Am the proud owner of two "03" plate Foxeye 600s: Baby Blue came along in April followed by Rhondda Red in June when I swapped my FZS Thou Big Red,due to advancing age & diminishing stamina.
Now the blue one was a one previous owner bike showing 34000miles. Unfortunately it must have been ridden all year round with no attempt to clean/protect front of engine from road spray/salt etc. Have done all the jobs in the service/maintenance schedule then discovered collector box was corroded to the extent where it wouldn't pass another MOT next April. Decided to take the Bull by the Horns and purchased a set of stainless downpipes/collector box direct from Motad local to me in Walsall @ cost of £145 collected. Removed radiator to discover it was held together more by luck than metal & fan was "f****d. Never mind-sourced new rad on ebay & good second hand fan motor assy from D&K. Also collector box outlet  to silencer gasket-also ebay.
Spent ages chiselling off remains of 6 exhaust header nuts to avoid damaging/breaking studs. (the end two were intact & undid). My local friendly engineer made up 8 beautiful nuts in brass. Yesterday put everything back together BUT when doing the final tightening managed to snap one stud!!!! :'( . Was so pissed off I didnt even swear but decided to sleep on it.. Am going to attempt to drill out the remains without removing cylinder head-its the nearside(LHS) one on number 3 cylinder. Anyone done this successfully?
On a brighter note have made the most of the wonderful summer weather on Rhondda Red  with trips to my beloved Wales & a great ride to Silverstone last Sunday-what a brilliant day that was with some great roads there & back.

Cant see another thread for it, but is anyone going today or tomorrow?

94k up today, reckon the 100k miles will be next jan or feb.

Are any of you going to the ace cafe tomorrow evening?
Anyone fancy meeting up at the ace cafe tomorrow evening
and anyone from gravesend area fancy showing me the way 

I have the above for sale, had it a while but not used very often, there is a slight crack on the control unit which has been sealed and still all works great. If i am honest if you position the speakers just right the voice quality is very good, surprised me just how clear it was. It has all the parts you see in the pic and also a brand new stick on mount (not pictured), also has the lead to connect an MP3 player or similar, connect via bluetooth to sat nav phone etc. Sensible offers please!


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Hi all , Ive managed to free some £ up and as i do a lot of motorway riding and get bloody cold hands , Gonna invest in some heated gloves . Really want a decent pair with minimal wiring or none at all ( cant be assed with wires everywhere , wont use bloody things then).
Has anyone got any advise from using heated gloves or know of decent makes ?

Just finished repainting my fork legs ( black ) and renewed the fork oil ( 15w ) and fork seals, all went together no problem and rides great, but a question for the more experienced FZS' ers. After close examination when all stripped bare on the bench, it appeared to me that there will always be some trapped air immediately under the fork seals, and the only time they will get " wet " is by the fork oil slashing up on a bouncy road or when they actually start leaking. Have I missed someing obvious ??

I was at Tesco earlier, and a noticed a familiar looking bike outside. A blue Fazer Thou (with some unusual mods). Looking at it, I thought the engine looked a bit different, so when the rider appeared (and after I told him about FOC-U), he told me he'd fitted an R1 engine into the Thou (not the detuned jobbie you chaps have - from a bona fide R1)!

Anyone else done this? Apart from some corrosion on the block, it looked pretty neat!

ok so had a nice man break my engine apart not put the gearbox in I asked for and when put it he put it back together the cams or something is screwed where in Bristol can I drop my bike off two and know that when there finished It will not have to worry about it and just start riding it gently in .... also how much do you think it would cost to rebuild the cams valves pistons everything front of the gear box basicly....  I just spent a thousand 600 for him 400 on bike please help..............

Filling up at the pump last night when a fellow fazer owner going to pay made a purposeful nod my way. I thought about shouting Foc u to him, but I didn't.  Not sure he'd have understood