My second thought was that a How To series should be a fairly easy thing to do.\u00a0 I wrote the shop manuals for CSC a few years ago.\u00a0 There, the approach was to have one of CSC’s maintenance experts perform the maintenance activity with me snapping photos through the process.\u00a0 I already had the photo approach nailed (f\/8, Aperture mode, on board flash, all with my trusty D810 and Sigma 50mm macro lens).\u00a0 The photos became my notes.\u00a0 I processed the pics in PhotoShop, I added a bit of text to each, and the shop manuals basically wrote themselves. I knew I could use the same process for the Motorcycle Classics<\/em> How To series, and I was right.<\/p>\n If you subscribe to Motorcycle Classics<\/em>, you’ve already seen a few of these (and if you don’t subscribe to the magazine, you should).\u00a0 I did a story on how to service drum brakes with Emma Booton up in Marina (she’s wonderful), another one on wheel lacing with good buddy Kenny Buchanan of Buchanan Spoke and Rim, and lately I’ve been doing a series with good buddies Moe, Steve, and Lindsay at Cycle Garden in Indio, California.\u00a0 I enjoyed making friends at all these places, I enjoyed learning the processes, and I enjoyed writing the stories.<\/p>\n You can see the Motorcycle Classics<\/em> stories I wrote here<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s been a hell of a ride.\u00a0 You can also buy Destinations<\/em><\/a>, a collection of some of my favorites.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ExNotes for free!<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Front-Cover-Destinations-jpg-300.jpg\")
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