Mcn reviews are utter pants, if its not a race rep that does 180 mph it's a crap bike, I remember years ago when suzuki changed the bandit from the first shape to the second and they were moaning about how uncomfortable it was, but the next review was an r1 and they were raving about how comfortable that was,  nobs. I would of thought that most 600s should be 50 + mpg these days as long as your not ringing it's neck,

Every bike I've had make a noise that goes when you pull the clutch lever in, just be grateful you ain't got a Ducati , have you heard the clutch on them,   sounds like a bag of rusty bolts

Respect for getting so far and only dropping it twice, but what a tool, my daughter watches Michael Webb reading Winnie the Pooh story's on Disney channel, not going to be  able to listen to him without thinking he's got a gixxer 

I've had a hornet, bought new in 99. With the 16 inch front wheel, more flickable than the fazer, don't know what newer ones with 17 inch wheel are like, but also more twitchy, doesn't take much to get a dangerous weave going when your giving it some around the bends, could never figure out if it was the tiny alloy frame flexing or the suspension, a tiny bit quicker of the mark than a fazer, and I mean tiny, rubbish tank range, most I had was 95 miles, worst 52 miles, top speed about 130.


Now fazer, I've got the fox eye model, comfiest due to the fairing, more stable and harder to upset in bends, closer to 150 top end, and the brakes are much better than the hornet,


It depends what you want out of a bike, the fazer is more user friendly, better for distance, the hornet made me more of a hooligan, not that I need much encouragement  [size=78%] and hornets don't crash very well [/size]

Cheers guys hopefully get the bike down my house this weekend so can crack on with it, should I just change the regulator rectifier any way? Are they expensive? And are they 1 item or 2 separate components? Sorry if that sounds silly but I currently have no idea about them.

I mean carbed   blooming predictive text , no pics yet cos its still up my uncles farm, and how do you put pics on anyway?

My fazer has been standing for 2 1/2 years apart from new battery and oil and filter, should I just  chuck in some fresh petrol and hope for the best? Or any other tips?

My bro had an rgv250 for 3years and did way over the mileage expected for those fragile engines to do, he used it on track days and all year round, and never had to rebuild it, my point being that he used to use silkolene oil can't remember which one but it was the most expensive oil you could get, he was at the time some sort of  chemical engineer for the military, don't know any more cos its classified, but he knows about molecules and that kind of stuff, anyway he sold his bike to my neighbour, told him to use the silkolene oil, the reply was not paying that cheap stuff will do the same, 300 miles later and it was being rebuilt! After that said neighbour used silkolene  and did 13000 miles on that bike before some tow rag nicked it and it was going great, I know it's 2 stroke oil but I personally will always get the best that I can for car or bike.