what did you do with your fazer today ?

[Grahamm]

Got a reminder I'd set on my phone that the earliest day for the MOT was on the 24th and decided that I really should actually *do* something with my FZ6, because I've barely ridden it since the previous MOT!

First I had to syphon the fuel out because it had been sitting in there for a year and put 5 new litres in, although the old stuff didn't look too bad, so I let it settle, then syphoned most of it back in.

Then gave the bike a good check over, the oil was fine, as were the brakes, so I just put a bit of lubricant on the pivot points and some Scotoil on the chain and went for a little pootle to check everything was ok.

My first concern was a buzz or rattle I could hear from the front, but then found it was just a loose fairing bolt, so that was ok and after some riding around the back streets to make sure it wasn't going to stop unexpectedly, I got out onto the open roads and...

... ye gods am I out of practice!

Roads that I would normally have been [ahem] "making progress" down I was only puttering along and bends that I would have normally been cranking it over, I was tiptoeing around.

Towards the end of the ride, it was starting to come together again, but I really need to get some more miles done this year!