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I've been playing with the idea of lowering the front end of the bike by raising the forks up the triple clamp by the recommended 5-10 mm. My question is this: Is it only a matter of loosening the bolt on each side of the top clamp and pushing down the bike? What about the lower triple? I...

First of all: Looks. Combined with a decent set of mirrors, the front of the bike will look lower (read: aggressive) which is a good thing in my eyes. Further, your riding stance will be more aggressive as you lean more forward. For me personally, the new bars seemed to ease a shoulder thing...

I got FZ1 bars on mine. You need to look out for the master cylinder when switching bars, as the brake line will be obstructed when the new bars are fitted. I had to adjust the line going into the cylinder, and voilá. Your bike is US-spec right? If so, you won't see any problems fitting...

Thanks RJ. That's probably the most intuitive explanations of the issue I've ever read. It couldn't be more straight forward than that. Thanks:thumbup:

In essence, this is blue printing the motor. The website states that they do a complete motor disassembly, cleaning every part, sand blasting both valves and explosion chambers, valve seats (both inner and outer) will be "drehen" (don't know that in english - only norwegian. Like a laterally...

Wolfman: I'm pretty sure I read in my FZ6 Haynes manual that it isn't recommended to bore up the cylinders. It suggests that if the cylinders from whatever failure are so scratched up that honing won't cut it, then the whole block should be replaced... As far as I understand, this tuning of...

Well... It might have something to do with people being less afraid of getting sued outside the States;) Or Yamaha Scandinavia might be more willing to talk to consumers than what Yamaha in the US of A is. Dunno.

In order to satisfy my curiosity regarding this, I figured I'd call Yamaha Motors Scandinavia today to really get an answer. They told me, quite opposite to what this thread says about the C1 and C2 settings, that they certainly aren't the settings for the 1-4 and 2-3 cylinders:eek: It's...

I just tried these adjusments today. I have Devil cans on my bike with the db killers out, and they pop quite good. Anyway: The baseline on my bike was actually C1: -14 and C2: 7. First of all: Isn't this contrary to what everyone says, that the outer cylinders should be set richer than...

Did a round trip Oslo, Norway - Leipzig, Germany last year in four days. That's about 2400 km's. If it wasn't for my pussy friends, we would've continued down to Prague and back in the same number of days. But their arses wouldn't take it:Flip: Longest stretch in one day is 750 km's, which...

This didn't have anything to do with skills, though... Straight line, I gained up on him all the way up to 200 kph. Not fast, but steadily so. I was too far behind for this to be caused by slip streaming, and I pulled away on a second try. The CBR has a dry weight of 170 kg. The FZ approx...

Well, he is:D roughly 20 kg, but then again... The CBR is lighter than the FZ as far as I know:don'tknow:

Up until 2001 that's probably true. From 2001 and up it got FI and split seat. Looks like a true r-bike.

A buddy of mine went ahead and bought himself a 2001 CBR600F the other day. It's in mint condition and certainly doesn't look like it's nine years old. Anywho... We went for a ride today, and I took it for granted that the Honda would smoke the FZ... Hell no!:BLAA: The two bikes perform very...

The replacement did the trick:thumbup: Not very difficult either, I had to remove the clutch cable thingy connected to the cluch cover and move the water pump hose out of the way. The spring inside the new tensioner was wound up with a "lock" in it, which made the reassembly a whole lot...

That could be a problem on bikes with the round cluster. I've noticed on my own bike that the brake fluid hose is rubbing against the cluster, which in turn has made a groove in the cluster plastic. On the other hand, this isn't a "hidden" problem as this is very visible and it's easy to fix...

To me, this sounds like a faulty LCD panel in your instrument cluster. I'm not an expert on LCD panels, but I've seen other panels like TV's and laptop screens go blank with only the backlight showing. In those circumstances, I believe it's necessary to replace the panel. In your case, the whole...

I hope so:thumbup:

Yeah, so you agree that it's the tensioner itself that's making noise, not the chain or any other part as a consequence of a faulty tensioner, right? By the way: The dealer I spoke with, told me he could remember only one other bike with this problem, even though the FZ6 is a very popular...

Ordered a new tensioner now... Was quoted roughly 200$ at the present excange rate. Jeeez.... The part is located in Holland. Hopefully it's not freighted here by air, as 60% of Europe's air traffic is at a standstill due to a friggin' volcano on Iceland:eek: