Phanatic
Member
Hello Guys,
Hereby an introduction of myself and the build of my FZ1 '06.
I'm Tom from Belgium, owned an Aprilia SXV 550, until I realized that it's not the right bike to do all sort of cruising or long distance riding (nor is it reliabale as a Japanses bike.)
So I sold it and didn't know what to buy next. My brother in law had an FZ1 from '06 but didn't want to sell it or replace his R6 with it. So I thought "why not, let see what it's like to drive one".
I drove it the whole 2017 season, but I wasn't convinced of the bike. First step: put the suspension to stock settings, that was a little step forward. In the mean time my brother in law found a Yoshimura exhaust for a R1 on the his attic, so mounted this one the have a nicer sound.
It's a little bit to long, but for a free mod, it's ok.
I still wasn't convinced of the driveability of the bike, specially for a 1000cc bike. Step 2 was: search the world wide web for info.
And I learned a lot! So winter was comming and it was time to do "round 1" of the upgrade story.
I took contact with Ivan to see what he could do for my ECU, long story explained short: the ECU is on it's way back from Ivan as we speak.
Bought a PC V, K&N filter, Oxford heated grips, Ivan's block off valves & Healtech quickshifter / gear indicator / SpeedoHealer
Did the famous airbox mod & removed the complete secondary air pump.
When the ECU will arrive, it's back to finishing the bike, uploading the PC map and I hope all the Healtech parts have arrived.
Next round will be suspension, but for he moment there are to much option so I have to dig deeper in to this topic.
I'm still thinking back and forward to make it a naked or not, ongoing topic on that side.
Hereby an introduction of myself and the build of my FZ1 '06.
I'm Tom from Belgium, owned an Aprilia SXV 550, until I realized that it's not the right bike to do all sort of cruising or long distance riding (nor is it reliabale as a Japanses bike.)
So I sold it and didn't know what to buy next. My brother in law had an FZ1 from '06 but didn't want to sell it or replace his R6 with it. So I thought "why not, let see what it's like to drive one".
I drove it the whole 2017 season, but I wasn't convinced of the bike. First step: put the suspension to stock settings, that was a little step forward. In the mean time my brother in law found a Yoshimura exhaust for a R1 on the his attic, so mounted this one the have a nicer sound.
It's a little bit to long, but for a free mod, it's ok.
I still wasn't convinced of the driveability of the bike, specially for a 1000cc bike. Step 2 was: search the world wide web for info.
And I learned a lot! So winter was comming and it was time to do "round 1" of the upgrade story.
I took contact with Ivan to see what he could do for my ECU, long story explained short: the ECU is on it's way back from Ivan as we speak.
Bought a PC V, K&N filter, Oxford heated grips, Ivan's block off valves & Healtech quickshifter / gear indicator / SpeedoHealer
Did the famous airbox mod & removed the complete secondary air pump.
When the ECU will arrive, it's back to finishing the bike, uploading the PC map and I hope all the Healtech parts have arrived.
Next round will be suspension, but for he moment there are to much option so I have to dig deeper in to this topic.
I'm still thinking back and forward to make it a naked or not, ongoing topic on that side.