Give me a lever, oil me up, and I'm happy

The Pazzo levers arrived this week shipped over from the good old US of A. I couldn't find a company in the UK that did the lever colour I wanted (dark blue), but Tim of Pashnit took my order on the Sunday for my own choice of lever and adjuster, shipped them out to be made and engraved (yes engraved) on the Monday and they arrived in my greasy little mitts the following Monday. And they're cheaper than in the UK :)

The stock (boring) ones looked like this.


The new improved ones look like this.
Brake:-


Clutch:-


You can see the clutch is engraved with my blogsite :-)

Total time for fitting these is about 10 mins as each one just has a single bolt dropped through them. The only tricky bit is making sure you press the switches on the clutch and brake back in as you offer up the levers and they slip straight in.

Next on the list was the fitting of Scottoilers to my Fazer and do-it-daves Bandit. Removing the seat and fairing shows how much space is available on an FZ6 (none) and a Bandit (enough for sandwiches, flask of coffee, and a trestle table to sit down at).

Fazer:-



Daves Bandit:-


After some smurfing the interweb on the FZ6 forum I found someone had fitted one in such a way that it doesn't take up half of the under seat area by sliding it forward into a small Scottoiler sized space. Like this...



You can just make it out in the gap between the fairing and the frame with the pipe leading down on its way to the back wheel.


And here it is again looking from the back of the bike so you can see where it gets slid into place. The lube tube gives and extra reservoir of 3000 miles or so, so means you can go touring and now worry about oiling the chain :) This is flexible so is coiled around the outer edge of the seat area leaving room in the middle for the toolkit and disc lock.

This shows the routing of the tube itself coming from the reservoir, down through a small piece of rigid tube cable tied to the plate behind the clutch pedal where it transitions into the narrow tube that feeds the applicator itself. The smaller tube is cable tied to the bottom of the swing arm (there are silver cable-ties in the kit along with numerous other bits you may or may not need depending on your bike).


Finally, the dual applicator itself which drips oil onto both edges of the chain.


Oh, and the other part which drives the whole thing is a vacuum feed. The Scottoiler website suggests cutting into a pipe and inserting a t-piece for this. However I found another set of instructions that suggest just removing the bung in the end of one of the vacuum tubes and sticking it up there, so I did. Like this (circled in yellow so you can see which pipe I mean).


This took several hours where much tea was consumed, many fairings were removed, stared at, put back in place again. A great deal of chin scratching was also called for trying to work out the best way on both bikes to route everything so it looks neat as there are almost an infinite number of ways to do this. Your friend here is the box of sacrificial cable ties that you can use to fettle things into place, before cutting them off and trying something else.

On the plus side, this does mean I don't have to lube the chain up every time I get home as it will be lubed on route ... which is nice.

To round the day off Dave broke out his brand spanking new MSR stove that handily runs on unleaded and we had a cup of tea made with water boiled on it while we wondered how long it's going to take for our eyebrows to grow back. This can then go in Dave's under seat area (next to the trestle table) so we can have a brew on longer rides.

Not a bad Sundays work all on all, and that's now all the mods I can think of to do on the FZ6. Now for a summers riding... whoo hoooooo!!!!!!!