The Arrival

Wind back to 2014, I spot a Yamaha FJR1300 for a good price but in need of some renovation. It had suffered from a known issue with seized suspension link bearings, this causes the dog bones to shear and collapse the swinging arm, the wheel then goes through the undertray, speed at the time determines the damage that can be caused.

The title of the blog come from the reg number being FYZ (Fizz)
This is the bike on arrival, all plastics are just held on by 2 screws as they were off.

The story so far if your interested or not goes like this.
Picked the old bus up from darn sarf, sorted paper work key etc. Got the bike home to it's new Welsh home and went to unload on Sunday. Undid all the straps etc and went to get the key to unlock the steering lock, couldn't find the key anywhere, Kats was helpful here in asking if I was sure I had the key.
No sign of it anywhere, so set to with punch and hammer to undo the sheer nuts holding the ignition on bastards bent meaning they locked up. So out with the dremmel to grind the heads off. 2 frigging hours later job done.
Then on Tuesday Kats found the key, in the fooking dog's bed. Where it had hidden it for 2 days or how she got hold of it, I'll never know.

Bike out and in the garage with the help of a wood block to stop the swing arm disappearing into the under tray. 

This week a few bits arrived, exhaust headers and collector box (the knob who stripped em off threw the old ones away cos of a hole, like never heard of a welder, dimwit, header gaskets, and some new stainless studs and nuts. 


I have the choice to either street fighter it or cafe racer or return to it's former style.

Colour scheme is easy, black and yellow, with Yam blocks on the tank following on down the sides, this is subject to change.