As per the title, have a good one, spend time with friends and family everyone

Selling fzs 1000 sintered doubl h rear brake pads on fleabay. Half price £13.99 + postage

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/146994649431

Until midnight on the 26th December 2025, i am offering the following Christmas discounts!!

20% off all my Carburettor rebuild kits available to buy through my online store (complete sets only which include gaskets, o'rings, seats & float valves). 

20% off Air cut off valves when purchased as a set of 4.

15% off the cost of my refurbishment service (return postage not included in this offer as carburettors are returned via Royal Mail special recorded delivery +£19.50). 

10% off DNA performance airfilters, Inlet rubbers & Ivans 'Full-Monty' MB jet kits!!! 

Terms of the offer:

Complete carburettor rebuild kits (600&1000) & Ivans Performance Full-Monty kits (for the fzs1000) must be purchased before the end of the promotional offer to claim your refurbishment discount and discussed with prior to purchase to make the necessary arrangements). Carburettors must be with me before the 31st January 2026.

I will only refurbish carburettors using the rebuild kits purchased from me.

UK mainland Postage included in the price for mainland UK buyers only.

Message me direct before the end of the promotional period, and i will invoice you for the items requested. Payments can be made via bank transfer, debit & credit cards.

Limited stock so when its gone, its gone!!!

Merry Christmas foc'ers!!!

https://pay.tide.co/catalogues/richard-mar-JQzQUCma

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Well, after a hiatus of 18 years, I've got back into owning a Fazer.
Previously I was in Belfast and had a silver 02 fzs, hence the handle Silverstreak.
I had to sell the bikes to fund my emigration to Australia. One thing led to another and I never got around to buying a bike over here.
Well. My son has just got himself a XJ6N to learn on so I too have decided to join in.
I just spaffed $3600 dollarydoos on this tidy 07 FZ6S with 120k kms on the clock.

Looking forward to having some fun and exploring this great country.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas

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Hi!

Can I use the clutch (outer basket, inner basket, springs, bearings) from a 2002 FZS on my 1998 bike? I noticed that the springs on the '98 model are smaller than the ones on the 2002 model and by some info that I found here Yamaha changed those springs but thats all they changed? 

The metal clutch plates have a specific orientation to go in?  I noticed that one of the sides has sharper edges.

My 98 model rattles a lot and mabybe this 2002 set helps reducing that issue.

Anyone tried powering the headlight bulbs with a 12v charger to enable alignment without engine running?

Hi everyone I’ve had intermittent issues with my fueling system which was caused by gunk built up in the filter and then a pump that was fitted by a previous owner. After last weeks rain my bike was running very poorly if at all and would need a lot of choke to start and would stall if I even thought about taking it off. I went through the whole ignition system trimming back the ht leads and putting some dielectric grease around the plug caps and some general checks but everything seemed okay. The bikes running mostly fine now but feels lumpy pulling sometimes in higher speeds and there’s a few things I have planned for maintenance but I was just wondering if you should be able to hear the fuel pump prime a lot every time you turn the bike on. Sometimes if the bikes been primed recently it will click maybe once or twice which makes sense as it holds the pressure but occasionally and more recently no matter how many times I turn the bike on and off it doesn’t stay primed and each time it clicks fast for maybe 5-6 seconds and then suddenly stops.
Any information is appreciated thanks

Hi all,

My Box Eye had been laid up for a while and I have now replaced the battery.  She starts and runs fine but carb #3 is leaking slowly through the overflow while running.  I have a fair bit of experience with 40+ year old 2-strokes with carbs and assume the same float valve issues exist on the 4-stroke carb based Fazers too.

Any tips on what to look for and replace when I take a look over the Christmas holidays?  I’m assuming the float valve and float bowl gasket as a minimum.  Would you do all 4?

All the best

Geoff

I was meandering YouTube and came across a video discussing floating discs and how to free them up with a torx driver, brake fluid and a twiddle.
In the 20 odd years I've had the bike, I've never done this. I had a quick look at the bike - too cold to give it more than a cursory look - I couldn't detect any movement.
Not wishing to fix something that's not broken I thought I'd ask the group.

Is this part of your normal maintenance and should you be able to detect any movement?