...the little rubber caps on top of the carbs where you would plug a carb tuner in?


After running beautifully since I got her the bike suddenly was running rough one morning when I started her up and kept backfiring on the overrun from high revs. Spent a few weeks trying to work out the problem then looked along where the choke operation is on the top of the engine and saw one of the resident mice who live in my shed had nibbled through one of the rubber caps on top of the carbs!


Plugged it with blu tac and it's running fine again but I don't know what the part is called to order it?


Any help would be much appreciated. Oh and I've murdered around 20 mice in revenge since.

Stupid here. After picking up a VGC gen 1 FZ1, I managed to drop it turning right across a dual carriageway in a hurry.


My excuses are as follows - cold tyres, small gap and my throttle control isn't perfect due to a wrist injury sustained shortly after recently going over the bonnet of a van at 40mph, which wrote my old bike off.


Anyway, the Fazer was miraculously unscathed apart from the bar end being chewed up and the handlebars being slightly bent and out of alignment with the front wheel.


To fix the alignment, I slackened all the clamps off on the yokes, together with the handlebar clamps, and pushed everything down several times. That seemed to work pretty well but I managed to push one of the forks about 2cm through the top yoke, and it doesn't seem to want to go down again.


Tried pulling the front of the bike up by the bars, with my foot on the front wheel, with everything slackened off again, but nothing. Am I missing something?


Oddly. the bike seems to ride fine like this but I'm sure it can't be healthy. Any suggestions appreciated!

Ta, Chris in Cheshire.



PS will be posting wanted ad for new bars shortly, either standard or lower aftermarket ones.