Author Topic: what did you do with your fazer today ? (Read 1595629 times)

steve 10562cc · « **Reply #7825 on:** 27 March 2019, 07:30:46 am »

OGRI : Heres a bad memory for you, wet 4" clinker breeze on a cold winters days wearing your finder tips out till they bled. Only being able to lay 3 courses of the ba**ards before they wagged about, while being payed by the yd. Dam going to have to go for a lie down and a couple of aspirin till the thought wears off lol

Grahamm · « **Reply #7826 on:** 27 March 2019, 07:58:59 pm »

A follow up to my previous post:

After running out of daylight yesterday, I got back to reassembling my bike although getting the airbox back on was a nuisance until I undid all the collars that secure the rubbers to the throttle bodies and smeared them with some red rubber grease.

In any case, I'm glad I did the change because the clutch is *so* much smoother and easy to use now

ogri48 · « **Reply #7827 on:** 27 March 2019, 08:30:59 pm »

Quote from: mtread on 26 March 2019, 11:29:30 pm

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.nowadays you aint even allowed to carry your tools up a ladder let alone a hod with 14 bricks innit..

OK I'll ask........ How do you get them up there then? Trampoline?

site fork truck/ teleporter mate

ogri48 · « **Reply #7828 on:** 27 March 2019, 08:33:24 pm »

Quote from: steve 10562cc on 27 March 2019, 07:30:46 am

OGRI : Heres a bad memory for you, wet 4" clinker breeze on a cold winters days wearing your finder tips out till they bled. Only being able to lay 3 courses of the ba**ards before they wagged about, while being payed by the yd. Dam going to have to go for a lie down and a couple of aspirin till the thought wears off lol

paid by the yard! Christ thats going back some mate. my old man really struggled when guage went from four bricks to the foot to 300mm lol. he reckoned metric would never catch on, there was too many numbers in it

steve 10562cc · « **Reply #7829 on:** 28 March 2019, 08:16:11 am »

We were paid by the yard but the site agent measured by the metres, yep thieving t**t. when I started my apprentice ship was either the first or second year we had gone metric. Metric was great easy to work areas and volume out bo**cks to yards, feet, and inches.

mtread · « **Reply #7830 on:** 28 March 2019, 10:51:11 am »

Just think of those poor Egyptians building the pyramids. Being paid by the cubit

steve 10562cc · « **Reply #7831 on:** 28 March 2019, 02:08:43 pm »

only one bit of advice for the old Egyptians use smaller bricks you can lift.

fazersharp · « **Reply #7832 on:** 28 March 2019, 07:24:44 pm »

Re greased my 1 lug speedo rotor as here ---- http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,24814.0.html

agricola · « **Reply #7833 on:** 29 March 2019, 07:47:26 pm »

Put the front and rear wheels back on the bike with the new tyres on, rear brake to refit, hugger to refit, still waiting delivery of the inlet rubbers from Yamaha Europe

ogri48 · « **Reply #7834 on:** 02 April 2019, 10:12:42 pm »

prepped the thou for france tommoz. Just gotta do chain tension, air, oil and water in the morning

VNA - BMW Wank · « **Reply #7835 on:** 03 April 2019, 05:41:21 pm »

Big boxes. Hope you are enjoying the trip.

unfazed · « **Reply #7836 on:** 03 April 2019, 06:28:40 pm »

Two new Sportec M7RRs and new valves on the 1000 all ready for the road again

agricola · « **Reply #7837 on:** 03 April 2019, 07:37:26 pm »

Quote from: ogri48 on 02 April 2019, 10:12:42 pm

prepped the thou for france tommoz. Just gotta do chain tension, air, oil and water in the morning

and a bag of cement on the tank to keep the front wheel down

ogri48 · « **Reply #7838 on:** 04 April 2019, 04:41:30 pm »

Lol I need them big boxes ...one for me sandwiches one for me conscience... spot the paratrooper in a spot of bother btw..

Anquetil · « **Reply #7839 on:** 05 April 2019, 02:49:01 pm »

Private John Steele at Saint-Mère-Église. Brings back memories of my time living in Normandie. Have a good, safe trip ogri48.

coffee · « **Reply #7840 on:** 05 April 2019, 03:49:40 pm »

Quote from: Anquetil on 05 April 2019, 02:49:01 pm

Private John Steele at Saint-Mère-Église. Brings back memories of my time living in Normandie. Have a good, safe trip ogri48.

WOW! did he survive?

Anquetil · « **Reply #7841 on:** 05 April 2019, 03:57:36 pm »

Yes, he did. He hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before the Germans took him prisoner. The dummy is not hanging on the side of the church that he landed on. It used to be on the correct side but it caused traffic problems due to people viewing it, so they moved it.

robbo · « **Reply #7842 on:** 05 April 2019, 05:16:02 pm »

If I remember correctly, on each corner of that town square there's a wartime photo of the view that you're looking at from that corner. A "now and then" kind of thing.

ogri48 · « **Reply #7843 on:** 05 April 2019, 09:51:38 pm »

cheers guys yeah was really good, we did Omaha today, all amazing stuff. Normandy is a little cold but bloody brilliant...

Northern Biker · « **Reply #7844 on:** 06 April 2019, 07:39:23 pm »

Fitted some Fazer Thou mirrors to my 600, also a Fazer Thou alloy rear brake lever. Just had to space out the rear master cylinder a few mm to straighten out the bar to the lever a little.

Stinka · « **Reply #7845 on:** 06 April 2019, 08:06:13 pm »

Raped the absolute cnt off of it, chasing my insane mate on his srad 750

Tbf I won I the straights. I let him go on the corners because he’s a mental

unfazed · « **Reply #7846 on:** 06 April 2019, 10:02:49 pm »

Quote from: ogri48 on 05 April 2019, 09:51:38 pm

cheers guys yeah was really good, we did Omaha today, all amazing stuff. Normandy is a little cold but bloody brilliant...

Did Omaha beach a few years ago and as you say found it to be an amazing place, well worth the visit.
The poor guys landing on the beach were sitting ducks to the German machine guns.
Did you get to visit the museum?

Anquetil · « **Reply #7847 on:** 07 April 2019, 04:20:20 pm »

A ride to the Hednesford Motorcycle Club and MZ Owners Club gathering in Hednesford, Staffs. 128 mile round trip. Food and drink available, good turnout. Nice FZS 600 there.

Dynspud · « **Reply #7848 on:** 07 April 2019, 07:03:34 pm »

Just got back from a 4-day trip to Normandy with OGRI48 (Paul).
A fab trip with great company and somewhere I would definitely recommend you visit.
Photos are Omaha Beach, which has a great museum and a nearby cafe with good coffee, and Le Mont St Michel, which is a town with a large cathedral all built on a rock out at sea - amazing!!

agricola · « **Reply #7849 on:** 08 April 2019, 08:23:55 pm »

Quote from: agricola on 29 March 2019, 07:47:26 pm

Put the front and rear wheels back on the bike with the new tyres on, rear brake to refit, hugger to refit, still waiting delivery of the inlet rubbers from Yamaha Europe

Spoken to thew parts supplier again today, inlet rubbers wont be here from Japan before 30th April, trackday booked at Donny for the 29th. So, set to re-fitting the old ones, one of which I suspect was not sealing properly, ,leading to hesitancy at low throttle. Thoroughly cleaned them, and straightened out as best I could the old clamp bands, all refitted now, and balanced up. Ill give it a blast out tomorrow. In hindsight, I think I may have overtightened the bands and distorted them last time I had them off, which may have allowed the rubbers to slip on the bodies neck inlet. If all is good, then its oil change, brake bleed, fairings on and then check to see if my leathers have shrunk over winter