Downshifting how do you do it?

[tommyardin]

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That's cool mate, I think we are all singing from the same song sheet

It certainly sounds like it :thumbup Just out of interest and on bit of a tangent. I rarely look at my tacho, except to check whether I'm in top. I tend to use feel and sound to change up and down, is this the way most of us do it?
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I tend to wait for the blood to start filling my eyes then knock it up another cog  :eek 
Yes, it's the feel of the bike after a while of owning any bike you instinctively know when to cog swap either up or down, unless of course you scratching with buddies then you looking for the red line (Not going to let them bastards leave me behind :lol

If you ride on the red line the FZS 600 Fazer is absolutely mental for a small engined bike, the 0-60mph is astounding quick.
I have had German and Italian sports cars give up at about 100 and pull over and let me bye, they don't care for it you sitting in the fast lane and flashing them to get out of the way  top .

I was absolutely gobsmacked with the power of my FZS when I first got it, I had been off bikes for almost 40 years and had been used to the power of British 650 parallel twins with the top speed of about 104 mph downhill with a trailing wind if you were lucky, or alternatively over Beachy Head, the power output was about 46 BHP, that is just less than half the BHP of the 2003 FZS 600 and the Fazer is good for around 145 mph and can get to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds.

Thinking back to my early British 650 twin days, I am now wondering why they had a speedo when a foccing calendar would have been more appropriate. :lol 

[vinnyb]

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Thinking back to my early British 650 twin days, I am now wondering why they had a speedo when a foccing calendar would have been more appropriate. :lol  [/size]

Can you imagine the Fazer's speed with the handling and brakes of a 1959 triumph tiger 100 though?

[tommyardin]

We were poor lads then, no hydrolics just pre-stretched cables, twin leading shoe on the front if you were lucky, single leading shoe on the rear end. My BSA Super Rocket had twin leading on the front with an airdam/scoop when it rained it funnelled the water into the hub and made the brake almost non exsistant. All the rear ever did was make the back wheel skid, you would pres down on the pedal, nothing, nothing, nothing, lockup.
The thing that always seemed to happen was when the shoes wore down and the cables stretch the angle of pull on the brake hub lever was way over 90 degrees so did foc all.

[steve 10562cc]

We survived old Brit bikes and the early Jap bikes disc brakes that did nothing to stop the bike in the wet. I past my test at 16 and got a 500 Suzuki guess I was one of the lucky ones to survive those early years ridding, went to a few funerals of mates that didn't make it to be 18.

[tommyardin]

We survived old Brit bikes and the early Jap bikes disc brakes that did nothing to stop the bike in the wet. I past my test at 16 and got a 500 Suzuki guess I was one of the lucky ones to survive those early years ridding, went to a few funerals of mates that didn't make it to be 18.

That's a tough one Steve, fortunately I did not see any of my biker buddies in a coffin, well not through biking.


I ended up in hospital a few times with nothing more serious than a squashed hand a couple of broken fingers and an ankle bone that had to be built up after I had filed it away being dragged about 40 yards under a old BSA, foccing thing weighed a ton with its thick steel mudguards and steel nacelle type headlight unit.
What a piece of shit that bike was in nasty brown/maroon colour.
Ooooppps a bit off topic

[Oldgit]

BMW R1200RS SE, close the throttle and downshift, easy peasy pudding and pie.