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Saturday Ride on The Ferrets Turf - jimbo9867_imp - 06-07-2015

I only had a couple of hours to get a ride in Saturday morning before heading to Columbus to visit my daughter. I spent a several of hours cleaning the CB Friday night (including the chain) so I thought I'd like to let it stay clean for a few days. Besides, I needed to show the Yamaha some love. I hadn't been on it in about a week. After the Ferrets post a few weeks ago showing the covered bridge on one of my favorite local roads had been repaired, I thought I'd better check it out. I'm not sure how long the bridge had been closed for repairs but it was at least a couple of years. It was a nice cool, overcast morning and traffic was light. I managed to get almost 100 miles in so it satisfied my addiction!

The recently repaired bridge
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A view just before crossing the bridge
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RE: Saturday Ride on The Ferrets Turf - the Ferret - 06-07-2015

Cool I recognize those views! Nice pics and I love FZ-1's. more partial to Gen 1's but Gen 2's are cool too. Great bikes.

RE: Saturday Ride on The Ferrets Turf - jimbo9867_imp - 06-08-2015

(06-07-2015, 11:51 PM)The ferret_imp Wrote: Cool I recognize those views! Nice pics and I love FZ-1's. more partial to Gen 1's but Gen 2's are cool too. Great bikes.

I've never ridden a Gen 1 but browsing through the FZ 1 forums, their owners seem to love them. The throttle mapping on the Gen 2 takes some getting used to, for sure. My only other issue with the bike is the seat. I found the stock seat too hard and after an hour or so it was getting uncomfortable. I just put a Corbin seat on a few weeks ago. So far, its been as bad as the stock seat. I'm told that Corbin seats get better over time. We'll see. I can sit on the stock seat on the CB all day with little discomfort.

RE: Saturday Ride on The Ferrets Turf - the Ferret - 06-08-2015

The first couple years of the Gen 2 especially the first year, the fuel mapping was just horrible, almost unrideable like the first year FZ09s, but from what I have read the new R1's mapping is outstanding. How can the same company get it so right and so wrong?

RE: Saturday Ride on The Ferrets Turf - jimbo9867_imp - 06-08-2015

(06-08-2015, 12:27 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: The first couple years of the Gen 2 especially the first year, the fuel mapping was just horrible, almost unrideable like the first year FZ09s, but from what I have read the new R1's mapping is outstanding. How can the same company get it so right and so wrong?

I rode an FZ 09 before I bought the FZ 1 and it reminded me of my old 2 stroke dirt bike days. It would hit about 5k rpm and it was like afterburners kicking in. I thought it was going to come out from under me. I'm too old for that! My FZ 1 is a '13 model so it's much more linear but it's still nothing like the CB 1100 that seems to just pull hard from the time you let the clutch out. I like having two bikes with such different personalities but when the time comes to thin the herd the CB 1100 will be the last to go. I hope to own it for a very long time!