Hi guys, just joined your site and thought I would say hello. I just bought myself a nice low milage fazer 1000 (2003) and thought this would be a good place for any hints or tips. AS my old FJ1200 is getting a bit heavy for me now due to a back injury I thought I would get something a bit lighter. It was a toss up between the fazer and a speedtriple 955, I thought the seating position on the fazer was more like the FJ so went for it.

[color=rgb(29, 33, 41)]I hope this is OK to post ,my wife has asked me to post this ,  taken from another forum..I have no idea if he was a foccer but still a biker and part of a widdening family ................. Hello[/color][color=rgb(29, 33, 41)]This is a heartfelt plea to any of the biking community....my husband died last Sunday due to complications from a accident at Cadwell, I would really like to give him the best send off ever my thoughts are to find as many fellow bikers as possible who would follow the cortege in a convoy...my husband in life was a haulier and a biker so...There will be no hearse, Carl will be carried on the American Peterbuilt lorry followed by his own lorries. ...please please I want the bikers to follow ...so if you can on Friday the 23rd of June come join the convoy it will be leaving bigby rd Brigg DN20
8hp at 2pm...just by the railway crossings...please come and ride out with Carl for his last ride...and to make this so very special for myself and his 2 girls ....please share and share again
Thank you all
His loving wife Daw[/color]

couple of questions for you guys..

anyone got a fork brace on their thou ??
is it worthwhile putting one on??


Cheers
Clive

Hi guys!


Installed 4 LED blinkers and LED brakelight with a realy on my fzs600 2002. After a couple of days blinkers started to flash faster than normal. Dont know whats wrong...


Anyone had the same problem?

Police have announced that they have foiled an attempt by two M u Slim's in a speed boat attempting to crash into the Thames Barrier
A police spokesman believes the attempt was linked to Ram-a-dam.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142406610681?s...1555.l2649

Hiya fellas,


Bit of a weird request this one but need a few suggestions.


I fully appreciate I've left it a bit late so fully my fault.


Was looking to go to the Eurocamp at Peschiera del Garda on Lake Garda following rave reviews by friends but all sold out during school holidays.


Its the first time for the kids to holiday abroad so would like to get it as right as I can.


Ideally we would like


1. Europe
2. Beach
3. Lots of restaurants
4. Theme/water parks good
5. Ideally a brick lodge but could stretch to small complex villa.
6. Relaxing with enough activities


Don't want


1. Hotel
2. Tub thumping nightclub area
3. Over commercialised




Any suggestions as always much appreciated.


Cheers in advance fellas  :thumbup

Hello everyone
Just to introduce myself as a new member to the forum.
Been considering a Fazer for some weeks now after selling my Thruxton at the beginning of the year.
Last weekend, saw a new listing on eBay for a 2001 model in the right colour and was drawn by the very clean condition.
Listed by a dealer that had sold the bike from new, then to its second owner after it was traded in the first time amd carried out most of the maintenance for both riders.
Rang up and did the deal and then my son drove me the 150 miles to Wales so that I could ride it home.
Very pleased with the bike so far. Love the practicality of the older Jap bikes after owning a Ninja 600 and an SV650 in recent years. Nice to have a bike that the owners manual and design encourages you to work on and maintain!
Forks were the worst part of the bike as they were suffering from lacquer corrosion so I set to and after rubbing them down with wire wool, rattle canned them with primer, silver wheel gloss and lacquer from Halfords. Really pleased with the result.
New tyres already on the bike and as the front brake pistons were a bit gummed up I've stripped and cleaned everything as a precaution.
Here she is:

A question for Andy Meldrum. I have just gone to log on and my computer protection has flagged the site up as not being secure. Andy can you tell me if this is the case please.

Hey all,


I decided to service the EXUP yesterday and discovered that one of the bolts securing the cable bracket was sheared off - that'll be why the cables were loose then!


I knew the sheared bolt was a show-stopper but I thought I'd press on and see if I could do the service, reassemble and then decide what to do about it. But despite plenty of care and penetrating oil, one of the other bolts also sheared and the last one's allen head rounded out. So I now have the top two sheared off and the bottom one siezed in place without any purchase for turning it.


It's a thousand - 2001 model with 37k miles.


So it looks to me like the whole exhaust has to come out in order to drill out the bolts... and that probably means more sheared header bolts.


And I don't have a great history with drilling bolts out, myself.


So I'm planning on calling my local mechanic and asking what the damage will be if I drop it off to him unless I get any other suggestions.


For riding it down to him, I was hoping to pull the fuse out to disable the EXUP servo but it doesn't seem to have a dedicated fuse. So I guess I'll just make sure the cables wont fall out and leave it running but disconnected. And the valve held closed.


Grrrr. Any ideas, suggestions, gotchas, advice or estimates of what the mechanic will charge much appreciated!


Dave