Looking for opinions. Now I know it's hard to gather full events and distances and things, so I'll try and explain as the picture isn't to scale.
The left hand lane is for going straight on. It's where I wanted to be. The right hand lane is for turning right only. The lights are on green and traffic is moving along at about 10mph in the traffic light queue.
I decide to use the 'turn right' lane to filter, and start looking for my gap. I notice a gap in front of a van up towards the lights and think "that'll do nicely" and accelerate a tadge to make sure I can catch it. By the time I get there, the van is maybe 30 yards from the lights. I've drawn a car in front of him to show flow of traffic, however, the car in essence was much farther cleared of the lights (it was a good gap I thought, hence why I took it) which I thought I could accelerate in to if needed.
As you can see in the drawing, there is one car waiting to turn right that is stationary at the lights. I nip in, the distance between the car turning right and the van going straight on is probably about 20 yards now, but I nip in probably about 5 yards gap between myself and the van and continue to accelerate away, so pretty sure the van didn't have to slow for me or anything like that.
Now I'm about 50 yards in front of the van but I notice flashing in my mirrors, so look over my shoulder to see his arms waving in anger. Slow down, to ask him what all the fuss was about, but all I heard was the wind.
I think I'm a pretty sensible filterer, but this guy has got my back up this morning - so much that I then accelerated in a mild rage of my own and overtook a few cars.
So, that move - was it a dickish move giving us bikers a bad name, or would you have filtered in a similar manner?
Well I couldn't justify 2 Foxeye Fazers so the blue job has gone to a very nice man over towards Clee Hill/Ludlow way. I spent more on her than I intended in my brief (6 months) ownership & only did 1000 miles. However "Rhondda Red" has been all over the place this summer-twice into Wales-Brecons, Carmarthen way and back via Beulah, Landrindod Wells, Also to Lake Vrynwy (July heatwave) and Silverstone. Will be riding as late into autumn as weather allows then it will be time for the winter service regime in a nice warm kitchen. :lol Don't like the sound of this weeks forecast much but then they don't always get it right do they? :rolleyes
Due to buying a fazer thou my 600 is up for sale.
FZS600 gen1,
1998,
black,
just coming up to 20,000 miles,
tax and test till end of september 2014,
K&N air filter,
stainless downpipes, (sandy bike spares jobs)
stainless delkevic can and link pipe (also have original yam can),
tyres nearly new michelin pilots,
belly pan and hugger,
2nd headlight mod done.
Has had minor spill judging by scratches on RH end casing but runs and rides lovely.
£1250 or very near offer
Can be viewed in St.Neots, Cambs.
dave.flint "at" ntlworld.com (replace "at" with @ obviously)
07754878834
firstly, to say hi and sorry for the newbie post. I'm very interested in getting an FZS1000 and seen a nice one with relatively low miles (12k). It has the 7k tacho error which I know is the exup valve not working properly. Is it worth the risk buying it or am I asking for trouble? I know that replacing the exup can be prohibitively expensive if it is knadgered. Is there a way to tell if is it ok without taking the bike apart on his drive! Not ridden much, this would be my first big bike so doubt I could tell anything is wrong if riding it with a duff exup! Many thanks!
Little help here guys please.
I am looking for a bluetooth intercom system for rider/pillion and rider/rider comms. Are any of you using these? If so which are you finding best and more importantly which ones should I avoid?
Thanks, Neil
i moan about this gen one v gen 2 business more than anyone, its one off them eternal arguments that nobody can win. ive owned both, they are both blinding bikes. when i first got my gen 2 i bitched about it being expensive to tune. but you know what? i was wrong..
its cheaper.
therefore, better.
my thinking is this. you get a gen one, you wanna make it handle, you gotta fork out (ho ho)for an r1 front end an a r6 rear shock. pay extra to do thefront properly or you will upset the geometry. then you want it to go, so you get a can and get it ivanised. how much is that, done properly? £250ish? if your lucky your heavy old bike is now making 135 brake. and if you wanna sell you gotta leave your now expensive carbs onnit and either sell it with the suspendy bits on when most people are too daft to reralise how good a bike it is, or take the bits off with all the pissing about that involves.so you end up keeping it and spend your weekends fettling rusty old exup valves or dodgy camchain tensioners etc..
ho bloody hum..
or, you buy a gen 2. it already has an r1 front end, factory fitted. it already has a decent shock. nothing to spend on handling. how much has that saved? you wanna tune it?airbox mod is free. as is whipping the secondaries out, disabling the o2 sensor and drilling out the cat. you buy a secondhand carbon can and pc3, plentily available, (mine was £102 and £130 repectively), and suddenly your lightweight beastie is knocking on for 150 bhp and more fun than any bike youve had for years. no buggering about with exhaust valves, that went with the ugly oe can. and if you do decide to sell it(youd havta be mad, mines going nowhere), you sell the pc3 and can for what you paid for it and bike is back to stock in..ooooh..seconds..
so thats it. no discussion or argument to be had, the gen two rules supreme. now that thats out of the way, did you all have a good weekend? i had a belter, this weather is peachy for late summer/early autumn biking innit
I was just on the beeb weather site planning which of my two days off is best to go for a run. Tuesday or Wednesday. So I have a look at my usual places en route to check the general weather and found this -
Heavy snow shower and minus conditions on Wednesday :'( . Its 17 and sunny in Glasgow today. How can this be, Tyndrum is only an hour up the road. You foccers south of the boarder have no idea what we have to endure up here, so enjoy it .[size=78%] [/size]
Looks like I'll have to dig out the winter clobber then.
