If yous're a motorbike and/or machine exercise-it-yourselfer, chances are that yous have at least one Haynes Transmission somewhere in your home or garage. While the Internet is groovy for bringing together clusters of like-minded weirdos who all love that one discontinued Honda model you do, OEM shop manuals and Haynes books will e'er take their place, right?

The Haynes organization certainly hopes so. Founder John Haynes formally retired from his family business in 2010, and somewhen died at the historic period of 80 in 2022. While Haynes has long had a robust YouTube channel that mostly focuses on car repairs, it seems the shift to digital publishing is ramping up. In December, 2022, Haynes announced that it will no longer publish print workshop manuals for new vehicles.

Thankfully, Haynes volition still continue to print and publish its extensive back catalog of manuals. For now, at any rate. The company was quick to clarify this point on Twitter. Don't worry, vintage vehicle fans—print versions for older vehicles won't disappear completely.

Instead, the Twitter thread reads, Haynes is "currently in the procedure of creating a new automotive maintenance and repair product that covers effectually 95 percent of machine makes and models—an increase of around 40 percent over our current Workshop Manual coverage."

"This will provide you, our loyal enthusiasts, with a greater selection than always before and we volition reveal more in due course. Far from being the end of the road, we are ensuring that Haynes will go on well into the 21st century," the thread concludes.

It's worth noting that Haynes currently has a digital product called Haynes Manuals AllAccess. It's merely available in certain regions, and appears to be aimed more than at professional person workshops and garages than private enthusiasts. You tin cull from Cars, Motorcycles, or Cars & Motorcycles admission that includes every single Haynes Online manual available in your called category. Some videos are included, and all the Clymer Motorcycle manuals are included if you purchase motorcycle access.

However, one twelvemonth of access for either Cars or Motorcycles is currently priced at £399, or near $536. If you go for the Car & Motorcycle package, a year's access is £599, or $804. It'south unclear if Haynes is planning to offering more enthusiast-friendly tiers to this existing program, or if the digital shift it's talking about will be something else entirely—simply surely, it has to exist a bit different than what's already available if it's going to work for well-nigh enthusiasts.

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