Dear All

Had my Fazer a few weeks and have now done 935 miles on it.

When I turn the ignition on, the neutral, fuel, oil and fuel light come on then go off except neutral.

When I start the engine, the oil, temperature and fuel lights momentarily illuminate and then go off again (as if you've just turned the ignition on).

I'm sure it wasn't doing it before! Just watched a couple of You Tube videos of start ups and they don't do it, so I'm not imagining it.

Nornal?
A problem?
An inidcation of a problem?

The only thing that has changed, and may be ENTIRELY coincidental, is that I took it for MOT this morning and there were two extended periods of checking the steering lock to lock to check headrace condition. Makes me wonder whether a dirty/lose connection/wire has been upset. Just a pain in the @rse having to strip and inspect.

Thanks

BSR67

Anyone remember the very start of FOC-U? It must have been some time in the late 90s when I started "Meirion's Fazer Pages". It was all very basic but I added a very basic forum that seemed to get quite popular. There were many suggestions about starting an owners club so myself and, I think, DaveB, came up with the name FOC-U, Fazer Owners Club-Unofficial. That's when the fun started for real with ride outs, Welsh rip-ups, track days, Spring meets etc.,etc.
I'm now a bit of an old fart but am back on a Fazer 1000 and having fun again. 

Hi all, 

I've only just joined this forum and are also pretty new to biking so pls forgive my lack of understanding around certain things!

I brought a Fazer FZS600 (2000 model) privately back in early March and up until recently it was running pretty good. The guy i purchased it from claimed he had done an engine rebuild on it but when i went through the paperwork it looks like he'd replaced a couple of things on the engine (i forget what exactly) to the cost of about £70 so doesn't sound like much of a rebuild to me.

In the last few weeks the bike seems to struggle to start in the mornings in the sense that it turns over fine, but struggles to fire up. After turning it over for 2-3mins (using choke) eventually it seems to fire up and then is fine. 

Also, i'm noticing from time-to-time when attempting to start it in the morning, fuel is pissing out the bottom of the bike i assume from me twisting the throttle when trying to start it? 
Then the fuel stops leaking after about 30-45 secs.

I've checked the spark plugs and they seem ok, although (according to Google) the spark gap should be about 0.8mm and the plugs in my bike have a bigger gap so not sure if thats anything?
The spark plugs in the bike are NGK CR8E ones which appear to be the correct type.
My father reckons i could make the spark gap smaller using a hammer but i'm not sure that sounds correct to me!

Also the fuel gauge doesn't work but i'm planning to remove that and clean it up and see if that helps.

One more thing to note - the guy i brought it from said the carbs need balancing off the back of the 'rebuild' but when i got mechanic to look at it he said that wasn't the case and it was running ok albeit a bit 'lumpy' at 2000 RPM.

Any help or advice will be much appreciated.

Calling tyre wear experts. Has anyone got any idea why my rear Bt023 might be wearing like this? Suspension settings maybe?

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All,

I need to clean up/polish my frame covers on the basis they are looking a little scruffy.

How is this best done? Looks like a lot of elbow grease to restorer them to original!

Thanks

BSR67

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I have a Givi rack and box on my 2002 Fazer 1000 that I'd like to swap for 2 grab rails - anyone fancy that? I'm in Devon and can post.

As it said above. I'm after pannier support/rack for a gen 1 thou. Got the givi arms just need the pannier bits for it.

Gen 1 thou standard fork Springs, valves, pistons.

Had 15k on them when I KTec'd the forks. 
Just pay postage and they're yours.

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Anyone got one lurking around they want  to sell ??