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Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner / Re: started the big clean
« on: 29 December 2012, 10:03:38 pm »
So thats what they are supposed to look like
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I am 59 and cant wait for the better weather to get back on the Welsh roads- best roads in the countryNever been to Scotland then? All roads are good when the suns shining, you are in the zone and your on a fazer..
Heres a one for you and I bet I am not the only one who does it. Many years ago, and not sure how it came about, I started spinning the rear wheel in the wet. Started by simply over accelerating in a straightline, in no time at all you become a bit more confident and find yourself doing it coming out of slight bends. It looks good and I have being doing it, when in the mood, for years without incident.Lingy with you there I did years and years of enduros, I never purposly slide the fazer but when it does I just let it without a lack of alarm - so those of you not willing to try sliding get on an off road day, huge fun and helpful real world too.
But being serious my main point is when it matters and your tyres do let go you automatically react with the appropriate throttle responce, and panic a whole lot less if at all , this is as I believe down to messing about in the wet and you instinctivley react due to previous practice. have experianced this a few times and never even felt as though i was going to come off.
Watch em close mate I had Z5's ace tyres then one day they wernt, no degredation and plenty of tread left just went right off no grip. On 023's now but only git 200miles on em so cant wax lyrical about them yet..
Not noticed the same after having a 023 fitted on the front, used to have an 021 on.
I've just completed my first week on Metzeler Z8s and I like them a lot. For once the advertising blurb is fairly accurate and yes they have much less bump steer and roll over white lines and mastic banding as if it isn't there, utterly perfect for filtering between lanes on the commute. Rain performance and especially 'damp' performance is outstanding, I found myself riding at 'dry' pace in the wet more than once before calming meself down a bit and going slower, but I'm not surprised these tyres were a massive 3 seconds quicker per lap than other ST tyres in the MCN test. The feel of these tyres is really really good, like you can feel every bit of gravel and undulation of the tarmac but they give a 'comfy' ride, nice and stable with neutral steering and what I'd call medium roll in to corners (about the same as PR2s, certainly not as rapier like as the Road Attack2 front). The blurb says the construction of the tyres is a new technology using different tensions in the belts to distribute heat, I don't know how that works but the tyres feel very different to any other I've used.
It's easy to favour and prefer a new tyre coming off a worn pair of some other make but on balance I do like the Z8s over my PR2s -for a winter tyre at least.
I'm doing 400 miles a week on these, I'll report back on wear rate at a later date.
The valve in the headers is to cut down noise and nothing else.I Think the gen2 exup valve is also only to cut down the noise levels...