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:welcome: new guy! Glad you and your bike are ok! Maybe practice some emergency stops and brake balancing in a parking lot so you'll have a better result next time!

Great transformation, enjoy it!

Yep, the naysayers need to look at the reality of the situation...far newer "economy" tires versus super hardened old tires. I lucked out on Dunlop Q2s for $150 for the set a couple months back which'll go on sometime this season to replace my ancient OEM tires as well but I would probably...

:mikebike::mikebike: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! :mikebike::mikebike:

+1, though he didn't say 200% improvement I agree with most of what you said in that the Shinkos are worlds better than highly aged factory tires. I wish there was a user that has used both of them and done rigorous testing in a controlled manner so that it can quantified just how much better...

Very nice looking, I'd love a bike I could take offroad since I've never ridden a dirtbike or anything

Maybe that's what I'll have to do then I understand that, but I know the MPG decrease isn't entirely due to that or rather won't believe it until the bike's at a more reasonable coolant/operating temperature

Not for a long stretch of highway, short trips yeah it makes a huge difference because of the longer warmup, but I've seen little difference in mileage in my car if it's cold out or not on longer commutes. The bike gets terrible mileage when its temp sits around 160 degrees, it's beyond...

...Well yeah lol

WOW, amazing deal! And yeah you'll get used to the low gear clunkiness, that's always the first thing new FZ6'rs will notice and complain about :P (I was once there too)

Lol I just hate the mileage I get when the bike won't warm up passed 160ish on a cool-colder day...It's a difference of like 6MPG! That's over 10% of my total MPG lost for no reason! I may look into changing the T-Stat because it's ludicrous

Same here, I looked them up to figure out why they were so cheap (was thinking they were chinese) Korean made is fine, I mean Hankook tires are supposed to be great and I believe they're also Korean made. I will be putting Dunlops on my bike sometime this season (still rocking the OEMs...

Shink again...lol. Jk, had to. I guess they're so cheap because they're manufactured then imported from Korea instead of made here?

Bah! It'll be fine, my next change will probably be Rotella T6 Synthetic 5W-40 which is JASO rated.

10W-40 is what the manual calls for :P But yeah, no slippage or anything running this oil. Even though it's specifically motorcycle certified Are you sure that the colder lower viscosity is actually thicker? I'm having trouble believing that numerically (especially in the case of 0W)

I've noticed obvious harm...to my fuel economy! lol

I was always taught that incandescent bulbs are so inefficient because much of their energy is released as thermal energy not light (because I'd consider IR emission as light, even if it's useless to us). I see your math, but is it really true that incandescent bulbs are efficient light...

Yeah but there literally can't be more heat if the energy in is less than the filament bulb they're replacing.

Never used it but I've heard of it, you'll become a master soon enough!

I always hated how low the TS opens on this bike, if it's cold out the bike struggles to get higher than high ~167F (74C-76C) and mileage is god awful. Same problem my car had when I got it, because it had a stuck open TS, and the new one (set for 195F) noticably increased my mileage. WTH Yamaha!