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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...

I like the thought that I'm getting improved MPG as a result of better use of the gears, no coasting, avoiding the brakes in favour of using the engine to slow where possible. :rockon: The only problem I've had other than the gearbox on the FZ6 being a bit clunky in general is when going from...

Hmmm. My girlfriend loves the underseat exhaust warmth when we're moving especially when it's overcast crappy British weather as it has been today. I agree the gearbox is a bit clicky but it's manageable. My best mileage from a completely brimmed tank is 196.3 miles - got about 15 to 20...

This reminds me of a conversation I had where someone suggested that the ECU from an equivalent R6 can be swapped into an FZ6. I had a long chat with my uncle who's been doing bike work for years (selling and teching) and the general consensus was, yes you could do it but then in order to get...

I'm actually quite cheered by the fact that the non-ABS models outnumber the ABS models for the Fazer S2 by about 5 to 1. I've only seen one or two other ones just like mine including the guy who has the same year and colour going in the opposite direction once.

I'm still green as far as amount of time in the saddle goes, I mean I'm about 14 months into it and I was a late starter... 29 years old but always wanted to ride, a few pillions and my uncle was an avid Harley man plus a few of the uncles on my other side of the family dabbled. But in terms of...