50,000 Miles Club

[yamihoe]

I did it!!!!

 

[Cloggy]

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I did it!!!!

Welcome to the club :cheer:

I have 72000 miles on mine at the moment, but Kenny is still the master :thumbup:

 

[crazydmc]

I finally hit 70k Miles!

Going from 60k to 70k miles took me two years because I stopped commuting as much.

2007 FZ6 -- original owner -- lots of tires, front brakes, chain and sprockets (once at 45k miles), two clutch cables, 1 battery, 2 air cleaners, bunch of oil changes... that's it. still runs and looks like new (always garaged), not a scratch on it.

I just replaced the spark plugs for the first time! The old ones had huge gap, but had good color...

I still haven't adjusted the valves yet....ever.

best advice I can give is:
I could get up to 11k on Bridgestone Batlax tires until I switched to Michelin Street Pilot's which get me 19k miles.
EBC brake pads last longer
use OEM Chain and Sprockets (got 45k miles before I replaced em, i'm still running on second set)

 

[2wheelieadv]

I finally hit 70k Miles!
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Going from 60k to 70k miles took me two years because I stopped commuting as much.

2007 FZ6 -- original owner -- lots of tires, front brakes, chain and sprockets (once at 45k miles), two clutch cables, 1 battery, 2 air cleaners, bunch of oil changes... that's it. still runs and looks like new (always garaged), not a scratch on it.

I just replaced the spark plugs for the first time! The old ones had huge gap, but had good color...

I still haven't adjusted the valves yet....ever.

best advice I can give is:
I could get up to 11k on Bridgestone Batlax tires until I switched to Michelin Street Pilot's which get me 19k miles.
EBC brake pads last longer
use OEM Chain and Sprockets (got 45k miles before I replaced em, i'm still running on second set)

Nice. I also use Michelin SP. I used ContiMotion's before, they are good for the money, but wear unevenly and sooner.
No valves done ever? Wow, they probably out of specs now. Do you feel any difference or sound on how the engine works? I wonder if out of specs valves give any feedback or warnings.

 

[crazydmc]

...No valves done ever? Wow, they probably out of specs now. Do you feel any difference or sound on how the engine works? I wonder if out of specs valves give any feedback or warnings.

I plan on adjusting the valves soon.... the bike runs and sounds fine, but the MPG has gone down from 46 to about 40. hopefully I won't burn a valve by putting it off.. we will see.

 

[crazydmc]

i'm sure someone will get a kick out of this... my notes

Maint history on my FZ6
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Common Specs I use...
Tire pressure
Front. 33 psi
Rear. 36 psi
Oil- Honda GN-4 10w40SJ (3qts)
Oil drain plug 17mm - 31 ft/lbs
Oil filter: 12 ft/lbs
Chain slack 1.75" to 2.2"
Torque
Front pinch bolt 13 ft llbs
Front axle 52 ft lbs
Front brake calipers 29 ft lbs
Rear axle - 32mm - 85 ft lbs

Maintenance:
5,360 miles
- Changed oil, not filter

7,500 miles - March 2009
- Replaced rear tire - Sport touring, Bridgstone BATTLAX BT021 180/55ZR17 - $160

8,200 miles - May 2009
- Replaced front tire - same as rear 120/70/17 - $135
- Measured Front pads: inner right side at 3mm

10,735 miles - July 18, 2009
- Changed oil and filter (5,375 since last!) Honda GN4 10w40
- Tightened and lubed chain (slack was about 3", now 1.75")

11,014 miles
- measured rear tire 6/32" at center wear bar
- measured rear tire 7/32" at side wear bar

15,053 miles - Nov 15, 2009
- replaced front brake pads (left inner <1mm)
- Chg oil (not filter) 10w40 honda GN4
- Air 33 front, 36 rear
- rear tire 4/32" at center wear bar
- rear tire 7/32" at side wear bar
- Front tire 4/32" at center wear bar

18,610 miles - April 3,2010
- new front/rear tires $102.95/$125.95
- Changed oil and filter

23,009 miles - August 28, 2010
- Changed oil, not filter 4,247 miles
- Trip odometer B reset
- Lubed chain
- Chain Slack 2 1/4" (max allowed)

28,415 miles - March 20, 2011
- Change oil (10w40) and filter (5400 miles since last oil change, 9,650 miles since filter was changed!)
- Lubed chain. Tire pressure set (33,36)
- Needs tires, rebuild front brake calipers, pads

28,841 miles - April 6, 2011
- Replaced front and rear tires (10,230 miles) - Bridgestone Battlax BT023's.

33,640 miles - august 1 2011
- Front brake pads
- Oil changed (not filter)
- Lube chain

38,133 miles - Apr 22 2012.
- Miles since oil chg 4,493
- Oil and filter, lube chain

38,967 miles - May 19, 2012
- Front and rear tires - Michelin pilot road 2's

41,408 miles - July 21, 2012
- Lube chain, chk oil ok, air pressure set.
- Adjusted chain

43,288 miles - sep 2, 2012
- Lube, Tighten chain (1/8" at swing arm) major tight and loose sections.
- Front tire 4mm at center
- Rear tire 7mm near center

44,312 miles - Nov 15, 2012
- Replaced chain OEM - DID50V4-118LE
- sprockets 46T, 16T
- Clutch cable
- Tail light bulb- type 1157

45,661 - Nov 25 2012.
- Adjusted and lubed chain.

46,684 miles - Jan 15, 2013
- New battery
- Oil and filter change.

48,400 miles - Apr 6, 2013
- New front brake pads - EBC HH's
- cleaned calipers

49,000 - Apr 20, 2013
- adjusted and lubed chain

53,855 - Aug 25, 2013
- Lube chain. Tire pressure
- Oil & filter
- Tires with 15k miles! 10% remaining?

55,473 - Oct 12 2013
- Tire pressure. Lube chain.
- Chain at 2" slack

58,544 miles - March 4, 2014
- replaced front and rear tires with Michelin road pilots again (over 20k miles on last set!)
- changed oil

!! I lost some of my notes here...

69,866 miles - April 10, 2016
- new air filter (2nd time)
- new spark plugs -NGK (first time!, dang $44)
- replaced transmission oil seal behind countershaft sprocket (fixed daily drip of oil)
- new clutch cable (2nd time)

Maintenance needed (as of 5/20/2016)
- adjust valves
- front brakes, rebuild calipers, (new rotors if i'm feeling rich)
- lube wheel bearings, head bearings, swingarm, etc? never been done.
- replace rubber on shift lever
- cam chain tensioner???

 

[Monica A]

Welcome to the club :cheer:

I have 72000 miles on mine at the moment, but Kenny is still the master :thumbup:

Since he bought his Duc, he's not putting as many miles on his FZ6. Maybe ya'll can catch up now.

 

[Cloggy]

Since he bought his Duc, he's not putting as many miles on his FZ6. Maybe ya'll can catch up now.

Nows my chance :thumbup:

 

[VEGASRIDER]

I'm sitting just shy of 105k miles

 

[Monica A]

I'm sitting just shy of 105k miles

Sounds like a challenge to me Cloggy...

 

[VEGASRIDER]

Sounds like a challenge to me Cloggy...

Great. You just made me roll out the FZ out this morning, rode it to work. It's so small. Lol

 

[crazydmc]

over 70,000 miles.... I was thinking I bet not too many people have had to replace this!

when ordering my new chain/sprockets from Yamaha, i remembered to get this for $4.66 (Cover, Shift Pedal)

ooops, I forgot to take a picture of it installed, oh well.

 

[motojoe122]

over 70,000 miles.... I was thinking I bet not too many people have had to replace this!

when ordering my new chain/sprockets from Yamaha, i remembered to get this for $4.66 (Cover, Shift Pedal)

ooops, I forgot to take a picture of it installed, oh well.

I replaced mine over the winter. It wasn't as bad but I had my bike torn down so it was a good time to do it. I think I was at 36.5k.


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[payneib]

Thought I'd get that logged while I'm waiting to wax the Triumph. It rolled over the 50k mark somewhere in Holland last weekend. It's a 2006 FZ6N, bought in 2013 as maybe the fifth owner, at 9,800 miles. Oil, oil filter, air filter every 6000 miles, sparks every 12,000. Chain and sprockets lasting approx 18,000-22,000 miles. Still getting 50-55(UK)MPG. She's starting burning a little more oil in the last 10,000 or so, but not enough to get my knickers in a bunch over.

Major stuff:
Clutch friction plates changed at 18,000 miles. I don't know if it was previous owners or it being my first bike (or a combination of both) that took them out quickly. But the replacement have lasted well for 32,000 miles and have barely needed adjusting, so i assume they'll last a lot longer.

Valve clearances checked at 26,000 miles. No adjustment needed. I've not bothered at 50,000 as there's no change in the engine.

Steering bearings are crap. Changed at 18,000 now changed every two years as a matter of course.

Reg/rec went at about 40,000. Easy to replace, got a non Yamaha one for £80.

End of 2014, in to mid 2015 I went through three or four sets of rear wheel bearings. I still don't know why. But since then I've gotten in to the habit of taking the wheel off every now and then and changing the grease. Fingers crossed, nothing since.

Upgrades
Went mad with the gold bits off of ProBolt.

Put a GPR Ghost exhaust in this Easter.

Have put 10w fork oil in the front end. Still not sure how I feel about it.

 

[zixaq]

Nice!

I've put a little over 10k miles on mine in the six months I've owned it. Two more years to catch up to you folks! (although the bike itself is almost to 30k now)

 

[bike10]

69,000 miles, last road trip, then this happened on the way to work.

 

[Cloggy]

A big :welcome: to the 50,000+ club everyone :thumbup:

 

[Senior]

Hello All, I'm still here, I do look in from time to time.....

Finally, I've got there to the 50,000 miles.
I have owned my Fazer since end of 2008 when I first learned to ride, and got it with 3700 miles in the clock.

Just got back from a 5 day, 1200 mile trip from UK to Germany, through, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.



A few months ago I did EBC brake pads front and rear and the steering head bearings, plus another set of Dunlop Roadsmart 2 tyres and then 2 weeks before the trip, oil&filter, air filter, coolant and a clutch cable, all ready for the trip, so I thought.......

So, 5 days before the trip, I'm out for a short ride the make sure everything is OK after the servicing and I get the check engine light on with Error 46 !!!! First thoughts were, OK the original battery has finally given up, nope, on checking voltages, there wasn't any charging and the 3 phase AC voltages were all over the place, the stator was burnt out..... Mad dash around I sourced a new Stator, Rectifier/Regulator (wasn't going to chance it) and a battery for good measure and got it all back together with a day to spare.....

Anyway, with new electrics and service items replaced it was a dream to ride again, much more responsive and even more efficient, returning and average 55 MPG (imp) 46MPG (US)

The FZ6 has served me well, it's not the cleanest and tidiest it could be anymore but does everything I ask of it, it is a truly great bike :thumbup:

Regards Senior

 

[Motogiro]

Congratulations Senior! :rockon:

 

[Cloggy]

Congratulations :cheer::cheer::cheer: