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It's been quite a while since I've posted on this forum, and I hope I'm not violating any rules, but I'm in a rough spot and this is the first place I thought to come for help. I've got a 2011 "burnt orange" FZ6R in great condition with ~5k-6k miles, and I'm in a financial downfall. Has anybody...

So spring is finally here, and while I rode quite a bit during the winter, I'm finally back out just joy riding with friends. Went down an old familiar road, heading out to a good stretch of what is normally completely empty country highway, only to find out that they're right in the middle of...

Well fellas, I've fallen on some rather hard times. Not going to go into many details, but I may end up having to either sell or trade my bike to get a reliable cage. My current car is in rough shape, and I've got to replace it, but my job situation is probably not going to leave me with the...

So I was on my way home from class tonight, and I was going about 15 mph while coming up to a stop sign, and had to brake kinda hard to avoid getting hit by another vehicle. I've hit the brakes like this before with no problem during warmer weather, but this time I fish-tailed and almost ended...

Engine break-in period officially over! :wav: The semi-sad part is that I don't even really ever have the need (or desire, on roads around here) to run it past 7-7.5k RPMs anyway (that generally gets me up to ~80, I rarely go faster than that even in my cage). One of these days, maybe, I'll...

:( Went and visited some friends tonight, and their driveway is kinda sloped a little. Went to get off the bike, and apparently I didn't have the kickstand quite fully engaged, because it popped back up and over we went. I tried desperately to keep it from going over, but just couldn't do it...

So I just took my bike in for the first 600 mile break in service, and it's due for a good cleaning as well. I was reading through the user's manual, and one of the things it said to do was get a good chrome polish and some rust protectant for the exhaust etc. I've been trying to run a search...

I don't have many details, but I passed by the wreck on the way back to work. The bike was completely totalled, but from what I've heard the rider is pretty ok. He was not ATGATT, but the section of road he wrecked on and the time of day it happened, he would have been hard pressed to be going...

So my bike is still in the break-in stage, just under 300 miles, and I decided to go out for a little joy ride tonight to relieve some stress and just get some more mileage on it. I was out on a country road, very little traffic thank goodness, and in 6th gear, when suddenly the engine just...

It turned out to be quite a lot of fun, overall. Riding around on a little 250cc Suzuki that weighs about half of what my FZ6R does however was something that took a lot of getting used to. The engine kept stalling out on me at low speeds (once it even stalled out when I was going ~10mph and...

Sorry if this has already been answered somewhere, but I'm not exactly sure what these things are called, so I wasn't sure what to search for. Anyway, is there a way to hook up the brake lights on the 2011 FZ6R to flash rapidly when you press in the brakes? I've seen it on other bikes, and I was...

Lot of firsts for me tonight. I finally got my Tour Master jacket in from the shop today, and a good pair of gloves (pants are going to have to come later, couldn't afford them too). So I decided it was finally time to use the bike for one of the primary purposes I bought it: Commuting to work...

Just figured I'd drop in and say hi. I'm one of those who's wanted a bike since I was a little kid, and finally the dream came true. Was negotiating with the local dealer here over a 2008 FZ1, a 2011 FZ8, and a 2004 FZ1, and then the day I decided that they were a little out of my price range...