Hi...arranging a bimble around Herts and Essex , a route Tim often rode with us from The Silver ball cafe SG8 8BD to FInchingfield then High Beech, all welcome. Meet at Silverball  10am leave about 11.00.

Have sold my Fazer 1000    and bought a KTM RC8R    , so it's good bye from me


Thanks to all who've helped/hindered me during my time as a Foccer.


My 2008 Fazer 1000 now for sale at Mounters KTM in Pontypridd for £3795 - a bargain for someone. (Akra pipe, Nitron shock, Rossi paint) Hoping it goes to a good home!


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FZ-1-20...233704e38f




Good luck all


Ride safe

Anyone got a decent set of crash bungs for a gen 1 thou?

I want to take my cam end caps off to tidy them up.
do they have gaskets or  anything behind them that I will need to replace when I re fit them?

im bored, its raining and I have to mow the moss...but  I cant as its wet..if I stay indoors, er indoors will find me something to do.
so my plan is to hide in the garage.. :lol

Bagster tank cover for 600 boxeye. Had it ages but never really used it so might as well go.
Just laid on tank in pics, it does pull tight with straps around frame rails and headstock.
£40 anyone? I'm in Leeds and would prefer collection/delivery rather than faff with postage.
Good condition, just a little smudge of black paint from somewhere, on the part that's covered by the seat.

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Hi Guys,


Just joined the forum. Have been riding bikes for 15 years now and owned the following Yamaha XJ600, Yamaha FJR, Honda CBR 600f and Triumph Street Triple R which I sold 2 years ago.... Did a couple of trips across Europe - Croatia twice one for my honeymoon, Germany, Czech Republic.


Now looking to get back to riding as last year I spent renting bikes for weekends and missed riding more badly. Fazer 1000 was a bike I tested a number of years back and this memory never faded....  Of the bikes I owned none was so versatile in terms of relaxed comfortable position (the reason I sold CBR 600f), nimble and light (FJR went) and decent fairing (Triumph was best handler of all but hard to live with on a motorway despite small fairing it had)


Looking for a nice low mileage example of Fazer 1000. I am based in Dublin but will happily travel for the right bike. That would be a great trip back home!


Best Regards to all
Paul

Two Fella's at work Bill and Bert


Bill the self professed mechanic does a full service on Berts car for him (for a price of course)
Bert pays and a couple of days later the car is judderry so Bill takes it back has a tinker hands back
Car's fine, well for a couple of days and again it starts juddering.
So this goes on a couple of more times until Bill tells Bert his car needs a re-bore and new rings.


Bert later tells me of this  and I the 'amateur'  (would work on others cars for no charge just out of kindness, so obviously not to be trusted)  mechanic  suggest bringing in my compression tester and test it as the diagnoses seemed a bit harsh for a car that was running ok before the service.


I duly brought in the tester but when it came to it Bert declines to have me test it so not offended I suggest he go to a garage for advise on what they think the problem might be before handing the car to Bill  (garages round my way at the time were happy to give free advise)


Surprise surprise Bert ignores my suggestion and Bill does the rebore and ring change for a few hundred £ and returns the car to Bill.


Car running smooth, for a few days and then starts juddering so now Bert takes his car to the ford dealers who check it out and come back with it has the wrong spark plugs fitted.


What!!! no no It's had a rebore I was told it needed a rebore and rings says Bert.
Well say ford mechanic it may have needed it I can't say but it has the wrong plugs
so bert has new plugs fitted car run fine for ages.......


How I silently laughed



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Ok, I've not seen this pop up on here before so may be a new issue for older  Gen 1 Fazer |Thous.
The exhaust collars on pots 2 and 3 on my bike are in what can only be described as shit state. Pots 1 and 4 are fine, look almost new, but the middle two are in such a bad way that harsh language would probably make them  crumble away to dust. Other than that the rest of the downpipe area is fine, exup valve free of stickiness, downpipes nice and shiney etc.
But, as the collars are designed so that they just don't come off, has anyone seen, or have a solution to replacing totally goosed ones without forking out for a new set of downpipes, whole exhaust system blah blah.
I have visions of crappy exhaust sealing and that irritating ticitty ticcitty ticitty tick noise when the poor old things become too weak to do their job properly.
Suggestions/ advice please.

Well, after much deliberation I decided to buy a Remus Extra Short Powercone ( Satin black with polished End Cap.)

I mentioned this at my local Yam dealers whilst booking my bike in to have a new rear tyre fitted. (12/3/14) - Only just noticed that it was a Spooky date!! :eek

"Can we quote you for a price Mr Drax? From our supplier (Calsport) we can get it for £412-00(inc delivery)." I can get it from MotorSportsWorld for £404-00 (delivered)"

"No problem Mr Drax we'll knock it off the fitting charge"

At this point I must state that I'm having them both fitted at the dealers as:

1) I'm not going to even entertain changing a tyre myself

2) I trust this(my local) dealer to do a good job of fitting everything as they prepare Kevin Sanders bikes for his epic journeys ( I know mine won't get the same attention but....read on...)

Anyway for some reason there was going to be a delay in the delivery of the Remus exhaust (approx 3 weeks as the supplier is waiting for some parts to be delivered?)

No problem as I wasn't planning to get my bike out of storage until about now anyway.

Receive a call on Thu (03/04/14) - not too spooky - saying that Remus no longer manufacture this can.....Aaaaaarrrgggggghhhh!!!!!!! :wall

To make a long story longer:

I entered the interweb & decided to purchase a Mivv GP Carbon from BR special Tuning. (After a couple of recommendations on here) Ordered it on Thursday & it arrived on Friday morning.

The icing on the cake is that after waiting 3 weeks to be told it is discontinued - I can't book my bike in until 14/04/14 - Fairly Spooky!!

Go somewhere else I hear you say!! Bit difficult when I put down a £300-00 deposit for my (discontinued) Remus exahust. :o

Will upload pics as soon as everything is fitted.

If you're still reading this......Thanks for persevering! :thumbup

I need say no more, other than a massive thank you to Russ at Bolton Motorcycle Workshop. 

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