Anyone have a skaggy seat they want rid of? I want a "resculpted" seat (ultra thin foam and hump on pillion section) and also want to keep my stock seat.

Ok guys so I've been lurking the forum a number ofor years and have rear some claiming their bikes have 80od thousand miles on with no gearbox issues.


So I'm wondering is there a way to prevent the gearbox going again ? My other bikes dont have the issue of missing 2nd gear. Which made me wonder about the factory pro shift star, I don't think they make one for the fzs but would replacing the spring wit has a new oe help?




Any info would be much appreciated

This may be of interest to you Gen.2 folk.....


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Yamaha-FZ1S-FZ...Sw3v5YtdHS


Andy.

Hi all new to the forum




Had the fazer for a while now though it's been sitting unused as the gearbox gave up about 9 months ago so yesterday I started pulling it apart.


Anyway I'm sure there is a bunch of stuff I could learn from you guys, might also do a video of the tear down


Cheers

Thanks

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Just put new continuous chain on and new front and rear sprockets cost a small fortune..just spun the rear wheel to


set chain at 40/50 mm and still got 3 tight spots on the new chain..






is that normal or will it settle down after a few miles?? First chain I've done so appreciate any advice..


Cheers


Clive

Bit of a long shot here, but I dropped my fazer in a muddy field on the dragon rally (huge embarrassment there but another story!!) bike came off ok, but the pannier not so much.

Limped home with a bit of duck tape plugging the 3" hole, but before fibre glassing it and making do, I wondered if anyone had an old style e34/36 pannier knocking around that may be surplus or even damaged that I could poach for spares.

Hi, riding home tonight on my 02 plate fzs600 and started to hear a strange pinking raspy kind of noise. When I open the throttle hard it sounds like a piece of tape is in the front wheel spokes/spars. Looked for something loose but there is nothing. When I got home and removed my lid I would say the engine is sounding way more clanky than normal. The oil is half way up the sight glass so ok from that point of view. Just might be an exhaust pinhole or manifold leak but also sounds like it maybe from the engine casing. I have had the bike over 3 years and it has not missed a beat. It has 26k on the clock and seems to be still pulling well. Any advice appreciated, thanks ?

Hi,


Fitted my Renthal 758's yesterday and had seen a mention of chopping 10mm on the ends but was waiting to see how it all felt first. I have the bars on and when fitting the throttle side it felt like there was a good bit of resistance, is this normal for other that have changed?


The cables sit really close to the servo too for the exup, i am thinking its been routed wrong.


The bike has heated grips but they are quite large compared to Oxford, how do i go about removing the throttle grip if i cannot quite get on with it?

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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]Apologies if this has been asked 1000 times, but I'm after a bit of help.[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]I bought a [/color][color=rgb(51, 85, 156)]FZS600[/color][color=rgb(51, 51, 51)] over the weekend from someone who was about 5 foot 8 and maybe 11 stone. I'm 6 foot 1 and 13 stone. He had the bike setup with 2 notches showing above the nut on the front:[/color]

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[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]And I'm not sure of the rear as I believe it to be an after market spring:[/color]



[color=rgb(51, 51, 51)]Two questions:

1) What would be the affect of me being taller and heavier and riding with the front preload of 2 notches instead of the recommended 5
2) Can anyone identify (or tell me how to identify) the setting of the rear spring from the above picture?Cheers,Ben[/color]