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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner => Topic started by: Kosmic Kartman on 10 April 2012, 11:17:48 pm
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This is probably a bit late but I've been busy.
Fazer Line Up.
In the past we've had some nice line ups usualy organised by either Trev (Polorbear) or me (KK). Last year was a bit of a shambles mainly because I got there a bit late and others had parked left right and centre and I couldn't be arsed to go round chasing people, and we certainly felt the wrath of Trev... Even though he was in Spain.
So lets make a bit of an effort this year because it does look good in the photos and I'm sure you'll agree. Be prepared to move your bikes - please.
I don't know if Paul has told the Museum we're coming (I hope you have hint hint) so hopefully they'll have a car park set aside for us. If there is no car park I'll see if I can get permission to put bikes on the front concorse as I have done in the past.
C U all there. Shiney side up. And I'm bringing one Mars bar for me.
See link here. http://fazer1000.yuku.com/topic/4245/ANNUAL-BIKE-SHED-MEET (http://fazer1000.yuku.com/topic/4245/ANNUAL-BIKE-SHED-MEET)
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Gunna have to miss this one as I am away for 2 weeks :( maybe next year.
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Going to make one of these eventually !
But going to miss this one as well because its my god daughters first birthday !
Bugger
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This too was an event I was looking out for, It's a shame it clashes with my plans for BSB at Thruxton. Decisions, decisions! :'(
Anybody know the weather forecast?
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Going to make one of these eventually !
But going to miss this one as well because its my god daughters first birthday !
Bugger
That's a shame Snapper that you'll miss your daughters first birthday. I missed my daughters first birthday and went to the States with Luke to ride the Dragon. :rolleyes
So I'll see you in Brum them. :lol
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Bump.
It's tomorrow folks.
Weather: Dry but a tad chilly.
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I'd love to but I'm working. Enjoy!
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I'm all ready to go... I've missed the last 2 meets, so I'm determined to make this one... 8)
Hope to see quite a few of you there... ;)
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Weather Sunny most of the time. Tempreture... Bollock shrinking cold!
Sorry Trev. It's a sort of line up. Must try harder (http://static.yuku.com/domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/eyes.gif)
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Here are two of the cleanest tidiest Fazers I've seen on the road. They must have got here wrapped in cotton wool.
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Bloody hell, I don't think mine was that clean when I collected it from the showroom!! Lovely bikes though.
What do you guys use to clean the headers and where can I get some??
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What do you guys use to clean the headers and where can I get some??
Wonder wheels than Autosol and plenty of elbow grease ;)
Im glad you like my blue beast it rides as good as it looks, it was great to put the names to the faces, and meet the fella justy who provided the spacers for the yokes and headers caps.
Big thx
Dave :D
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What's the little toggle switch by the right side cover for Dave?
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What's the little toggle switch by the right side cover for Dave?
To prime the NITROUS :evil
That one is for turn power on/off for sat nav.
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sorry I never made it chaps, but I was still working on putting my bike back together, work has been manic, and so little free time to do it .Its all done now but too late for the meet.I havent got a chainguard or hugger so it would have been risky to ride anyway.
Dave your bike looks outrageously clean !... quite apart from the cool array of goodies. :)
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I would love to attend but my fishery needs me here! :'(
anyone fancy a ride over to my fishery for a brew and toilet break after the meet at brum bike shed i'm only 20 mins away on a fazer! :lol
Let me know guys i'd love to see you and any foccer that comes gets a jacko discount on tea and coffee plus tranquil views of the lakes, hard standing parking :D
cheers jacko jet
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Well Ad .. I don't think YOU need to apologise to me for that complete Dogs Breakfast of a line-up. At least you had the balls to post the pictures :)
I think it was more a case of nobody really trying very hard these days .. not much interest in the meet to start with, no fun mars bar awards for the best efforts, very poor turn out, lots of the usual last minute pathetic excuses for failing to get out of bed and making it happen and a fair indication of the general state of play in the UK today. The current financial climate and the cold weather also didn't help much I spozz.
As they say .. some you lose .. and some you lose again. :\
Just for info .. The only reason I ever managed to get a good Photo Shoot Line Up was because I am a former military bod .. I was a real nasty bastard for 15 years and more in the Navy and I've got a 'one voice' gob like a bucket. Also being a Pro Diving Instructor for over 25 years .. I am used to various kinds of 'public speaking' and getting things done .. right, once, first time. Simples. 8)
Still .. as I no longer run a Fab Fazer Gen 1 and I don't even live in the UK right now .. who the hell am I to be calling any tunes :\
Well done to those of you who did turn out .. as hard and as cold as it may have been .. you will I hope be feeling proud that at least you had a go :lol As ever there were one or two really lovely bikes to drool and dribble over too.
Stay Safe Y'all ;) Trev (The Polar Bear Spain)
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Trev wrote
As ever there were one or two really lovely bikes to drool and dribble over too.
Yeah, Cable ties, Devilsyam's and mine :lol
Re the line-up. I did manage to get two patheticly parked bike bikes moved. ;) Thing is in the old days people milled about in the car park so you could ask them to re-position bikes. It's a bit harder if people park up and wonder off. I can't realy go moving their bikes about. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
So next year park up with even spacing, front wheel on the line and steering pointing left. There.... you have been told. :lol
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sounds like we is all full of excuses then Trev !
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Now Now Then Lord Jon .. don't you go picking on me ... I'm an OAP don't you know :\ !
Of course there are always going to be the genuine reasons for not doing things and stuff like work, family commitments and money are always going to rule over buggering off up the road for a day :rolleyes I think it would be much 'wiser' for the guys who know in advance they are not going to attend to keep quiet from day one.
In my case I do miss it these days .. I organised the first ever meet. For me it's a money problem .. so I never say I'll be there now. The round trip from our little hutch on the Costa Blanca costs around £1.000 all in these days.
So as much as I love you (you big fat lump) I'm not gonna be there, OK.
I do the round trip (at least once every year) to visit family and friends in both England and Scotland .. this has involved doing ten hour (pit stops only) overnight rides up and down the full length of Spain .. in winter, ice and snow on the mountains as well as during the monsoon rain season.
It's a hard ride (at my age I have to grit my gums and hang on in there :\ ) but if it has to be done I'll do it .. even more so now the rig is over three years old because the Bike has to have a UK MOT every June. I'm still English to the core me 8) and so is my bike.
As you will recall .. I'm sure I often pop in to see old friends as I'm passing if things are going according to my Plan-A :D
Grizzly Hugs and Extra Stuffing XX Stay Safe ;) Trev
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Well I keep saying I will do the trip down to you m8 ! ...would love to do it. Now, at the risk of saying I am going to do it , then not .....tbh this year could be possible in september.I have been wanting to revisit my 2004 first euro trip to the pyrenees, and it is possible I can find a week free in my workschedule.My thinking is to do the pyrenees run, but extend it down to denia. :) ....it may be a solo run, but if any other foccer is interested I would be amenable for some company.
I will let you know if it is a goer....meanwhile, let me know when you R over in UK, and I will try to meet up.
cheers
Jon
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OK Jon .. 10/4 on that .. I'll keep one good eye open :z later in the year.
By the way .. and just for the record .. I don't really think you are a big fat lump .. it's more like a having an adult moose in a very small room .. only without the adult bit :lol
Stay Safe Buddy ;) Trev
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Trev and Jon,
I must say, having just read the above, I love you, coz you're just such true people. Your conversation makes me smile. :) .... But I don't want to marry you both or anything.
Besides it would be too difficult a choice to make.
The large chubby one or the old wrinkle chops. The old wrinkle chops or the large chubby one. The large chubby one or the old wrinkle chops. The old wrinkle chops or the large chubby one. The large chubby one or the old wrinkle chops. The old wrinkle chops or the large chubby one..........
:rolleyes
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Well done to everyone who made the trip. Sorry I couldn't be there. Actually, I was only 50 miles away spending the weekend with our grand-daughter but try as I might I couldn't persuade the ladies that a trip to the NMM would be really interesting for Annie ... :)
Dave, I take it your Transit van was parked out of sight ... ? :lol
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Nah mike but I did have to polish it when I got home as there was brake dust on the wheels LoL.
I tell ya what we made it a full day out taking in plenty of rds and it's a sweat handling bike And compared to the triumph demo I had on Saturday the fazer sure does float my boat more than a 12k trumpet, i got the conversion perfect.
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Nice to see it getting some mileage on it after all the love that's been lavished on the mods, Dave. :)
I was in a Triumph dealer only yesterday doing a bit of tyre-kicking. The new 1200 Adventurer is a monstrous looking contraption. However, I could see a tasteful spoked-wheel Bonnie finding a home downstairs one day ... ;)
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Mike, strange you say 1200 adventure thats the bike i had, twas the lauch model with all the bling i wanted one for my travels, the engine was a peach but thats as good as it got the rest was shocking, when i got back on the fazer it felt like a dinky toy.
Dave :D
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Nice to see it getting some mileage on it after all the love that's been lavished on the mods, Dave. :)
I was in a Triumph dealer only yesterday doing a bit of tyre-kicking. The new 1200 Adventurer is a monstrous looking contraption. However, I could see a tasteful spoked-wheel Bonnie finding a home downstairs one day ... ;)
Bonnie is a lovely bike. Had 2 T100s and they were just great.
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well think on that the german version of the " monstrous contraption" is one of the worlds best selling bikes, and definitely the UK's... :rolleyes
mooo....moooo...
I dunno, bulk yerself up with a bit of weightlifting , and get called a " moose"! :'( ...thanks trev !! :lol
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Hello Ad..
I'm thinking you'll have to marry both of us mate .. truth is I'm getting fatter by the fortnight and Lord Jon sure as hell is gonna be wrinkly all over in the not too distant future .. what on earth will he do with all that extra skin :eek
Interestingly .. I have a friend staying on site here right now (yes I do have a friend :\ ) Roy is an East End Boy Biker, born and drugged up in Dagenham and currently hiding out in Chelmsford, Essex .. most definitely a 'Darn Sarff' guy.
We are just about able to have a slightly 'warm' conversation about most topics .. because although we are both always right .. we can talk more or less in the same back street language. However .. I'm very aware that both of us are quite cautious about over stepping the line.
With blokes from up north (Jon is in Rugby and I'm a Brummy) we can bounce all kinds of stuff off each other without much (if any) fear of going to far .. if it should ever get even slightly out of hand .. one of us (if not both) will have the brains to walk away and (most importantly) come back tomorrow :lol
Anyway .. I'm pleased that we are able to keep you amused .. and I know that Jon will agree .. when I say that having a laugh is the most important thing in the day! :lol Any doubts about that one .. ask little Short Arsed Justy :b
Safe as always people ;) .. Trev
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aaaaaaaa..... how have i got involved in this!? :\
captain Pugwash is deaf as a post! so call him anything ya like. just dont use any rude hand gestures! if you feel the need to, make sure ya on ya bike riding away as ya do it! ;)
bloody OAP's! moan moan moan!
justy1000
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You can run Short Arse .. but you can't hide! (as I'm sure you will recall :) )
So .. tell me .. what's going on in your world mate these days .. any signs of a job of anything yet?
Safe as ever Kiddo ;) Polar Bear
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would have like to have gone, reckon I could have competed for the cleanest fazer moniker :-)
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well think on that the german version of the " monstrous contraption" is one of the worlds best selling bikes, and definitely the UK's... :rolleyes
mooo....moooo...
Jon, the trumpet aint as good as the gs thats my opinion! its too new a model and i feel its work in progress, it has a few flaws but im sure it will get better once triumph get feedback however the fully blinged 1200 trumpet is cheaper than the same spec'd GS and they cant make the trumpet fast enough as its selling like hot cakes :\
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Trev.
what on earth will he do with all that extra skin
:lol :lol
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You can run Short Arse .. but you can't hide! (as I'm sure you will recall :) )
So .. tell me .. what's going on in your world mate these days .. any signs of a job of anything yet?
Safe as ever Kiddo ;) Polar Bear
uuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmm............ yes i remember being tracked down by a load strange blokes of whom 1 or 2 were based in Spain! :\
as for whats going on in my world...... not a lot! had an interview 2 weeks ago just waiting for a reply! :\
justy1000