Recent content by rideslikean00b

Clutchless upshifting from 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th gears is often the way forwards at speed, pun intended. It's useful to practice for regular road riding but a lot harder to get the right timing if you're not winding the throttle fully open or close to it, it can cause a jolt/shudder which is...

I regularly run 20 or so miles into the reserve. Try not to make a habit of going further. For my 40 mile round trip work commute, if I fill up Sunday evening I can go until Thursday evening before filling. I've stretched it to Friday evening sometimes but it runs so heavily into the reserve...

Sat idle in traffic on a bike? Solution: Filter more. ;-)

With normal filling conditions, using Esso Supreme (premium grade fuel basically) and brimming the tank as high I can, so high that it needs to be ridden immediately after filling lest the gas inside build up and blow the cover off, the best mileage I've ever achieved was last year in summery...

Agreed. Mine had an OEM replacement set which the original owner had put a few thousand miles on, I added about 15,000 more and it would have been good for some beyond that if the bike had survived. Keep it clean and reapply chain lube every few hundred miles (maybe a little more if you ride...

Agreed. Everything past noon on the RPM gauge is the fun zone, but I'd recommend at least a few weeks of ownership because it takes a while to get the control. Drop it down a gear as you get to the corners to effect engine braking then smoothly roll on the throttle and lean through the...

I'd like to add having used the stock screen and now a Puig double bubble on my current FZ6 that it's kind of a double-edged sword (no pun intended). If you're in upright position at anything over 50mph it seems to push the air more into your neck and face than a stock screen. But then if you...

I considered it, way too expensive though considering everything else that's been done to it. Yeah me too, shame we had to lose the matching colour belly pan to fit them but you can't have it all ;-) I would tend to agree, it was a toss up between this and an 05 Fazer in black. This won...

Some idiot U-Turned out of traffic on me a few months back (7th December to be precise) and wrote off my other bike, injuring me (not too badly but enough I still feel it a few months later) and denying it. We’ll be taking this one to court I expect, me and the solicitors, for personal injury...

Well, sadly as of last Monday my Fazer is dead. Filtering past stationery traffic someone got impatient and u-turned out of it with indication warning too late, no mirror checks. I flew about 20 feet when I hit the driver's side wheelarch head on (you can't swerve properly in very little...

Me shifting down into first is dependent on the conditions, mood (i.e. cruising about or have somewhere to go) and traffic density. If there's lots of traffic or it's raining medium to heavy then it pays to treat first gear with respect to avoid tank slappers brought on by inadvertently engine...

I've got close enough that I've scraped my boot on the floor going through roundabouts twice now, in the last few months. If I had my foot back on the peg the knee would have dragged a bit, I'm sure. I'm in no rush to get there - I'm still trying to learn the basics of body positioning to keep...

I've had a few dings with other bikes in the past including the devastation of my Diversion XJ-6 which silver lining style led to my discovery and subsequent ownership of the FZ-6 S2. Other than considering trading it in very briefly for an R1 (too expensive, too nickable, not strong enough as...

At the moment for my work commute it's usually: 1. Remove cover from bike, which is usually damp from the rain (gotta love UK weather) 2. Add topbox to back of bike 3. Key in ignition, start her up 4. Go get remainder of gear on (textile padded jacket, lid, double gloves) 5. Bike is...

Haven't really seen the need to get knee down in most cases. It can help when you're dealing with cold tarmac but mostly I use it for certain roundabouts to get a smoother line on the exit. Can't say I've ever got it all the way down before but close enough that the chicken strips are much...