So I've done the blurb before in the introduction but I bought a '99 FZS600 about 5ish months ago to use as a daily commuter. I'd ridden one before since me and a mate have a written off one we use as a track bike, they aren't that common here in Australia, but it was the right price. $2900 AUD on road with 6 months rego. So about 1500 GBP I think.
Had a few minor things go wrong with it, had a bad batch of fuel through it which made it run awfully and highlighted a few other problems with the carbs. Carbs still need to come out for a clean, set floats etc etc.
It has around 78,000 km or so on it so just under 50k miles?
Stripped the rear axle thread (didn't have much pressure on when i did it so i suspect it was already mostly stripped before i got to it!) the other day so just replaced the rear axle and nut last night. While it was just sitting in the shed before xmas I mocked up a few things on it, which moves us on to mods.
There were two ways I'd like to go with this bike, one is just to make it a sort of slightly tougher looking street bike with a slightly more aggressive stance, the other is to make it a faired cafe racer bike. The cafe option i've thought about alot and planned out and yeah....it's my preferred option, but i can always do that later as a re-incarnation of the bike.
So on a whim i bought a street/speed triple headlight on ebay cheap and off i go from there.
Existing mods:
Yoshimura TRS slip on
K&N air filter
Aftermarket bars
Planned mods:
Shorty the TRS
Ditch the fairing (i only go through one speed zone over 80 on the way to work, the rest is 60, and i don't find the fazer fairing does a whole heap of protecting anyways). Put on triumph headlight
Aftermarket levers because they're pretty, no other reason.
Bar end mirrors, cos i'm ditching the fairing.
Repaint tail section to make it look slimmer (don't want to actually change the tail cos it's quite practical for storing things and my girlfriend goes on the back of the bike too and it's good the way it is).
Radiator covers, to cover up what the fairing leaves exposed once it's off...also a place to mount my indicators once the fairing is gone.
LED slim indicators.
Tail tidy (got a spare stock undertail to chop up)
Short and vertical bar risers, got some from a Yamaha TTR that will fit with the fairing ditched.
Pod filters on the carbs, just cos really haha. Will be fun to muck about with.
Replace 9mm sprocket nut when the chain is up for renewal, and just general wear and tear stuff too. I've got a set of needles and seats for the carbs, NGK plug ends, that kind of stuff just sitting around for whenever i get around to putting them on.
So i took the fairing off the other day and mocked up the triumph headlight using some tape. I've decided to mount the light around 30mm further back and 30mm further down than it's shown in the pictures here. The dash mounts will come down 30mm. I'll make a cover piece that's V shaped to cover the exposed rear of the dash and to fill in the space between the triumph headlights.
The triumph headlights will mount via fatbar riser that i bought. I have a spare FZS headlight bracket to cut up and weld and etc to make this all work with minimum effort.
I also mocked up the tail section with black duct tape to see how i could make it look, slight variations below.
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Not sure about the side covers, did some quite microsoft paint mock ups just to get a feel but i've not hit on anything just yet.
Anyways that'll do for now, but you get the idea of where I'm heading with this. Nice solid streetbike that looks a bit different from most. Sadly most people will probably just think it's another street triple with that headlight on it but i can always change that later.