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How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 02-03-17
Well the Fazer isn't going to be finished anytime soon and the other project was looking like it was going the same way so I spent a couple of days looking at various bikes on ebay and am hoping to pick up a low milege ZZR600 on Saturday. OK not the best looking bike out there but ideal for me as I won't get the urge to foc around with it, just get back on the road and ride the thing.
Couple of sleepless nights coming up me thinks
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 02-03-17
Was supposed to go in general, sorry
Re: How focin excited am I - tommyardin - 02-03-17
Not a bad looking bike, especially in the correct colour like this image
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 02-03-17
That in the UK is the zx6r
The zzr is a sports tourer
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 02-03-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnvVJH2UR0
Re: How focin excited am I - tommyardin - 02-03-17
Oh well! be thankful it's still quite dark in the morning and early evening, you should make to and from work without anyone seeing you :eek
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 02-03-17
(02-03-17, 11:36 PM)tommyardin link Wrote: Oh well! be thankful it's still quite dark in the morning and early evening, you should make to and from work without anyone seeing you :eekI never said it was pretty.
Had a early (88) ZX10, pretty similar idea, large fairing, comfy seat, enough power to keep you happy and a brilliant mile eater.
400 miles in 6 hours including a fuel stop and a coffee, and stepped off the other end like i'd just been down the shops. Oh and I think you'll find the zzr600 would keep up with a Fazer 600 in every department and leave it for dead past the ton.
Not pretty but pretty effective
Re: How focin excited am I - celticdog - 02-03-17
:pokefun You know you're past it Joe when you buy a bike with a lockable glovebox :z
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 02-03-17
(02-03-17, 11:46 PM)celticdog link Wrote: :pokefun You know you're past it Joe when you buy a bike with a lockable glovebox :z
LMAO
Yeah I know its a bit pants but it works and that'll do nicely
Re: How focin excited am I - slappy - 03-03-17
A neighbour of mine had one for 5 years, loved it for its speed and comfort. Much like the Thundercat in my opinion, often overlooked because it wasn`t "trendy"
Re: How focin excited am I - Fazer99 - 03-03-17
I've worked on many ZZR's in the past back when I was working as a panel peater / paint sprayer and with a decent paint job and cleaver graphical design the ZZR can look like a really nice machine.
Re: How focin excited am I - crickleymal - 03-03-17
I had a 1994 ZZR600 a few years ago. Nice to ride but I hated working on it. It took for ever to get the fairings off. Even an oil change took about an hour. And as I was riding 500 miles a week the oil changes came up pretty quickly. IIRC the valve clearance checks were more frequent than the FZS too.
Re: How focin excited am I - Arfa - 03-03-17
My wife had an old ZZR400 (basically a sleeved down 600) we picked up cheap off a friend... and it was shit. Big, heavy and gutless. Though we never did get it running quite right - kept cutting out in top gear over 10k rpm. Forever messing about getting a good seal on ram air box, had misfires from old HT leads, fuel tap kept leaking, tried bypassing Jap limiter and the rest. Probably just had a bad example that had been bodged by many before, but put me right off!
Hope yours turns out better though as they aren't supposed to be that bad!
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 03-03-17
Yes it needs its shims checking at 8k but used to have a carb balance and shims done for about £80 so not to bad, as for the paint the European schemes were a little more tasteful than what we got.
Fingers crossed it's as advertised
Re: How focin excited am I - celticdog - 04-03-17
(03-03-17, 08:45 PM)joebloggs link Wrote: Yes it needs its shims checking at 8k but used to have a carb balance and shims done for about £80 so not to bad, as for the paint the European schemes were a little more tasteful than what we got.
Fingers crossed it's as advertised
Yes they're quirky machines Kawasaki's but they're strength has always been a good engine, I think you'll have a useful bike on your hands
Re: How focin excited am I - darrsi - 04-03-17
(03-03-17, 08:45 PM)joebloggs link Wrote: Yes it needs its shims checking at 8k but used to have a carb balance and shims done for about £80 so not to bad, as for the paint the European schemes were a little more tasteful than what we got.
Fingers crossed it's as advertised
"BIKE FOR SALE - PHONE ARFA" :lol
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 04-03-17
![[Image: zzr.jpg]](https://s19.postimg.org/csfysqtv7/zzr.jpg)
Me thinks the European graphics were far better than the garish schemes we had
Re: How focin excited am I - joebloggs - 04-03-17
As for the Arfa Daily comment, you may be right, got myself a misfire, sure wasn't running on all four all of the time, probably a shot plug, got £150 off the asking price so lets hope its simple
Re: How focin excited am I - Fazer99 - 06-03-17
(04-03-17, 10:25 PM)joebloggs link Wrote:
Me thinks the European graphics were far better than the garish schemes we had
That's a suprisingly alright colour scheme.
I hope it serves you well.
Re: How focin excited am I - celticdog - 06-03-17
(06-03-17, 08:36 AM)Fazer99 link Wrote: That's a suprisingly alright colour scheme.
I hope it serves you well.
. . . and that big seat looks nice and comfy