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To the OP. Do you know about countersteering??

Unless it's a photo of a 'generic' model, it does look like tho it loses the pillion pegs.

You sure you're not hearing the primary drive whine from inside the transmission?

Hello back from another UK Divvie owner. I have to say those rearsets look good. My big whinge about the XJ6 is that the pegs are too far forward and the bars too high and wide. I'm not expecting a GSXR riding position (I've got one of those!) but looking for something closer to my Hornet...

It was apparently a bizarre attempt to make a bike safety video by a UK police force. More here on my blog.

Did you manage to get the +1 R6 sprocket from Wemoto?

It takes two to tangle. Accident stats show the most common accidents in urban environments are 'right of way violations' where the car driver is at fault... But a skilled rider can see the situation developing and do something about it, not simply ride into a collision.

Nice find, thanks. I'm a UK-based motorcycle instructor and I hadn't actually seen this report before even though it's a study done in the UK! :confused: I'll be interested to read the full review if I can find it!

The cut off on the headlamp dip beam is on the other side. ;) Am I correct in thinking some US states require running lights built into the front turn lights? If so, that's not a feature on EU spec models, they are just turn indicators, pure and simple. Don't worry, everything else is the...

Add this one too - new for 2010! UK XJ6 Diversion F - fully faired

Top Man! I'll have a read through that and see if it could be done, it looks possible after a cursory scan. With Yamaha sales as dire as they are in the UK at the moment (they put their prices up around 20% across the board at the beginning of 09 and sales have taken a corresponding...

I thought that might be the case... I did find some pics of a US model with the seat off and it did look very different under the seat. Much tidier, the UK model looks very unfinished under there.

I was looking at the rather smart split dual seat they get in the US, and wondering if it would fit the UK model!

One other suggestion - the gear shift linkage is assembled nearly dry (at least it was on my XJ6). Try removing the linkage and greasing the pivot points. I had this problem 20 years ago with an FZ750 which was 'notorious' with the press for having a clunky gearchange. A bit of grease and both...

Do you mean the road known as the 'Cat and Fiddle' in the UK? It's a nice enough road, over the top of the Pennines, but it's busy most of the day, and because of the number of riders (and drivers) who crash, there's now a blanket 50mph speed limit on it, with (IIRC) average speed cameras...

The CBR a clone of the Yam? I think it might just possibly be the other way round :D The CBR originally appeared in 1987! My brother had one, and it was a faster bike than the XJ6/FZ6R is 23 years on. I was astonished when they dropped the F from the lineup a couple of years back. and left...

Riding positions are pretty personal. I'm looking into lowering shortening the bars. But I can't see any rear-sets appearing any time soon for this model. My benchmark is my Honda Hornet CB600FS (faired model), which is very similar in many ways. I do ride quite a lot of long rides, and I rode...

The footpegs are too far forward. The bars are too wide. And the bike's 50lbs too heavy - far heavier than my CB600F Hornet. If the footpegs are vibrating, check your chain tension when sitting on the bike - or more accurately get someone else to check it! It's likely to be too tight or...

Modern radials have a bigger footprint when deformed on cornering, so keeping the bike upright isn't actually that useful, particularly if you have a dual compound tread. Dunlop Roadsmart is an example.

On one bike I had, I could yell louder than the horn! :confused: ;) But generally, I prefer "stealth" biking techniques... :D