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For something that isn't a 2T, I find the sound a CBX makes jaw dropping - looks great too.

Haha - My daily is an FZ6N - very little difference between the two.

The Fazer is a solid commuter, very tidy.

We finally got all the road gear on it and all the little kinks ironed out.
With a little luck she'll get her roadworthy'd tomorrow.

A day ahead of my booking and she wouldn't start, Murphy's law struck slightly early, thankfully.
Seems my 2 month old battery had a bad cell, wouldn't retain a charge and was basically useless for starting the bike. 
Got a new sucker with a bit more juice, so fingers crossed the (official) road test goes fine and I can get it registered on Monday.

Took her for an extremely short shakedown run and forgot just how much poke these old bikes don't have at low RPM - kind of hilarious.
It's been a while since I've ridden a 2-stroke, let alone a low CC bike.

Looking forward to taking her out for a more spirited run where I can get onto some proper roads and somewhere I'm not concerned about making a little noise ;)
Although first stop I think will be to get some new tyres.

Finding actual figures on the weight of the SSSA seems almost impossible.

From one account that seems legit, they aren't quite as heavy as you'd expect. Heavier sure but not anchor material. I'm not racing it so I'm not particularly bothered that it's probably 8 pounds / 3.6kg heavier than a modern double sided swing arm.  I should probably lose 5 kg of weight on myself first :p

Not happy with the Motogadget  bar end indicators on the clipons. Visibility of them from the front is pretty bloody average as the clipons are angled backwards a bit. Can improve visibility somewhat by straightening out the bars but I don't want to straighten them too far.

Figured since I'm running LED's I can probably run a couple more tiny ones on the forks which should be much easier to see. Noticed a local provider selling excess stock for half the price they normally go for so going to put them on and see what it looks like.

The custom dynamics wrap around turn indicators arrived in the mail and look quite nice. There's no size that fit RS250 forks so got some slightly oversized ones about 3mm diameter too big. Will try some rubber tape lining from Clark rubber... If that's no good, maybe get someone to 3d print me a plastic sleeve?

In other news I got pulled over for filtering through traffic (legal up to 30kph here) and was told I was doing so too fast. No radar gun though and was three lanes of traffic away. He's probably right but I was more intent on the cars around me than my Speedo. I'd rather be 5/10 km over the limit than having my eyes off the road when filtering.

He trailed me for quite a few km hoping I'd not slow down for road works, felt like he was getting right up my tail in an attempt to make me ride faster. Maybe he figured at night I might not have noticed he was a cop.

Anyway seemed a little annoyed at me and not being able to give me a fine so he gave my FZ6N a once over and let me know my mirrors were undersized and next time I'd get a defect notice.

So now I'm looking for new mirror's for 3 bikes haha. Ironically I've now got my original FZ6N mirrors on my bike and even though they're bigger they're harder to see anything behind me as they're closer to the center line of the bike than bar end mirrors. I get a good view of my shoulders and upper arms though,  I've got to move uncomfortably to see around myself.

Anyway lucky I had my undersized mirrors on so I saw him early and wasn't speeding....if I'd had my legal ones on I may have got a small speeding find to boot :p

What to grab for the RZ that is circular and above 94mm in diameter.........  Hrmn

Now that I'm back on topic of the RZ, the previous owner was going to run a tube for the rear brake with a cap instead of a brake fluid reservoir. Unfortunately there was no cap in his big box of parts and I wasn't happy running with a screw in it.

Luckily I had a spare ryzoma reservoir kicking about in one of my boxes of random bike bits. Think it will fit in with the colour theme quite well.

Probably a little excessive in the tubing now though but do want it to be higher than the section that runs over the swing arm. Repurposed a front reservoir arm to hold it all in place and I don't think it looks half bad for a minimal effort approach but need to ensure its got enough height so may need to move it.

Hopefully the tubing is brake fluid rated, I've heard some clear tubing weeps in moisture? Which sounds problematic.

Happy birthday old man!     

With the short notice this is all I got you 

So you got him a beer and then you drank it in front of him?
Damn that's cold.

Here mate have another one. 🍺

Have a good day :D

That I can see :)

Haha nice beer

Looks like a nice base now, good luck with the rest of it

I hate you already for your Luck.

Fingers crossed that luck holds out and it's just the coil that is needed to get her on the road and to the Dyno.

There's been an absolutely absurd amount of money thrown at parts but nowhere near that amount of money spent on the engine so there could be some fairly fundamental issues. It was at the Dyno running until they think the coil ... Zapped its last. Spoke to the Dyno owner so hopefully he's an honest bloke, they thought it was CDI, replaced that and the only bit left to look at was coil.

At any rate is a good opportunity to get something a bit more up to date.

Cannot disagree though, feeling pretty damned lucky considering how little I paid for it. He even gave me 1000 off to pick it up early to make room in his garage for new toys, after we had already agreed on a price.

Another thing that needs attention is the harness... It looks to be sitting on the wrong side of the frame, too close to the engine or maybe that's how it is supposed to be for access and it just needs to be zip tied up and out of the way?

Seems I fail at attaching images, fixed, probably.

Whoops. 

Go with what you like, nice to be able to switch to original if you want though.
Also white gets a bit dirty and black still looks good.

Mate that looks gorgeous, prefer white wheels myself but other than that, what a stunner.

There have been some crazy mods to those things, they look like a bunch of fun.

There's a guy in Brisbane cruising around with a 300 Ninja engine in his, I'm pretty sure you can buy a kit to mount those.

I really want an overpowered electric one to commute on - it's a shame the Suzuki Extrigger never materialised: https://evnerds.com/electric-vehicles/e-motorcycle-news/suzuki-extrigger-electric-moto/
But you could do an electric conversion of a grom: http://www.bikeexif.com/custom-honda-grom-zero-electric

Assuming you don't hate electrics - god the torque... would be a fun package.

What's your bike top out at? And happily cruise at?
Probably not the best for my commute along highways.

Odd, I see the attach icon on the posts but no actual images?

Other threads work fine... did Fastash remove them and the forum isn't smart enough to remove the attachment icon or is something odd happening?

Couldn't find a more appropriate board to post this on.

Still cannot seem to get to the forum from the front page, might be stopping more than a few people dropping by the new forums.

You're probably already aware but anyway