Recent content by Duster_360

FWIW, Dirt Road Eddie is no longer doing seats due to health/retirement reasons. Last I heard he was training someone to appeared skilled enough and agreeable to take over his seat recovering business. Eddie said it would be a "few weeks" before he'd start taking seats, but so far, there has...

I was at the dealership last week getting pair of tires mounted and the mechanic asked me if I wanted to see my FZ1's replacement. Obviously, I said yes and they took me back and showed me the first FZ10 they had received, a black one as it set there in the just opened crate. I want to see it...

This is from the "other" FZ1 site, it says it will work on either Gen 2 or Gen 1 but is illustrated for a Gen 2. It resets the temp for the fans to cycle on and cycle off at a user desired level. My brother did this on his 06 and it did take a little fiddling to get the turn on temp where he...

I wanted to do the same thing when I bought my 84 RZ350 way back. Dealership told me that selling it that way could cost the dealer his Yamaha franchise, so unless things have changed since then, don't think that's going to happen. In my case, since I was a Yamaha trained mechanic from back...

Been out of thehouse and away most of the day, sorry for the delay in responding, but I just PM'ed you my shipping address. LMK if you need anything else.

FWIW, tried PMing you back and your inbox is full.....

Paypal sent, thanks, please lmk when they ship and any tracking if available. duster_360 / Harold

If these are still available, I'll take them. Please send a PM and let me know how you'd like to be paid. PP (f&F) prob easiest, but there are other options as well. Thanks!

Found this last night on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m9tdTN2OKo Something similar to what you've prob done. Don't discount the accuracy and sensitivity. This guy corrected a 1.5mm alignment problem IIRC and felt that was important even at that magnitude, but provided no post...

I tried measuring from center of the SA pivot to the center of the rear axle on both sides to see if they were the same. This is easier said than done since there are no common reference points. What you are basing the measurement on changes from one side to the other. As near as I could tell...

My '09 seems to be doing this as well, but I've only looked at it from the rear sprocket where I see a wear pattern on the chain rollers that is offset to the outside of the chain instead of being centered like on my other rides. Mine has started doing this only recently. And it seems I see...

I'm guessing - MT-10 coming to the US may be a matter of how many "left over" FZ1s are still in dealer inventories.....

I ride a Sargent seat and its better than the stock seat. I'm 150lbs and the stock seat was a killer. The Sargent is pretty firm and its taken a while for mine to break in and provide a softer ride.

I have an '09 FZ1. The forks are still the FZ1 compromise - both left and right forks are adjustable for spring preload. Just the right fork is adjustable for rebound, the left fork adjusts only for compression. To get fully adjustable forks, you'll need to swap to a set of R1 forks or go...

Learned early on a pretty hot day that I wouldn't be riding my FZ1 wearing shorts! One time was enough!!