The Zephyr Zone

Anyone know if Reading is happening this year

I too still habitually check the forum daily, I also check the Facebook page but I don't find the Facebook page as interesting or technically involved as this forum used to be and I think while i accept that there are a some very skilled and knowledgeable people on Facebook it's hard to define betwe...

Did you replace your cdi with a carmo unit

I haven't got around to taking any photo's of the zephyr this year so here is one of my favourite images from last summer

i have an s1000r at the moment which replaced a couple of yamaha r1's and a z1000 and i have found that every year i have owned it the zephyr has clocked up a higher annual mileage than the other bike in my garage

just a heads up for anyone down south, its the vjmc club meet at boxhill on sun the 12 of may, if the weather is ok i usually ride down and have a nose around- its not as big as the ace cafe meet but there is often some interesting bikes there

yes i fixed mine with Q bond, its lasted just about a year now with no issues- in fact it runs so well like it is that i haven't bothered fitting the replacement set of carbs that i eventually found for it, i detailed the repair that i did on mine in the WANTED section of the zone under 1100 CARB if...

has yours broken in the same place as mine ?

i get asked quite a lot if the modifications that i have on my bike have upset the handling due to the much shorter forks than standard- i always tell people that it has improved it noticeably but of course everyone knows that i am going to say that as i wouldn't want to admit that i had messed it u...

Coincidentally I used q bond to fix mine and it's been fine for the summer so far, I must have done at least a thousand miles with the repair on it, I also used an empty metal ink refill from a pen and pushed it over the return spring to lengthen it so I could use the carb mounting bar as the stop f...