Recent content by grimjaw

Well I'm back in the saddle again, as the saying goes. My last x-ray showed I have a one piece radius, finally. I still have some less range than I did before the accident, but it has so far not affected my ability to ride. To anyone who goes through something like this, I can't stress enough...

dturpen, the bike did have frame sliders and I do believe they helped. I live in Little Rock until I'm done with school. I've taken a ride or two along highway 10 to Oklahoma and from Magazine up to the Lost Valley area, along with trips through Heber Springs on my way to northeast Arkansas...

Unfortunately I was only carrying liability at the time of the wreck. :( It starts and runs. The forks were slightly misaligned but not warped. The handlebars are bent, and of course the fairing is trashed. There's a slight crack in the crankcase cover on the left side. The gas tank isn't...

Evitzee, you're absolutely right. The turn was marked 40mph, and I was probably going between 55-60mph (indicated). Bright sunshine in the middle of the day, with a good well-paved road and no gravel or potholes. I had already been taking turns on that road several times at slightly faster...

On 11/8, I hopped on my FZ6 for a short ride to Hot Springs, AR, and back. About 3/4 of the way there while entering an easy turn at a speed I am very comfortable with 98% of the time, I had a mental lockup. I stopped looking at the road at started telling myself I wasn't going to make the turn...

Hi there. New to this forum and this is my first post. Sorry to revive such an old thread, but I ran into a similar problem with my new (to me) 2008 FZ6. On anything greater than 1/4-1/3 of a tank of fuel, I have a serious drip coming out of my overflow hose. It is absolutely not related to...