Try a Ducati ST4S if you can find one, apart from lumpy town behavior and a crap headlight it matches or betters the Fazer. Superb Highland cruising tool, Ive filled up with 230 on the trip more than once. The Fazer can do that too but cant match the way the Ducati flows down the road .

Once I gelled with it and learned to ride it properly, the Fazer was parked for two years , I love my Fazer but it was hard work and heavy in comparison.

Triples are brilliant road engines but generally thirsty, I had a couple of years with a T595 which was thirsty and uncomfortable. Lovely sound though .

I had op in April but not a keyhole job, 5" scar and mesh . It was about 3wks before I took the bike out and still abit of a struggle to swing the leg over . I was driving the car 2 days after op  , dug and planted the veg plot even before thinking about the bike but the weather helped in that regard.

Your body will let you know when its ready, if it hurts dont push it.

Depends how you treat them.

Mine at 3.6k miles still look like there is at least another 1k left. I think they will give me the same as the z6 roadtec, around 4-5k ,was hoping for more.

maybe its just you .

If frame or forks were damaged /twisted it would have a prefrence which side it was falling into.

Is it a lack of riding time and what are you comparing this handling to,what were you riding before?

From memory the Strada will drop into corners bit quicker than a Z6 and as suggested bar width /height may also contribute but you say its always been this way before suspension and tyre change so you can discount them.
Does this only happen in slow speed corners or at any speed?

You are welcome to try mine . I'm in N.E.Fife

I have a pack with user manual, code cards with disarming proceedure, two keyfobs and a little plug thingy taped to the pack ,cant recall what it is.

Anyone need anything before it goes in bin?

The Skorpion and the money pit.

My preload will only adjust 3 1/2 lines also, whether on the forks or in a vice.

I havent worried about it as there is enough adjustment to set sag , adjusters in ravenriders pics also show just over 3 lines and I'm presuming he has them backed out .

Sexy, those black legs and that flash of inner stanchion  Who needs usd's

My impressions so far without any component change are the further the forks are raised the better it gets . I went as far as 33mm but there are clearance issues between fork leg and yoke, no problem with horn,mudguard or rad.
But its really more about attitude of bike than where the forks are and could be acheived by also raising the rear, there is a sweet spot which I found , lost ,found and now lost again .

I ran at 24mm raised and an R6 rear with preload at 5 and the handling was really good but the fork damping was still irritating , the expansion jts on the Tay Road Bridge have now since been smoothed over using 2.5wt oil .
I filled the forks to 4.75" and with everything else same found the ride ht higher, the damping could now cope with the sharp hits and felt really nice but the extra oil was giving too much support in the first part of travel
 I checked the sag figures and static and dynamic were the same so backed off preload to 3rings which gave static sag of 30mm and as I couldnt remove any oil without removing the legs decided to up rear preload a notch to 6 and add 2 each to rebound and comp, now 13 and set the hs comp to 2, the improvement to the damping on the forks was making the rear feel a bit soft .

Set up like this N Fife B roads were laughed at, front is almost perfect , rear still needs fiddling to cope on really undulating roads when you hit a big one fast. its almost a wallow . Apart from that the handling and damping are a million miles from the old lardarse that needed heaving about, I now get home exhilarated instead of worn out.

Today I fitted the shortened fork springs Kebab kindly provided, suspecting a repeat of similar characteristics to those from the extra oil, I reduced amount to 5", left preload at 3 and found the  static sag had reduced to 17 so know my ride ht/ nice set up is gone. It has,
riding feels like the front is now nodding over the minor bumps ,its a lot more effort to hit an apex and fork feels much too stiff in initial travel
and  I also blew my theory of possibly less travel , a tyre locking stop saw my zip tie hit the bottom yoke.

So feel a bit depressed , will wind off more preload tomorrow but think there is only 1/2 ring left , I dont seem to have the 5 they claim in the handbook so doubt I can get the front down anymore, cant raise the forks, cant raise the rear due to being a short arse, so right now think the spring cut is not for little folk   

What is the 5sl measurement, when in the fazer yokes with the fork extended, from top of fork leg to bottom of yoke, is it more than 120mm?

With my forks 24mm through yokes there is approx 124mm from top of fork leg, not top of seal, to the underside of bottom yoke. which is a bit short for the yamaha figure of 140mm travel. Doing my best maniac impersonation on some pretty rough roads gave me 98mm, doing an emergency stop saw 110mm and run out of clearance with forks raised 30mm, I just like to know what my bike is going to do in a violent stop under my conditions rather than find out the hard way . The way the nice roads without loads of traffic are now around here its really not too hard to get into the last third of travel 

What I'm trying to ask is when 5sl fitted to the Fazer do you still have all  that 120mm travel available as the Fazer bottom yokes are approx 40mm further down the fork stanchions ?

As to the clipping mod I was figuring an inch less spring to compress would gain a few mm or rather reduce travel, didnt really look how tightly the  spring was coiled when  it was out. Making the  equivalent length with spacer would give same ride ht but is it not reducing the compressable length of suspension by whatever that  inch of spring used to compress. Was hoping a 2" cut would reduce travel enough to run the forks at 30mm

What i do notice with the extra oil is much less weight  transfer when rolling off and miss that dive into the corner feeling, the reduced airgap seems to give a lot more support also in the first third of travel.  More fiddling, just hope the weather holds. I have managed over 600 sunny miles last couple of weeks, now on 4th tankfull and gritting my teeth every fill up  , robbing bastards.

Yesterday refilled the  forks with silkoline 2.5 to Ravenriders 4.75" , reset to 2 rings preload ,forks same at 23mm through yokes and set off.

First thing to notice is the ride ht is higher but the hits are almost gone, transformation might be an exaggeration but a massive improvement
from last time out . Now felt too much preload  not even thinking about the bumps anymore.
Static sag checked same at 25mm so dropped preload  to 3rd ring just showing and now static sag at 31mm . I'm really happy with things now
will monitor the fork travel with the reduced air gap over the next thousand miles and see if its possible to raise the forks again as it did feel really nice when they were at 33mm.

I have watched the exup on an R1 during dyno runs and it works for its living.

If it sticks the motor is being compromised either at the bottom or top or both.

so what are the benefits of spending 200 of my beer tokens plus the hassle of getting the damn thing fitted cos it looks as though is rustier n tighter than a ginger nuns arse 

Its not everyone that will have the opportunity of exploring a ginger nuns arse , havent a clue on the going rate ,some might consider that cheap even.

If you are happy with the way the bike runs now then no, you dont need it.

Its not there for fast riding ,rather the opposite , you will miss the benefits more than the fast rider.

2cnd site member shops on ebay methinks. 

I decided to back off my damping to min and go out and work back to a comfort vs control compromise .
I have 2 rings preload,  pics with cable ties after ride showing fork travel, which was 98mm with no clearance problems , the sag shown is 25mm.

Considering the forks are supposed to have 140mm travel this worries me a bit  with only 10mm or so left before contact ,
but if I didnt know I could fit R1 or R6 legs I would be happy now.

Felt no need to touch the damping although it would benefit from a bit more support  when really hard on the brakes   and after checking that travel I think I shall retreat a bit up the legs and further monitor things.

Its the best Ive experienced so far  and I dont believe it either with those settings but there you go.

Is the 2cnd site member fitting the 5sl forks as standard or tweaked?