What did you do to your bike today?
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That looks so much better than the old stylehere is the 2013 instrument cluster
So I had an interesting conversation this morning with another rider. Possibly recruiting a new FZ rider. I finally got out for a ride. I havent ridden since i got home from our Utah trip a few weeks ago and haven been in the canyons for over a month. Felt so good to get out there. I took it relatively easy. Turns out theyve recently repaved a large amount of hwy94 recently. Ended up behind a guy out there who ive seen before. He's pretty quick. But i was able to catch him and ended up right behind him most of the way out and actually was being held up just a bit. (he's on a CBR1000RR and I could see he kept looking in his mirrors to see if I was still there 
) He split off and went a little side road. I went on and stopped at the usual Chevron station at Cameron Corners. He got there a little later and came up to me. He looked at my bike and started saying he's shocked that this bike was keeping up. Without trying to sound like an arrogant DB i kind of mentioned that i was just kind of taking it easy because it'd been 5 weeks since I've been in the canyons and I wasnt too sure about some of the new blacktop they just laid. He was very surprised and said he's been looking for a bike thats more street oriented but didnt want to lose too much performance and that he may have to look into it. I told him to make sure to look into the FZ09 too. So we may have another SD guy on here or over on the 09 forum soon.
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) He split off and went a little side road. I went on and stopped at the usual Chevron station at Cameron Corners. He got there a little later and came up to me. He looked at my bike and started saying he's shocked that this bike was keeping up. Without trying to sound like an arrogant DB i kind of mentioned that i was just kind of taking it easy because it'd been 5 weeks since I've been in the canyons and I wasnt too sure about some of the new blacktop they just laid. He was very surprised and said he's been looking for a bike thats more street oriented but didnt want to lose too much performance and that he may have to look into it. I told him to make sure to look into the FZ09 too. So we may have another SD guy on here or over on the 09 forum soon. Sent from my SPH-D710 using Tapatalk 2
Bert-Aus
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:cheer:Finally washed and polished my Rocket Ride yesterday, melting away all the dead bugs from PI :hug:
Tonight, installed fresh crash bobbins on my Rocket Ricer:cheer:
Got all the fairings back on, wipe her down, double bubble screen installed:cheer:
Track day booked for the 23rd of November:rockon:
Shit is gonna be good
Tonight, installed fresh crash bobbins on my Rocket Ricer:cheer:
Got all the fairings back on, wipe her down, double bubble screen installed:cheer:
Track day booked for the 23rd of November:rockon:
Shit is gonna be good
:cheer:Finally washed and polished my Rocket Ride yesterday, melting away all the dead bugs from PI :hug:
Tonight, installed fresh crash bobbins on my Rocket Ricer:cheer:
Got all the fairings back on, wipe her down, double bubble screen installed:cheer:
Track day booked for the 23rd of November:rockon:
Shit is gonna be good
Sweet deal hope you take pics and or vid
that's pretty much what I do. Except I always give it some spray wax after I dry her off
I ran into a guy at the rock store on Sunday that had an fz-09. His main comment was that it was ridiculously fast. It looked smaller to me that I thought, I think it looked smaller than the FZ6R which I thought odd, have to check the wheel base specs the 6R just looked longer. Its a sweet bike to be sure but no where near as pretty as the 6R. They just need to stick that engine in our bike.So I had an interesting conversation this morning with another rider. Possibly recruiting a new FZ rider. I finally got out for a ride. I havent ridden since i got home from our Utah trip a few weeks ago and haven been in the canyons for over a month. Felt so good to get out there. I took it relatively easy. Turns out theyve recently repaved a large amount of hwy94 recently. Ended up behind a guy out there who ive seen before. He's pretty quick. But i was able to catch him and ended up right behind him most of the way out and actually was being held up just a bit. (he's on a CBR1000RR and I could see he kept looking in his mirrors to see if I was still there
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The FZ-09... stupid fast! The tune is not even 100% right... just about ok and I can't pin the throttle in 1st & 2nd... not sure about 3rd gear yet, working on it
Take the torque of a stock FZ1 and the top end of a R6... in a bike he weight about the same as a R6. With comfy position like the 6R and sip fuel like the 6R too.
I agree with you the look is not for everyone, I was the first screaming that bike was ugly! Take that thing for a spin and you will take her home. This is that kind of bike... the look kind of grow on you.
With proper suspension and a good rider... nothing will pass you with this bike in the twisties. JK would have pass that guy on one wheel! LOL :wav:
dish soap is fine
That's not a very good idea. The problem is that dish soap will strip everything off of the paint, so any left over waxes or anything else. It has it's good points as it is good to clean off some of that stuff from time to time.
But you don't want to clean everything off the bike all the time. I have seen some bikes that have had problems with corrosion as a result of years of dish soap use. It really does strip off everything from the bike.
It's better IMO to use regular car wash soap that you can buy by the quart that will last you a good year for a bike. Half a cap of normal car soap is normally plenty and then some. hell, I barely use a 1/4 cap to wash my bike, and that's when I want to do a complete wash. Sometimes I do it twice just to be sure I got all... lol.
Typically though I only really wash the bike when it gets really bad. Most of the time I just use meguiers quick detailer. That seems to do the best for me when just cleaning off some of the bugs and the road smudge that comes up and hits the lower front fairings.
Bert-Aus
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Could be a bit disco, disco
but if it makes you more visible then it is good,
my recent led's install flash with enthusiasm too
2013 Fz6r satin
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All looks good...go with it!!
Icon makes a nice pair of "winter" gloves.