what did you do with your fazer today ?

[robbo]

After a day in the garage yesterday fitting a new replacement reg/rec, today’s weather forecast was a pleasant surprise. A hastily arranged 10 o’clock meet saw three of us southbound on some of our favourite B roads to Cowfold, to pick up the 272. Not quite as enjoyable as on an early Sunday morning, but still good to be out. Had a good rip down to and past Loomies and on to the Haven. However the hopeless fuel range on my pals MT 10, caused it to run out in the middle of nowhere. While he stayed with his bike, I let the satnav take me to the nearest garage, only a few miles away. A gallon and 7 quid for a petrol can, saw us back on track. Lunch wasn’t as leisurely as I’d hoped, but we’d lost an hour and wanted to be back in daylight. Less traffic on the way back made a great finale to a spontaneous day, and another 256miles racked up on the mighty thou.

[fazersharp]

Cleaned and re oiled my chain ----- purring now.

[Exile71]

New set of tyres, new front pads... then a 50 mile commute in the pissing rain!

[robbo]

Fitted a Gammatronix battery voltage monitor. Next time the reg/rec gives up the ghost, at least I’ll know about it before I’m left stranded.

[fazersharp]

Fitted a Gammatronix battery voltage monitor. Next time the reg/rec gives up the ghost, at least I’ll know about it before I’m left stranded.

[robbo]

Fitted a Gammatronix battery voltage monitor. Next time the reg/rec gives up the ghost, at least I’ll know about it before I’m left stranded.

Have a look at the Fazer 1000 section, headed “A couple of electrics questions”. That gives the info on the reg/rec I used. The monitor is literally a large LED. I’ll post a pic tomorrow, but won’t be very exciting.

[fazersharp]

Ok no need for a picture - just been to the 1000 page. How does the led work and tell you what is happening

[robbo]

This company, Gammatronix, make several types of battery monitors for various situations. The one I went for is fully waterproofed, and is designed to be velcroed/zip tied, pretty much anywhere. I fitted mine alongside my gear indicator which utilises a bolt at the back of the facia. The 3 wire harness is over a metre long to easily reach the battery. The 3rd yellow wire, is connected to a switched live , so that the unit can differentiate between when the bikes running or not, to give the relevant display. The Led displays one of 3 colours when the bike is running, permanent green=ok, red=overcharging, and yellow=under or no charge from the reg/rec. When parked up it flashes green ,ok, or yellow if the battery needs charging. The current drain is minimal, can't remember what as the instructions are in the garage. I fitted a mini blade fuse holder in the +ve lead to the battery, fused at 5 amp, as per instructions.

[agricola]

Your tale has brought some memories back. I had similar electrical woes a few back on my YX600, intermittent dying of the elkectrcal system. Got nowhere with it for weeks, so decide to install something along a similar lines to yourself., so I had real time knowledge of what was happening. Mounted on the handlebars, inside a school pencil case. It worked well too. Still got it in the man cave.


Turned out to be intermittent failure of the alternator. Had to destroy the old one to get it out, luckily got a replacement too

[fazersharp]

This company, Gammatronix,

Interesting and simple. ------- You need to turn your clock back 

[fazersharp]

Are you a butcher 

[robbo]

This company, Gammatronix,

Interesting and simple. ------- You need to turn your clock back 

Having a bit of a senior moment with the clock reference. What's wrong with the time at 11 past 1 in the afternoon.

[fazersharp]

This company, Gammatronix,

Interesting and simple. ------- You need to turn your clock back 

Having a bit of a senior moment with the clock reference. What's wrong with the time at 11 past 1 in the afternoon.

cause it was actually 11 past 12

[robbo]

You’re going to have to explain the clock thing for the under fives. The time stamp on the pic on my phone is 13:12. The clock on the bike only displays a 12 hour periods, hence 1:11pm

[Oldgit]

Just got the BMW R1200RS winterised and covered in ACF 50, as the weather up here in Scotlandshire is the pits and it disnae look as if its gonny get better anytime soon. Plus the chance of full lockdown just made me do it a bit earlier than usual.

[fazersharp]

Thi

You’re going to have to explain the clock thing for the under fives. The time stamp on the pic on my phone is 13:12. The clock on the bike only displays a 12 hour periods, hence 1:11pm

This is hard work, it was a joke with a reference to not putting the clock back one hour last Saturday.

[robbo]

Thi

You’re going to have to explain the clock thing for the under fives. The time stamp on the pic on my phone is 13:12. The clock on the bike only displays a 12 hour periods, hence 1:11pm

This is hard work, it was a joke with a reference to not putting the clock back one hour last Saturday.

Better tell your gag writer not to give up his day job, in that case .

[Exile71]

Well yesterday... New exhaust thanks to SO Engineering... next day delivery, can’t complain at all. Great sound!

[kralik]

I have fitted genuine akra which I found in a very good price. Yes it would need some love but overall it is good. Unfortunately it came without link pipe and db killer, but I found them and cannot resist to buy them too.
I am getting all parts ready for r1 fork conversion, so changed the oil and seals in them. Hope I will have the yokes ready soon.
And yes, I bought and fitted new front brake disks too.

[robbo]

A great day to be out on the bike, especially this late in the year. I was Billy no mates today as the usual retired suspects couldn’t come out to play for various reasons. Made up a really convoluted route to Brighton, which clocked 98 miles to my favourite Brighton cafe, bearing in mind it’s only about 50 miles taking a more direct route. Then eastwards towards Eastbourne and Battle before an afternoon cuppa at the 1066 cafe on the A21. Then more B roads, one junction on the M25 and home with 200.9 miles showing on the trip.

[robbo]

This afternoons tea stop.

[robbo]

Someone clever might be able to turn that pic up the right way.

[fazersharp]

If you click or tap on it then it opens bigger and the right way around

[robbo]

If you click or tap on it then it opens bigger and the right way around

Cool . Thanks for that 

[fazersharp]

If you click or tap on it then it opens bigger and the right way around

Cool . Thanks for that 

maybe not, on the computer it turns but on a tablet it does not