Put an aftermarket end can on and a k&n air filter, cost about £250 depending on which can you pick, this will get rid of the exup valve and the cat in the original end can. There is another cat in the headers but I personally would not remove that without something on the bike to remap , likewise with the airbox mod.
Those are the mods I have done so far plus I fitted a 2nd hand Juice Box Pro off ebay, very similiar to  a Power Commander but you cannot add things to it like quickshifter etc, but you can use PC maps in it .So far I have spent £320 and whilst power gains are probably minimal the bike runs so much smoother and pickup at lower revs is vastly improved so I am pretty happy.

And the best road in the Yorkshire Dales so far is...

B6479/B6255 from Settle to Hawes, via Horton on Ribblesdale - wow, just wow 

Just got back from that one, and on this beautiful summer evening it was completely empty   

One of my favourites,when i have only a couple hours to play that is my go to road.

Should be ok, I use a similiar pump from my cars cig lighter and it blows up a double air bed in minutes. It takes longer to deflate it and roll it back up!

I have got something similiar to that, called back to black. Bought it ages ago and gives black plastics a nice sheen.

Beware the lean burn more air in with same fuelling = lean burn

I thought they were a direct replacement and were ok to use without adjusting  anything?

I could not believe the difference it has made. The old filter was in a right state,it must have been in the bike from new 7 years ago!
The bike accelerates a lot better and the induction noise just brings out my inner hooligan, 95 miles later I am pulling back into my drive with a big grin on my face.


I also managed to make the ABS trip in, totally my fault getting a little bit carried away and forgetting how tight one of the bends on one of my favourite routes is, and what a weird feeling it is, the lever pulsing slightly and a slightly remote feeling from the front.

 my home seems like a since from the film  mouse hunt at times !

Hope your house doesn`t end up like the one in the filmed end up.
If you have a multimeter you can check your charging etc, or borrow one from a mate.

the ECU from 2010 models are much better.my 08 was snatchy but all gone on the 2010.

This may be a dumbass question but is it possible to retrofit an ecu from a later model such as a 2010 to a 2006/2007 to cure the the snatch, or are the ecu so expensive that it is cheaper to use the fce and a power commander? And when I say retrofit I mean just plug and play.

I have one of those cheap chili tech cameras on my fazer that has worked ok for about a year and now I am having a strange problem with. If I import the videos to my laptop some of the videos play perfectly using windows media player but some videos will not play at all and I get the message that the format is not recognised. I have tried using the HP videosmart program supplied with my laptop but I just get the same message.
Anyone know how to get round this? ( bearing in mind my computer skills are getting pushed to the limit just importing videos).

Quote from: midden on 02 July 2014, 10:05:05 am

Nicely put BBB. We do pay a door entry fee its just shop are sneeky and hide it in the price of goods.
To be fair though, supermarkets don't charge me for nappies even though I don't have kids.

I have my own small company and add margins to all products and services. Companies unfortunately have costs and overheads to pay to distributors, salaries, electricity, rent, rates, gas, phone bills, car costs, petrol, furniture, stationary, IT equipment etc even the general upkeep of doors....the list goes on....and even the effin taxman takes 20% of the profit....all of which have to be paid for out of these profits.....so all goods and services have a "cost of sale".....If I buy something at £100 and sell it for £120 the gross margin is £20, the net margin may only £5 or in many cases even less.

We are not being sneaky by hiding what has to be paid in the background, or have to justify it either. It is up to the customer to decide "is this value for money", if not they buy it else where or not at all......it is entirely their choice, that's why I gat a bit annoyed by people who moan about the price they have paid....after all you have entered into a contract, business or consumer agreement when you hand your cash over.....and that was your sole decision to do so.

Have you looked at the stats of companies that go out of businesses each year.....hundreds if not thousands of them....with a high percentage of them with unpaid bills or not delivered goods that customers have paid for.....then I would have the right to moan about a non existing handling charge.

We are a nation of shopkeepers anyway.

What you say is quite true but do you advertise your goods or services at a certain price then when people wish to buy them tell them there is an additional cost to pay which is not included in the price? The so called handling charges are tacked on at the very end of the transaction when they should be shown clearly at the beginning, this is why so many people get annoyed about them.

It is a foccin con,my wife bought 3 tickets for the Leeds Arena and was charged £7 handling and delivery for each ticket. She had printed the tickets off at home.! If the tickets have to have a " handling charge" this should reflect what the charge is for and not what they think they can get away with.

I think the PC5 is correct but for later versions of the FZ1s ,,early ones use the PC3 as i understand...

That does seem to be true so I will sell the pc5, I have wasted enough time trying to find a 2nd hand unit to fit so I will do what I should have done in the first place and buy a brand new power commander! That will teach me to try and save money.