Performance Bikes — March 2018

2015 TRIUMPH DAYTONA 675RNEIL HACKER

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‘Ishaved20kgoffanFZ6’

‘It’s painted to match a 1994 Daytona’

HI, I THOUGHT I would send you a

picture of my Daytona 675. It has been

painted in Barracuda Blue by

8 Ball custom paint, to pay homage to

the 1994 Daytona 900. It has the same

logo font as the period bike, and I have

finished this off with genuine Triumph

Union flag gel stickers. I have added a

genuine Triumph quickshifter (an easy

fit), an Arrow pipe, K&N filter and

Triumph fuel map to go along with it,

I fitted an anti-slip seat cover as the

original was particularly slick. The

Stompgrips I put on the tank help with

this, too. The most effective mod was

reducing the ride height. Being 5ft 7in,

I found the bike a little tall at first so

I reduced the top shock mount spacer

from 10mm to 5mm and dropped the

yokes by 5mm. It cured the tippy-toe

feeling and there was no need to mess

with the suspension linkage.

The fuelling is spot-on – the loss of

the massive exhaust silencer has

made it noticeably lighter, and the

amazing soundtrack coming from the

airbox is totally addictive. I owned the

previous model, which was a great

bike, but the newer model is head and

shoulders above it. It is a great shame

to see them no longer on sale. Keep

up the great work with the mag.

IKEPTMYFZ6 Fazer standard for

afewyearsandgotthoroughly

boredwithit.Itriedtotradeitin

andrealisedhowlittleitwas

worth,sodecidedtoseewhatI

coulddowithit.Theideawasto

create a modern-day RD350 –

light, agile and minimal.

It’s a 2008 model with R6 forks,

Öhlins shock, small Supertrapp

silencer hidden under the seat

insteadofthebewilderingly

heavyOEmuffler,aswellas

different bars, pegs, mirrors and

headlamp.Asstandarditwasthe

half-fairedmodelsowithallthat

weightgoneupfrontplusthefar

lighter silencer and with items like

thepillionpegs,centrestandand

chainguard in the bin, it’s almost

20kg lighter than standard. And

you can really feel it. It sounds

amazing now and the uprated

suspension is in a different league.

I’mreallyhappywithitnowand

no longer have any desire to chop it

inforanythingelse.Iliveonthe

Isle of Man and it suits the course

really well, at my pace anyway.

BIKE OF THE MONTH WINS

YAMAHA FZ6 CHRIS GRIMSON

Send some pics of your

modded bike and info on

what you’ve done to it, to

[email protected]

and you could win a prize.

GEAR GREMLIN

NIMROD LOCK

WORTH £56.

BIKE

OF THE

MONTH

Minimal finish: a masterpiece

in understatement

Distinctive colourscheme

is only half the story