Hi,

I have a std shock for sale, its off an 04 fzs 1000 with 17k.

Took it off when I put an r6 shock in.

Would be asking £50 for it if your interested.

Cheers,
Mark

I used one of those venhill exup rebuild kits. IIrc it was only a tenner, worked like a charm

I bought a Chinese copy of this:

https://www.t3-racing.co.uk/products/brembo-style-clutch-lever

Was £15 delivered.  Put 30k miles on with it, no issues and was adjustable, levers feel really nice etc.  Matched the master cylinder I had too!  The only downside is there is no provision for a switch so I just bridged it.

Edit: just looked and you can now get them for £11.  They do say they come with a switch (mine didn't) but it looks like they have put the switch in the threaded span adjust hole.  So you can either have a switch or the ability to adjust the span. I left mine std, was better than stock lever for reach.

Yoot who talk with that "urbanized" London accent. Ya get me?

Next challenge : your bike outside a shop with a whimsical name (like Curl up and dye hairdressers or some such)

The mushroom dropped into the tire?  Was it flat?


I have to say, I have been plugging tires with mushrooms for decades, cars and bikes - although granted not as many times as a tire fitter would have.  I have never had any issues with plugs coming out.  In fact, when replacing the tire after it has worn out pushing the mushroom out to have a look at it does take a bit of doing, even when the plug has cratered on the outside due to it being softer rubber than the tire - there is still over 5 - 10 mm of "plug" held into the tire mechanically, plus when the tire is inflated it has the pressure pushing it hard up against the inside of the tire.  I can't really see how it could fall into the tire based on my own experience.


I guess that personal experience is the moral of the story really.  I have had to fix new tires, old tires etc, sometimes tires end up with a few plugs dotted around them, no issues and I have never seen issues of friends who have done the same.  That said I probably wouldn't do a track day with a plugged tire...

It's only small.  I've not had a chain under it but I can't see a 1.5m chain fitting to be honest... I have the std toolkits and a tyre plug kit and it's pretty full with that.

BOOOOSSHHHH!


Non c’è di che!!




Next challenge,


Your bike enjoying the shade of a tree in this fine English weather.

I wasn't planning on doing. They are simple to make though so maybe

Well, fitting the shock was straight forward.

Rather than modifying the shock top "eye" We made two press fit inserts to fit in the frame.  This serves two porposes.  It sleeves the Fazer mount holes and provides fixed spacers for the shock.  You then simply use a standard R6 bolt (or a bolt that fits) and don't have to change anything.   If you need to replace the shock, simply remove and fit the new one.  If you want to go back to a fazer shock, remove, push out the sleeves and fit.

Here are the inserts.



This shows one pressed into the fazer frame top shock mount hole:



This is the "inside" of the top shock mount.  So you can see the shoulder part which is the required spacer for the narrower R6 shock mount, and the inner sleeve that goes all the way through to the outer side of the mount wall.

This pic shows how the spacers fit when .... fitted.  So one each side, they butt up to the shock mount, the bolt going through the lot and the sleeves go through the frame mount hole (one per side).  Snug fit.



Of course the shock is shorter than the fazer, so you need the dog bones (130mm for std height).  I think the shortest bones you could put on are 124mm before the shock spring starts to touch the swingarm.  I made mine 128mm which jacks it up a touch.

The shock itself requires no modifications when fitting this way.  It also needs no grinding at the top like I believe the older shocks do.  The spring that comes on it is stiffer than the Fazer but I had a stiffer one to put on so fitted that to mine.

Rides superbly!!

Currently these shocks are cheap, I got mine for less than £100 on eBay, zero miles.  They have proper threaded preload adjusters etc, a pretty decent shock.  I made some adustments to the comp/rebound and it makes a noticable difference unlike some...

Yeah that's up my way... Sad for all concerned

Male or female, lots of bad drivers... Why can't they be exceptional at it like me...

You can try the tap, it won't "repair" the threads though, just clean them up so your bolt can pass through to the undamaged ones.  You will still only have a small number of threads holding on, might be OK... Other than that it's a helicoil or new case.