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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5225 on: 10 October 2015, 08:12:48 pm »
1, Covered the swing arm with carbon fiber. Took only a few minutes not counting the cleaning before :)
2, Looking to close detected quite a few screws and washers which need to be replaced.
3, Realized that even though she’s getting maintained regularly, my mechanic doesn’t seem to care about the little things :)
4, Noticed that the main stand needs to be painted asap!!!
5, Scheduled a proper shower for her tomorrow realising how dirty she’s got during our little trip through the hills yesterday


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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5226 on: 10 October 2015, 08:14:36 pm »
Had a tear in my eye as I handed over the keys to her new owner.
But I see your new beast on fb, looks awesome mate :) happy riding :)
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5227 on: 10 October 2015, 08:15:10 pm »
1, Covered the swing arm with carbon fiber. Took only a few minutes not counting the cleaning before :)
2, Looking to close detected quite a few screws and washers which need to be replaced.
3, Realized that even though she’s getting maintained regularly, my mechanic doesn’t seem to care about the little things :)
4, Noticed that the main stand needs to be painted asap!!!
5, Scheduled a proper shower for her tomorrow realising how dirty she’s got during our little trip through the hills yesterday


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Nice job there Amy but as you say "mechanic" doesn't care, so it's all down to you to maintain it to your standards :)

We've got the best roads here but unfortunately the worst weather at times :( So you might have to do more maintenance than those soft southerners :rollin
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5228 on: 10 October 2015, 08:29:13 pm »
you're soooo right... Will be a long night again spending hours ordering tiny little things for her that no one will see without glasses  :D Hope we'll have a few more weeks to make her dirty though :)
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5229 on: 10 October 2015, 08:36:56 pm »
Who cares what people see? It's what you want to do as it makes it right for you and you'll know it's done :)
At least I can still ride at night if I want to unlike Paul down south http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php/topic,18446.0.html
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5230 on: 11 October 2015, 01:41:30 pm »
Rode too Bibury and back , overcast and chilly but at least it was dry , a lot of traffic heading too the Arboretum , lots of bikers about today .

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5231 on: 11 October 2015, 04:21:02 pm »
rode it like the dirty little bitch she is....


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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5232 on: 12 October 2015, 03:43:22 am »
Replaced the air filter today at ~16,000 miles. Was not as hard as anticipated but still harder than it should, which explains why it had not been done by the po... Also greased the chain (1,000 miles since last time) and gave her a general cleaning. There was a lot of crud under the tank and the side panels, so it looks better there now. Nobody but me will know but that's ok.

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5233 on: 14 October 2015, 09:21:54 am »
Dyno run at Ian Bell Motorcycles (see "happy with 141" post) and a wee blast whilst the sun was out .......... followed by cleaning the chain lube off the back wheel !!
Still a pupil at the school of life ....

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5234 on: 15 October 2015, 09:21:04 pm »
Fitted the Scorpion can that arrived today. Started easily on the button with no choke, something that it hasn't really been good at with the Delkevic that was on there. Then it rained, so didn't get a chance to get out and see if this can works better with the Ivan's set-up, as I suspect it will, and indeed, did on the last one. Still suspicious that the Delkevic was a little too restrictive.

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5235 on: 16 October 2015, 04:41:49 pm »
Took it into town; runs so much sweeter with the new can, well chuffed. Smoother in lower gears in traffic now. In fact, I found I could drop down to 1.5k rpm in second in traffic and no snatchiness, hesitancy or bogging. It really has confirmed what Mike said about the Full Monty needing a good, free flowing can to work at it's best.

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5236 on: 16 October 2015, 09:53:18 pm »
Owned the bike nearly a month and put nearly 1000 miles on the clock. All the issues it had when i bought it have been fixed :D
If it's broken, it's not fixed.

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5237 on: 17 October 2015, 06:33:53 pm »
fitted some crash bungs and took her for a Little ride

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5238 on: 17 October 2015, 07:16:24 pm »
Ordered some front pads and bearings for the rear wheel.
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5239 on: 18 October 2015, 07:14:53 pm »
Took the 600 for a bimble, burnham beaches, ace cafe, bushy park  and home via brooklands, oh, and gave it a quick wash before the ride.......still looking good  ;)
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5240 on: 18 October 2015, 08:24:53 pm »
Joined 4000 bikers Hoggin the bridge, crossing the old Severn Bridge back into Wales and onto Chepstow racecourse, all for charity. Great day out and spotted a few Fazers 600 & 1000.
Red Fazers, making good roads great roads.

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5241 on: 19 October 2015, 09:35:34 am »
Forgot to add during part of the journey to Chepstow Racecourse i was alongside a very nice Motoguzzi, looked just like esetest machine, with the Mrs on the back.
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5242 on: 19 October 2015, 01:13:06 pm »
Went for a run to try the new gopro.. Dident have it on for the frst 15 mins of the trip, hit a foccin pheasent. Left blood on the headlight and fairing....

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5243 on: 19 October 2015, 01:28:08 pm »
Forgot to add during part of the journey to Chepstow Racecourse i was alongside a very nice Motoguzzi, looked just like esetest machine, with the Mrs on the back.
Unfortunately couldn't make it this year , the downside of shift work .

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5244 on: 19 October 2015, 02:24:54 pm »
Went for a run to try the new gopro.. Dident have it on for the frst 15 mins of the trip, hit a foccin pheasent. Left blood on the headlight and fairing....

My mate (who is a bike safety officer for South Wales fire service) was out with four guys recently and he was demonstrating safe overtaking and a pheasant hit him in the chest at 70 mph......said it fekin hurt :eek
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« Reply #5245 on: 19 October 2015, 02:28:00 pm »
Forgot to add during part of the journey to Chepstow Racecourse i was alongside a very nice Motoguzzi, looked just like esetest machine, with the Mrs on the back.
Unfortunately couldn't make it this year , the downside of shift work .
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5246 on: 19 October 2015, 03:43:22 pm »
Went for a run to try the new gopro.. Dident have it on for the frst 15 mins of the trip, hit a foccin pheasent. Left blood on the headlight and fairing....

You are doing it all wrong, you have to nut it as demonstrated by Iannone at Philip Island this weekend. :)

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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5247 on: 19 October 2015, 05:38:50 pm »
I think Ducati will either leave the fairing with the hole or throw a seagull at him to wake him up and increase the adrenaline levels. :lol

Certainly one of the best overtakes I have seen in years, especially since the two he overtook were a few of the best riders in MotoGP. :D

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« Reply #5248 on: 19 October 2015, 06:59:38 pm »
Forgot to add during part of the journey to Chepstow Racecourse i was alongside a very nice Motoguzzi, looked just like esetest machine, with the Mrs on the back.
Unfortunately couldn't make it this year , the downside of shift work .
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Re: what did you do with your fazer today ?
« Reply #5249 on: 20 October 2015, 08:53:05 pm »
New pads fitted ready for tomorrow's "heavy rain" :(
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