Hey fellas and ladies, I've had my Gen 1 thou since Nov 04, new then. Since then it's taken me on a coupla continental trips and never missed a beat. Due to circumstances I've had to rely on it for daily transport so it now has 61 plus thou on the clock, battered tank, dirty, cracked nose fairing, Devilsyam has seen it and and almost cried. But the bits that matter are fine, still pulls like a train, ivanised by Mike in 05, R6 shock.  I'm seriously thinking of selling. I'm 54 tomorrow and don't think I can handle another winter of commuting 300 plus miles a week. It's got a good set of BT023's, recent new front pads ( Carbone Lorraine A3+) serviced regularly by me, ( I do know what I'm doing!) Any idea what I can ask for it? I swear the bike is sound, despite the looks. I'll get some pics on here when I can. Just thought I'd offer you guys an option for a restoration project or just as a winter hack. I won't sell to just anyone, I want the bike to be looked after like I used to be able to afford to. Any comments welcome.

weather looks good saturday so will probably be dragging the bike out for a run through southwell, vale of belvoir, waltham, melton, then towards market harborough stopping at foxton locks for a coffee n butty. anyone welcome to tag along 
badger

ideally i'd like to fit hid's but i have no knowledge of compatability etc......
i'd just like a bit better forward light than the standard for night riding.
any help, tips, etc.... gratefully received

Baloo and mesen have made the bold decision to actually try and ride our bikes for once.
Outlandish I know, but hey, that's the kinda guys we are.


So, the rough plan is head up to Kinlochleven on Saturday via Loch Lomond, mibbes a stop off at The Welly then go do some laps in the glorious sunshine.
Thinking on an 11 kick off.

Anyone else in?

After eventually getting enough hours of not rain to go out and inspect 'Bee, I've traced the coolant leak to the water pump inlet pipe.
I've a replacement set of assorted water and oil pumps coming from the Bay of Flea, but after that I'm not sure what to do.

Anyone done this?

Looking at the service manual it appears to be a case of drain the coolant, remove the radiator hoses from the associated pipes, unbolt them and just pull it out.
Fnar.

HOWEVER, experience says that Yam have a habit of making things slightly more complicated than that.
Not me, I'm a veritable mechanical genius...
:rollin

I'm fairly happy playing with things (did the R1 fork mod/rebuild mesen, service her happily, swapped the butterflies out etc) but is this gonna turn around and bite me in the arse is my question.

She's my daily commuter, so could really do without foccin' her up.

Hiya peeps,well this weekend ill pick up my fazer 600 mk1 after trading in my yamaha fj1200 as its too heavy for me know,ive had a black mk1 600 many moons ago so the make isnt allien to me and hope you guys have fazer weekends,rideouts? camping and bikeing are my main hobbys  8)
About me.............. well im old lol at 41 years old and married with 3 grown up kids,wifes called mandy and is a bike fan aswell which makes life alot easier  :rollin

Chat more soon peeps....................Lee

Quick MOT question for you guys... is it a fail if the bars/controls touch the faring?  On full lock left the throttle cables just about touch the faring because a little bit of the stopper thing is broken off.

Ta

Should I change to a 1000?
Whats sort of MPG are you guys getting, I currently get between 52-58 out of my 600 doing a 160 miles a week commute filling up once.
Be interested in any comments form owners who went from a 600 to a 1000 about handling, comfort, performance etc..
Sell it to me!

Hi All
  As you all guessed new to the forum and its looking good so far
 
I am pround owner of a gen1 fazer 1000 which i use on sunny days ( not much in last couple of  months  :'( )

but ride a old school Suzuki GSX1100G daily and my good lady also owns a Gen1 fazer 600 as well as a Kawasaki er5 ( daily Transport )
been riding on and off for 30 years now

Steve

Hey guys, I bought my '03 Fazer and it came with what look to be mountings for some sort of crash bungs. (See round chunk of metal at the bottom right, near the downpipes) I believe that the previous owner took this down the road and then took the bungs off because they looked scruffy. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get some more? Just the bungs, not a whole set.

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