After lots of similar problems to you I finally bit the bullet a week ago and disconnected the exup cables and replaced the exup valve locked in the open position. Was expecting a big drop in low down responsiveness after reading up on it but it's barely noticeable - think there's a slight delay when suddenly opening the throttle below 3k but that's it. Wish I'd done it ages ago!

I'll take you up on this mate - daily rrider frayed (and slightly squashed) cables, take it Gen 1 is fine?

Or you could do your bike test and remember your dad by following in his footsteps and keeping his bike...

I speak as someone who uses and intends to keep forever a Fiat Doblo as a bizarre runaround just because it was my recently retired dad's!

Big thanks for the info everyone - much appreciated. Yeah I do appreciate it's a bit daft plugging with blu tac but did my utmost to make sure it's solid enough and will get the part (now I know what it is) asap.

Re the mod - my bike is so standard it's still on the oem exhaust and though it's dangerously quiet and the size of an RPG, I'm tempted to keep it that way as the fuelling is so beautiful. Call me a sissy but I don't think I need more power, not for the road anyway.

Stick the bike on the centre stand and see if the leg go down while twisting it with your hands.  Failing that try tapping down with a wood block and hammer/mallet

Thanks for that - in the end I had to weigh down the back end (with the bike on centre stand) to get the front wheel off the ground completelly, then a little bit of wiggling of the fork leg sorted it.

Rides fine now but think the handlebar clamps are a bit bent - will be easier to tell when I get some straight bars on it.

Looks good - standard I take it and how much are you asking for them?

Stupid here. After picking up a VGC gen 1 FZ1, I managed to drop it turning right across a dual carriageway in a hurry.


My excuses are as follows - cold tyres, small gap and my throttle control isn't perfect due to a wrist injury sustained shortly after recently going over the bonnet of a van at 40mph, which wrote my old bike off.


Anyway, the Fazer was miraculously unscathed apart from the bar end being chewed up and the handlebars being slightly bent and out of alignment with the front wheel.


To fix the alignment, I slackened all the clamps off on the yokes, together with the handlebar clamps, and pushed everything down several times. That seemed to work pretty well but I managed to push one of the forks about 2cm through the top yoke, and it doesn't seem to want to go down again.


Tried pulling the front of the bike up by the bars, with my foot on the front wheel, with everything slackened off again, but nothing. Am I missing something?


Oddly. the bike seems to ride fine like this but I'm sure it can't be healthy. Any suggestions appreciated!

Ta, Chris in Cheshire.



PS will be posting wanted ad for new bars shortly, either standard or lower aftermarket ones.