What did you do to your FZ today?

I had to "peel" a part off that left rear blinker to save for rebuild but it was a GREAT day. The wife and I stopped in Amesbury for the afternoon and had a great afternoon with shopping and a stop at a local coffee shop for truffles and espresso!

I'm about to post a new thread... Wanted items...
 
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Four days ago I cleaned, waxed, and even completely detailed the chain and rear sprocket on the little lady. Yesterday, I joined the family for a Fourth of July cookout at my nephews' house and they live on a three mile long stretch of dusty gravel road. Yep. The chain and sprockets were smothered in a thick layer of fresh dust..... stuck to the chain lube/wax. In fact, the dust was everywhere on her when I got home. Spent today cleaning the chain and sprocket again, applied some fresh chain-wax of course, and, oh yeah , , , cleaned the rest of the fZ too. . . . .Aaahhhhh Now, she looks all pretty again !!
 
Gave it a wash and did my first ever chain clean/lube. It appears that the previous owner had never cleaned the Chain Guard. There was a solid 1/4" of crap built up on the underside of it.

I found it tough to get the chain warm to put the lube on though. Since I live on a gravel road I didn't really want to take it for much of a ride to warm up. Anybody else have this situation? If so, how do you deal with it?
 
Went for a short ride and got my state inspection done while out. There is something new they do in Texas now. They make you do a stop test. You have to do 10+ mph, start braking as your front tire crosses a line and be completely stopped before the second line. Kind of like the emergency braking test in BRC. Easy enough but I never had to do that before. :)

Definitely no emissions testing at all for motorcycles in Texas. No noise test either. Nor is there any checking for removal of emissions limiting OEM hardware. I am not recommending you remove stuff. Just an FYI to save you a bit of stress if you have done so.
 
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Well that's interesting, they don't do that for cars, but a bike has to do a stop test? I knew, an am glad about the emissions stuff, I've done a lot of mods. :)
I took her out for a 50 mile ride this morning, putz around town type of thing, and I don't know if it's was one thing, or the combo of sub plate modify, crank case breather, iridium plugs or mobile 1 synthetic and K&N oil filter swap, but it ran and responded AWESOME. It kicked ass. :) I LOVE my FZ1! :)
 
Missyl1713 said:
My dad lives in Houston, I go quite a bit, I'll give ya a heads up before I go
next time, and see what your doin! :)
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Sounds good to me! :tup: So what do you consider North Texas anyway? Dalas, Abilene, Lubock, Amarillo? :)

I drive to Dallas every few weeks but usually in my truck as I do not want to destroy my tires on a straight boring road. lol
 
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theWolfTamer said:
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I really need to think about removing the AIS if reaching the spark plugs will be easier. Is there another reason one removes the AIS?
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Eliminates some of the popping (particularly noticeable with aftermarket exhaust) on deceleration, plus it cleans up that area and will make future plug changes easier.
 
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