I'm shocked , I thought you'd have that forever. Why are you selling after all the time and effort, not to mention money that you've put into it over the past couple of years? Somebody's going to get an absolute bargain. I'm almost tempted myself.

I paid £1995 for it in 2013.

It was tidy when I bought it, but not loved as it had been used as an everyday bike.
The previous owner had the cam chain and tensioner assembly plus valve clearances done and serviced by a garage a month before selling it to me.
Because it was used as a work commute he had it serviced and looked after it, but just did not go that bit further and love it.
The bike just wanted a bit of TLC.

I was shocked at the power it has.
I had not been on a bike for many, many years, I loved the smoothness of the delivery and the acceleration was unbelievable, 4 seconds or something like that to 60 mph, my old BSA 650 was about 11 or 12 seconds. (And when the old Beezer was at 60 mph that was almost 2/3rds you max speed)

I have loved owning this bike and I love the slightly retro Star Wars' look of the styling.

Yes I have injected a lot of money and effort into it, but I have also gained a great deal of pleasure and knowledge from doing it, many thanks to Kebab for his knowledge and help with the suspension upgrade.   

If you want to talk hard cash the bike has likely cost me upwards of £3000 - £3250 including the initial purchase, but you have to be realistic it is still a 2003 registered motorcycle.
I am 72 years old now and to be honest I have work related Rotation and Impact damage to both wrists and I have calciumated joints now, bone fusion is on the cards, motorcycling is out. Plus other age related injuries, I'm sure a lot of old Foccers in here are struggling with similar aches and pains.
This is not a hard luck story (Boo Hoo! poor me, poor me)

The upshot is the FZS 600 has to go. I think £1800 with the stuff the bike has had done is not unreasonable.
As and when it sells I just hope it goes to a good home where it will continue to be pampered.

The Merc SLK 230 Kompressor is also up for sale, as is my Vauxhall 1700 TDI Combo Van, and the Honda C90 is back on eBay after the tosser who won the auction last time never had the resources to pay for it.

I am almost embarrassed to say that I have just bought a second hand Skoda Yeti Elegance, 2Ltr Turbo Deisel in candy white, for £8.5K it is one hell of a lot of motor car.         

Those pics are not the sharpest so added copies of a couple that are of better quality

This is out there in case you are looking for a nice FZS 600 Fazer Foxeye later in the spring.

Not now but in April when the FZS600 Foxeye needs a new MOT it will be up for sale.
I am leaving it until then as it will command a higher price come spring.The Fazer FZS600 is in hibernation right now and it was given a good service before going to sleep for the winter.

It included:
Oil and filter change, Shell 4T Semi Synthetic.Plugs cleaned (Did not really need doing, as only done about 2,000 miles since being replaced) Air filter changed. Fuel stabiliser added to petrol tank. Chain Cleaned & Lubed
Fazer  FZS 600 Foxeye
Silver2003 Registered.
37,754 Miles, MOT’ed until 23rd April 2019. Will come with a new MOT.
Battlax Tyres, T30F Front covered 300 miles, BT201R Rear 1400 miles.
**  New Rear Shocker Nitron R1, 400-500 miles
**  New Front Fork Cartridge Emulators (YYS) and new Ohlins Linear Springs, 400-500 miles
Front Fender Extender Carbon Look.
Twin LED Spot LampsLED Side Lights.
Ultra Bright Hint of Blue Head Light Bulbs.
LED IndicatorsBlue Braided Stainless Steel Brake lines front and rear. (Cobra)
Clear Flip Type Screen.
Blue Screen Screws
Stainless Steel Down Pipes
PipeWerks Stainless Sports Can and Link Pipe.
Stainless Steel Radiator Cover.
Blue Stainless Steel Engine Case Screws.
Blue Billet Oil Filler Cap.
12 mm Front Sprocket Nut and Washer Fitted 4^th Feb 2017.
Chain and Sprockets Good. 
1K Fazer rear caliper 'Blue Spot' and new pads, Fitted 200 miles ago + 1K Fazer Alloy drilled caliper torsion arm.
Front calipers serviced spring 2018.
Bridgestone Batlax T30F Front & BT201R on the rear. Front tyre 100 miles, Rear tyre 1500 miles.
Bike very clean and looks smart.
400-500 miles ago I spent £630 on full suspension upgrade. See ** above.
Now set up for a 90 Kilo fully togged up rider (14 stones including riding gear)

Bike will not be ridden before April, when it will be taken for MOT, but is started up every two-three weeks and brought up to temperature.

Comes with:
Yamaha Handbook, Haynes Manual, New Oxford Aquatex Cover, Oxford Battery Conditioner/Charger. Original Yamaha Screen, Original Yamaha Silencer. Spare 12mm Front Sprocket Nut & Washer, New 15 Tooth Renthal Front Sprocket. Disk Lock, Ground Anchor Chain, Brand new set of carb balancing gauges.

Registration Document & New MOT. Looking at £1,800 in April.
Or now if you want to buy it now that good but its still £1800, but I will still put new MOT on bike for purchaser. Will equal 13 months MOT.

Red is right, If I were doing what you are, I would certainly replace all the rings with a NEW set.
If the rings and the bores wear at approximately the same rate then you will have halved the wear by replacing the rings.
Don't forget to take it easy for a few miles while the new rings bed in, should you decide go that way. 

Sounds a bit like one disaster after another. 
Not sure about putting a piston from one engine into another, if the original piston is only lightly marked where the ring popped out ( I am guessing the scratch is from the bottom ring down towards the base or skirt of the piston) I would polish it with a very, very fine bit of wet and dry to remove the scratch and polish it with Solvo polish, as long as the ring groove is not compromised. The bottom rings are not usually compression rings but oil control rings, or oiler rings, so will not impact on engine compression. Gently pop on the oiler ring from one of the pistons you have bought and use that, saves removing the Gudgeon Pin from the original piston and the hassle of replacing the gudgeon pim circlips.
The skirt or land of the piston having a scratch or mark with not effect the performance of the engine as it is the rings that are in mechanical contact with the bore not the alloy piston itself.
If the scratch is really deep, wide and long then replace the piston as it could compromise the strength of the piston at high revs causing the piston to break up or fail in some way.


If you do decide to remove the piston, stuff the crankcase mouth with rags before you start, because a gudgeon pin circlip falling into the crankcase mouth will cause a whole new set of problems.

Just to lighten it up a bit 

The construction and use regulations state that the only colour emitted from the front can be white or amber. From the rear its red or amber (plus white for the reversing light)
Any other colour is prohibited.

A lot of teh chavs get away with teh blue bits under their cars becasue it is reflected off the road etc and not actually visible from the source. The truck lights are illegal but you would need to find a copper (first) that gives a toss (second) before anyone gets done for having them

So my little SLK has white indicator lens on the front, with a amber bulbs fitted. If I shoved a blue/white LED in there would I be breaking the law and would anyone care a toss. Back lens are Orange with white bulbs.
Hey what do I know? I just went outside to check and the back indicator lens are white with amber bulbs   

Quote from: tommyardin on 05 January 2019, 09:39:37 pm

I honestly think that a few in here would not last 5 minutes working with a gang of brickies or ground workers, no sense of humour and take themselves all to seriously.

Every time I go past a building site they're all stood in a row, hoods pulled down, chain smoking and staring silently and blankly into their smart phones.

Don't look much like a bundle of laughs to me

Yeah but that's from round where you live, everyone is like that around there.


Where I live, and, where I worked brickies are paid for what they do, its the nature of self employment and price work, if you don't do the biz there is no dosh at the end of the week, we are not all safe workers that get paid even if we hang about all day with our finger up our nose.
Of course I am not insinuating that you do, but is that boggy on the tip of your finger? 

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Quote from: VNA on 05 January 2019, 05:42:27 pm

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I have just been reading through the whole post again,

Confirmation, if any was ever needed, that yardin is indeed 100% insane.
 

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I personally think that Mrs May is doing a great job with the whole crock of shit that she inherited, she herself was not a leaver but has had to accept what the general idiots populace of this country asked for

I tend to agree with you – to some extent – the country ask the government to do something very stupid – and May is indeed acting accordingly.   As Mr Corbyn said - stupid woman    

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very best with a bunch of fucking wankers in both parties trying their very best to scupper the process and also assassinate her in the process.

But I’ll disagree with that bit.  I mean really    It’s the not the job of opposing parties to do the work of the government.  This should have potentially been nipped in the bud almost two years ago.  Labour should have stood it’s ground and moved to vote down article 50. 

We could potentially have avoided this whole mess.

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All you leavers can go fuck yourselves!

I have been trying to get them to see sense.  Get them back on board.  But yeah OK.


My country voted decisively to REMAIN.  I expect The Scottish Parliament and our Scottish MPs at Westminster to do everything within their power to stop this BREXIT madness.

Well it's good to know that there is a smidgen of consensus between us, but I am not going to dwell on it.


I should have edited my post as there was something that I think (On reflection) was not thoroughly thought out, and therefore was erroneous, that was the bit about the leavers fucking themselves, in fact I think they might have fucked us all.


I would urge some of the readers and posters not to take this banter to seriously, because that is what a lot of it is banter as i am always looking for a response, and my goodness the baited hook certainly gets some bites, you see the float bobbing and disappearing all the time. 
I honestly think that a few in here would not last 5 minutes working with a gang of brickies or ground workers, no sense of humour and take themselves all to seriously.


Especially ole Coco the Clown, I think you know who you are    chill a bit FFS. The forum is meant to be fun and a crack. There are a lot of good and helpful posts that informative, I have been helped on a number of occasions with advice about suspension and speed sensors and the front sprocket and upgrade nut and the like, also, biker clothing and skid lids, but I am not expecting the hairy arsed bikers in here to sort out the detail of Brexit FFS, we cant even agree on what the best tyre is or who manufactures the best braided brake lines.

You don't by any chance wear comedy socks and ties do you tommyardin?

Only when your not wearing them and I can borrow yours.

Everyone know the answers to those questions, Bridgestone, Hell, and Remain.
 

Quote from: Freck on 23 December 2018, 08:21:50 pm

Quote from: tommyardin on 23 December 2018, 06:43:40 pm

Really? Works very well doesn't it.

Reading the gumph on it makes it sounds a bit like the Snooper Radar and Lazer camera detector that I have the displeasure of owning.
The manufacturer say it detects 100 percent of traffic cameras, all the different types and all the bands they use, it does all the fixed cameras, Gatso and Truvelo plus the new Muti Directional Truvelo and the even newer the Yellow Vulture camera.

The problem is it detects the cameras on temporary traffic lights, the camera on the automated doors at service stations, shops, Boots the Chemists or any automated doors on industrial estates that you happen to pass, it even detects the doors on my local doctors surgery. in fact its a cacophony of alarms every few yards along the road because it even picks up the proximity cameras that fitted to modern cars to warn the driver that someone is in their blind spot.
You get so many warnings you either ignore it completely, shut it down, or silence it, In fact I think I might hit it with a hammer.
The equipment on the roof of Gatwick Police Station seems to be about as much use as the Snooper, seeing as the things were flying around the air port for a not insignificant time.          

What gets my goat is people who use different sized fonts in their replies 


I thought my eyesight was getting even worse as I read it 

That's normally the result of trying to find the right size font after it's gone all Chocolate Factory on you again and shrunk your last sentence. 

I am really glad that it is not just me that this problem happens to

Do you recall who the focker was?
Ask the question.

Quote from: tommyardin on 05 January 2019, 01:30:17 pm

I was a remainer and still am,
All you leavers can go fuck yourselves!
 

A very helpful and thought provoking enlightened intelligent post. Thank you.

My pleasure, I am glad it was helpful.