The PO put two different brands of tyres on my 03 fazer 1000. The front has a pirelli diablo, the back a michelin pilot road II.
I don't like the idea of two different tyre brands at all, so one will have to go, but which one?

My riding is strictly pleasure, never longer than a day and about 3000 miles each year (i have small children that take up my time). I don't do track days, never two up and rarely have luggage with me. The exception would be when i take it for my monthly trip to our headquarters in germany instead of my car, a trip that includes the nurburgring in the morning...

I like a brisk pace and i do think tyres are crucial in that, so the pirelli's i would consider, but i'm confused as towhat tyre is now the equivalent of the diablo? There is no other name attached, no corsa, strada or anything. Am i right in assuming the diablo rosso is the successor to this?

Or would the pirelli be too much for a sunday rider like myself, and i should stick to the michelin? Mileage is clearly not an issue...

Some more info on me: i had a kawa zr7s before, loved the bike, hated the BT21s on that. Then i had a BMW R1100 gs, didn't like the bike, but the metzeler tourances gave me all the grip i needed. But of course that is a 80 bhp bike, the kawa was 75 bhp, the fazer is a different beast :-)

Now the whole "which tyre, what pressure" thing has been done to death, so this is not what this thread is about, thank god.

I have a relatively fast leak on the rear tyre (a day ride out will easily see it drop from 40psi to below 10). I can't see any evidence of a puncture and I haven't time to fully investigate it further at the moment. But I don't recall hearing any hissing etc. It was suggested that maybe the valve was the issue.

Now the real question is, is it actually possible to replace the valve yourself?

Cash waiting for the above,

Cheers

Lets try this in here.

Anybody any comments on this ? should there be a bracket bolted here for holding the right hand side of the centre stand see clouded area in picture if so has anybody got one laying around or have the dimensions so I can fabricate one up.

Cheers Dunky.............

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set of gytr bar risers for sale.  i have just bought these off Nev here on the site, sadly they are not going to do it for me, i bougtht them for the look rather than for lowering the bar height and dont like the riding position! they are in excellent order and they are for sale the same price i paid for them £50 posted.

anyone had any problems with them?


I have a new lid (blue, of course) that came fitted with a pinlock insert at the shop, I watched her stick it in (oo er)


Now wearing the lid it's like looking through a load of distortion. Is this normal?

Well we've been on this board for nearly 2½ years so it's well overdue that we should be using a colour scheme that isn't the default out of the box. So Aegis has blued his frankenfazer and here we go - what do you think?

(p.s. the corners on the front page are wrong and I'll figure out why in a couple of weeks, but I didn't want to stop the change because of that)

(pps if you really hate it you can change back on the front page - the old one was 'Curve')

Hi all,
Myself and 2 mates (laverda ghost strike and an ER6) are thinking of going to Wales on the bikes over Easter for a couple of nights as I'm back from uni, only had my fazer since Christmas time so it's my first trip further than 20/30 miles, were in Oxfordshire so it would be South Wales, does anyone have any recommendations of where to go/ stay?
Cheers


Will

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Hi all,

A long shot, and probably a hated question by many, but if anyone happens to have for sale or know of one for sale then I am looking for a blue dot rear caliper from an fzs 1000, 01 to 05 I believe. Yes it is for my 600  :rolleyes

Thanks all