After my intro post i have since passed my big bike test and had already bought my fazer 1000 on advice of my instructor. My wife now thinks she lives alone as if its light and dry i am out like a big 41 year old kid. I trained on a 650 kwak which i thought had some go but the fazer is some other animal.
Yep i ride like a newby, call me mc chicken strip who cares, i am a slow rider as i have not got my confidence and after passing my test now i am starting to learn to ride a bike.
The bikes not lite but the slow speed handling its a doddle to manage, but when i open it up and i say open it up most of you would laugh at what i call opening up as i have yet to get past 6000 revs and to be honnest until i am happy i wont either, but the power is unreal, it doesn't dip and just keeps ruddy going, have done almost 2400 miles in 3 weeks mostly around the peninnes, and thats only after work lol but i cant simply stop wanting to ride the animal. Someone told me they are a wolf in sheeps clothing and by god they were right.
I never clean my car and have it valleted when needed but i have found myself washing and cleaning my bike on a regular basis and even looking for radiator grills, double bubble screens, beowolf exhaust whats the hells happening to me.
frostman
Ha ha you've got the bike bug ok. Keep riding in your comfort zone and stay shiny side up and keep enjoying it.
a bird in the hand poops on the wrist
Well done,,enjoy it,,we spend most of the year waiting for dry roads..
the bike s are rocket ships,,hang on there,
So the wifes lonely,,,got and piccies,,close up photos ?
of the bike 
An ageing test pilot for home grown widgets that may fail at anytime.
Quote:but the power is unreal, it doesn't dip and just keeps ruddy going,
Wait till you get it up to 11,000rpm, they just keep pulling all the way through, especially if ivanised.
Save the planet...It's the only one with beer!
Don't worry about riding with limits that you feel comfortable with, I passed my test 30+ years ago and still ride steady. You enjoy your bike doing what you want to do, I do.
Andy
Your instructor gave you good advice and you should buy him a beer!
Last time I use smilies here. It just cut off everything after the first sentence. I wrote a long post too... Boo! I start a new topic when I can spare the time. Just near Double R motorcycles in Leyton. I have to go in with my new rear shock and disc to get them fitted! TTFN.
Hell of a tool for your first bike. Enjoy mate...
Thanks for the comments, pics of the wife eh .. why you got anything you want to scare .. god hope she don't read this. Only kidding mrs.
Yeah i think i have the bug, after a bottle of wine i tend to go in the garage and stair at the bike like some love sick teenager, and will simply enjoy my riding at my pace. Having the power there though allows me to overtake better i think less time on wrong side of the road is always good. Ivanised took me a while to suss what that was as local honda specialist is called ivan and i am thinking god he must be good to know how to get more out of a fazer, eventually i managed to find the post with the explanation. :\
For now though i will continue to nod at other riders and maybe one day i will introduce ivanising to my bike.
F
of course it may of already been ivanised,,it would be easier if when bikes have been altered they are recorded or marked for easy idenification.
An ageing test pilot for home grown widgets that may fail at anytime.
And have to admit it to the insurance co. I don't think so.... :lol
Save the planet...It's the only one with beer!
Frostman this is a great story......what a good post...you are honest and dont give a foc about the bravado and you're enjoying your first bike....whats not to like.
Ive been scared by my thou but I'm not afraid to open it up....but being a fat bastard i can perhaps hang on a bit easier with my mass holding me down on the seat and stopping my arms getting ripped off :b .
But being smooth and progressive is the key......the key that i somehow lost recently and that has made riding less enjoyable so don't worry about speed....ride comfortably and over time that will happen to be at greater speeds without even realising it.
Easiest way to go fast........don't buy a blue bike
Quote:Frostman this is a great story......what a good post...you are honest and dont give a foc about the bravado and you're enjoying your first bike....whats not to like.
I'll go along with that.
Quote:Ive been scared by my thou but I'm not afraid to open it up
I'll admit to that too but it is fun. :lol
Save the planet...It's the only one with beer!
Awesome, well done man! 
When I picked up my FZS600 about a year ago (first big bike) my instructor (who sold me it too) said "Go steady, get used to it". Call me stupid but I stuck to the 30 limits, but as soon as I hit a 60 I just couldn't stop myself winding it on. Perhaps not my brightest move after just passing my test and buying a new bike, but the Fazer is an animal that I struggle to tame in terms of keeping the speed down. It just seems to cry "more, more, more, don't stop!" :rollin
+1
I passed my DAS on a 600 and wanted one (XJ6). The instructor said 'You'll be bored in 6 months. Get a Fazer 8 or something.' Meaning something suitable for a salad-dodger.
Tested a Fazer Thou in a bike shop and just pootling around it was like a kitten then when you hit open road... Jaysuuuuus!!
Don't regret it for one second. Still not got it round the rev range and 'learning to lean'. I'm just happy being back on a bike and enjoying riding.
Happy bunny.
Forget the rad covers and stuff, go ivanised, R6 shocked, and multiguage first for toys, I'd recomend all three mods.
Save the planet...It's the only one with beer!
2 down and multi gauge in the post for a full house.
Frostman, you have been bitten by the bike bug and have become infected. :eek
The bad news is, there is no known cure. :woot
Welcome to the fold :lol
(09-07-14, 08:02 AM)unfazed link Wrote: Frostman, you have been bitten by the bike bug and have become infected. :eek
The bad news is, there is no known cure. :woot
Welcome to the fold :lol
The other bad news is, your wallet and license will now go into meltdown :lol
Another happy Fazerer - enjoy and stay within your own limits - s'all good
Thanks for the posts. I think Ivanise is something you do when the excitement of the brute force power that the fazer already has starts to wear off, for me to do that now would probably end up with me giving the bike up to be honnest as i am yet to get the thing properly over 6000 revs without feeling nervous. I am getting a little more confidence then i braked a little hard coming to a stop and felt the front tyre slide a little on some crappy ground i was going less than 5mp - foot out and it stopped a problem from happening but my leg muscles are telling me to take care.It was my fault all the way and i am kicking myself for the schoolboy error but in many ways after only 4 weeks of being licenced i am still a schoolboy. For now and probably for years to come i am going to stick with the title of novice on a big bike and i feel happy with that.
Over the penines the other night i had a free road and opened it up wow a whopping 70mph i have been to this speed before and it sort of feels comfortable but i have come to the conclusion i need to get my head behind the screen otherwise i will probably float away at some point with the bike as i feel like a parachute. Being 6ft 3 with a 54inch chest dont help with the parachute effect.
I think my time driving cars and probably dodgems expects me at some point to dominate the bike and be able to ride it at its max. What is clearly apparent is that i will never dominate this bike in any way its got the ability to give me a good spanking. What i find a buzz and it may sound sad but getting away at the lights i dont need to break the speed limit but its ruddy good at leaving the rest of the traffic well behind its not a boy racer feeling its the buzz of enjoying the power and yet i still have not really experienced its true power only just tickled it. The power is one thing but i think the comfort is good having been out for 4 hours i get no wrist, knee or ankle ache not to mention a lack of a numb arse i could probably ride it all day without feeling discomfort.
The sad part of me came out to play yesterday the cover plate which goes over the exup pully had a brocken stud left in it, i have been told by another fazer owner to keep this pully cables lubed and make sure i copper greese the screws as they tend to seize up. So out came the exup valve and plate and stud was extracted i even ordered the correct set of screws from yamaha lol
i was ever an anorak but since i got this bike ......
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