Fz6 S2 or not ?

[hawkeye]

The FZ6 is based around the fuel-injected R6 engine and replaced the old carburetted Fazers which used the Thundercat engine when the emissions rules changed in 2003.

The FZ6-S was produced from 2004 to 2007 when it was replaced by the S2 which has had a few minor tweaks eg better fuelling and less snatchy throttle coming out of bends and slightly better brakes, but there's not that much difference between them and AFAIK the S2 doesn't have noticably more power.

Generally the easiest way (apart from production date) to tell them apart is to look at the instrument cluster, this is the FZ6-S and this is the S2.

You cant always go by the clocks particularly on the changeover year , mines an 07 model S2 with ABS and it has the clocks shown in the first link , I bought it new in 07 so have the invoice ,handbook/manual etc all for the S2 ABS .