These are starting to get a little frequent!

At the tailed we, doing the moped enduro. Team 11 if your coming

Before i get carried away spending money on my fazer i just thought id check your opinions on something - is it more economical doing up an old bike or buying a newer one?, ie if i spend a couple o grand getting brakes, suspension,exhaust etc on top of the 2 grand i paid for it, will it be a much better bike than if i just got a 4 grand bike in the first place?,


I love my fazer,its more than ill ever need and i cant see me wanting rid but whats the limiting factor, seems like parts are easy to come by but how longs the frame likely to last though under mostly dry conditions and stored in the shed?,are there any gadgets/devices/gizmos lurking under the bodywork that if they go wrong start to be uneconomic to replace?


Perhaps being the fazer club the answers may be biased but maybe some of yous have got some other proper old bikes as a reference.cheers!

Anyone help please to be able to put any photographs on the website. Cheers!

after getting the 600 engine out of frazers bike last weekend and bring home to repair broken exhaust studs iv managed to take big piece out of my foot so cant drive/walk on foot for a while! is there anyone willing to help get the engine and bits back into his frame so he can be back on the road asap?i can possibly get the engine back to his place and will assist in giving 'orders' out for refitting everything but wont be able to do much spaner work myself!
please lets help frazer out and get his bike running again
cheers mark

So I've moved house to a nicer area, similar sized property but with a side and rear access road for garages at the rear of the properties in my street, the adjacent street and the street behind.

My house did have a garage orginally but it had been knocked down and replaced with a falling apart large shed and a breeze block wall that Stevie Wonder built. In the dark. Wearing sunglasses. With one hand playing the piano - you get the idea.

I get some quotes and pick one and the builder starts work, almost immediately they get a visit from the local Granny Mafia:

GM: 'Wot's going on here then, what's that going to be, have you got planning permisison for that?'

So the answers are: We are building a garage, it's going to be a garage, don't need planning permission, checked with the council, anything else love?

GM: 'I'll be back' I was tempted to put here that her eyes glowed red and she stomped off leaving dents in the ground, but it was more of a shuffle with one hand on her bloomers to keep them up.

So on the builders go and down comes the old wall and shed and up goes the new brick built garage walls.

Next visit from Granny Mafia, this time a bloke who looks like he's been dug up:

GM DUB 'Your builders have piled up dirt outside my back wall'

Me: 'OK mate lets take a look then'

He shows me a stack of dirt up against his back wall in the same access road about 20 yards further down and thus 20 yards away from the 2 skips that the builders are filling up with excavated dirt etc. When I look I can see that this dirt is dry as a bone, caked up and cracked with huge weeds growing through it, clearly having been there some years.

I point this out to him and he immediately counters with: 'I've lived here 30 years and no one has ever had anything done down here, you can't use this road anway, it's only for the bungalows)

I say: 'Well on my deeds and local search that I have read and just completed, it clearly states that the side and rear access roads serve all properties in these 3 roads for access to garages and remain unadopted and unmaintained by the Council, it also states that ownership is wholly shared by all property owners whose properties are adjacent to the access road.'

GM (Dug up bloke) 'No it doesn't'

Me: Mate I've just told you what is says on my deeds, please don't tell me it doesn't say that, I've read it.

GM DUB: No it doesn't say that, you want to read them again, you can't use this road it's just for the bungalows.

Me 'Mate, you don't even have a garage so how does this affect you? I can assure you the access road is for all the houses otherwise why would these houses next to mine have garages?'

GM DUB: 'No they don't, none of them have garages, this is just for the bunglows.'

Me: 'What?!! You can see right there, this one has a garage and that one has a garage and that one down there, that bloke uses his everyday for his motorbike'

GM DUB: 'No he doesn't, these people all can't use this road, it's for the bungalows only'

Me: 'You are really trying my patience now mate, as you're old I'm being polite but please go away now and don't keep bothering my builders as when you stop them working it's costing me money'

GM DUB: 'You can't use this access road it's not for you it's for the bungalows only'

Me: 'Enough now, just go away'

So Dug Up Bloke shuffles off still mumbling about deeds and access and bungalows, definitely very unhappy.

So then the builder tells me about another visit they had from another neighbour who berated them as 'her husband had to park in the street last night' He tells me that she said as they had dug the footings for the garage wall and left the trench to cure overnight full of concrete, this guy decides he can't drive down the access road in case he drives into the trench, never mind the trench is a few inches further in on my property than the previous leaning out wall was, so he has got more room than before!

Anyway building work carries on and the next day another Granny Mafia member turns up, this time it's an old girl who incredulously enough looks older than the previous two visitors - we must be near Il Capo dei Capi by now or they'll be using a ouji board to speak!

So GM Capo opens with, 'You can't use that garage for cars'

Me: 'Sorry love, why not?'

GM Capo: 'Well the houses on this side of the road (points to her side) own 2 meters of the access road and the houses on your side own 1 metre of the access road, so if you drive a car down here you're driving on my property'

Me: (Trying not to giggle) 'Where did you get that information from love?'

GM Capo: 'I've lived here 47 years' (I kid you not, she looked like she'd lived UNDER it for 45 of those years), 'No one has ever done anything down here' (Ah, this sounds familiar), 'Anyway it says that on my deeds'.

Me: 'On your deeds eh? So how long have you had those then? 'cos mine are new and up to date'

GM Capo: 'I've lived here 47 years and I've had my deeds all that time, this road is just for the bungalows, these houses have got no right'

Me: 'Your deeds are 47 years old and they measure the ownership share in metres? That shows some forward thinking' (This goes right over her grey haired head).

GM Capo: 'You can't use it for a garage, you can't drive down here'

Me: 'What about all the other people on this side that use their garages accessed by this road'

GM Capo: 'No they don't'

Me: 'No they don't what'

GM Capo: 'Use garages'

Me: 'Yes they do, there's several garages right in front of you'

GM Capo: 'No there isn't'

Me: 'Oh dear, I think I see where this is going, sorry love you need to go away now, we need to get building'

GM Capo: 'Well you can't use it, it's just for the bungalows'

Me: 'Bye love' turns back and goes in.

It seems that no matter where you go, how hard you try, there's always someone who wants to f**k up your little bit of happiness simply because they have nothing better to do.  :rolleyes

Hi, how do i adjust the headlight's beam? its way too high and blinds all the drivers..


i found 2 bolts that may have something to do with it, but i see no affect.. :\

I've been looking for information about this and cant find much on the web so decided to try and see if any of you guys know anything about it. 


I currently work at a GP surgery group which is made up of 2 surgeries. The GP's don't get along and have now decided they are going to split the group up so it will become 2 separate surgeries.  Now as they are being very secretive about what is happening i was hoping someone could help me to understand where i stand, as i know they will both be wanting me to work for them.  Will my pay be frozen? can they change my job? can i negotiate with both to get the best deal for me before deciding where to go?


any advice from a bunch of foccers will be much appreciated.

Just signed up for the Fuelly website as I've seen it on plenty of your profiles and it panders to my blokey need for finite stats, problem now is I have no idea how to put it on my profile :o  Any ideas?? Ta Steve.

Just fitted new brake lines, bleeding them just seemed to take too long. :'(
I reverse bled them with a syringe and some clear tubing attached to the brake nipple and forced the fluid up to the master cylinder.
This helps get some fluid and pressure into the lines, but its a little messy and you still have to do the conventional pump the lever chore.

I see u can get a manual hand vacuum pump which pulls the fluid and air out of the nipple. There is also the air compressor version which seems even easier for anyone with a compressor.
Anybody use any of these for their bike and car, or any recommendations?