And so it begins................

[FZDick]

At last, spare hour or so, thought get on with service the newly acquired FZ1!
Started by getting in the air filter and changing the plugs, previous chap advised me it was fully serviced when he bought it in December, didn't strike me as mechanically minded tho!
Oh my! Don't ever think I've seen a filter like it!  :eek
With 30K on the clock and 2008 vintage reckon it's the original!
Same with the plugs by the looks, at least they're all the same colour, and not black!
So new plugs (I need smaller hands!) oil and oil filter and hopefully new air filter tomorrow courtesy of Amazon!
Hopefully will be able to test and see what it goes like now it can breathe!

[FZDick]

Just had a better look at that picture, the date stamps on the right hand side, month 06, year 07, so undoubtedly the original filter that ha never seen the light of day since fitted!
Plugs are probably the same, what have I bought! :'(

[old son]

I did the same, bought a Gen 1 in Red. Couldn't see the issues at the time, I was smitten by the bike. I've now replaced a lot of stuff, cleaned a lost of stuff and I still have leaking forks to sort out. I notice my header bolts are badly corroded so without doubt they will snap if I try to undo them. This is on a 30k bike. My main bike is a Gen 1 with 112k on it and overall its finish is much better.