Anyone had issues with theirs?  Quite a few I imagine.

So, after a gruelling day at work and me feeling like I had lead weights attached to every part of my body, I finally finished and trotted of the bike shed for a ni9ce easy ride home and to be able to slip onto my nice warm sofa with a nice warm mug of coffee but nooooo!  Couldn't disable the immobiliser, great I think, new batteries in the fob perhaps.  So, a 1/2 hour trek around town to find somewhere that did the correct batteries.  Eventually found some, trek back to office, new batteries....no good!

Phone call to wife to find the second fob I have.  Took her another half an hour to find it, then another 20 minutes to get to me, new fob.....no good!

Phone call to motorcycle centre who I bought the bike from who were kindly able to come and fetch the bike and, hopefully [today], rip out the darn thing.

Ended up getting home 3 hours after I should have done and still had to move everything from the living room up two flights of stairs ready for the new carpet to be fitted today.  So....Fuck you Meta  :lol

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[size=1em]After recently doing some suspension modding on my FZS600, I have been reading a lot about bike/suspension set up and there is one thing that is confusing me.[/size]
[size=1em]Nearly all stuff I have both read (On-Line) and watched (YouTube) say that it is important to set the static (Just weight of motorcycle) sag before doing anything else.[/size]
[size=1em]This procedure is: [/size]

[size=1em]Raise the front of the bike off the ground, to allow front forks to be fully extended. (Centre stand with a prop under the engine) measure from the top of  the fork leg oil seal to the underside of the bottom yoke. Mine is exactly 150mm fully extended (Now there a coincidence)[/size]

[size=1em]Set the bike back on its wheels (Off the stand) and bounce the bike up and down a few times without using the front brake and allow the bike to settle under its own weight and remeasure the distance from the top of the fork leg oil seal to the underside of the bottom yoke again. Deduct this figure from you fully extended measurement and you have static sag. Mine is 126mm giving me 24mm of Static Sag on the front end.[/size]

[size=1em]The procedure for the rear of the bike is much the same by getting the weight off the back wheel (Just centre stand will do that ) but you will need to stick a parcel or paper label on the rear seat fairing vertically above the rear wheel axle, measure the fully extended measurement up from the underside of the axle (Sprocket side is easier as no exhaust can in the way) and put a pen mark on the label as a datum point (I used 450 mm)[/size]

[size=1em]Set the bike back on its wheels, bounce up and down on the back of the bike a few times just to settle the suspension and allow the bike to come to rest under its own            weight, then measure the distance from the underside of the axle to your datum mark you put on the paper label earlier. Mine is 432mm from the original 450mm measurement giving me 16mm of static sag.[/size]

[size=1em]The next procedure is to set the Rider Sag, again this is taken from the full extended suspension measurements. My front forks full extended 150mm as above, my back shocker fully extended (Using datum mark 450mm), now the rider with all his riding gear on, leathers, boots, gloves and bucket sits on the bike bounces a few times, without touching the brakes and the measurements are taken again, this measurement is then deducted from the fully extended measurement and the remainder is your rider sag.[/size]

[size=1em]Ideal rider sag, now there seems to be a plethora of opinions on this and I think it could be to do riding style, or whether the bike is used for commuting or for track day events, or maybe just personal preferences. The figures I am going to aim for and that seems to be the most commonly occurring figures for a road bike (spirited riding style) is 40mm front rider sag and 30mm rear rider sag.[/size]

[size=1em]Now here is the rub, that which causes me confusion, why do we have to go through the static sag  process at all? Because if the rider sag is not within the measurements we are looking for, we adjust our pre-load to get to those measurements, we have now undone all the static sag setup we went through. All the measurement for Static and Rider Sag are taken from the fully extended measurements.[/size]

[size=1em]A couple of mates are very useful when setting up these sag measurements to hold the bike upright without either applying up or down force when the measurements are taken, plus you will be sitting on the bike for rider sag measurements.      [/size]

I'm going to fit a new set of plug caps some time and would rather not pay over £200 for a set, so those of you who use the NGK ones and ride through winter, would you recommend them?
My local dealer obviously only recommends OEM parts and says the cheap ones let water in, seizing the plug in the head. From what I've seen, the NGK caps have much smaller seals so I could well believe it, but does this happen in the real world? Obviously they'd be ok if your Fazer is a summer time toy, but are they fit for regular wet weather use?

A drug dealer was shot by police in a planned operation. Local MP's calling for calm etc...
All the would be gangsters out there need to realise that the biggest gang in town rightly is in fact the Police.
I feel for his family, but if you want to play gangsta expect to get shot.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-38505164

Hi

Time to get started on servicing the "new to me" thou and as it did not come with a service history, does anyone have a spread sheet / Word document type thing I can use to keep track of my servicing? It's a 13 year old, ~40k mile bike, so not going to bother getting it dealer serviced for "resale" reasons, but do want to keep track of what I've done. Also, I can staple receipts for parts to the document to prove at least I've taken care of it!

If not, I guess I'll just print out from the service manual, write down the milage and tick the things off as I do them, but assume someone's created something I can steal!

cheers

Markie

PS I won't ask what oil people are using

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two years ago my old lab burt Was at the vets coz he jumped out of the van and his back gave out, he couldn't walk. Turned out he had spondolosis. Vet gave him a year tops, but said if I gave him lots of walks, little and often, I may get the whole year. So I did, and the vet did his bit by putting him on PLT, a steroid they only give to dogs as a last resort as it focs their renal system ultimately. I went out early in the morning, then several times in the day, his last one just before midnight. For the first three weeks he cried every time for the first ten minutes of the walk, and could only put one back leg down, so it was literally twenty minutes out covering about 40 yards. Gradually he got better and better, and after six months, even though he walked a little oddly, he was fine and we would gout half a dozen times a day for twenty minute min and forty max. I got my year, and a year extra too. He would still be here now if not for my stupidity five weeks back, when I lost him.

Last three weeks I've been ill, proper poorly, and genuinely thought I was dying, though in truth I wasn't that bothered, just too old and fed up to care lol. Just under a week ago penny noticed I had a bulge in my left side, about as big as three quarters of a tennis ball and made me make. An appointment at the docs. I figured it was cancer, tied in with the pain/ guts ache/ shitting blood etc and it was mildly painful to touch. Went to the docs this afternoon and it was something else altogether.
Thirty years ago I had kidney operations, and unbeknown to me they cut the three walls of muscle that line our stomachs ( one horizontal, one vertical, one lateral) the inner wall didn't heal, and had a hole slightly smaller than a golf ball in it. As I had a physical job, it kept my stomachs muscles reasonably taut, so I didn't suffer anything and didn't know it was there. Then when I stopped building and became a sit down on my arse all day student, I was still walking burt, and as little excecise as that was it was enough to still keep my muscles holding my guts at bay. I didn't think about it, but I guess me and burt walked between 5-10 miles every day, rain or shine..
Five weeks ago I lost him, and the walking stopped. Three weeks ago the pain started as my guts started pushing through the hole. I didn't have a clue, and honestly thought it was something to do about being broken hearted as I was about burt.
Today my doctor laid me down and pushed my guts back in, then made me cough, which pushed them straight back out. How gross is that? He said the danger is if it pops through and twists, then I'm forced
I got two choices..first is an op, which means cutting through two good walls of muscle to get to the buggered one, and could give me more problems and a chain of ops. The second, and the one I'm taking, is to excercise gently initially, then more so and strengthen the muscle enough to to hold stuff in, whilst also lose weight as there's less pressure pushing everything out.
Talk about an incentive for a new year resolution huh...
So I'm back to walking, will go out twice this evening, on my own with the ghost of a Labrador at my side, with a torch through the Forest of Dean. I can think of far worse ways to spend these winter evenings.
And isn't it strange...all this time I thought I was saving my dog. Turns out he was saving me.

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Just been having a browse on ebay at other bits and this popped up:


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-FAZER-6...2308821755


Givi wingrack with mounting kit, currently at £59 with 3 days to go. Could be an absolute bargain for someone.

Hi All,
I've just registered my account on this forum!
I'm Italian and I've moved to the UK one year ago. I brought my FZ1 Fazer GT from Italy, on September 16, to discover this great country 
I hope to meet you all soon.


Alex

Anyone know if he's alright? He was a regular long time fazer thou feller but he's not been on since November..

ive always wanted oe and now a lovely silver '03 model is sat in my garage!


Whoop


Live in Warwickshire, near to Leamington. Hi :0