Photobucket P500 message. Grrrr! 😡

After a fork seal change on mine only for it to start leaking again whilst on our annual touring holiday I stripped the forks and ended up replacing the bushes although they didn't seem too bad. This was a couple of years ago and 6000 miles approximately with no trouble since.
Also worth a mention is that the recommended oil from Yamaha (yamalube fork oil) has a very low viscosity. The only oil I found that comes close from studying actual measured viscosity is Castrol 10w mineral fork oil.
I'm now totally happy with my standard front end and I'm convinced that many of the gripes will be from owners who have unwittingly filled their forks with oil that is simply too thick, often with the preload wound right in as well.

Tyres are just scrubbed in pilot road 3's. Think I'll reduce the fork drop to 5mm and see if that works. It only happens at around 120mph upwards so isn't a major problem. Well, not for me anyway!

Have you tried holding the tensioner blade against the chain with your finger through the tensioner hole whilst manually turning the motor? If you have any tight spots on the cam  chain the blade will move back and forth excessively which might explain two broken springs. The manual tensioner could be exerting a lot of stress on the valve train components if this is the case.

So I hear. Don't want anything too loud though (had enough of that with the Buell!) and I leave for work at 5:30am.
Will definately look into a pair of dogbones though.
Is the standard can really that restrictive?

To be fair I don't find the handling lacking (especially now) but having experienced such an improvement by sorting the rear I just wonder if sorting the front would give an equal improvement. Better fueling would be nice too, the extra horses just a bonus really.
 

 

Hi all. First post so please be gentle eh?
 
Been a lurker on and off for years on here and decided it was about bloody time I joined! I used to be a regular on the ukbeg Buell forum but I used to run a fist gen Fazer 600 as a workhorse along side a Buell M2.
 
Anyway, I've been running a gen1 Fazer 1000 for around 3 years now (had a bad crash on the Buell 2009) as my only bike and despite 53000 on the clock it's in superb well maintained nick.
 
I recently decided to do something about the (well past it's best) shock. After quotes of up to £250 to re-spring/re-valve the original I went the Nitron route with one of their "Sport" shocks. The difference is absolutely amazing! Despite feeling more compliant and less harsh the bike corners like it's on rails while swallowing mid corner bumps. Not cheap though at just shy of £400 with delivery, especially on a £2000 bike! Good job I don't EVER plan to sell it. Shame about the turquoise spring!
 
I'm skint now but when funds allow I plan to Ivanise it and look at the front forks, although I've always found them "adequate".
 
Anybody suggest which I should do first?