I’ve been sitting on a new Renthal 15 tooth front sprocket for my 2006 Yamaha FZ1 for a while now. I had been a bit reluctant to do it and also a bit reluctant to purchase the necessary tools for the job. After the abrupt throttle roll, my biggest complaint about the 2006 FZ1 is…
I have been wanting to adjust my suspension for a while now but haven’t made the time. Well, this week the wife and kid were out of town so I had some extra time. I did a fair amount of reading. My primary resource was a page on moto-racing.co.uk. That article walks through the setting…
For Christmas, my step-father got for me a set of Symtec-inc grip heaters. This was entirely coincidental. I was going to purchase some grip heaters for myself at some point but he beat me to it. The installation was fairly straight forward and I covered it all in earlier posts: Part I, Part II, and…
Finally, my installation of two very basic yet important motorcycle accessories has come to completion. As you may remember from Part I and Part II, I have been working on installing a USB charger and grip heaters to my 2006 Yamaha FZ1. This latest delay was caused by difficulties in acquiring an air compressor in…
Well, it’s taken me longer than I would have liked, and it’s still going on while I wait for my air compressor. However I wanted to provide an update. In part I I was able to wire in a switched +12v line and a -bat line and route it to the front of the bike.…
For Christmas I had asked for the supplies and tools to put an accessory cigarette lighter on my 2006 Yamaha FZ1. I have been using my iPhone with the MotionX GPS app to track where I ride. It’s fun but it eats up the battery. In addition, our Garmin Nuvi 350 is getting on in…
Thanks to my step-father, Greg, I now have an useful windscreen. It is the 24″ Rifle windscreen. I was able to ride Greg’s 2008 FZ1 with this windscreen and I really enjoyed it. It blocked all the wind from my chest and shoulders but left it on my helmet. Greg would have preferred a taller…