Recent content by Thebijmaster

Sweet looking bike... I'm in love with those mirrors.

Yea I haven't pushed the reserve tank too too far (single flashing fuel bar I imagine), I got a solid 14 highway miles @ 75mph out of it and didn't hear her starting to die or anything. Unfortunately I forgot how much it took to fill her up after that run. And yea 22mpg was atrocious (might...

My first tank I got about 22 mpg, which is why I asked about the rpm's in an earlier thread. Since then I've been hitting everything between 30 and 37 mpg averaging right in the middle between the four or five times I've put gas in it (my gas meter was funky, usually increases by one bar once...

So, as I have mentioned here and there my new FZ8 is unreal compared to my 13 year old VZ800 that I used to have, which by the way did not have a tachometer, so for switching gears I just went by sound. I drive a stick cooper S which gives me an instantaneous mpg rating so I know exactly what...

My car is in the shop and I can't really get anything quick for a rental and I hate it. I'm usually an aggressive driver and knowing that I'm in a slow car I have to hold back since I'd just look like an idiot driving a heavy v4 like a sportscar. Normally I wouldn't be riding in weather colder...

wow... that is unfortunate. Around my parts tripling the speed limit gets a permanent revocation of license, but I'm not sure how lenient they are on the appeals process.

Yea I've been looking high and low for some side hard cases, the only ones that I found clearly fit on the FZ8 were the givi ones at the same site solomotoparts.com but the price tags on them are pretty high. The mounting kit is $230 on its own plus a $40 adapter to avoid the monorack, and the...

Yep, paid $8,000 US for mine also. Not the best deal in the world, but that what you get for not being able to wait :D

New Member Hey all, Name is Bijan from the Boston area. I'm a relatively new rider, been riding for about three years on my '98 Suzuki VZ800. Full time student and have a full time job, I tend to keep pretty busy. I work at a hospital lab during the evening and am taking classes for a...