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FZS600 Fazer / Re: What have you done to your FZS600 bike today
« on: 01 September 2019, 06:47:27 am »
Took it out of the garage for the first time in 2 years :o (apart from getting the MOT)I fell in love with it all over again. I was thinking about selling it, my wife wants me to, but I just can't.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Re start
« on: 21 May 2016, 04:37:14 pm »
Thanks, I agree and I'm going to ride it. I'll tax it next month and maybe go to Cadwell park and watch some racing. Thanks for all the advice, I was amazed that it started so easily and run so well, it's such a waste sitting in the garage I must put some miles on it this summer.

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General / Re: Midlands's meet up
« on: 14 May 2016, 03:20:52 pm »
I could possibly do that, it would probably be the first decent run the fazer's had since I got it going again. The A607 from Grantham to Melton Mowbray then A606 from Melton to Rutland water is a great road.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Re start
« on: 12 May 2016, 05:47:22 pm »
It lives, mot'd, oil changed, rode it the long way home, I'd forgotten what a great bike it is, runs a treat.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Re start
« on: 27 March 2016, 07:58:00 am »
Just to bore everyone a bit more, I'm still embarrassed by doing nothing yet, life just gets in the way, however I will get my beloved Fazer back where it belongs this year, whatever I have to do.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Havent been posting for a while!
« on: 23 January 2016, 07:11:32 pm »
Bike looks great. I know what you mean about being addicted, I been fighting off  ''Why don't you just sell it?'' for quite a while now, I am determined to get mine out of the garage this year.

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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Re start
« on: 23 January 2016, 07:03:38 pm »
Thanks Bandit, I'll give it a go tomorrow

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FZS600 Fazer / Re start
« on: 23 January 2016, 05:43:07 pm »
Hi everyone, I've not been on here for quite a while for various reasons which I won't bore you all with. I'm sure this subject has been covered before, but I can't find the answers. I'm embarrassed to say that my lovely 600 has sat in my garage for about 18 months now, I'm determined to use it this summer, it's been plugged in to an optimate so the battery should be OK, will it be OK to just try and get it started? Or will that do any damage? Or should I get it to a mechanic who's not a halfwit like me.
The last time I rode it was bringing it back from being serviced and MOT'd.


Thanks for any help you can give me.

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General / Re: Coffee drinking foccers
« on: 14 December 2013, 02:57:01 pm »
yeah, it's the small black ones that all coffee drinks are based on.

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General / Re: Coffee drinking foccers
« on: 14 December 2013, 08:31:31 am »
Go for the nespresso machine, trust me I've tried to make decent espresso with lots of other machines, obviously excluding the £600 types, and the nespresso is the only one that makes consistently good coffee.


Don't know about the milk option, especially girlie latte :lol

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General / Re: Grantham
« on: 30 May 2012, 03:21:42 pm »
As a final say on this subject, sort of an epilogue.

We've been here 2 months, we're getting a bit straighter, and I can actually move round the garage!

I have to say that we are loving the area, everyone seems far more chilled out than in the south, and the roads!! I had no idea roads like this still existed.

I've not got out very much on the bike, I've just had the MOT, back tyre and service done by Sharkey(whom I can thoroughly recommend)and now all I need is some time off to get out and enjoy it, I've got a couple of days in July(Wife going to France, 2 full day passes)so as long as it's not pissing with rain, I'll be off to the coast for an ice cream.

Thanks again to everyone who tried to calm my initial worries, it's only when we got here that I wish I'd done it sooner.

Kev :D



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General / Re: Summer riding kit.
« on: 26 May 2012, 05:53:42 pm »
I've got a Furygan leather jacket that has a thermal lining which obviously I take out for summer and I love it.

I think they are quite ''generous'', I got mine cheap as it was end of line in France, had to get it all altered though, great for length of arms but the rest was huge, xxl I think

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General / Re: cars that men should never be seen driving!
« on: 24 April 2012, 06:52:59 pm »
Any cabriolet really, with the possible exception of a Bentley, but even that's borderline.

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General / Re: Grantham
« on: 19 April 2012, 02:43:54 pm »
Thanks Sharky, that would be great, if you pm me the details I'll book it for next month.

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General / Re: Grantham
« on: 16 April 2012, 06:40:41 pm »
Thanks Sharky, I'll post when I'm sorted.

Who is the best mechanic around here? Mine needs a MOT back tyre and service in June, I was thinking about taking it back where I used to as I trust them, but it's a bit far and a boring ride.

By the way, when I was at Grantham station this bloke who was working there said there is a brilliant road that has a corner like the Laguna seca corkscrew. I haven't really got out just yet, been going up and down the A1 going to work and unloading boxes.

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General / Re: Grantham
« on: 09 April 2012, 07:23:40 pm »
Thanks Simon, we've already gathered that the town traffic is dreadful, but so far we love it.

Going to pick the bike up from a friends garage tomorrow, I'll post when I've got a day off, and hopefully a few of us can have a run out.

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General / Re: Grantham
« on: 28 March 2012, 07:55:08 am »
Today is my last day living in Hertford after  51 years here. I have very mixed emotions scared and excited about the new house.

I am looking forward to not tripping over boxes all the time, finally having a garage for the bike, and hopefully a few nice rides out.

Thanks for all your comments, it would be great to see some of you at the cafe and then maybe a trip to the coast

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General / Re: Blood Bikes
« on: 15 March 2012, 02:22:51 pm »
Signed both too

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General / Re: Silverstone motoGP advice
« on: 27 February 2012, 05:14:10 pm »
Hi Nick, I think I got there around 8am as I didn't want to miss anything, but I think the gates are open a fair bit earlier. I do remember that all the times of gates opening and what time everything is happening will be on he Silverstone website, but not until about a month before the day. Hope this helps.

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General / Re: rip frank carson
« on: 23 February 2012, 01:17:50 pm »
They were playing tapes of a lot of his jokes last night,

'I went into an old peoples home and asked a lady with a zimmerframe
'' Do you know who I am?''
She replied
''No, but if you ask the Matron she might know''

Just brilliant, he'll be sadly missed.

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General / Re: Silverstone motoGP advice
« on: 22 February 2012, 08:01:21 am »
I went to qualifying last year, I had a great day out. I thought Maggots and Becketts were the best as you're closer to the track.

Watch out for the over zealous security, who were kicking out anyone who dared to go near the under cover stand at Becketts, even though there was nobody in there!!

Also, it may only have been last year, but be careful when they direct you to a parking space, when I went someone made a huge cock up and loads of bikes were blocked in, making it almost impossible to get out when you wanted.

I thought the food wasn't too bad, bit pricey, but I've been ripped off worse than that, cheaper and probably nicer to take your own.

One more thing, my friend paid an arm and a leg for tickets into the paddock, supposedly to see the riders. All he saw where the trucks and closed garage doors, you get the impression the riders are a bit 'up themselves' and are far too fabulous to mix with any low life.

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General / Re: Grantham
« on: 01 February 2012, 02:53:28 pm »
This all sounds great, can't wait to get there now.

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General / Re: Quick straw poll - the welfare £26K cap - good or bad?
« on: 23 January 2012, 01:29:33 pm »
 :rollin

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General / Re: Quick straw poll - the welfare £26K cap - good or bad?
« on: 23 January 2012, 06:17:07 am »
I agree, when the government get involved, especially local ones, they usually make a cock up of it but, back in the real world that the majority of us live in, means that if we can't afford to live in an area we have to move.

So I think the cap is a good idea, why should the rest of us pay for others to live in expensive areas, or line the pockets of private landlords?



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General / Re: cage advice (again)
« on: 22 January 2012, 04:36:29 pm »
I'm no expert, but I have to say I'm struggling to believe a 107 sounds like a Bugatti.

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