23-11-11, 08:20 AM
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I cant accept your comments when it comes to a stock 06 FZ-1 ! No way. The bike left the factory with glaring issues. The fuelling ( on a FI bike ! ) was appalling. When it was dynoed, rencullen almost laffed at how bad it was....and to make my point clear ...when you ride the bike before and after the effect was just so dramatic.Even more so after a FCE is fitted... But what actually is the " mod" ?...hmm, yes , just getting the fuelling right in the first place. Not actually a mod at all.Maybe later FZ-1s were better , but not the 06. In many ways I do believe Yam wanted the bike to have a more manic streak , to get away from the criticism of the gen1 not being hooligan enuff.Cos to my mind this is exactly what the FZ-1 was back then. Almost a ride me if you dare type of bike, rather than a get on settle down, and lets go type of bike the gen1 is. I believe this is what SH laments about when he looks back on the FZ-1 he had.He comes across as a hard on sports type rider , always wanting a blast about rather than a kick back type of ride.Like I said above, even with over £1000 of engine mods, the thing still always wanted to take you faster than you wanted. Its in its blood IMO, a by product of having so much power so high in the rev range , coming in in just a few thousand revs.. Hence why I dont see it at all as a sports tourer. I see it more like my speed triple...that too being a bike its almost impossible to ride at any sort of sensible pace for too long. But at least that has perfect fuelling and low down torque ! ..oh and a comfy seat ...lol...but its still a mad ride.Great as a second bike, but no way an allrounder as such , let alone a sports tourer.A bike designed and built for blasting around on the road, not for long distance work or really cruising about.
Maybe also SH reflections indicate a general softening of later bikes ??...odd since then as sportsbikes have gone to being such focused track tools....and the development of the full on naked bikes too.Makes me think its just a bike which hit his sweet spot.Maybe if I had not had such an unpleasant experience with mine I may have seen it in a better light.But owning it right on the heels of a sorted gen1 and the sprint , it seemed incredibly unfinished and out of synch with what I actually wanted in an allrounder.
I cant accept your comments when it comes to a stock 06 FZ-1 ! No way. The bike left the factory with glaring issues. The fuelling ( on a FI bike ! ) was appalling. When it was dynoed, rencullen almost laffed at how bad it was....and to make my point clear ...when you ride the bike before and after the effect was just so dramatic.Even more so after a FCE is fitted... But what actually is the " mod" ?...hmm, yes , just getting the fuelling right in the first place. Not actually a mod at all.Maybe later FZ-1s were better , but not the 06. In many ways I do believe Yam wanted the bike to have a more manic streak , to get away from the criticism of the gen1 not being hooligan enuff.Cos to my mind this is exactly what the FZ-1 was back then. Almost a ride me if you dare type of bike, rather than a get on settle down, and lets go type of bike the gen1 is. I believe this is what SH laments about when he looks back on the FZ-1 he had.He comes across as a hard on sports type rider , always wanting a blast about rather than a kick back type of ride.Like I said above, even with over £1000 of engine mods, the thing still always wanted to take you faster than you wanted. Its in its blood IMO, a by product of having so much power so high in the rev range , coming in in just a few thousand revs.. Hence why I dont see it at all as a sports tourer. I see it more like my speed triple...that too being a bike its almost impossible to ride at any sort of sensible pace for too long. But at least that has perfect fuelling and low down torque ! ..oh and a comfy seat ...lol...but its still a mad ride.Great as a second bike, but no way an allrounder as such , let alone a sports tourer.A bike designed and built for blasting around on the road, not for long distance work or really cruising about.
Maybe also SH reflections indicate a general softening of later bikes ??...odd since then as sportsbikes have gone to being such focused track tools....and the development of the full on naked bikes too.Makes me think its just a bike which hit his sweet spot.Maybe if I had not had such an unpleasant experience with mine I may have seen it in a better light.But owning it right on the heels of a sorted gen1 and the sprint , it seemed incredibly unfinished and out of synch with what I actually wanted in an allrounder.