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dave

Don't know if this has been mentioned before!
My son bought a 2007 Fz1 last year from a dealer, he has done around 2500 miles on it, he asked me to check chain adjustment, found rear wheel axle nut was not very tight, thought that maybe dealer had not torqued it up correctly, so adjusted chain, wheel felt a little bit stiff to turn, but put this down to the chain being a bit stiff as bike had not been used for a while, lubed chain, couldn't feel any play in bearings so advised him to do about 10 miles then stop and check that everything felt okay.
This he did and then went for a decent ride out, called me later as bike was making noise from rear end, had to be recovered, AA man did a few checks found axle nut loose, ( i had torqued it up 150nm ) also loads of play in wheel bearings.
On inspection i found sprocket carrier bearing had broken up, when wheel was removed found that the long spacer tube between the bearings was missing! and the inner tube that runs inside the needle roller bearing was floating about inside the wheel hub.
Not sure how long tube was lost but as it can slide out through needle roller bearing, maybe during tyre change? We had never had wheel out.
Reason for post is to make people aware that this can happen and axle nut tightens up as normal! Could have had a different ending, as son only noticed noise from rear end as following a tractor for a while with visor up.
Big thanks to Marksman Bearings for sorting out replacements, very helpful company. Had to get missing spacer from Fowlers.

I was changing my rear fender for a new one from Fowlers and I noticed a bolt sticking out the rear bodywork on the LHS. I was horrified to find this unisulated bolt wired direct to the live terminal of the bike! Why the food would someone do this? It was obviously thought about as they had wound a piece of 2.5mm red insulate ire round the live terminal and taped it up. Anyway it's off before it had a chance to short the battery out.  New fender in so the battery has somewhere to sit securely at last. I'm slowly getting the bike back to standard.


The battery was originally wedged in with rags and both terminals were insulated with children's shoe insoles ffs.

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Good condition. Open to sensible offers. Pick up from Banbury or will post at buyer's expense.

On ebay...
Just ordered one.


Paid double this for my CBR600..


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-fazer-f...Sw-W5UzpJb


£35.99 plus £3.99 P&P

:rolleyes  Not new to bikes but new to fazers, i have a 99 model 600 and cant find a fuel tap anywhere. I downloaded the manual on here which says it is below the tank but i cant find it, help :'(

[img alt=Image result for fazer 1000 belly pan]http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c186/EagleBodywork/Fazer/4bellypanleft.jpg[/img]  Hi all, anyone got this type of belly pan for sale? not bothered what colour as i can spray it up. Cheers.

Hey guys been away a while but the Fazer is back on the road, thanks to everyone for your help especially Bikemad for the bottom end.


But took it out for a test ride and my speedo is miss-behaving. It was just sat at 0 for a while but then started bouncing all over the place. Are we thinking speedo sensor or perhaps broken wire chance the bouncing around?

Hi All. Over the weekend of 27th-29th May, my wife and I have organised (for the 10th consecutive time) an annual 150 mile Cycle Ride across the UK from "Coast to Coast", to raise money for a very deserving cause - Macmillan Cancer Support.Many here know this, but for those who don't, Macmillan provide free care and support, both at hospital and in-home, for cancer sufferers (and where necessary, their families) which is only made possible by people making donations and carrying out fundraising activities.Liz and I have both lost our father's to Cancer, in both cases their suffering lasted a period of years, rather than weeks - and we have a number of other family members and friends who have also suffered and who benefited tremendously from the support that the Macmillan Nurses provided. We have somehow managed once again to get another 25 riders to take up the challenge with us (most of whom have links to someone who has been supported by Macmillan) and we're looking forward to a great challenge, as well as great fun (over 13,000ft of ascent).I've attached a link below to our "Just Giving" donations page and while thanking those who donated last year , we hope that there are plenty of members here who will feel inclined to help us in the cause and make a donation (or "another donation", for those who have supported us in previous years) no matter how small, or large, everything will be greatly appreciated.So here's a "thank you" in advance and the link to our donations page.[color=rgb(60, 105, 148)]https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/D...n-C2C-2017[/color]