Yamaha Fazer FZS 1000

My 20th motorbike and in my opinion what a cracker,stylish very well manufactured reliable and very rider friendly with super comfy riding position sure footed handling highly effective brakes and above all power delivery that is smooth and very substantial which really does promote the grin factor, that allows it to surely be one of the very best all rounders money can buy!. With this machine you can live comfortably in the three worlds of motorcycling,sport,supersport and touring as its highly capable in all these modes and has no vices,afterall it shares the same powerplant albeit slightly de-tuned as the R1 come to think of it,itshares the same brakes ...  Read the complete review

Got an engine that sounds like a dick slapping. I would recommend this bike for anyone that got beat up at school or a copper. You will be hard pushed to find any second hand ones unless you look at the base of Beachy Head nr. Eastbourne. Many are found with their riders still on them. Including that Muppet Mark Fowler from Eastenders who mysteriously re-incarnated in the Bill. Coming back to that copper thing again. So, if you are a homosexual dying of AIDS with no way out. Simply by a Fazer, chuck your lot in over beachy head, come back as a copper and get to beat the living daylights out of Joe Public and get paid for ...  Read the complete review

After riding a Yamaha R6 for 6,500m over two years, my 6ft, 14st frame started demanding more comfort! Typically my riding consists of 40m round trips to work, short hacks into Brighton, and 60m Sunday morning blasts, with the occassional 100m jaunt thrown in. Almost all of this takes place on the poorly maintained roads of Sussex, where my R6 frequently shook it's head, complaining about the pitted surface, and making my wrists ache to boot! With the Fazer 1000, that's all gone - here's a bike that can take pretty much everything the neglected tarmac can throw at it! So what is it? Ok, it's a slightly de-tuned R1 engine (143bhp) dropped into a ...  Read the complete review