Got a volt drop on the bike, mainly from the sub-loom that connects to the clocks, headlight, horn etc.

Whats the best place to start looking, and for that matter how many earth points does the FZS1000 have and where are they located...?

Overcame this issue with fazer for winter riding whilst summer fazer gets make over and when summer comes the winter bike gets a little love

I'm tempted to do that for next winter, as the little 600 bandit I currently use for winter just dosent have enough power to see off the usual idiots.

Exhaust has less than 1 hour to go on ebay, someone has put a bid in for £101 but they have no feedback at all, this will be their first venture on ebay,

Dont send the can untill you have removed the funds from your account.

Evenin, I'll have the following items please -

Fairing in fills excellent condition.......pair 30 posted
Infill brackets good but shows wear and tear.... 10 posted
Spot lights with mounts and wiring.... 25 posted

i did this and it was cheap and effective into my hg liner

Ah, might have a look into that...

Been hunting around for a while now trying to find one, anyone got one or can recommend one.

It dosent need to be heated and I've already had a look at the insanely overpriced ones Northfarce do.

thanks.

Niiiice...!!!

Boy, are those headlights crap, or what?? I don't normally ride at night, but I did a couple of days ago and was shocked at how poor they are. Has anyone tried the Philips MotoVision bulbs or something similar? I don't want to do a HID conversion.

It sounds like you still have the crap generic stock bulbs in, if you fit the 100% brighter bulbs from Ring/Phillip/etc you will notice an improvement. You could look at getting HID bulbs fitted, but you run the risk or not passing an mot or getting pulled over (on the latter its has never happend to me).

Regarding HID there are 2 things you need to be aware of -

1. Don't ever go for any kits with colour temps above 4300K, like the common available kit in 6000k. These are blue in colour wich is illegal, (any & all front facing lights have to be white) and will increase the chances of being pulled.
2. More importantly the HI/LO telescopic HID bulbs are very nearly always poorly designed. The end result is large amounts of scatter which dazzles on-coming traffic and increased the chances of being pulled.

I have managed to fashion a work around for second issue and this was by modifying the 'hood/baffle' around the HID bulb. But again due to the as previously mentioned poor construction and design of most HID bulbs my mod only works to a point. This is because nearly all reflector based headlight are NOT designed for high light/intensity output HID bulbs.

One option is to get a pair of projector style HID lights, which are 1005 legal and have the best beam pattern with next to no scatter for around th £100 mark.

Another option is LED driving lights, which along with the above I have mentioned a few times before. These will enhance your di/lo beam spread, which lets be honest is where most of us need/want it anyway. These are 100% legal and use next to now electrical power. The only issue is supply and price, because its reletivly new tech its still bloody pricey in the UK and there aren't that many suppliers. Atm I only know of  'Bikevis' who charge £120 for made to fit motorcycle kit. The same type of kit can also be bought from the USA.

Is these don't get sold I will have them.

Dont know the "value" of your current bike BUT there was an identical standard blue FZS 1000 on "05" plate in my local dealer yesterday with 28000 miles asking price £3995. Dont think they will sell it @ this price as I have seen better bikes for less on this forum & ebay etc. Fazer is a remarkably good all rounder -just clean properly & apply ACF 50 before winter riding.

I was just about the say the same thing in regards his Pegaso. The 2003 with ist 13k on the clock is worth about £2000-2500 if its in vgood cond and there and NO mechanical gremlins.

And yeah that 2005 w/28k isnt worth £4k, more like £3k.

Think man think, before it's to late.............................that's a real beauty & you will only regret it.  How well you have looked after it for what so some else just ruins it, trust me you will hate yourself if you do.

I second that sentiment and on the subject of price, I still thinks its work the original asking price even in stock trim.

Other palces to advertise the bike that dont cost anything -

- www.gumtree.com
- www.loot.com

well my bike went in for it mot last week and past no problems with the hid fitted to the bike

They were being nice, technically they should have failed the bike, do to the scatter.