I like to think of it as a YZF750-faced FZR1000.
You don’t see many FZR1000 five-valves anymore—I used to ride an FZ750 myself. (I think it was fifty grand.)
It’s got that five-valve engine feel, but once you get past 50,000 kilometers, the compression seems to drop quite a bit. How do you find that?
Let’s do some light maintenance. Maybe we should put together a light service menu?
It’s been a while—it’s pretty dirty. Well, okay.
We’ll lift the rear and clean everything up thoroughly.
The brake feel was really poor (front). I thought the seals must be pretty rough, but they turned out to be pretty normal.
After a good cleaning and using that trendy lubricant lately, it moves really smoothly—this might actually be a magic item…
The feel improved a lot. The basics are really important.
If you keep the small parts sparkling clean, good condition will last longer.
We cleaned up the fork too. Inverted forks need regular cleaning, or rust and wear will trash the inner tubes in as little as 20,000 kilometers.
We replaced the brake fluid with Golden Cruiser DOT4.
We replaced the meter backlight with LED and the indicators with standard T10 bulbs.
You can see them lit up even in daylight.
About the electric fan not operating…
We replaced the fan switch. The operation was so slow that when I checked the actual temperature, it seems to activate at 105 degrees or higher.
Sure enough, there’s a 105 marking on it… That’s pretty scary, so we installed a manual fan switch. This should be safe now.
