24-06-14, 11:54 AM
craig
it takes me three months or so before i feel at one with new bike, the fazer was no exception.
your broken ankle incident will have changed you for sure. i've not been the same rider (or person in fact) since writing off a zx-9r at some speed a few years back. it may be that it's broken your enthusiasm for biking, if that's the case then some acceptance and moving on is in order. i couldn't wait to jump back on a bike after my big off but a low speed off on a roundabout a few years before that had me seriously thinking that i would never ride again. i guess different incidents affect us in different ways.
the fazer is a great bike but not for everyone. i bought mine from a man that said he just couldn't bond with it and wanted to go back to a ducati. i thought he was nuts, he thought i was nuts.
i had the same clutch rattle as you describe. welding my captive springs to the clutch basket fixed mine. no amount of carb balancing was going to fix it....
good luck.
is it clean enough?