I've followed this chap's plastic welding plan in the past:


Pretty straight forward, soldering iron, staples and cable tie job. Certainly functional, but not aesthetically pleasing. Fine for an out of sight mounting lug mind. However, if you have the piece of fairing handy, or its just a crack, you may be able to use this technique to seal the piece together from inside and leave only a fine hair line on show. Either way, probably a better plan than glueing.

Depending on how much you want to throw at the project, do note a brand new fairing can be had fully painted from Yamaha or Fowlers for £200 ish.

Only used them when I had a massive shard of glass in my tyre and the little rubber strands I carry were to thin/small to use. The RAC chap came out with what you had and plugged my tyre. However, are they actually a permanent fix? I was under impression to permanently fix a tyre you need to use a big mushroom type thing from the inside. As surely anything you push in from outside could potentially pop out too? (but do correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm no expert).

Yamaha did a couple of different engine bar variants for the FZS600. Pretty both are genuine and are for FZS600, just different styles. I think both came in black of chrome variations too.

Yep, definitely deja vu!

But I still don't know for sure what size I bought last bloody time!

Yep, I can get genuine ones from Fowlers/AJ Sutton, but at £1.40 each - pah! I'm sure I bought a bag of dozen generics for around £2 off ebay last time.

Yeah, maybe I should get some fancy coloured ones. The cheap plastic ones did fade pretty bad TBH.

What screen do you have? Standard or a double bubble one? And how tall are you?

Got a FZS600 / Thundercat rear wheel free to good home. Good nick, no dents, just a little paint wear from security chain use. Only caveat is, it's got my old brake disc stuck to it with a bunch of rounded bolt heads. Two came out ok, but four rounded. One I tried to drill out, but gave up before I got too close to threads in wheel. If anyone wants to come a pick it up and thinks they can make use of it, you're more than welcome to.

May or may not help, but I never used screws to hold on my fender extender, seemed a shame to go drilling holes in decent body work. I used a load of PU adhesive and some big clamps on it whilst it set. No problems with it coming loose over the last few years, even after binning it a few times!

Maybe I got lucky on my Fazer with my bolts though, didn't have any hassle with them coming off. Though one on Mary's CBF was seized and needed drilling out.

Need to patch up my FZS 600 (2003 Foxeye), anyone have any of the following:-


Front fairing bracket / stay (preferable not bent!): 5RT-28356-00
Right hand side small fairing bracket: 5RT-2836E-00
Headlight cluster (FZS600 '02-'03 or FZS1000 '01-'05 - same part number), but needs to be UK spec/light pattern: 5LV-84310-10
Foxeye fairing, in one piece, in Deep purplish blue metallic colour: 5RT-2835G-00-P0
Clocks. To swap rear and fuel gauge glass from, any age '98-'03.

Screwed up my poor Fazer again. Doing a track day over in Folembray, France and balls it all up on the last session pushing it too hard and ran out of skills. Video of action here:

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Too wide on one bend, kissed the grass and threw me all out of shape for next chicane. Was on grass when I should have been doing me braking, chap overtook my inside and going spot fast, whole combination just messed me up, bottled it and decided to just run off. But was going too fast to keep it up right on grass. Doh! Bike went down, I just went sliding and came to rest sat on my ass - thankfully no injuries.


Straightened forks, bodged front back together with duct tape and cable ties and rode bike home (though Autoroute at 80-90mph was hard work with no fairing or screen!). Fairing shattered into loads of pieces. Fairing bracket super bent and about to snap now we pushed it back. Light cluster in one piece but lost many mounting lugs. Clocks took a bash, fuel gauge no longer works. Mirrors and screen intact. Small scuff to tank and can. Crash bars protected engine, and Renthal look straight still.


Now I've a dilemma as what to do next, do I:

• Patch it up: combination of new fairing, bracket, possibly lights, clocks, plus whatever 2nd hand parts I can find. Reckon about £700-800.
• Street fighter it, big single light on front, faff about trying to mount clocks to yoke etc. Prob about £200-300 odd plus time and faff (I don't have fabrication skills or tools).
• Stick it on ebay and hope to get £400-500 spares and repairs, plus sell off choice bits separately. Then get another bike.

Bike is getting on a bit (2003 Foxeye), 52k on clock, definitely wasn't pristine and I need to replace it regardless by 2019 due to ULEZ in London (commute to centre daily). Bike has been serviced well, just put new rear disc and pads all round, Hagon shock, Hel lines etc. Even patched up with new parts I think I'd be lucky to get £1.5k for it. Insurance is due start of Sept, might be a good time to get new bike. Could scrape together a couple of grand and see what I can pick up (FZ6, Fazer8, FZ1, CBF600, CBF1000 or something along those lines)


What would you do?

FZS1000 rear caliper is a fairly straight forward swap. Just needs a tiny bit of mount filing away, not much, can be done by hand and very obvious to see what once you attach the caliper with one bolt and try to swing it into place. Definitely a preferable option, better quality caliper, bit stronger, but more robust and less prone to seizing.
Just need FZS1000 caliper and pads. Stick with FZS600 mounting bracket. Optionally pop on a Thunderace tension bar if you don't like the stock black FZS600 one. Consider picking up a Hel braided brake line for £20-30 (plenty of discount codes floating about), whilst you're there and bleeding stuff.

Some snaps here from when I fitted mine.
http://www.beginnerbiker.com/2014/06/fitted-fazer-1000-blue-spot-rear-brake-calipers/
But have a search on here, others have put up better pics in various threads on here.

Garage did have a quick attempt at bolt, but suggested the very same plan of another wheel when I rang them! Picked up a Thundercat wheel for £25, then just let local garage swap tyre, sprocket over and pop new bearings in. Let them fit my new Brembo disc (£80) with fresh Yammy bolts (£10 for set) too. Garage charged me £50 total for time. Wheel back on now, and can definitely feel the difference of fresh bearings! - either that or a week riding my wife's CBF500 has made me really appreciate the Fazer! Maybe my old ones were showing their age (14 years old and done 50K).

The key thing that has put me off PCP deals, is the often low mileage allowance. So, you're either stumped with excess mileage charges or end up negotiating a not so cheap monthly rate. I've been averaging close on 10k a year just from modest commuting and not even much touring...

Also, as a London commuter, I'm always going to pick up the odd scuff and scrape, is inevitable. All of which will bite you in the ass when 3 years is up and the dealer works out if the bike is really still worth the value it is supposed to. If not, again you'll be out of pocket.