Picked up my Fazer in Phoenix last week. I paid $2500 for it, but felt it was worth it since it was only showing 9043 original miles on the odometer when I picked it up, along with still wearing the factory tires and brakes. I went straight over to one of the bike shops and picked up new tires and a battery, and i still have to find some mirrors, since the seller left them sitting in a family members garage that he no longer talks to. The carbs were so gummed up that it would only idle with the choke on, and the second you tried to twist the throttle it would die. Took apart the carbs and cleaned everything out, and got it to run but was still only running on 3 cylinders. Ended up having to change out a coild lead that was broken off inside the coil, then had to pull the jets out of one carb again and clean a 2nd time. Now it's running on all 4 cyinders, it's not as quick as my Kat 600 yet, but has lots of potential. I do notice a lot more low end torque than my 600 has, but the high rpm hp seems to be lacking a little bit, with more time running the sea foam through it hopefully it will improve. Next summer it will get some aftermarket parts thrown at it. Here's some pics.
I took a short ride up a canyon to a place called Tortilla Flats (thanks to Hex for directions to that location) , which is one of the local bike hang outs for a lot of the Phoenix area riders. The canyon is only about 20-30 miles from the start to of it to where it becomes a dirt road. I didn't realize how lucky I truely am to have so many good windy roads to ride here in the PNW. I had quite a few people compliment the Fazer, 1 young guy actually asked if it was a new bike lol, only a few people there were old enough to recognize it and knew what it was, so that was kind of cool. It has a fairly low center of gravity so it handles really nice in the twisties, really easy to flick it side to side, and it's fun having some extra torque compared to my 600 comming out of the turns (along with a fully functional transmission lol). It's also extremely comfortable as long as you don't try to go too aweful fast. Since it doesn't have any farings and you're sitting upright, you definetly feel the wind a lot more above 75mph than you do on a sportbike, but it's not too terrible if you try to tuck down behind the headlight. So far no buyers remorse, I've wanted one of these for 22 years (they were only sold in the US in '86 and '87), but I never seemed to be able to find a clean one close enough to buy when I had the money available, now I just need to make it a little more personalized. I saw some other really nice bikes while I was there.
I took a short ride up a canyon to a place called Tortilla Flats (thanks to Hex for directions to that location) , which is one of the local bike hang outs for a lot of the Phoenix area riders. The canyon is only about 20-30 miles from the start to of it to where it becomes a dirt road. I didn't realize how lucky I truely am to have so many good windy roads to ride here in the PNW. I had quite a few people compliment the Fazer, 1 young guy actually asked if it was a new bike lol, only a few people there were old enough to recognize it and knew what it was, so that was kind of cool. It has a fairly low center of gravity so it handles really nice in the twisties, really easy to flick it side to side, and it's fun having some extra torque compared to my 600 comming out of the turns (along with a fully functional transmission lol). It's also extremely comfortable as long as you don't try to go too aweful fast. Since it doesn't have any farings and you're sitting upright, you definetly feel the wind a lot more above 75mph than you do on a sportbike, but it's not too terrible if you try to tuck down behind the headlight. So far no buyers remorse, I've wanted one of these for 22 years (they were only sold in the US in '86 and '87), but I never seemed to be able to find a clean one close enough to buy when I had the money available, now I just need to make it a little more personalized. I saw some other really nice bikes while I was there.
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