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FZS600 Fazer / Re: mark 1 v mark 2
« on: 12 August 2015, 08:55:21 am »
thanks again all  :)

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: mark 1 v mark 2
« on: 11 August 2015, 09:45:00 pm »
thanks guys  :)

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: mark 1 v mark 2
« on: 11 August 2015, 08:12:39 pm »
useful link - thanks

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For Sale & Wanted / Re: Fazer 600 2001
« on: 11 August 2015, 07:35:01 pm »
looks lovely

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FZS600 Fazer / mark 1 v mark 2
« on: 11 August 2015, 07:31:48 pm »
putting prejudice aside, ie; accoirding to what you own

which is best boxeye or foxeye?  What would you buy?

and what would you buy if you had just £1500, no more

love to know with reasons as relevant,

like are they both as comfortable over long distance  :)


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General / Re: Got any other hobbies?
« on: 14 November 2013, 06:35:11 am »
is the top part of the knife handle, as per photo, fashioned like a bird's head or is that my weird imagination?

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General / Re: Got any other hobbies?
« on: 13 November 2013, 08:54:44 pm »
that drawing I posted above is quite large so it looks detailed because it is reduced.



is this by David Cox?



I quite like Gordon Cullen




I used to have an MZ, MZ EtZ 251, at the time I drew this for a club newsletter (sorry it has come out so massive, I'm not very technical)


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General / Re: Got any other hobbies?
« on: 13 November 2013, 07:40:24 pm »
yep i really like them nick - you're nowhere near me are you? oxford way. i've done a few of my home town, thame, but compared with yours they seem a bit mechanical, you seem to have caught something of the place.

 
Actually, yes, I'm in Carterton, other side of Oxford to you.


this is one I did 10 yrs ago, took ages, hardly done anything since - be great to to meet you sometime


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General / Re: Got any other hobbies?
« on: 13 November 2013, 12:14:02 pm »
yep i really like them nick - you're nowhere near me are you? oxford way. i've done a few of my home town, thame, but compared with yours they seem a bit mechanical, you seem to have caught something of the place.

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General / Re: Got any other hobbies?
« on: 13 November 2013, 10:27:58 am »
A pencil sketch and a first effort with acrylics:

nick

Love the sketch of the building  :)

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General / Re: Another f'in puncture
« on: 11 November 2013, 09:11:28 am »
feel for you Nosobrut, had my share too - expensive business one way and another. Ashamed to say I just call up my rescue (auto aid) and they usually take me to the nearest bike tyre place. Once had that goo (green stuff) in but my mechanic made such a fuss about what a mess it was to clean out that I don't go down that route.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: My Fazer
« on: 09 November 2013, 12:05:15 pm »
lovely bike  :)

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: True Average Mileage
« on: 06 November 2013, 01:53:15 pm »
No despatching ain't what it was the rates haven't gone up in 27 years. I worked for Addison lee in the late eighties and a minimum paid £3.75  with bonus, and I'm back with them again and a minimum is still £3.75. Take home is about £500 take out fuel running costs for the bike and insurance £1000 . I'm a mechanic so service the bike myself so that cuts the cost, but you can put on the miles when it was at courier systems I did 8500 miles in 6 weeks.


all weathers - sounds like hard work

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: True Average Mileage
« on: 05 November 2013, 11:15:20 pm »
£32 buys about 24 litres, 300 divided by 24 = 12.5 miles per litre, multiply by 4.55 to convert to mpg, that's 57 - you're doing pretty good if I've worked that out correctly.

My feeling, with my bikes, is that speed drinks fuel, especially upper motorway speeds.

does despatch riding pay? Once I lived in a group of flats (converted house) in East Dulwich, SE London - there was a despatch guy in the attic rooms, wow his place was a mess (lovely bloke) - just worked all hours, this was back in the 1980's.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: True Average Mileage
« on: 03 November 2013, 10:18:58 pm »



steve - ta, around 47 mpg then, on average
fizzy  - that's a big variation, on my xj 600 (1990) pre-divvy the range is something like 45 - 62 mpg, but of course that's a different animal, more touring/commuter of yesteryear  :o

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FZS600 Fazer / True Average Mileage
« on: 03 November 2013, 09:28:37 pm »
If you were to be brutally honest what mpg would you say that you normally get out of this model, box or fox eye, with the retuned thundercat engine?

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General / Re: Who is Ross Noble?
« on: 02 November 2013, 05:43:12 pm »
Thing is about RN is that he's a one off type like Ken Dodd and in that round UK on a Ducatti Monster (?) I think maybe he left himself vulnerable to making unscripted commentaries which inevitably went awry but he's not nasty like what Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were, i think he's OK although not a big fan.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Differences between Mk1 FZS6 models
« on: 02 November 2013, 05:15:08 pm »
a helpful/comprehensive list oldschool, I've printed that off, thanks.

cheers Joe, didn't know the headlights were such an improvement.


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FZS600 Fazer / Differences between Mk1 FZS6 models
« on: 02 November 2013, 11:46:41 am »
Is there any real advantage in buying the later models with the bigger fuel tank etc or is the original 1998 model perfectly acceptable please,

any views/opinions on the pros and cons of the variations and which to go for would be welcome as I am considering buying an FZS6 bike.


Got this from Wikipedia:-1998: Yamaha FZS600 Fazer launched.
  • 1999:
  • 2000: Yamaha FZS600 Fazer S Introduced several minor changes including larger fuel tank, improved pillion comfort and preload adjustment on front shocks.
  • 2001: Several cosmetic changes, including carbon look instrument panel and painted fork sliders.
  • 2002: Yamaha FZS600 Fazer New front fairing design, nicknamed "Foxeye". Improvements included new fairing design similar to the FZS1000, sculpted tank and new instrument panel.
  • 2004: Yamaha FZS600 Fazer discontinued.

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thanks unfazed that is exaxtly what I wanted to know, much appreciated

I have zero technical ability myself and greatly admire your perseverance

unfortunately it does rather put me off buying a fazer second hand.


I'll just stick to my XJ600 Diversion - thanks again, really  :)

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I have read that the first Fazers had a mechanical weakness insofar as the front sprocket retaining nut can come loose potentially wrecking the output shaft

yamaha released a deeper nut with more thread as an update but the thread on the output shaft remained unchanged , huge bill to change tha shaft apparently

was this defect put right on the 2002 model with the bigger fuel tank does anybody know please?

Would be most grateful to find out before buying.

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Introduction / Saying Hello
« on: 22 June 2013, 03:45:00 pm »
greets - thinking of buying an early Fazer, just seeking information at present  :)

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