Hello All From A Retiring Fazer Owner

[Pudge]

Hi All,

I live in Maldon in Essex and have been travelling into and around London for the last 12 years on various bikes and I am unfortunately throwing in the towel.

The end of my current role as well as having two small kids has made me think that the risk is not worth it any more.

Over the years I have owned many different bikes and pretty much worn them all out. The list I have used over the years is here.

Honda Fireblade RRW 2008 - Fantastic bike even for commuting but heavy on chains.
Yamaha R1 2008. Again a surprisingly good London commuter but no way of getting luggage on it so only had this one a short time.
Kawasaki GT550 - Winter hack that lasted nearly 100,000 miles. Fantastic bike.
Honda Deaville - Absolute rubbish. Bought new and after 30,000 miles had been back with Honda more than I had ridden it.
BMW K1100, what a disaster this was. Everything fell off it in the 40,000 miles i did on it.
Suzuki RF900. Great bike, massively underrated and lasted about 70,000 miles.

Now the best bike I have owned for commuting and general hacking about is the bike I currently own, A 2003 Fazer 1000.
This has been the best bike I have owned and is still going strong at 52,000 miles.

I will be putting the Fazer up for sale in the correct section soon so if any one is interested in a good cheap bike have a look there.

Thanks and great site by the way, very informative.

Dave

[BIG MAC]

Errr hello and goodbye.....but you'll be back lol

[Farjo]

Interesting history. Surprising about the Deaville as I thought anything Honda would be very reliable, but perhaps that's just marketing?

Thanks you for your comment about the site and hope you'll stick around

[Pudge]

Deaville was built in Spain and was just shockingly poorly put together.
The finish just fell off it, the exhaust disintegrated in front of your eyes and it seems my gearbox had never been case hardened so it required rebuilding twice!!

Steer clear of one of these.

I may be back but I just dont need the Fazer any longer as I do not plan to be travelling in and out of town any more but I may be back if I feel like a Gen 2 1000 at some point in the future.