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best cleaner I have ever used on leather is Saddle Soap, there are many brands of it. Just do a search and you will find it online. Cowboys buy it for leather they use on horses so it is cheap and effective.

contact a yamaha dealership for the bolts ps how much for the flyscreen?

I learned club racing myself had a great mechanic who worked on a few of our bikes, we would come in and he asked what was happening and click this, change the fork oil, respring, etc till it was great. but that was track bikes, what I learned from him about street bikes at track days is to not...

Nine, that is an excellent example of what it takes to tune in a change in setup. changing the tire and you had to change setup. My point in my post is that most riders need help to even know why to do or what each affects. I think to get the most, a person needs to do a track day with a...

In laymans terms preload, a bike is designed to a certain ratio of forward to rear weight on the tires, your weight and how you sit on your bike affects this so we have preload, the higher the performance standard of the bike the more places we can adjust this. (notice a cruiser may have no or...

you can negotiate that into your settlement, but they want all they can get and they charge a bit to let you keep stuff. You see, they sell the bike and if the pipe and stuff is missing they are selling a parts bike missing parts, not worth as much. Best is ti take your settlement and let them...

I got the corbin, I have used them before and the make a great seat. a lot of the guys here like the Shad. I had my years on SS bikes, I have to agree that riding one to it's potentail on the street is insane. The more you learn on track the more you realize just how stupid it is to try to ride...

I was an UNI fanatic for years, but with the modern airbox I think:eek: K&N has the market now. When I built my Sportster I had to do so much porting and head work to get hte air to flow even the intake manifold needed major weeding out. so that they moved all the air the new valves and...

I think that in America most people do not understand the FZ8 so it did not sell well I think we think of bikes as more of toys where in other nations they are looked at as transportation I am a huge fan of the FZ8, it has a great powerband, it has enough HP for anything I use it for and it...

great post Fazer 8 that is very important information when deciding about mods.

:welcome: great choice on the bike

OK bobby, we can come up and show you how to ride that bike so you do not have to resort too :welcome:scaping peg to keep up.

that is it 9 Lives, you have to do a lot, not just a single item. Personally, I have yet to find the end of the performance potential of the FZ8 in factory form. I love the flat torque curve and 100 ponies is good enough, When do you actually use all of those on the street? and as far as a track...

my normal technique is I drop from 6th to 4th and then let the clutch out, then from 4th to second and let the clutch out, then down to 1st the style of tranny has had this problem since they first invented them I think, I developed that in the 80s.

bang for the buck? with out also a repipe and possibly a remap, the K&N will do little now repipe and remap with the K&N and you will see its benefit go way up. the problem is that tuning an engine is not a one stop affair, you need to carry the tuning through all areas that need it. So a...

the more you hang off the faster the bike can go through a corner without having to lean over. Do not let chicken strips tell you how good a rider you are because the best riders will have the biggest strips down the same road as the worst with less strips.

Have fun congrats on the bike, that was a smoking deal just remember, you have a bike with 100 ponies under you, respect that.

ok just a longer shock will not increase the height what will change it is the spring on that shock being longer a shock, without a spring will sink till it bottoms out, so if you replace the shock with a longer one, but use the same spring then all you have done was reduce the amount of...

I usually put in about 3 and a half gallons when it hits flashing. I think that is insane as if the bike is suppose to hold 4 and a half then why does it flash with a gallon still in there? Oh well guess accuracy in small tanks is hard to come by. About octane ratings, that is the ability of...

personally I do not ride on the street anywhere near as hard as I do on the track. It is just pure lunacy to use up all you have and have no reserve when you are on a ungroomed surface and have to contend with water and oil on the road. I think the 4s are in my future, I have replaced the stock...