what did you do with your fazer today ?

[noggythenog]

Nick..you're thou must have about 100k miles on it by now.

[nick crisp]

15k when I bought it in June 2013, about 40k now; only occasionally used to commute as it's only 3 miles to work, hardly seems worth waking the bike up for. Talking of which, I'd better get off my arse and get to work!

[Dead Eye]

New throttle cables for the 600 have turned up today, so I'll be fitting them on Saturday hopefully, along with the carbs from the noggyfighter ^.^

[NorthWestern]

Tightened the headstock a bit.  It's stopped the death wobble when letting go of the bars at speed.  Why let go? Just one of them things blokes do...

[esetest]

Did the Minehead to Lynmouth coast road the other week , cracking road , great pictures .

That was a long day! Left home at 8:30 this morning, didn't get back til 9:30 this evening. Had a ride down to Exmoor, took the coast road from Minehead to Lynmouth, and snapped some views of Exmoor:







And a couple of snaps of the coastline on the descent to Lynmouth:





Had fish and chips by the sea at Lynmouth:







And a couple of general shots taken for the hell of it:









Covered a fair few miles around the moors too, Exe Valley, Bampton to Minehead, Minehead to Lynmouth (twice!), and generally just followed my nose with no set route. 397 miles covered today 

[Grahamm]

That was a long day! Left home at 8:30 this morning, didn't get back til 9:30 this evening. Had a ride down to Exmoor, took the coast road from Minehead to Lynmouth, and snapped some views of Exmoor:

I've ridden that road a few times whilst on holiday at Croyde, it's great :thumbup

[TonyW]

Took a ride down to BMAD Paignton bike night as I normally do on a Wednesday, only this time I had an old video camera my daughter found in the back of  cupboard sellotaped to the front indicator. Its pre-HD vintage and the built in screen doesn't work so its taken a bit of fiddling to get the settings right and it pointing straight. It turns out that windows Movie maker doesn't like the output from the cam and squashes everything up, so I've spent the day learning how to use lightworks instead. Ho hum.
Oh well, here's the vid, plus if you check my youtube channel you can see the first couple of attempts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKy7vimaX4E

[dazza]

Met up with Mr Midden for a coffee at Nell's and had a pleasant blast around the Kent countryside. Beautiful mild evening.  Long live the summer.

[Anquetil]

Cleaned it, along with my XJ600. Out for a ride to Anglesey tomorrow. Good weather forecast.

[Dead Eye]

Removed the old throttle cables and threaded through my new OEM ones... then realised that noggy was kind enough to have included them on his carbs... I really should have looked before I bought the new ones, woops

I then spent about 15 minutes cursing trying to get them attached to the carbs and a further two hours trying to refit the carbs... I forgot how much of an absolute pain in the ass job this is

"Re-fitting my carbs was easy" said no Foccer ever.

So, I opted for a potentially stupid option (this happens far too often when things don't go my way) and wrapped a ratchet strap around the carbs and the head of the engine and ratcheted the buggers on!! It wasn't super quick, but it certainly made life much easier. At this point, my back reminded me that it was now totally ruined and that I should go back in doors...

[MarkWales]

Removed head light shield

[NorthWestern]

Cleaned the aft photon torpedo tubes

[unfazed]

Removed the old throttle cables and threaded through my new OEM ones... then realised that noggy was kind enough to have included them on his carbs... I really should have looked before I bought the new ones, woops

I then spent about 15 minutes cursing trying to get them attached to the carbs and a further two hours trying to refit the carbs... I forgot how much of an absolute pain in the ass job this is

"Re-fitting my carbs was easy" said no Foccer ever.

So, I opted for a potentially stupid option (this happens far too often when things don't go my way) and wrapped a ratchet strap around the carbs and the head of the engine and ratcheted the buggers on!! It wasn't super quick, but it certainly made life much easier. At this point, my back reminded me that it was now totally ruined and that I should go back in doors...

Never had a problem and this is how I do it.
Loosen the screws on the OEM inlet manifolds hose clamps until the ends are flush with the end of the nut.
Moisten a cloth well with WD40, rub it around the inside edges of the inlet manifolds.
Do the same on the rubbers on the air box. 
Put the carbs in from the right hand side, fit the throttle cables.
They will now push on easily to the inlet manifolds.
Now push the air box rubbers on to the rear.
Check all are on correctly
Tighten the bracket on the top of the air box and frame first before the tightening the bolts on the side of the air box.
Tighten the hose clamps.

[Dead Eye]

I've done it before but never remember it being as bad as it was today... I'd used a smear of petroleum jelly on the inside of the rubbers but they were having none of it. The airbox side was a doddle and was fitted in 2 or 3 minutes...

The only thing I can think of, is that it was because it was a different set of carbs from another Fazer...

[johnnyg]

Got it McIvanised yesterday (slip on kit) by Mike, hosted by Brian both top blokes. Took hardly ant time at all and then told to take it for a try out which I only had to do for a few hundred yards to notice the difference, pick up much smoother and quicker and it just felt like a different bike, the rid home and the one this morning were just great, got some work to do over the winter then the full monty!

[Dead Eye]

Picked up a friend as pillion and went for a bimble up to J&S Accessories in Braintree where I subsequently bought myself a new helmet (Shark S900) to be picked up next week (they didn't have the design I wanted in stock in my size ) - can't wait to get hold of it ^^

[unfazed]

We took a short trip to Cobh, (last port of call by the Titanic) to visit the grave of a friend of my wife .

Cloudy sky looked great behind the Cathedral when I realised I had forgotten my camera.
Took this with the "Not So Smart Phone"

[MarkWales]

Took it to Mumbles - Swansea


Lots of very nice machines there
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[nick crisp]

Went to the RNAS Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm museum Ride-In day with some BCF-ers. Not a huge number of bikes there, but a couple of interest.

Our group just about to leave:



I liked this Z550 with GPZ900 fairing:





Weird thing:





And another weird thing. It's a Superdream....wait, no it's not....it's a....a.... :eek what the foc is it?! :







Nice modern café racer:



If you're gonna build a trike, might as well base it on something with some grunt:



And some aeroplanes in the museum:



Grumman Martlet, Royal Navy version of the American Wildcat:



Vought Corsair, another one borrowed from the Yanks:



Hawker Sea Fury, last of the great British piston-engine fighters:



My mum had a distant cousin (and by distant, I really mean distant; he moved to Australia  :lol ) who flew Sea Furies in the Korean war. And this is what they were up against; MiG 15:



Not a bad day out in all 

[noggythenog]

Took it to Mumbles - Swansea


Lots of very nice machines there

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Say again Mark?.........you were mumbling a bit there :lol


Ill get my coat :o