I bought my '03 from the 2nd owner. He actually bought it from a shop. The first unknown owner installed a Yosh slip on. I've put almost 20,000 miles on the bike and it has always run perfect. Fires up instantly, idles perfect, butter smooth all the way up to redline. No popping or anything. Probably the best running bike I've ever owned.


Does it sound like it was jetted for the pipe? I ask because I'm going to call and see if Dale at Holeshot still has a set of headers for it and I'm not sure if I'm going to have to address the carbs. I know he runs a stage one jet kit with slip ons and full exhausts so if mine is already jetted I should be good to go. And yes it has the stock airbox.


What do yall think?

I'm going to be buying new brake rotors. I ride twisty roads at a good pace and do 1-2 track days a year. Nothing too serious.


I'm wondering what spending more money would get me, if anything. I'm looking at the two in the links below. The first is a no-name ebay brand $426 for all three rotors and new pads. The second is a single front Braking brand rotor for $388.


Just wondering if there is any real difference. Even if someone is actually racing, what would the difference be? They're all floating rotors.


EDIT


The ebay links wouldn't show but the no-name brand is at the 'Extreme Shop" ebay store. Both rotors look similar, they're wave rotors with black centers. So you get the picture.

Thanks!

Santa Claus dropped off a late present today. I'm not a great photographer but they're anodized, not painted and look very nice.

Demon Tweeks and Sportsbikeshop both sell Giles rearseets for the FZS1000

Woah, thanks. I'm good then.


I was just about to ask something else. I looked at the Vortex's again and they were listed as fitting a '01-'10 FZ1 and the '11-'13 FZ8. Wasn't sure if they listed the 1st gens by mistake.

Hey guys! Glad to see there's a forum for these bikes that's active. I'm from Texas but live in North Carolina in the Uwharrie National Forest area with great roads. Looks like most of you are in Europe and I wish I lived there instead. If I didn't have any family I would have moved there. I'm retired military and have been all over.


Bought my bike in 2020 but didn't really starts the mods until this past year. The first owner did the yellow wheels/bellypan and blacked out stuff. I don't really like it but it does look factory. I got it for only $3000 with 12K miles so I can't complain. I will get a different bellypan at some point and it'll be black, that's just too much yellow for me.






I recently got a Penske 8975 and I was going to buy AK-20 fork carts this month but holding off because last week I scored a set of black Oz Piega's with a 6 inch rear on clearance. Ordered them two days ago. I think I'll get some race tires mounted on the stock rims for the track. I've never ran anything but street tires on the track (I ride at CMP) so that'll be cool. A few weeks ago I got an ELS 4 degree timing advancer. I should have bought that the day I got the bike, it's great.


These are going to be pretty nice and I have some Core brake lines I'll install at the same time.