Hello, new owner from Kent

[JayB]

Hi all, just joined to glean some knowledge and have a browse of your bikes etc.

I have had about 20 bikes in the past 6 years, and have just settled on a Gen 1 Fazer 1000, 2001 model.
It has 20k on the clock, mainly standard apart from an end can. Only bought it yesterday, seems fine, brakes are crap,  :eek  suspension settings still standard  :eek  but it goes like stink and is very easy to ride, quite a compliment seeing as I only sold a 2003 R1 on Friday.

If anyone else is from Kent and has a slightly modded Fazer, I'd love to meet up at some point for a chat and a ride. I am not far (enough) from Dover... I am the wrong side of 35 too! 

Cheers and hello again. 

[dazza]

Hi and welcome, also from Kent, Near Sittingbourne. Sure you're going to love the fazer, just need those brakes sorted by the sound of it.

[boxer1]

Welcome, great choice, the gen 1 is a gem of a bike, best all rounder out there, the brakes are normally ace on them, get them sorted and you,re on your way, sold my ZX12 to get my gen 1 and hav,nt regretted  it  enjoy , Martin.

[steeeve66]

20 bikes in 6 years...! blimey  :eek it's taken me 12 years to get through 10.

welcome to the site - i'm right on the other side of Kent, near the M25, but if you're ever up this way let me know.

ps: some of us are the wrong side of 45 btw - i even hear 55 has been passed by some...

[Grandma]

Wahay, welcome, I am also in Kent near Sevenoaks and newly joined. Just back from France on the bike, sadly not the Fazer, which I started off on 7am Saturday to catch the 8.20am train, but it threw me off just before Jct 8 M20 when the tailpack, which I have used on several bikes, including my Gen 1 2004 Fazer for the last 14 years, slipped off and locked the back wheel.
[/size][/color]The police who stopped to help and were also bikers mention Gen 2 appears to be prone to this, so I will need to rethink luggage! :\
[/size][/color]Got the Fazer recovered back home thanks to Carole Nash insurance, repacked, rebooked and took 03 R1 which never missed a beat putting a big grin on my face by way of compensation.
[/size][/color]Weekend was fabulous, managed not to get too lost and returned yesterday tired, but with a big grin.
[/size][/color]Waiting for the Fazer to be collected and restored to it's former glory, all superficial, saved by the R&G bung, my elbow and hip!! :rolleyes

[JayB]

Thanks for welcomes guys. I will surely be able to get out and about more on this one, seems so easy to ride quick - especially round town.
I even took it out in the dark last night I am that keen to ride it - that doesn't happen very often!
JESUS, harsh one on the luggage!
My mate had a 100mph lock-up when his waterproof trousers got eaten by the back wheel of his R6! Somehow he stayed on but left about a 75 metre skid mark on the A2. ! :eek

Yes, must do some bits, starting with suspension tweaks tonight, cleaned calipers at the weekend, and then as soon as I can afford it, lower bars, braided lines and a bigger screen.

[JayB]

Spent about an hour and a half last night fiddling about.

Suspension was stock still ! I adjusted it all to the settings from performance bikes, including winding the almost seized preload on the rear shock up, turned the handlebars back a bit and dropped the front end 10mm.

feels much better.. 

[phillywilly]

hi jayb , im from ramsgate and got my faser last fri (first bike after test )mind you it took me 48 years on this planet to get round to it !!!
we,ll have to meet up one day for chat,-by the way did you get special tool to do the rear suspension ? cos mine is really soft sprung too.
how do you find the bloody headlights ? i think you can see more of a night without them on lol thats how good mine are ,mind you the bike more than makes up for that in all other ways !!!

[JayB]

Hi there, few of us from Kent then. Yeah should all have a meet up at some point.
Headlights are as good as I expect from a bike, but mine has the larger R1 type lights being the 1000, no idea what the 600 lights are like, but they do look smaller.
A fella round from me has a 600 and I notice it has a HID conversion on Dip Beam, bloody blinded me from behind on my way to work one day.

[Dave48]

I see from photo youre still running rubber brake hoses-if these are original theyre 11 years old so how about set of braided?. Run exactly same bike as you & brakes are ace! :lol

[JayB]

I have a set of Goodridge sat next to me mate...  :lol

Been gathering parts to do this at the weekend, new fluid, the lines, copper washers, and some bleed pipe.

Roll on good brakes.

[Grandma]

hi jayb , im from ramsgate and got my faser last fri (first bike after test )mind you it took me 48 years on this planet to get round to it !!!
we,ll have to meet up one day for chat,-by the way did you get special tool to do the rear suspension ? cos mine is really soft sprung too.
how do you find the bloody headlights ? i think you can see more of a night without them on lol thats how good mine are ,mind you the bike more than makes up for that in all other ways !!!

Will be coming to Ramsgate on 21st October for the sand racing, perhaps Kent FOC could meet there? Good cheap day out as it is FREE, went last year and amazed at what they can do with a small area of beach compared to Le Touquet, which goes on for miles!
[/size][/color]Had to abandon Le Touquet this year as it is in February when we had the snow, couldn't even get the bike down the drive, no hope of making the train and I gather it was just as bad in France :\