Looks like Visor Down are doing a decent co-buy on some toasty Alpinestars winter goretex gloves. Looks set to be a pretty good deal if enough people join the co-buy. £80 down from £120 odd. Come on people, join the co-buy, I want to pay rock bottom prices and not freeze me fingers off this winter!


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a little while back I asked for sponsors as I was running the Liverpool marathon. I done it on Sunday in 6 hrs 19 mins carrying a 55lb bergen, it was hard as Foc. Would I recommend doing one............yes and no
yes....great cameraderie especially when it gets tough, very humbling seeing all the different charities it really gets you thinking, the outcome for your charity
No..........PAIN (ha ha) the training needed is awesome and time consuming, you need to commit
a few on the site backed me so a big thanks, if you would like to give a bit then you can do it here and read all about it
cheers
www.justgiving.com/John-McBrion

Skidmarks hugger for Gen 1 for sale.
One month old, in glossy black. Like new.
Has fitting kit, no marks or scratches.
£40 + p.p.
MRA double bubble screen, three months old.
No marks or scratches.
£30 + p.p.

Or collect from Norwich

Don't need them anymore as the Fazer has been sold

pm me or email

violetsdaddy at hotmail dot co dot uk

Cheapest is over a £100  :eek  and the o2 site has warnings about how high the cheap seats are and not to book them if you are afraid of heights  :eek

Always wanted to see them so thought I'd have a look on the o2 site this morning for tickets but the site must be rammed as it's full of server errors so spending 3 or 4 hundred on a couple of tickets isn't a problem for loads of people!!

I have been trawling the web and this forum regarding the rear shock on my newly acquired Gen 2. I am 12st, and having been out on two 170 mile Sunday runs, I came to the conclusion that as the bike was way too skittery I needed to do something about the suspension. The previous owner was rather more portly than myself, so today I dragged a friend around and we set about doing the sag etc.

The front is set up and just needs fine tuning, I will probably run it a tad softer than the settings that we arrived at.

The rear is on the softest preload, and with my weight it moves, but not as much as I would like, nor as smoothly.

It seems that the consensus is that the Gen 2 is way oversprung, and that an R1 shock is the way to go, the snag is, which year to go for? I have looked at a few on Ebay, but it seems that designs varied over the years.

My last question is, do they alter the ride height? I am happy with the Gen 2 seat height, so would rather retain that if possible.

Cheers

Rob

[size=1.45em]I've been occasionally looking from afar at the Fazer 1000's, and have noticed that a few of you have the 600 and a 1000 too, and was just wondering what your thoughts were on the main differences of the 2 bikes.[/size]
[size=1.45em]To be totally honest i mainly use my bike for work, which isn't that far away anyway, and i've got the bike running just how i want it, which is very good, but would appreciate any opinions or plusses and minuses please?[/size]

[size=1.45em]Cheers, Darren.[/size]

Anybody please !

Hi chaps and chap-ets

Thought I'd join the site as I've just bought my first really big bike. A 2003 FZS600 with a few high miles on, but seemed well looked after. Got it cheap as the previous owner found a headlight problem, but a quick change of the relay put that to rest.

Anyway, hi from sunny Scarborough

Thanks once again.

Jim

Was shocked to see that my rad had generated a pin-hole leak after riding to work yesterday :eek


I took the rad guard off (Beowolf with etched Fazer) and realised that it had been rubbing on the rad as the rad paint was worn off in a small area (about a 1/2 to 2/3's of the way down towards the left of the bike) and I'm sure that caused the hole. It kind of naturally bends in the middle. A proper clean-up and araldite metal putty and she's watertight again.


So the solution to prevent this again was to add two stainless spring washers on each side of the bottom two mounts to lift the rad guard clear of the rad, coupled with two new shiny allen stainless bolts. Job done hopefully 


Cheers
Rich

help needed , as i opened fuel filling cap i noticed water was sitting on the rubber but some went in fuel tank.


thought there was a drain pipe so that didnt happen, i know there are two pipes under the tank but which one is not the breather pipe ? ( as you sit on the bike ) . all ready got new filler cap at a cost of £37 so its not that as why the water is getting in there.


cheers guys  :eek