Quote from: Cellarman on 01 January 2016, 11:52:45 am

French/Swiss Alps via Germany on the B500 camp in Chamonix 3/4 days then return through France mid June
room for two more if anyone is interested in tagging along

Seriously interested in this fella. Similar age so if it's ok, please keep me in mind 

No problem, where are you based? we are in Lincolnshire will be going through Dover via Calais/Dunkirk
Forgot to add this will be a 10/11 day tour using a mixture of cheap hotels & camping

New (Iridium) plugs now fitted, went for iridium as they were only a fiver more than standard
AIS also removed, it was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, I was a bit concerned about tapping the exhaust stubs but it turned out to be a piece of piss, use a good quality tap & take your time it's easy.
Anyway happy new year foccers

Doing mine shortly, I got all the parts needed from ebay for about a fiver, just make sure you get a tapered tap

Car driver was a complete cock, lorry driver no better imho

+1 for Tony Archer, he did a Corbin rep for my Vfr with a gel insert, much more comfortable than the original.
Tony is a very nice bloke & I am sure he would be able & willing to help you out
I will be visiting him very soon (next to Huddersfield football ground) to do his magic on my Fazer seat
No connection other than a happy customer

Sold to the Donkey 

For sale a set of Chinese levers (brake & clutch) in blue for a gen1, I bought them for my bike but the colour is a bit to light for my liking, hardly used
£5.00 +p&p at cost

PS they are the long ones

funny as foc that

Get a good quality M8 x 1.25 tapered HSS tap and 4 x M8 x 10mm socket head bolts for the exhaust stubs.  You'll also need a plastic bottle cap or bung to go over the AIS hose stub on the airbox and a rubber cap for  intake stub on #4 cylinder.  You can get all this for under £15 and save a bundle on Ivan's kit for this job.

Cheers Falcon, I think I will go the diy route as I have some stainless socket heads and the hss tap needed just the rubber bungs to source but I will worry about that once I have it all apart
Many thanks Tim

Just found this, is it an easy job to do? I'm pretty good with a spanner
https://www.sgmotorsport.biz/product/yamaha-fz1-fazer1000-ivans-air-induction-removal-kit-2001-2015/

Apologies if this has been asked before, one of my winter jobs is to change my plugs, question is, is there any benefit of fitting iridium spark plugs or will standard plugs be sufficient?

05 gen1 1000
Cheers Tim

Just saw this     http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-Fazer-1000-Seat-01-05-/291611077480?hash=item43e55feb68:g:RSIAAOSwwbdWPhtV

Thanks for the heads up