Fazer Owners Club - Unofficial
General => General => Topic started by: celticdog on 03 May 2017, 11:58:43 pm
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Ok, what's the biggest waste of money you've had the joy of purchasing?
I'm talking about motorcycle kit and accessories only, we already know all about Harleys.
PS> anyone want to buy a carbon fibre tax disc holder?
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Aluminium superbike bars. Light weight, look great but fell off at about 20mph and the focin things were as bent as Boy George
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Super Unleaded petrol - or the (Shell) V-Power type diesel.
All the cost for no measurable benefit.
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I find the better petrol does the job, noticed it first on my C90 so tried it in the car.
Acceleration a little crisper but mpg defo gets better.
Even though it's more expensive to buy I worked out that it'd be around £25 a year cheaper over 10000 miles.
Granted it's not a lot but it gives me 200 miles for nothing on the Fazer.
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I find the better petrol does the job, noticed it first on my C90 so tried it in the car.
Acceleration a little crisper but mpg defo gets better.
Even though it's more expensive to buy I worked out that it'd be around £25 a year cheaper over 10000 miles.
Granted it's not a lot but it gives me 200 miles for nothing on the Fazer.
:agree
Tried them all over the years, several times, just for comparison.
97 is the value, 99 is good but overpriced, but my bike just doesn't feel responsive to 95 in comparison to either of the other two.
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I bought some of those LED tire valve dust caps that are ment to show a glowing disk of light in your wheel when they spin. What a load of bollocks they were. I spotted them on evilbay for a couple of quid and thought to myself hummm! I like Tron so sod it and bought them :lol they lasted about 1 day before they cracked up and broke off.
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Biggest waste of money?
Probably every time I buy a new bike !
But what a way to waste money :evil
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I find the better petrol does the job, noticed it first on my C90 so tried it in the car.
Like it. :lol
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Years ago, I used to spend about 85% of my wages on prostitutes, drugs and alcohol .......
The rest I just wasted. :D
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A Marriage Licence, then buying a house , having a family then getting screwed in the courts when she fucks off and cops the lot.
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Purchased a vasectomy a few years back, worst purchase imaginable, infection set in & my man spuds went the colour of beetroot & were so swollen i couldn't pull me trousers over the feckers. Not bike related i know but stopped me riding for a while, two months of shocking pain, crutches & elasticated breeches.
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Purchased a vasectomy a few years back, worst purchase imaginable, infection set in & my man spuds went the colour of beetroot & were so swollen i couldn't pull me trousers over the feckers. Not bike related i know but stopped me riding for a while, two months of shocking pain, crutches & elasticated breeches.
Was it a cheap chinese one from ebay ? :)
I actually paid for mine as well at private clinic 22 years ago, best investment I ever made :D
Anyway to get back on thread topic, worst piece of kit I ever bought was a crash helmet Windjammer, if you turned your head at all it would slide off the helmet and wrap itself round your neck.
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Purchased a vasectomy a few years back, worst purchase imaginable, infection set in & my man spuds went the colour of beetroot & were so swollen i couldn't pull me trousers over the feckers. Not bike related i know but stopped me riding for a while, two months of shocking pain, crutches & elasticated breeches.
Sounds like you had bad luck there Dea-ville.
I had the same operation 22 years ago, I had it done in a Hospital Outpatients one morning and was back at work the next day with no ill effects what-so-ever.
A mate of mine had it done around the same time and one of his Gooleys was black and badly swollen, he was off work for nearly 2 weeks with an infection in it, mind you his 3 year old daughter did not help by running across the room and jumping into his lap :eek :'(
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Waterproof boots.
Tcx s-speed wp to be precise. They leaked like fuck straight away.
The wp stands for wasted pounds I reckon.
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Purchased a vasectomy a few years back, worst purchase imaginable, infection set in & my man spuds went the colour of beetroot & were so swollen i couldn't pull me trousers over the feckers. Not bike related i know but stopped me riding for a while, two months of shocking pain, crutches & elasticated breeches.
Sounds like you had bad luck there Dea-ville.
I had the same operation 22 years ago, I had it done in a Hospital Outpatients one morning and was back at work the next day with no ill effects what-so-ever.
A mate of mine had it done around the same time and one of his Gooleys was black and badly swollen, he was off work for nearly 2 weeks with an infection in it, mind you his 3 year old daughter did not help by running across the room and jumping into his lap :eek :'(
Another one here also about 17 years ago, didn't pay for mine all went well and no problems for me, I was sat up enough to watch it being done. Felt like a football being kicked in the goolies for a short while, couple of hours perhaps.
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KBC VR1 helmet, great looking lid and comfortable but get above 90 and it would shake your head so violently you'd get blurred vision
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Talking of vasectomies, many years ago my wife booked mine for me. The first time I met the surgeon was in the corridor on the way down and he said " I must just check that you do know why you're here?" lol
Then several years later I was on a job in a house. As I was crouching down looking at a lock, the householder asked me if I had a vasectomy?
I replied something like "How can you tell from there?"
"I did it" he said. And there I was talking to the only man who's ever touched my willy!
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Had a bad experience in hospital. Had an ultrasonic scan on my testicles to check for a tumour, was laid there with a doc rubbing gel on my balls when a bunch of student nurses walked in.... Not very embarrassing
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Waterproof boots.
Tcx s-speed wp to be precise. They leaked like fuck straight away.
The wp stands for wasted pounds I reckon.
I had some of them, when I took em back they said "oh yeah they will let a bit in...!!! well that aint water proof is it ? its water resistant, gimme my money back please.
I had a vasectomy too, but that wasn't a waste of money...the kids I had before it were though!
my biggest waste of money is a diesel camper van, I spos its worth fuk all now, oh well chin up I have used it 3 times !
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Waterproof boots.
Tcx s-speed wp to be precise. They leaked like fuck straight away.
The wp stands for wasted pounds I reckon.
Ha, same here, paid the extra for ones with goretex fitted into them, never leaked again. :lol Lesson learned.
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PS> anyone want to buy a carbon fibre tax disc holder?
Put it back on your bike with a nicely shaped caption saying,
"Yes! this bike is Foccing Taxed and Insured" :lol
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My new model crossrunner
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My new model crossrunner
Why? Don't you like it?
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Had a bad experience in hospital. Had an ultrasonic scan on my testicles to check for a tumour, was laid there with a doc rubbing gel on my balls when a bunch of student nurses walked in.... Not very embarrassing
That sounds like another "Adventures Of A Taxi Driver" scenario :lol
Although in fairness i had a very similar occasion, mid scan for a hernia with all the gel and stuff, skids down, and a load of students walked in and THEN the nurse doing the scan asked if they could watch and learn?
Erm, yeah okay then!
Fortunately mobiles weren't so available back then. :lol
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My new model crossrunner
yeah , whats up with it ? quite li
ke them
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Super Unleaded petrol - or the (Shell) V-Power type diesel.
All the cost for no measurable benefit.
Not in performance but you should get more MPG, cleaner engine mainly EGR valve and less likely to screw the injection pump due to better fuel that lubs the internals.
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Not in performance but you should get more MPG, cleaner engine mainly EGR valve and less likely to screw the injection pump due to better fuel that lubs the internals.
If it costs more, it must be better - right? :lol :lol :lol :lol
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the diesel I put in my bike!!
after driving works vehicles all week loaded bike up with all I needed for a rally then went to fill up,, automatically put black pipe in bike not green!!
didn't even register until 2 miles down the road & bike died!!
lesson learnt? no did it to new bike but noticed after less than half a litre so switched to unleaded and filled to brim :rollin next fill up was that expensive super unleaded ran a treat after that :)
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My new model crossrunner
Why? Don't you like it?
Long gone, really good bike completely spoilt by horrendous screen turbulence, can't believe the press didn't make a lot of this, worst bike I've owned by far.
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My new model crossrunner
Why? Don't you like it?
Long gone, really good bike completely spoilt by horrendous screen turbulence, can't believe the press didn't make a lot of this, worst bike I've owned by far.
I rode an xlv1000 Varadero a few years back and at speeds above 50mph the screen turbulence was so bad it rattled my helmet and gave me a headache after about 10 miles.
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My new model crossrunner
Why? Don't you like it?
Long gone, really good bike completely spoilt by horrendous screen turbulence, can't believe the press didn't make a lot of this, worst bike I've owned by far.
I rode an xlv1000 Varadero a few years back and at speeds above 50mph the screen turbulence was so bad it rattled my helmet and gave me a headache after about 10 miles.
I had a 2002 Mk1 Vara and a 2008 Mk 3 Vara and MRA Varioscreens on both helped a lot, my crossrunner had 4 different screens and a Powerbronze screen adjuster and I still sold it. It had factory panniers, fog lights and lots of other stuff, lost a fortune. I see Honda have now fitted an adjustable screen. Anyone thinking about buying one should have at least a 2 hour test ride.
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PS> anyone want to buy a carbon fibre tax disc holder?
Put it back on your bike with a nicely shaped caption saying,
"Yes! this bike is Foccing Taxed and Insured" :lol
I still have the blue anodised disk holder on the back of my 600, I have the words 'Fazer set to Stun' set inside it, a play on words from Startrek.
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My first wife
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My first wife
Yeah, agree, she was a bit of a bike...................................................