can anyone recommend a decent chain lube for a gold chain? don't want it turning black, used to be able to get clear chain lube but can't seem to find any that state they are clear! any ideas?

I thought its time to say hello!, sorry people i have been lurking around for a few months but never quite got to post.
have been riding when ever i got the chance for the last 20 years.... but only got my full licence about a year ago.
been riding a fzs600 200 for the last 8 months and LOVING IT!!!!
Had to sort a few probs early on, seized rear caliper and also had a front wheel bearing go.but such as a bike it is a beauty to ride!!
chat all soon

Well was out on the bike today doing a spot of Geocaching. This ment there was about 8 stop/starts in 10 or so miles. for between 5 and 45 mins long each time.
As i left home the bike started as normal on the touch of the button.
1st stop it seemed fine also. but the 2nd stop it took maybe 5 seconds of turning over to start. (fast turn over)
3-4th stops same thing but sometimes took up to 10 seconds to start.
then on the next couple of tries it just wouldnt start at all, turned over for 5-10 seconds at a time and tried 4-5 times then finaly it caught.
by the time it got to the last 8th stop (was gunna be 12 stops but thought i wouldnt be able to so went home) again still wouldnt start. this time affter multi tries the battery finaly started to labour a bit so as i was on a hill at the time i decided to bump it. took a bit but it finaly caught on about the 3rd run.

when its running its running as allways, sweet and smooth. its just strugling to start.
once home i turned it off and back on stright away and it started. but i then waited 2 mins and it wouldnt untill the battery was allmost flat. so thats now on charge. but it was fine and is fairly new at about a month old and fully charged. bike was running and starting fine the last 2 days that i have been useing it. although last night i did slip on some fuel at the petrol station and droped the bike while getting off it. it went down slowly and controled with me pulling to try to stop it. it didnt "hit" the ground as such.

Now i am thinking along the lines of a stuck float maybe flooding the engine, might have got stuck when the bike was droped last night?
what else might it be.... over to the knowlage base of foc-u

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Hi All,
Im replacing the seals on my rear brake caliper, the main seal went in with a bit of a struggle but not too bad, the dust seal is a total pig to get in as it seems to be too big on its O.D. , being a tightfisted old bugger I bought what looked like reasonable aftermarket seals -Nikone 293800, certainly they seam to be the same as the old seals although its had to tell exactly. Does anyone have any tips on doing this job? Ive just spent an hour struggling with the dust seals and its still not in, Im tempted to put the old one back in at this rate.

My mate has had his bike in the shop for two months and they couldn't sort out the problem - so hoping that someone has suggestions as to what the issue might be
from the experts here (Mike!  [size=78%])[/size]

The HT coil no 1 burns out -  he has blown 2 of them, same one each time.
The bike is a z750 2007/8  model, spark plugs have been replaced bike has done 31,000miles.


Anyone got an idea? or are more details needed?

now some unbeleivably cheap corsa rosso's will be gracing my bike shortly, it's time to look at the front brakes.
brembo race (£95) to kyoto (£18).
neither of those will be gracing my bike. i've used goldfren before and they were fine, but wondering about sbs/carbon lorraine.
anyone care to share! 

Been out in the shed changing the front fairing this week, anyway whilst the front plastics etc were off I decided to change the front fork oil, on doing the job I found the springs were fitted upside down, can anybody explain this, is it a mod I haven't heard about. the roads are still quite crappy here so I have not had a blast out to see if the springs being the right way round will make any difference. So anybody care to comment as to whether it would make that much difference.

is there any alternatvie cam chain tensioners available for the 98 model fazer?

hi everyone,
my 04 FZS1000 seems to have developed an odd, 'loose' feeling clunk when i rev the engine a little while idling. I think usually when in gear with the clutch engaged - feels like some slack being taken up somewhere(?).
Pretty sure it's not the drive chain/front sprocket as that's all new and secure. Wouldn't be something in the clutch would it? It sounds like it's coming from that area.
Any thoughts gratefully received.

S