2007 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer

… So the 600 Fazer S2 is working as planned, sort of, it doesn’t shred rear tyres, although it is nowhere near as torquey as the thousand, it is still too capable of speed limit bashing. Also, on the back (being a fair bit taller than Bro) I get a fair bit of lift over 100mph, which makes for interesting times NOT! (I have no problems at all on the back of the FZ1 Fazer it’s little fairing seems to do a great job).

I think the daily two-up pounding the Fazer 600 got, was a little too much. After six months it developed a whine, plus we were bored. So it was off to our friendly Yamaha Dealer again. This time we decided the speed was still an issue, well more our lack of any self control.

We were looking down the rows of bikes, still under the deluded impression that a 600 was the way to go. The answer to all of our problems was there staring us straight in the face, how can we have been so stupid, a super-moto! Yeah! They are fun, can’t do much over the license loosing 100mph, especially two-up and they are fun.

2007 Yamaha XT660X

The new shiny KTM sorry I mean Yamaha XT660X. Now that looked like fun, we took it for a test drive. It was really bizarre, I hadn’t been on a dirt bike since I was a kid. It was like riding a 100mph mountain bike. Just riding around Shepherds Bush roundabout was awesome. The speed off the line is unreal, it fitted all the criteria, fun, curtails top speed on the motorway and has a back seat oh yeah and has to be fun.

So the paper whizzed around and it was ours, the poor whiny Fazer was gone, woohoo. The XT was surprising good at commuting and was amazing fun, the only problem in London was the bars, it took a few days of mirror bashing to get the hang of filtering with wide bars, even then it is a pain in the arse, it is made up for though by the fun you are having when not filtering. Even on the motorway it was fine, comfortable two-up and cruising around 90mph (if legal) would have been fine.

But the friendship soon turned sour, after six months the gearbox imploded it was repaired under warranty but a month later the gearbox blew again. We decided that it was not up for the job and we needed a thousand again. The Ace had survived for years. So a deal was done and we where back on a thousand. The story is continued in previous posts… see below.