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Any new seat is better than stock. Had mine custom done with double the padding and add grippy material in the middle, made a night and day difference. No big seams is the trick as well.

Side note: if you’re upgrading to braided brake lines, don’t also buy r1 brake lines. They’ll be too short. Buy fz1 specific lines. The connections are the same. Also don’t forget the brake pads.

Pc3’s failed. Pc5’s very rare. However, get a flash, as it adjusts more than the pc5 can. My favorite was I turned the engine braking way down. Made freeway riding much smoother.

You need to do some more listening to identify where it's coming from. There are dozens of places it can be coming from.

You can just safety wire the exup open, disconnect the cables, leave the motor in so it doesn't trip a code. It's not needed for performance but rathe remissions. Headers will require new jetting.

You'll wanna just go to a suspension shop to get your "sag/rebound" set up. This will then tell you if your current hardware is proper for your weight or if you need to change springs out. It's usually $40 and takes about 10 minutes. Your mm suspension travel will vary but there's a range you...

Did the surge happen before you changed parts or just after? You may just need a tune, which would be either an ecu flash, or an installation of a PCV to get dyno tuned. Typically this is the case o fix the powerband which gets hurt by EPA emissions regulations.

Is your battery good? Not to overlook the obvious. when you tested your new parts, what were the values?

fz1 facebook groups are fairly busy and active still, the forums are not.

I put on hard bags, and bungee cargo net, bungee cords and ratchet straps to tie everything to the back down over the passenger seat, tying off to passenger pegs, handles, and hard bag frame.

Well you asked but the answer is facebook and google and ignorance and ego. Yamahafz1oa is another forum. However it's a dead model bike, that typically kills forums, nothing new is happening so it degrades to oil and tire threads and people get bored and move on.

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You quoted a 10 year old post. Of course links won't be working this much later.

Where are you located? Portland?

Check electrical connections and wires under tank, cutting out hard like that usually means electrical issue. Look for worn cables, sometimes it'll wear through and then wires randomly ground out on frame or parts n whatnot. Water can eventually corrode connections, check em, clean em all out...

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i mostly lurk for carbon fiber bits n whatnot when people sell used stuff or to sell random parts i find as i clean my garage

it's a slow go of things around here. the mt10 killed these forums pretty efficiently

super surprised the shock isn't sold. have you listed them on the yamahafz1oa forum?