Trying to get a workshop manual for a '08 250 honda MX bike. Redline Honda in Mackay want $465:00 for one!!  FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS. My boy can't afford that on apprentice wages and I'm sure as shit not gunna buy it for him. Even if I'd won Lotto!! Rip off pricks. I'm holding back from a truckload of expletives to. Anybody in the know as to why such an astronomical price on a workshop manual. That's about 500% more than a genuine new Harley manual.   Maybe so you'd have to take your bike to a shop and not learn how to do services/repairs yourself? Fucknose. Please explain. 

Fark m8 $465 ? thats gotta be a fuck up?, try shoppin on line, should be able to pick one up a shit load cheaper than your over priced stealer ...

FFS!!! that sounds like a rip off. I would jump on the phone or net and ask around for prices. I am sure someone here will be able to help. I recon that it should be $46.50.

Mate...After you remove the manual from the Gold & Jewell encrusted box, be sure to take the diamond stud off the top R/H corner before you open it, as it may scratch the table you're resting on. Geez...Go straight to the top for the answer to this one...send Honda an email direct. Its probably the only way to get any sense out of it. Tell them you're going to do a pirate/robbery sketch on YouTube about it. Hehehehehe

The same shop rang today saying that the owners manual had arrived,a total of $8:00. It's as thick as a phonebook but a 1/4 of it is in english and it covers the basic servicing,good enough for me boy. Yeh,good idea Fatman,I couldn't be bothered fucken round stirring shit. But I'm tempted!!!! I'll google me date off and see what prices come up,gotta be sumthin bout.

 

I have heard of Honda genuine stuff being expensive for their motor vehicles:

                                                $50 for Genuine wiper blade refils;

                                                $30 for Genuine Honda air in yer tyres.

But $465 for a book and 3/4 of it is in a foreign language.

Hope you find an alternative.

I'll just get the $8:00 "phonebook thick" owners man,tear out the english pages and folder them. Jobs done. I'll get me kids to Google/My Space about the "HONDA FUCKING RIP OFF MANUAL"

try through MCA, if they can get it I can nab it cheap for you.

Have ya tried EBAY?

I just got myself a dvd sent from ISRAEL (of all places) for my 04/05 sporty custom 1200.

 

Prior to the sporty I had a Vulcan classic (shameless copy of a heritage softail from the folk who brought you Pearl Harbour) and got a dvd manual off Ebay for that as well. They cost around $10 plus a bit of postage...give it a shot...what's the worst that can happen? Ya find some bling for you ride....

Thanks blokes, I got an $8 owners manual that has as much info in it that we'll ever need. That'll do him.