At the 30,000 mile service the chain needed to be replaced. To my knowledge it had never been replaced. The stock FZ1 is geared quite high which makes it very subdued even when doing 80 MPH on the highway. This behavior is great for MPG and long highway trips but is not very engaging for…
I did not take the bike to work today. I took the cage for two reasons, namely it was a bit cold (32F) and the road was coated in white. I would like to say this white coat the road wore was snow. In which case it would melt away eventually and the road would…
Today could bring both the first snow and potentially the first salting of the roads.
This is a big step in the direction of putting my bike away for winter storage. Can you say “boring”?
I have been thinking about upgrading my suspension on my 2006 Yamaha FZ1 which led me to wonder how much I weighed all suited up.
With the temperature approaching 40 degrees and with the soft sun shining, it was warm enough to not wear long-johns today.
Today, even though it reached 45 degrees around 1 o’clock when I left work at 6:30 there was a thick layer of frost on all surfaces of my bike.
I love me some three-cylinder engine for the street. Four-cylinder engines are very top-end biased, leaving the rider wanting in the low-mid range so useful for so much of civilian riding, and two-cylinder engines are usually low-end biased leaving the rider without the fun of wringing it out coming out of a turn onto a…
I go to the motorcycle.alltop.com website more of less every day, so imaging my surprise when my post was one of the top stories of the morning.