2002 Yamaha FZ1 - 195,000 kilometers - worth keeping on the road?

Congrats on the upgrade. Had a FZ6, fantastic bike
 
GateKeeper said:
OMG we sound like a bunch of vultures in this thread.....LOL.
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I adopted a new bike today. I plan to rip it apart and give it a thorough once-over. I've got some plans for it too! I promised that I'll give it a good home.
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I spent some time in the garage with the ole girl yesterday.

She has a lot of life left still and she always wanted to be a street fighter... So that's the plan. And no I don't mean one of those "I crashed and I can't afford to fix it so now it's a street fighter" builds. I mean an actual proper build.

R1 fork swap
Handlebar swap to something straighter, more of a MX bar
A headlight solution. Maybe something like the 1st gen speed triple or a fork mounted mini cowl with headlight.
Then finally some paint. I'm thinking white.


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Sure!!

It will be a slow process though. I hope to scavenge the parts together as inexpensively as possible.


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caboose56 said:
Sure!!

It will be a slow process though. I hope to scavenge the parts together as inexpensively as possible.


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Did you get the bike from op?
 
caboose56 said:
Yes I did.

Another bonus was that it was lowered but with adjustable dog bones, so returning it to stock ride height will be a snap.
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Then you could make it into a sweet dual sport bike. Blasting berms in 2nd would be epic!
 
Anything that doesn't include the half-fairing is going to look 100x better.

Sweet-*** bike, well played.
 
Well I do love me some custom scramblers. That's definitely an option. That would require a tail section swap to not look dumb though.

I'll investigate!

I'd also add a belly pan if I went with the streetfighter look. Pyramid makes a nice one for about $150.


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As much as I love a cool scrambler I think it would be a lot of work to turn the FZ into something I would actually end up happy with. The sporty FZ tail just doesn't suit a scrambler, something very custom would be in order.

This BMW is one of the cooler scrambler build's I've seen... Mucho worko to make a FZ1 look anything like this... so back to the streetfighter plan.

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