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General / Re: Graphics bods
« on: 29 October 2011, 02:17:24 pm »
Having a play with Photoshop at lunchtime and tried a variation on the theme:
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General / Re: Graphics bods« on: 29 October 2011, 02:17:24 pm »
Having a play with Photoshop at lunchtime and tried a variation on the theme:
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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Which Oil Is Best?« on: 28 October 2011, 11:38:19 pm »... ALL OIL degrades in use and none of them can be trusted to stay within their viscosity window more than a few K miles... Indeed, but presumably Yamaha are aware of that too. If they'd cynically increased the service interval from 4000 to 6000 miles in order to sell more spares they'd soon find a reputation for selling vehicles that don't last isn't good for business. Unless you're seeing if you can get a world record mileage out of a Fazer engine I can't see the point in changing oil more frequently than the manufacturers recommend. I tried to find some details on the Tesco website about their fully synthetic, aside from a choice of 5W30 or 5W40 the information was limited to advice that nutritional content is subject to change. Since viscosity modifiers supposedly get chewed up worse by the higher speeds in bike gearboxes, wouldn't an oil like that (with a wider range than required) suffer more than a 10W40? 2178
Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: Fazer 1000 hits 128k miles in MCN« on: 28 October 2011, 07:04:13 pm »
The little'uns don't do too badly either.
I know of at least one FZS600 with 136,000 miles under its wheels. 2179
General / Re: What did you do to your bike today?« on: 28 October 2011, 06:44:50 pm »
Replaced the seals in the left hand caliper.
Spent bloody ages trying to get the air out. Took it for a very gentle shakedown run to start bedding the pads into the new EBC discs and scrub in the tyres. Tried not to think about the £460 all that lot cost . 2180
General / Re: Real men« on: 28 October 2011, 08:32:43 am »presumably with all that crawling around it would be well wornSnake genitalia are internal to avoid such problems. Which means it's very difficult to tell whether they're male or female by looking at them. 2181
FZS600 Fazer / Re: Which Oil Is Best?« on: 27 October 2011, 10:22:20 pm »
Ah, Easy Rider's thread Skippernick, not mine... I'm merely the bloke who (inadvertently) started the argument.
But, it's turning out to be more fun than I'd expected. The Major may be correct, perhaps when we buy oil with the word Motorcycle on the container we are just paying over the odds for car oil. However, I'll stick with my current choice. A) I've used car oil in a bike previously and had problems. B) Car and bike engines are very different... it's not unreasonable to expect that oil companies can tailor products to cope with different requirements. C) By replacing my slightly pricier oil at the recommended service intervals I'm saving money and spending less time getting my hands dirty than the Major who doesn't actually have the courage of his convictions and so changes his oil twice as often. [/size] 2182
FZS600 Fazer / Re: Front brake caliper rebuild.« on: 27 October 2011, 09:47:05 pm »
Could have done with a pair of those today... in the end a set of circlip pliers did the job (just).
Toolbox.co.uk have a nice looking pair made by Sealey for £16.35, cheaper Draper ones are also listed. 2183
General / Re: Dear Santa........« on: 27 October 2011, 01:35:06 pm »
All the performance and traffic filtering ability of a Nissan Micra combined with the luggage carrying capacity and weather protection of a bike. [/size]
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FZS600 Fazer / Re: Wobble Wobble Wobble!« on: 27 October 2011, 12:24:04 am »
I see from your other post that this is still not resolved. Can't say it ever sounded like a balance problem anyway, I've lost balance weights before and it introduces vibration, but not a wobble.
It may be the tyre is still getting broken in, the characteristics do change a bit when they're new and riding style does affect how fast the tyre settles down, if you go very gently (or have only had roads strewn with wet leaves to ride on) then it might take more than the suggested 100 miles. Did the shop actually take it for a ride? If they did, and didn't experience the problem then it probably isn't down to anything more alarming. A rider of different weight and riding style might well not trigger the wobble whereas if it was loose steering head bearings, worn swingarm bearings or a wheel alignment issue then they should have spotted that straight away. If you're not convinced of their competence or have already covered a few hundred miles on the tyre then I'd follow Limax's suggestion and check the wheel and tyre are running true. With the bike on the centrestand, stick blocks of wood or something stable under engine (or get a patient friend to sit on the pillion) to prop the front wheel off the ground. If you gently ease the pads off the brake discs with a screwdriver it'll be a lot easier to spin the wheel (just remember to pump the lever a few times to get them back where they need to be when you're done). With the wheel spinning, sight along both sides in turn to see if the rims waggle left and right and then check it side-on to see if they wave up and down. Obviously, if the rim shows any such movements, that is where the problem lies... the wheel is damaged. Next, look side on, at where the tyre meets the rim. There should be a circumferential ridge on the rubber visible within a few millimetres of the rim (varies with the make and model of tyre) and this should be a pretty constant distance from the rim all the way round. If it's not, then the tyre isn't evenly seated, either because it's damaged/defective or because the shop didn't do a good job of putting it on. (The latter is unlikely, the only time I've experienced that was when I tried to replace a tyre myself with a few poxy tyre levers and several of my mum's spoons.) Finally, view the wheel from the front again and see if the shape stays constant as it spins. 2185
FZS600 Fazer / Re: Which Oil Is Best?« on: 25 October 2011, 08:50:01 pm »
Hmm.. I prefer not to spread carcinogenic waste oil around my garden. I take it to my council recycling centre so that it can be turned into Asda 10/40.
I had been under the impression that some car oils are unsuitable for bikes, not only because of the wet clutch issue, but because requirements for gear oil and engine oil are different and the gearbox is normally separate in cars. The Duckhams Hypergrade I used to put in my Kawasaki GPZ305 certainly didn't do the cam lobes any favours. 2186
The Laboratory ! / Re: James' test page« on: 25 October 2011, 07:58:21 pm »
Thanks Farjo.
Image quality seems to have taken a bit of a hit compared to the version in the folder! 2188
FZS600 Fazer / Re: Rev counter: 3k, normal, 0k. WTF?« on: 25 October 2011, 07:06:30 pm »
Check the throttle position sensor, details in Hot Poop.
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The Laboratory ! / Re: James' test page« on: 25 October 2011, 04:29:21 pm »
It does.
Would be nice to have it a bit bigger though... 2192
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