Workshop Manual

When you are gonna work on motorcycles, you should have shop manuals handy. Should not assume you are smart enough to figure out how to take them apart by your own and put it together. It is very helpful to read whole chapter of section you are gonna work on before tear into the bike.

You get Clymer, Haynes manuals to work on bikes because they are cheaper to get. And soon you might notice some mistakes or total lies in those manuals. For example, Clymer manual for GL1000 (Goldwing) shows carb jets in wrong holes. The funny part is that it's been reprinted many times since the seventies and the mistake has never been corrected. I could not find how much of compression should CB750K have on Clymer manual. They make mistakes about metric measurement ( like one freaking digit off) as if they don't care for Metrics users...

A lot of old mechanics prefers factory shop manuals. They are written by those who build the bikes thus should be better. Yet some says that those manuals assumes readers are trained motorcycle mechanics so beginner might have hard time following it. The best thing you can do is to get all of manuals available for the bike. Yeah, gets expensive if you buy them all, but you can always find on-line manuals for free if you are willing to spend some time in front of computer. Here are some links you can try. Carlsalter, Repair manual Club.
Also you can find forums for your model of bikes. They can usually direct you to the right places. Good luck. Remember, some manuals lie! Like this one. I can't find any parts they mentions in there other than Holoprojector lens, which was an overhead passenger cabin lights from old Vickers Viscount 700 passenger turboprop, BAE 748 and BAE Beech King aircraft.