its 3AM and i just got back in and im too cold to investigate other than looking at diagrams and ask here


the 2000 model doesnt have headlight relays does it ?
if it does where abouts should i be looking
- im running twin dominator headlights with osram night breakers and not as impressed impressed as i should be


thinking of going direct wiring with a relay (last 30 miles have been a nightmare as there was no1 to follow)
if there is no oem relay i will just rip the loom and hide a relay under the tank
oem factory relay will get replaced if there is one as standard

Howdo from north Manchester area, just got a 2001 37,000 mile red/black fazer which was a trade sale with no guarantee or return etc. From a well known dealer(ebay sale)
I paid £650 for it and it ran like a pig all the way home some 35 miles. Good news is that I managed to sort it out with another set of carbs and it runs beautifully now. All I need to do now is re paint the forks, free off the brakes  and repair and respray the fairing and give it a full service etc.
Anyone got any tips for repairing plastic bodywork?

Hi I am new on here, but I have done a few bikes up in my time and love to tinker. I purchased a 2001 fzs600 last week on EBay for £650 as a winter bike, it's just a bit tarnished and dirty mainly but the engine is mint and runs sweetly,  so are the forks tyres etc and generally no rust anywhere but it has been down the road and has a chunk missing out of the fairing.
Do any of you reccomend any product that will glue a piece of plastic back in, or does anyone know which type of plastic to use so I could have a go at plastic welding,
Cheers Steve

Just back from a few days on a friend's boat. He has no sailing or motor boat experience but bought himself a 32ft. Princess so asked me to help him bring it down the Thames from Wargrave to Weybridge. He amazed me daily with his absolute lack of practical ability or common sense but there was one incident which had us both collapsed in laughter.

We moored up at Windsor and I put on a centre line to hold the boat in while I then tied off fore and aft. When I was satisfied that the boat was secure I untied the centre line from the bank. Enter the friend who had been "busy" checking his phone and, in an effort to help, picked up the loose centre line and I watched incredulously as he very carefully tied it off to the stern cleat on his boat. Effectively mooring his boat to itself!!!!!

He then stood back, beaming proudly at me with his contribution to safely securing his craft to the bank, and between bouts of hysterical laughter it took me a while to explain to him the stupidity of what he had done.

There were numerous other incidents but it made me wonder, what have your friends done?

When I am not out on my Fazer, i am often out on my mountain bike with my camera. I entered this shot in a competition for county council tourist company Visit Kent. Photo of friends cycling on isle of Sheppey.



Could I request that as many of you as possible click on my photo on the Visitkent page and click like on the photo. You have to click on the photo in order to like it to like it on the Visitkent page. Thanks



this is the link to the photo to like on facebook.


https://www.facebook.com/visitkent/photo...ater&ifg=1

Was there anything that would have gone under this rubber strap when the bike was new, looks like it would be for the tool kit except that's down by the light? Also what are the two loops either side of the metal tab? All they seem to do is squash things I put in the under seat storage, I've half a mind to cut them off, but thought I'd check their purpose first.

my eyesight now not good enough to read all the info on the excellent multiguage, so i've gone back to normal fuel guage....


so my multiguage is now for sale..... is it worth 125 pounds to anyone....


i'll try to post pictures later



https://goo.gl/photos/FAqWsNm5jVhdLGWd7

So, I love going out for a decent ride, 500 - 750 miles a day, and I'm hoping to do a Europe ride next year, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland and then home so I'm after plenty of advice, anything you can think of, gear, places to see, roads to try and hit ect.

I'll be stopping in Poland or a few days as my old man retired out there a few years back so I have a stopping point to tinker if anything needs it (hopefully not).

Thanks for any advice 

Hi All,
Just purchased a set of carbs from fleabay advertised as coming from a 98 working bike. They arrived and decided to fit them after having a quick look and cleaning a little crud.
BUT they are not the same as those on my Fazer which is a 99 boxeye. The carb body shows 5DM01 and the internals look the same except that the blank jet is now 125 and the small jet to the side with the emulsion tube which is 125 on mine is actually a blank  but with an emulsion tube. My carb body shows 5DM.
Did the 98 bikes have differently set up carbs to later years or are these from another bike?
Can anyone help?

So having learnt my lesson last winter I've decided to try and protect the fz1 this year and bought a can of the good stuff.
My question now is what do I actually do with it? haha its supposed to stop corrosion but I'm not sure what to spray it on? Surely the exhaust will just burn it off so no point being on there, the suspension linkage will get a good dose as that's where I found a lot or rust after last winter but other than im stumped?