(15-05-14, 04:11 PM)noggythenog link Wrote: [quote author=ogri48 link=topic=13119.msg148400#msg148400 date=1400164304]
That kinda sums up the fz1 too mate...:-)
The jury is still out with me and the thou....& at present i still have the bonus of both machines.....horses for courses really......the thou has the adrenaline surging oomph & the noise it makes under full pelt is lovely music.
But i still "feel" like im quicker in the corners on my aged 600...it is really nimble......however what im feeling and what im actually doing are perhaps different things as the thou speedo seems to suggest.
I havent had time to properly gel with it yet....ive done the forst run from Manchester in the pissing rain....& ive done a 50 miler on B roads in high winds....i need a proper dry hot day in mid wales.
Oh wait.....saturday is gonna be a dry hot day in Wales.......i can smell a thou day pass cooking
......purely so i can compare the 2 of course. 
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The early fazer 600 is a hard act to follow. When they first came out I got severely duffed up by one on my gsxr1100wp through some twisties, that was humbling as I'm no slouch. Likewise it's sibling, the thundercat..borrowed a mates when I had a cbr900rt blade and didn't want to give it back..yamaha certainly got it right with those bikes