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General => General => Topic started by: celticdog on 15 January 2017, 09:49:17 am
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There's no option for chrome waxers, I'm assuming most Fazer owners aren't big Custom/Harley fans.
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A hard core commuter... just about to set off on the 40 mile trip to work in the pissing rain.
Still, at least it'll wash some of the salt off the poor old thing.
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Yep, all year round for me too.
The only thing i won't do these days, which i did before for many years on lighter bikes, is ride in snowy conditions.
My main commute virtually all the way to work is normally salted and the roads kept in very good condition, but due to the positioning of our road my driveway and road itself doesn't see sunlight until after 2pm in winter, then it starts getting dark from 3.30pm so there will always be snow or black ice to contend with until the weather warms up for it to disappear, and i've decided i will never chance dropping my bike in my own road or driveway simply because i would be gutted.
Luckily a workmate lives under a mile away from me so i can thankfully ponce a lift if i ever need to.
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Something else :)
Don't ride in bad weather or rain , don't have to anymore unlike when I was younger, cars were invented so bikers didn't have to get cold and wet anymore. I ride mostly for pleasure only now, very occasional commuter. I enjoy the maintenance side as well, get pleasure from knowing the job has been done right and been done by me, a bit of a sad foccer really.
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Another all year rounder :thumbup . Beats the other options of train/car by a mile.
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Something else :)
Don't ride in bad weather or rain , don't have to anymore unlike when I was younger, cars were invented so bikers didn't have to get cold and wet anymore. I ride mostly for pleasure only now
Same here. I'm surprised you didn't come up with "riding for pleasure" as a separate option celticdog. And I've never ridden a bike that gives me more of that pleasure than my current Fazer (usual thanks to Falcon and Devilsyam :thumbup ).
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All year rounder but don't like rain but ride in it if I have to
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All year rounder but I don't commute any more since I retired :D
Ok with rain when I'm wearing the right gear. Likewise not OK with snow and ice. Done it before but never again.
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All year round for me too.
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Something else :)
Don't ride in bad weather or rain , don't have to anymore unlike when I was younger, cars were invented so bikers didn't have to get cold and wet anymore. I ride mostly for pleasure only now, very occasional commuter. I enjoy the maintenance side as well, get pleasure from knowing the job has been done right and been done by me, a bit of a sad foccer really.
Sounds just like me apart from commuting as I dont do any.
All year round but no rain or threat there of.
I haven't added my vote because there is no ride for pleasure only option
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I went for something else as well :) .
I commuted by motorbike year round for pretty much all my working life, other than a keep fit phase when I cycled, but now retired all my biking is purely for pleasure.
I've done my fair share of continental trips following GP, WSB, MotoGp and 24hr Endurance racing, still have my Scott Russell leathers, only wish I could fit into them now. When I started biking it was British or nothing unless you were a rich kid, so there's a fair collection of spanners in my garage. I can't say I enjoy maintenance, but do it in the knowledge it's been done with utmost care and attention. After all, I'm quite capable of overtightening the chain and putting a scratch in the tank, without big dealership bill thrown in for good measure :rollin I purposely bought my Fazer unmodified, so that I could have the joy of foccing it up myself, and say it was all my own work :lol .
If it's raining, I won't be thinking "let's get the bike out", as the main downside to winter riding is the endless cleaning to "keep on top of it" which isn't one of my favourite chores, but will take whatever the weather wants to throw at me at next months Dragon Rally. Like everyone else, I was a newbie once , admittedly in the long dark distant past, so hence quite a dilemma in deciding which box to tick, although welding skills were very poor :lol .
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Something else :)
Don't ride in bad weather or rain , don't have to anymore unlike when I was younger, cars were invented so bikers didn't have to get cold and wet anymore. I ride mostly for pleasure only now, very occasional commuter. I enjoy the maintenance side as well, get pleasure from knowing the job has been done right and been done by me, a bit of a sad foccer really.
Same here except I commute on mine as often as I can. Avoid rain unless caught out or no option but refuse to ride in ice/snow. Cold doesn't bother me as long as it's dry I'll be on my bike
I enjoy doing my own maintenance/modifications as long as it's not engine related. I've tackled most other things but not brave enough for the serious stuff yet haha
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All year rounder here also. :) Only thing that stops me is ice. The serow is good then :lol
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All year rounder here also. :) Only thing that stops me is ice. The serow is good then :lol
Miss my CRM250AR. If you've got a trail bike you're almost praying for snow to get out and have some fun, especially when everyone else is struggling :lol
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Yeah my bad, re purely for pleasure option- I've alter poll accordingly. :)
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Alas I ride all year. Thursday was horrendous. Some deep water on my ride home actually flooded my GoreTex boots. First time I've had wet feet in years.
Mickey
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Another all year round rider and all weather commuter. Fazer fits the bill for everything, though on a really hot day just grunting about in the Forest of Dean at 45 mph on me 1340 fat boy in jeans tee shirt and pisspot takes some beating. But then I am nearly sixty...
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Some of us are over sixty, but think we are still forty.
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Yeah my bad, re purely for pleasure option- I've alter poll accordingly. :)
PERFECT Purely for pleasure, happiness isn't around the corner, it is the corner.
I have added my vote to this
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Used to ride all year round but since passing car test I've only ridden in good conditions, as for fazer I will get to ride it one day
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Yep, year round biker. Probably only been 1 day in last 4.5 years of riding I've actually said 'stuff it I'm working from home'. But then, I'm in London, so we don't really get a proper winter down here.
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I clicked something else as I seem to be a bit of everything... :rollin
I ride in all weathers, lucky enough to have Rukka gear, [size=78%]I try to work on the bikes myself as much as possible.... but I also have a Harley and sometimes dress up as a power ranger if out on the Ninja...[/size]
:o :o :b
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Very much hard core all year around rider
Fazer is not my commuter bike I a cub90 fro that
Fazer dose ride outs and day trips or longer
Christmass Was Bury Port West Wales for a few days
Yesterday Stonley Park Covertry to the Bike trade Show
I am from South London / Kent
Started using the FZ6 April last year with 80025miles on it Went though 92K yesterday sometime which is not bad fro a weekend toy
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Something else :)
Don't ride in bad weather or rain , don't have to anymore unlike when I was younger, cars were invented so bikers didn't have to get cold and wet anymore. I ride mostly for pleasure only now, very occasional commuter. I enjoy the maintenance side as well, get pleasure from knowing the job has been done right and been done by me, a bit of a sad foccer really.
Hey! Slappy, I almost feel you wrote that for me, I guess most become sad ole foccers as we get older, not me though, Iv'e always been like that, LOL!
Have a great day mate, it's 8-25am, I'm sat in my bed laptop on my lap (Funny enough) cup of tea and toast and strawberry jam on bed-side table Mrs just left home heading for school, (No she not 9, shes a teacher) Ahh! this beats working for a living.
Now the truth:
I actually miss work a lot, I loved the crack and the commeradary of working on site with a bunch of great lads, sure, I still see them and we have a good laugh together but its not the same as working together, the constant piss take and being on your guard all the time, one slip or one misplaced word and they are on you like a ton of bricks, I loved it, the day used to go by so quick and often you would almost end up in tears through laughing so much. Friends are one of the most valuable assets we can have. :thumbup
Oh and fuck riding in anything other than sunshine and dry roads. :sun :sun :sun
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every day rain or shine :) be selling it soon though as moving to the channel islands and buying a new bike when i'm there
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every day rain or shine :) be selling it soon though as moving to the channel islands and buying a new bike when i'm there
You'll need plenty of ACF50 to help combat that salty sea air!
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No idea what I am.
I love looking at it and running the engine (a high revving inline 4, with carbs and a sports exhaust) 😊
I also love tinkering with it. I have a degree in mechanical engineering so like to get my hands dirty now and again. But I can't weld.
I also thoroughly enjoy a ride when it's dry, usually touring all across Europe. :-)
all good but I don't really fit into any of the above categories.
Basically I'm a weirdo.
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Given the choice between riding in the pissing rain with a wind chill of -3C or the tube, I'll take the bike every time..!
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All weather rider here except for snow and really heavy frost as done it before back when I was a teen on my old YB100 and it was not a nice experience. I really hate having to drive the car, it actually makes me quite depressed but that's probably more due to the fact that my car is a tiny 1.0 3 cylinder and gutless in the power department.
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All weather rider here except for snow and really heavy frost as done it before back when I was a teen on my old YB100 and it was not a nice experience. I really hate having to drive the car, it actually makes me quite depressed but that's probably more due to the fact that my car is a tiny 1.0 3 cylinder and gutless in the power department.
Sounds like a Pug or a Citroen
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All weather rider here except for snow and really heavy frost as done it before back when I was a teen on my old YB100 and it was not a nice experience. I really hate having to drive the car, it actually makes me quite depressed but that's probably more due to the fact that my car is a tiny 1.0 3 cylinder and gutless in the power department.
Sounds like a Pug or a Citroen
No it's a SEAT Mii, For what it is and what it's being used as at the moment rather than what it was designed for, it is a cracking car and cheap to run, but we need a big family car so we have gone out and ordered a new Skoda Fabia Estate which we will be picking up on 1st March can't wait, really fedup of having to borrow the old mans car whenever we need the boot space.
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All weather rider here except for snow and really heavy frost as done it before back when I was a teen on my old YB100 and it was not a nice experience. I really hate having to drive the car, it actually makes me quite depressed but that's probably more due to the fact that my car is a tiny 1.0 3 cylinder and gutless in the power department.
Sounds like a Pug or a Citroen
No it's a SEAT Mii, For what it is and what it's being used as at the moment rather than what it was designed for, it is a cracking car and cheap to run, but we need a big family car so we have gone out and ordered a new Skoda Fabia Estate which we will be picking up on 1st March can't wait, really fedup of having to borrow the old mans car whenever we need the boot space.
Fabia Estate ehh!
Plenty of room in them, there was a lot of jokes about the Skoda a few years back, but no ones laughing anymore.
The Fabia a great motor. Enough power, plenty of room.
One of my mates always had escort estates for years and years, he swore by them, until, On holiday he was given a Fabia saloon as a hire car, within 4 weeks of getting home both he and Penny (His Mrs) were both the proud owners of Fabias.
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Take both wheel off the Fazer and I reckon it might go in the back of a Fabia Estate
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All weather rider here except for snow and really heavy frost as done it before back when I was a teen on my old YB100 and it was not a nice experience. I really hate having to drive the car, it actually makes me quite depressed but that's probably more due to the fact that my car is a tiny 1.0 3 cylinder and gutless in the power department.
Sounds like a Pug or a Citroen
No it's a SEAT Mii, For what it is and what it's being used as at the moment rather than what it was designed for, it is a cracking car and cheap to run, but we need a big family car so we have gone out and ordered a new Skoda Fabia Estate which we will be picking up on 1st March can't wait, really fedup of having to borrow the old mans car whenever we need the boot space.
Fabia Estate ehh!
Plenty of room in them, there was a lot of jokes about the Skoda a few years back, but no ones laughing anymore.
The Fabia a great motor. Enough power, plenty of room.
One of my mates always had escort estates for years and years, he swore by them, until, On holiday he was given a Fabia saloon as a hire car, within 4 weeks of getting home both he and Penny (His Mrs) were both the proud owners of Fabias.
We test drove one last week and we were hooked, the build quality was excellent and with the TSI engine it just pulled away with the greatest of ease and it's only the 1.2 with 90bhp.
I remember all the old stories about Skodas as when I was a wee nipper my auntie had one of the problem Skodas that was always going wrong, my cousins hid their heads in shame when their mum dropped them off at school in it :lol
Take both wheel off the Fazer and I reckon it might go in the back of a Fabia Estate
I think I might have to give that idea a miss at least until the car is a few years old, plus if I damaged the car the wife would kill me
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I put Hardcore Commuter but I'm not out in all weathers. If the rescue helicopter's out, so is my car.
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All year round for me as well. Hate it when it drops below freezing.
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I used to be hard core commuter on my 600 for 12 years all weathers Essex to S London then got took out by white van and suffer joint probs now,so dry weather only now for me ( unless it rains while I'm out ) transferred job closer to home then retired early :)
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Option 1 is nearest the truth for me. My bikes are for being an irresponsible nutter on - B-King for drag racing, Busa for high speed shenanigans and track days and Fazer for hooliganerooniness :evil
I'm a pensioner so should know better :rolleyes
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(Fairly) hard core commuter. Out in most weathers though draw the line at snow and ice. Coming home from a night shift (27 miles) in last week's gales were - ahem - an experience. Blown repeatedly across the road in 65mph+ gusts. At 4.30 AM Mrs Wharfe rings me at work and says "I'm really worried. Get a taxi home. I'll pay half" Oh right, just half? Is that all my life's worth love? Huh...
Oh and +1 for the Skoda thing. Love mine... (an Octavia estate)
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Sounds like this turning into the fazer and skoda owners club :lol
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Sounds like this turning into the fazer and skoda owners club :lol
:thumbup
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Everyone happy now with their Skoda fix ??
Quite clearly you can see that the Skoda driver was at fault..........
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Everyone happy now with their Skoda fix ??
Quite clearly you can see that the Skoda driver was at fault..........
Oh yeah Frosties the cars are great, it's just that the drivers a wankers. :fish :guitar
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Everyone happy now with their Skoda fix ??
Quite clearly you can see that the Skoda driver was at fault..........
Defiantly the skodas fault, biker innocently parked up on his side stand minding his own business and gets hit
(http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21668.0;attach=27617;image)
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My point exactly Sharpy - thinking that Tomski calling all Skoda drivers Wankers is a fair and valid point .
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My point exactly Sharpy - thinking that Tomski calling all Skoda drivers Wankers is a fair and valid point .
I haven't got my Skoda yet so I'm not offended at the moment :lol but come 1st march :foc :finger :rollin :rollin :rollin
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:rolleyes Oh! and its a know fact that 99.9% of Skoda drivers are gay :moon :sex
The clip below is so funny, but has nothing to do with Skodas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrX7uOZqHI
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:rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin :rollin
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I'm a summer biker. Parked up in winter. I enjoy working on bikes. Working in my man cave. And by the way nothing wrong with skoda drivers. I'm one . :finger :finger
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:rolleyes Oh! and its a know fact that 99.9% of Skoda drivers are gay :moon :sex
The clip below is so funny, but has nothing to do with Skodas
Are we to assume from that statement that you don't drive a Skoda Tommy ???... brings a whole new dimension to the putts statement about working in his man cave :lol
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I'm a summer biker. Parked up in winter. I enjoy working on bikes. Working in my man cave. And by the way nothing wrong with skoda drivers. I'm one . :finger :finger
Huh! I rest my case :lol
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:lol :lol
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sunshine only for me, I work outside all year round and my bones have taken there toll.
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Rode the Thou to the Ogri rally this weekend just gone. I think it was the only Fazer on the site. Partied hard. Woke up on Sunday with ice on the inside of the tent. Rode home again. My body isn't as young as it used to be - too many offs in the past :lol .
I will be attending again next year.
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Can relate to that, spent 5 weeks at Everest base camp in 2002 every morning when I woke up if you shook the tent you got sprayed with ice :lol :lol Worst night was -31C, had 2 sleeping bags (3 season and 4 season) and all my clothes on to stay warm those nights and the morning after the prayers to Chomolungma by the Dali Lama to allow the climbers on to the Mountain, to much Chang (local brewed beer) at the party after. Jesus what a head from altitude and beer :eek
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dai lama, he lives up the valleys. ;)