Was that a true workshop manual or the maintenance manual? I have a copy of the maintenance manual and it is nowhere a true workshop manual..

While our generation was brought up needing mechanical skills to keep,our old bikes running etc, the current designs and manufacturing techniques mean modern bikes are more akin to two wheel cars. Current generations of owners are not interested in all that oily mechanic stuff and the vast majority take their bikes to the dealer for all their needs.

Look at the massive drop off of people willing to buy our old clunkers and the resultant fall in values. Then go to any motorcycle club and look at their membership numbers which are falling in the main.