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'07 FZ6 I know what you're thinking, yet another stuck throttle thread. Just lube the cables! I've dissembled the grip & cable housing, everything's moving freely there (well, the grip needs some TLC, 10 years of being an "outside bike", but it still turns freely with the cables...

Quick question: How do you guys keep track of past maintenance? Anyone have a slick program/phone-app/spreadsheet? Any tips & tricks? My google-foo came up with this spreadsheet template: Vehicle Maintenance Log - Templates - Office.com

A few recent mods that I thought I'd share. First up, LCD recolor. It has a little yellowish tint near the bottom. More than likely sun fading of the plastic and why Yamaha went with the amber color from the start; they knew the plastic would yellow. Test with a donor board for fit...

How do you remove it without breaking it? I applied a little pressure with a screw driver to pry it off, but I'm afraid to do more.

<rant> So we (My mother, her BF and myself) decided to go see the space shuttle yesterday. Rather than taking the direct route from St. Pete we (*ahem*, they) decided we should take the indirect route and "make a nice ride of it". So we turned a 3.5 hour trip into a 6 hour ride. TO top it off...

Want to practice removing the LEDs on a dead cluster (and to get spare leds!) before trying to change the color on my unit. Don't care what condition as long as the PCB and LCD are mostly intact (IE, the entire thing cant be broken in half! Some of the LEDs are under the screen and I want to...

I swear several months back I saw pics of a bike (07+) come up in one of the "Bike of the month" contests that had blacked out windscren. Now what got my attention was that it was a matte finish, it looked from the pic just like the same texture the mirrors have. I squirreled away the info in...

For those that put their feet on the passenger pegs on long rides: Do you notice your inner thighs and-or crotch area get hot really quickly (5-10 min)? I'm going to guess its the way my knees point down when I do that funneling hot post-radiator air up at me, but I'll be damned if I can keep...

They confuse me. The profile page has a basic overview of what gets you points, but not what costs you points. For example, I typically get 3-4 points on every visit for posts and views and such, but why did THIS post cost me 116 points?

Replaced the License Plate light wit one of these from Ozznium: Tiny LED Modules : High brightness surface LEDs used the round black one. Simple install, the module comes with a wire length about 2 inches too short to reach the connectors, so I whacked about 3 inches off the stock light's...

Going westbound on 54th Ave N. I was sitting at the light at 9th & 54th. I followed for a while, but you turned into a residential area :( Was a beautiful day, finally got rid of the damn Florida heat.

Installed two amber LED strips from oznium on the front fender this morning. Total time involved was about an hour, but I managed to procrastinate that over two days :P. Youtube video head-on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD9qDuRs9qo

Red 07+ FZ6 in the parking lot by the baseball field, tucked under some trees. Made a lap around, didn't see anyone. Student staying at the dorms across the access road from said parking lot? I'm with the contract painters working on the Gamma Complex dorms, had my Blue/Black FZ6 out on the...

Looking for the front reflectors that use the caliper bolts. Got unceremoniously ripped off a long time ago, need them for a project.

My FZ has been an outside bike most of her 2 years and 11,000 miles and I noticed at a stop light the other day my brake light wasn't on (checking the reflection on the car behind me). Tapped the rear brake and it came right on. Removed the fiddly little bastard and took a multimeter to it. It...

Gentleman was selling LED PCBs over on SBN. He no longer sells them but I managed to talk him into sending me one of his last ones (for a few $$). I installed this quite some time ago, but only got around to taking pictures today. I'll grab some after dark pictures in in a few hours. If anyone...

Found the top two mounts for my headlight sheared/broken off this weekend while I was swapping my fairing. Guess I found the source of that rattle/buzz..... Cross-posted as SBN

As of this moment there are 2 red, 1 blue, and 1 black front fairing on ebay for 07+. Just an FYI to everyone because its rare to see one, let alone 4 at at the same time.

Red FZ going southbound on OBT. Looked like a '07? Sorry for not waving back, was trying not to end up in the trunk of the car in front, or in the grill of the dodge behind me.

Been trying to find a nice new fairing to replace the rashed up one I'm using now. Would ideally need the whole kit-n-kaboodle minus speedo and mirrors since it looks like I tweaked the subframe a bit on the font (fairing looks to point a few degrees to the left). Found a black '08 fairing on...