I have been tampering with my bike for the last 2 weeks, some good progress, some not so good. One of the many things I "tried" to do was wire in a gear indicator but after several attempts at mounting the sensors I gave up. Managed to blow the headlight fuse whilst I was messing but replaced it & all seemed well. This was last week. Now the bike is complete again, every attempt at switching from side lights to main beam results in dim indicators coming on (all 4 from memory), some dash lights also coming on dimly & a strange beeping/buzzing sound from the clock/dash area.  Spent all day on it today as work is slack but it was getting late when I got to this stage so thought I would try you folks for inspiration before I tackle the problem tomorrow.

Any ideas what I've done peeps?

After a year off my bike due to a broken elbow, I am now getting my bike back on the road. I'm a bit nervous, so I'm hoping some lovely foccers would like to join me in a 'gentile' bimble around Essex/Braintree district Maybe, Finchingfield, somewhere else...erm...where Eddie goes (I'm not sure where that is) and into Colchester for a nice lunch?
I predict the end of May will be a balmy 30 degrees and warm enough for me to venture out. If anyone can make it, or had preferred dates, please post

1st April
anybody local to chester area planning on going ,any meets panned??

Brian

Anybody from this area Chester/Wirral or surrounding locations planning on doing the run on 1st April.
Any meets planned anywhere???

Brian

Hi All
I've been visiting this site for a couple of years now and thought it was time to sign up, I ride a 55 plate FZS1000 Fazer and am regularly down the Dick Turpin (A127) on the Tuesday night bike meet so may see some of you down there soon.
Cheers, Chris

Just lost my contract of 6 months with no 'effin notice. Gits.

They agreed about two months ago that I could work a 4 day week which would allow me to move to Wales.

Spent the whole of last week in North Wales looking for a house, found one and we were pretty chuffed. Then all of a sudden on Monday the 4 day week was going to be a problem. One sales meeting later and I find out they're not renewing my contract and fare thee well.

I absolutely ***KING hate that people have that kind of power over me - I need to start running my own business.

The worst of it is that my wife has been depressed for the last two years and this move to Wales has motivated her to look forward to the future again, but now it's been trashed by some arse-wit.

Seriously pissed off and upset.

Just wanted to say, after 2nd year of owning a Fazer and reading this forum/site:
it is an excellent place. Loads of useful tips, advice, manuals, experience etc.

Been looking for similar forums for helping with my mate's Honda CBF600 and SWMBO's Peugeot 106, and couldn't find anything nearly as good. Only then did I fully realise how good FOC is. Cheers! 

Hey everyone. I apologise if a similar topic has been posted here but I just want to get a bit of advice from people who know. I am hopefully about to buy my first bike...a fazer in the next week or so and I have two options I am torn between.
One of the bikes is a 2002 Fazer 600s with belly pan. It has only 6k miles and has been totally cherished and really is in showroom condition. Unfortunately it requires tax and MOT. The seller is looking £2100.
The other bike is also a very very clean 2007 FZ6 S2 in blue with 10k miles. It has 8 mths MOT but needs taxed. The seller is looking £2250.
I have heard that the older bikes are better and as this would be my first bike I want to make the right decision. I am concerned about the older bike needing work soon, or seals failing due to its age but it has been garaged and is immaculate. You really would be hard pushed finding a better example at a year old.

I am just really interested in you guys views on this. How do the level of miles compare to the age etc.

Look forward to reading your replies...

Regards

Chris

Hi All,

My trusted commuter has to go as I have decided to throw in the towel commuting into London.
I have two small kids and feel the risk is too high to be riding into central London and around the M25 on a daily basis.
I did get punted off it on the M11 in traffic in 2009 so it was a cat C due to front fairing headlight and a few scuffs. I have photos to show the damage at the time so you can see it wasn't serious. I have been using it ever since I replaced all the broken parts.

The bike is a 2003 Silver 1000. It has got 52,000 miles on the clock and has been ridden all year around so it isn't the prettiest out there. With obvious signs of corrosion and the normal engine paint flaking problems.

Saying that it is mechanically 100%.

It has just had the forks re-chromed and rebuilt with heaver Hagon fork springs. (cost me £350)
Brand new front and rear brake pads.
It has had a brand new Hagon rear shock, jack up plates and new Bridgestone BT020 in the last 300 miles.
Chain and sprockets 2000 miles old.
I bought a set of exhaust downpipes off a 2000 mile bike with the powervalve etc in so that is as good as it is going to get as well. I put new cables on at the same time. This was done at the same time as the chain and sprockets.
It has just been MOTed.

It has heated grips, neoprene bar muffs, higher rise Renthal bars, flip up screen, scottoiler, Givi rack and top box, neoprene shock guard, neoprene fork gators, engine crash bars

I'm looking for £1650 for it.

Drop me a mail at davekeeble2010@hotmail.com if you are interested.

Thanks for reading.

Hi All,

I live in Maldon in Essex and have been travelling into and around London for the last 12 years on various bikes and I am unfortunately throwing in the towel.

The end of my current role as well as having two small kids has made me think that the risk is not worth it any more.

Over the years I have owned many different bikes and pretty much worn them all out. The list I have used over the years is here.

Honda Fireblade RRW 2008 - Fantastic bike even for commuting but heavy on chains.
Yamaha R1 2008. Again a surprisingly good London commuter but no way of getting luggage on it so only had this one a short time.
Kawasaki GT550 - Winter hack that lasted nearly 100,000 miles. Fantastic bike.
Honda Deaville - Absolute rubbish. Bought new and after 30,000 miles had been back with Honda more than I had ridden it.
BMW K1100, what a disaster this was. Everything fell off it in the 40,000 miles i did on it.
Suzuki RF900. Great bike, massively underrated and lasted about 70,000 miles.

Now the best bike I have owned for commuting and general hacking about is the bike I currently own, A 2003 Fazer 1000.
This has been the best bike I have owned and is still going strong at 52,000 miles.

I will be putting the Fazer up for sale in the correct section soon so if any one is interested in a good cheap bike have a look there.

Thanks and great site by the way, very informative.

Dave