer of ours who has a 2010 Honda Goldwing 1800 called us because he was stuck at the side of the road away from home. His front brake had locked on solids so he wasn’t able to move the bike anywhere. We tried to advise him the best way we could to get him running again but it wasn’t helping, so we went out on a rescues mission, actually on a 1988 1500 Goldwing 😅

When I got there I was able to free off the front brake and together we rode back to the shop slowly. Once there we took the caliper off to inspect the problem which was a combination of low brake pads, and dirty pistons. We stripped the caliper and pistons down to clean and polish, so that they would now slide freely, then bled up the system. Before he came back to pick it up we did a full detailed clean and polish, mainly getting all the pitting/rusting off all the chrome parts 😊👌 All this was done in less that 12 hours 👌