Recent content by jeremyr62

In Europe the FJR will be on sale for one more year. It isn't going to be made Euro 5 compliant. Euro 5 comes in 2020 but they normally allow at least one year of derogation to allow existing bikes to be sold. I also heard Yamaha will make one last large production run of the bikes for emergency...

I am also considering lighter alternatives to the FJR. I have an 2018 FJR1300AE (ES for you lot). I had a 2004 FJR for 14 years before I traded in for the 2018. I kind of wish I hadn't now. If the old FJR was overweight the new FJR is morbidly obese. Sure there are lots of toys on the new one...

The photos I posted were from a 2003. It did constitute a bit of a thread hijack so I'll quit while I'm ahead.

Pretty sure the liner (in the picture) isn't Nikasil. That's just a suspension of silicon carbide particles in a nickel electroplating solution so the resulting plating layer will be very thin. The liner that has broken off is probably some new fangled propriety liner. The fracture surface is...

The link should take you to three photos. https://photos.app.goo.gl/VgU6F25zPxhtsxsv9

Not an 07 but a 03 in the UK did 254,000 miles.It had been a ticker from 40K miles. It didn't fail by seizing but it was a terminal failure. Part of the cylinder liner fractured towards the head gasket interface. The lumps of liner ended up the sump by-passing the piston skirts. The engine...

Thanks for posting that. I didn't realise you could even get it to mist without a compressor. I have the pump applicators that sometimes come with the litre bottles and all they do is squirt a jet of the stuff. I tried warming it up and lo and behold it mists!

I have used ACF-50 and much heavier stuff we get over here called Waxoyl. They both work but the ACF-50 is quite light and does wash off. However it's much better than nothing IME. The final drive casting is something that gets affected badly, and the paint on mine is just beginning to bubble...

Dirty is one thing, covered in salt is another. No bike can be protected against being covered in salt and left in that condition. The OP knows this and I found out the hard way too when I rode my 2004 through two UK winters in 2005 and 2006 and didn't wash it thoroughly enough. Header bolts...

The roads in the UK get smothered in salt over the winter. However the weather is rarely that bad you can't ride so plenty of riders (me included) ride all the year round. This is really hard on bikes IME but winter can be pretty fun too.

It's a ticker. I have had it since new and I'm an old fart so I know the difference between cam chain and excessive valve guide wear noise. I've followed the ticking saga from the start too. The cam chain tensioner is relatively new; a green spot version. Fitting this made no difference to the...

Very useful thread indeed. My 04 (owned from new) has only 135K km but it's a (very loud) ticker. I expect it to carry on a good while yet but if I do decide to go to the trouble of changing engines, I would definitely try to fit a post 06 to avoid getting another ticker. Not that it's caused me...

What has been described in this thread are not cracks. They are just casting defects. They magntude/configuration of the defects change over time as more more castings are made from the tooling, and eventually new (steel) moulds will be made and the process starts again. They arise from wear and...

Well it did a bit more than that, but the improvement when fitting the Ohlins suggests it was completely past it. I had the OE shock serviced and regassed too as a spare but it didn't do much for it. The reports on these OE French ones are very positive, hence my purchase.

I'm in Ireland and I have just ordered one of these. I am informed by others (in the UK) who have purchased them already that they come from 2008/2009 bikes and are unused/new. I'll be fitting it to a 2004 for the times my Ohlins is being serviced. My original shock is knackered.