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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner => Topic started by: devilsyam on 08 December 2013, 07:21:32 pm
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well guess it was going to happen as pushed the gen 1 to limits of the force
picked up this 09 with a small gearbox issue which took 30 min's to fix yep the return spring was broke
the garage told the previous owner he was looking at £1500 to fix it (yeah right)
he then went out and bought a triumph oh well
all i have done is bin the mirrors and fit a scot oiler and some levers
so wat do i think yep it no fazer bit like a pit bull on a short lead that has seen a cat - fueling on this is ok i recall drillers 06 and this is way different
so time to explore the mods my way should be fun
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Well good luck in your new project, should be good to follow it.
I never had an FZS to compare , i just hang around with some who have one.The ngine on those FZ1S are just as stonking as the FZS, bruteish, you will love the 7 to 10 thousand revs pull and noise.
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Looks good, but once you've got your mitts on it, it's going to look much better. Let me know how it compares to your fzs's :)
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sexy. very nice.
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:pokefun traitor :rollin
Have fun tinkering :lol
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Is that fast blue?
Hope to see your mods soon! good luck
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Hi you would have to strip down and make it look like a Gen1 before I got excited : Good Luck
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So what's first?
A set of RWU forks? :)
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Have you tried hub centre steering yet? ;)
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Pat i have a set R1 forks with 6 pots on so recon they will be first and then loose the chrome rims need some gold wheels to match the forks
still go open mind on it
Took the red un to work today as they aint seen the new paint boy did i get mobbed as looks way better in the flesh it is still my fav bike to ride
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picked up this 09 with a small gearbox issue which took 30 min's to fix yep the return spring was broke
the garage told the previous owner he was looking at £1500 to fix it (yeah right)
I sincerely hope I'm not about to piss on your bonfire ! And that you do no the history of that bike and i don't mean the small gearbox issue either.
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Yeah did hpi and spoke to original owner so clued up that another factor in the very low price I paid
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Waits with baited breath !!!!!!
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Waits with baited breath !!!!!!
CAT D or C....or stolen recovered??????.....and legally bought :evil :lol
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oops what I was referring to was can't wait to see what Luke does with it!
First thing should be to put some clean underpants on as he doesn't want to taint the gen2 with the smell of wee :lol
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Yeah I stole it. Bbb if you ain't got nowt to say but inuendo the go elsewhere
Keep the Foc out my threads
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Yeah I stole it. Bbb if you ain't got nowt to say but inuendo the go elsewhere
Keep the Foc out my threads
Lighten up....no malice or harm intended, obviously touched a nerve and I'm sorry if I did......besides your a gen2 guy now so foc all to say to you anyway :\
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:lol
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It turn out to be Honda C90 with Fazer bodywork ?
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Yeah I stole it. Bbb if you ain't got nowt to say but inuendo the go elsewhere
Keep the Foc out my threads
Christ, chill out Luke! If I understand his meaning, he merely suggested you bought it legally, after it had been recovered by the police after some other cunt nicked it. Calm down, FFS!
Looking forward to seeing what craziness you do to that Gen 2! :)
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Well well well...what do we have here then....! :lol
Luke on a FZ-1 ! :eek
Well I spose I have a GS , so that kinda evens it up eh ! ;)
Seriously though, you can pick up FZ-1 so cheap these days for its power , its worth a look by anyone. I always liked the handling , just prefer the mid range grunt of the FZS. But it has been a long time since I rode one, be interesting to see how it feels now.Be interesting to see just what you think to it and any mods which work for you.
It could be a good thing for the forum to have Luke let rip on a FZ_1.... :)
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Yeah I stole it. Bbb if you ain't got nowt to say but inuendo the go elsewhere
Keep the Foc out my threads
Christ, chill out Luke! If I understand his meaning, he merely suggested you bought it legally, after it had been recovered by the police after some other cunt nicked it. Calm down, FFS!
Looking forward to seeing what craziness you do to that Gen 2! :)
Never mind him Christo obviously having a bad day or even a bad week....in fact if you look closely you'll see that there is drops of blood on the seat, so its not a Gen2.....its his menstrual cycle :lol
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Everyone calm the FOC down its meant to be a friendly site far to much bitchin on here lately. :rolleyes
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Call this bitchin? You ain't seen nuthin....
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maybe start a thread on the biggest bitchfest !! :rollin
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If i ever see that brooker81 i'll scratch his eyes out?
Mickey the Queen bitch
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Yous talkin about me? :lol
Only a matter of time before Mr Dev gets himself the best bike of them all
The :faz 600 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
The bike whos owners class going on a diet as Heavy Tuning :b
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... loose the chrome rims
Words I thought I'd never hear from the King of Bling. You must be mellowing in your old age, mate! :lol
Intrigued to see which direction you take this project. The looks of the Gen 2 have always left me cool ... even the most modded ones haven't made me think 'Yeah, I could own that'.
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Oddly Mike I always liked the looks of the FZ-1.....just the power delivery I wasnt keen on.
If I do have no need of a few grand I could even be tempted to buy one as a 3rd bike ! :lol
If I knew I could sell it easily afterwards, whats the real cost of ownership...1.5% loss of interest ??
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chrome wheels removed and r1 forks with six pots gold wheels fitted
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Needs a paint job Luke!
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You kidding
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loooks nice :)
Like the wee black bit you've added to the front of the tank, breaks up the blue a wee bit :D
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carbon mick
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ooooooo. Carbon. Drooool.
Did you wrap it, or is it a replacement part?
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after market mick good ole ebay
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You kidding
Wasn't a comment on the condition! :rolleyes Just wondered if you had plans for one-off paint?
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hummmmmm
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chrome wheels removed and r1 forks with six pots gold wheels fitted
I want your front end :lol
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Ride it like you stole it :eek
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very nice looking bike looks way better with the gold folks.
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added a hyperpro rear shock
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Why Hyperpro make the adjustment holes round and the adjustment tool square is beyond me :rolleyes
Your gonna enjoy the ride quality, even though you think I set it up too hard ;)
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Why Hyperpro make the adjustment holes round and the adjustment tool square is beyond me :rolleyes
Your gonna enjoy the ride quality, even though you think I set it up too hard ;)
Maybe not !!! what if he is a fat foccer :lol
Nice shock,,how much is them???? ooohh ,,I probably have the opposite problem to some riders I, I am 11 stone,,so could do with a fluid moving shock,not too hard sprung,fully adjustable ,maybe that one :)
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That is stunning!! :b
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what make of belly pan is that please mate.
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rencullen but i will be changing it
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cool thanks never herd of that one before.
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Thinking of changing FZS for FZ1 just to have a newer Bike is it worth it???
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The main reason I changed from my 1996 vfr was that no breakdown company would promise repatriation of my bike back from Europe, the max age you get full cover was 12 years old,,some are 10 years old,
Otherwise I would still be riding my trusty VFR and would of never stumbled on this forum with its nest of twisted ,muddled middle aged Foocwits,, :lol oh and the nicehelpful ones.
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i only got it cause was stupid cheap otherwise no personally gen 1 floats my boat
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dont paint it Luke...that blue is fabulous. Is it stock ???
when I got my FZ-1 in 06 I wanted blue with black engine. Had none but silver . At 5995 brand new OTR I couldnt refuse tbh....
would now be intrested to try a later bike with better fuelling and shock etc. Even after all my spending on tuning ( £1100), it still didnt pull like I wanted. Loads of power , but felt weak to ride in top till 7k rpm.That really influenced my thinking of the bike.
Am very interested in the new S1000R naked beemer....but have sneaking feeling that will feel like a FZ-1 to ride still..... :\
On the plus side, always loved the sweet handling of the FZ-1...and rather oddly I now own a beemer whose engine I could also happily toss in the bin, but has probably the best handling chassis I have ever ridden ! ... us bikers are indeed very fickle... :lol
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nice bike mista, I think my next thou might be a gen2.. Will havew to find a replacement seat though is I don't buy it from someone on this forum..
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dont paint it Luke...that blue is fabulous. Is it stock ???
when I got my FZ-1 in 06 I wanted blue with black engine. Had none but silver . At 5995 brand new OTR I couldnt refuse tbh....
would now be intrested to try a later bike with better fuelling and shock etc. Even after all my spending on tuning ( £1100), it still didnt pull like I wanted. Loads of power , but felt weak to ride in top till 7k rpm.That really influenced my thinking of the bike.
Am very interested in the new S1000R naked beemer....but have sneaking feeling that will feel like a FZ-1 to ride still..... :\
On the plus side, always loved the sweet handling of the FZ-1...and rather oddly I now own a beemer whose engine I could also happily toss in the bin, but has probably the best handling chassis I have ever ridden ! ... us bikers are indeed very fickle... :lol
You like the look of the new s1000r naked? I'm not saying it won't be a cracking bike, but i think it is seriously ugly.. Why not an Aprilia tuono v4r? I've got one, so if you want to know anything about them give me a pm. :)
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dont paint it Luke...that blue is fabulous. Is it stock ???
when I got my FZ-1 in 06 I wanted blue with black engine. Had none but silver . At 5995 brand new OTR I couldnt refuse tbh....
would now be intrested to try a later bike with better fuelling and shock etc. Even after all my spending on tuning ( £1100), it still didnt pull like I wanted. Loads of power , but felt weak to ride in top till 7k rpm.That really influenced my thinking of the bike.
Am very interested in the new S1000R naked beemer....but have sneaking feeling that will feel like a FZ-1 to ride still..... :\
On the plus side, always loved the sweet handling of the FZ-1...and rather oddly I now own a beemer whose engine I could also happily toss in the bin, but has probably the best handling chassis I have ever ridden ! ... us bikers are indeed very fickle... :lol
If you want low down stomp don't bother with an IL4 1000! GO try either a big bore 4, so something like an XJR1300 or GSF1250 (but they won't handle as well), or maybe a twin/triple, something like a Tuono or Speed?
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Am interested actually don't mean I will buy one ! Its more from a perspective of its a bmw and I may be trading my GS in, so its always an easier swop if you keep to bmw. But I do agree, I have read several articles now, and none are " wow" !. The 160 crank bhp will probably be quite close to a modded FZ-1(my 06 was 144 at wheel). To me its not enough !...its way cheaper to buy FZ-1 and modify.Even me 10 yr old trusty FZS has 139 at rear wheel and a very flat torque curve. I am guessing it wont even feel as grunty as that till much higher revs.
And I agree, its all looking a bit underwhelming .Don't like the headlamp cluster , it looks like it still has a lower fairing , and the can is absolute pants . It looks to me like a early 00's sportbike with upper fairing removed....was expecting something just a bit different.
If I was going back to super naked, I probably would go speed triple as its engine is probably the gruntiest out there at low revs( apart from ktm 1290, but they is way different budgets), and its firmly in the whacky super naked genre, not just a sportsbike with top fairing ripped off !
as it is, another shite financial year will probably mean I stick where I am. Cant keep raiding the savings pot just to have a new number plate! :\