So! Merry Christmas and Boxing Day to all.
what did Santa bring you all nice for your bikes?
My lovely missus finally got me my colour coded screen bolts... only something simple but something i never seem to remember to pick up.....
hopefully next year i'll manage to get a nice shiney new bike  :lol

What you got nice in your stockings then? :evil

http://www.marksandspencer.com/Toshiba-R...B002EYNTBC

Hope everyone had a good Xmas.


Had a bit of trouble riveting the "soft link" on my new chain. After hours of using what muscles I have I broke my chain riveter and although I caused an indentation on the ends of the soft links it was not enough to stop me being able to push the link straight back through.


The link is not hollow and I really can't see how any tool could cause it to flare enough to be safe. Has anyone else had this problem? I am thinking of buying a different soft link that is easier to flare.


Any tips appreciated.


Cheers
Ian


Photo shows the unflared pins!

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ayup, finally found an owners club site for me n mi beloved fazer, we was jealous cos r girt an her baby, zed 1000 are members of zedoc. mi baby is an 04 model, slight custom paint job, had her 4 years and now time to change so we giving her a facelift into streetfighter make up as ya dont see many around, and I certainly dont want to get rid of her.  Hopefully piccies of before , durin and after if I ever manage to get started on the project.

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Anyways to increase it? currently my bikes got a sports exhaust, thinking of buying a standard in a hope it will increase>?

When's BotW going to be peeps?
I need a deadline to get the Fazer back together.... LOL

TO ALL FOCCERS - MERRY XMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ayup chaps, ive about finished my little project till the new year ! its minta than mint, did i tell ya all i have a OCD  :o  and taking into account its condition and what id have to pay to get something in this spec, its alot of bike for not alot of money.

new Seat an all the carbon now fitted.



I brought some oberone heavy stainless bar ends and had em powder coated black no more vibs,i removed the stock fairing decals but it looked to plain so the decals you see, the fazer is from the fz8 and the red 1000-exup decals from ebay.



I cant make my mind up if i like the NRC engine covers! and the colour is a very slight shade different than the rocker so they may go back on ebay! or ill get the spare rocker i have colour matched, oh yeah i have some billet covers also coming from the states, i also had the front engine/frame brace powder coated black and all the little brackets that cant be seen in the pics.



Timing cover needs re-powdercoating as i did not clean the bolt holes enough  :\  and so when i put the bolts in i got a hairline crack in the powder so only fitted for pics, and i removed the genuine yam crash bungs and replaced with the moto ones and whilst i had everything in bits i polished all the stainless bolts.



Carbon rad covers now fitted.



Im going to replace the chain to a nice coloured one.



Yep its even got heated grips! Daytona ones these feel like sportsbike grips nice soft feel to em and yeah i do plan to use it for my trips into europe.



LSL rear sets and HM quickshifter.



So id like to wish all you foccer's a merry xmas ...

Dave 

Want to get a hugger (black) for my 2001 Blue Gen1 have had a look at the following but none of them really float my boat in terms of looks but it's hard to imagine them on the bike from the limited photo's I've seen;

• SkidMarx
  
• Pyramid
  
• Puig
  
• Powerbronze
  

TfL say that from 23 Jan 2012 motorcycles can use more of London's bus lanes: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/redroutes/10151.aspx.

The way they've written it - "motorcycles will be given permanent access to bus lanes on the majority of the Capital's red routes" - makes it sounds like we're allowed in most bus lanes, but if you look at the maps you'll see that this isn't the case.

Therefore you should be careful to check the sign at the start of the bus lane for the bike.


The maps also show that some bus lanes switch between being bike-allowed and disallowed at different points, so if you're riding along that road you will need to be vigilant to the signs so you don't get caught riding in a non-bike stretch of the bus lane.