The Jap who is as reliable as Mount Fuji

Yes, it is the famous, hottest selling Fazer 6 Naked. After a short while with the Varadero, I realised much of my character in riding, I know now that I love naked street tourers, mid range cc of 600s to 1000s.





I booked one thru my regular dealer. Took the much rare competition white like the picture above. Excited much more then ever, as this Fazer will be my 1st Class 2 motorcycle bought brand new. Love it when i see the meter is all zeros....





After acquiring the bike, i wasted no time getting things fixed up....1st of all, Leo Vince again...they seems to be getting alot of my money these days....after $1500 poorer, the carbonos are up on my Fazer...

And thats not all, after about another grand or two later, my fazer is super tourer mode ready with Hepco Beckers, Bagster, Garmin and Barracudas...the list goes on....

And I wasted no time again to fulfilled my tradition....I went on countless times to Thailand, and hitting the finale recently in April, to Phuket to take part of the annual Bike Week event.

It was especially fun when i have 2 of my closest riding buddy having the same bikes. we have some occasions tearing down the highway together on the way up north. Unforgettable.

a short clips of riding my fazer with my tourbroz.

A One Night Stand with a Fat Lady

Going on to my 9th month with the lovely japanese, Z1000 was powerful and really unbeaten in the duration of my relation with her....on everyday roads, she accepts no pillion and has slaughtered countless 2-wheelers and chariots, leaving their beaten steed with the riders looking down in despair...always ready to instill fear with my Leo Vince battle horn to motorists in the CTE tunnels ... I always make it to my destination (thank goodness) as happy as making a killing.....Life is still full of pride....


...but Life is also fair....when the notice to renew the insurance for Z1000 came, the once arrogant, tall standing rider, with even a taller ego....simply dwindled and diminished into the like of a barn mice....


3 times up Thailand with the Z1, I reckon the kick i had with her was about enough, i was thinking of changing bike again...The urge came surging when one of my friend offered himself to carried on my instalment of the Z1 and promised me that he will take care of the bike for me in the period under his ownership...


Well, i am free again, and its the best time of a biker again...looking for a new ride~!


I was looking for something different now...but i have absolutely no clue...until i met Mark at ASPhoon Serangoon one Friday evening...and I saw what i wanted....


A Used Honda Veradero....




Thinking with the friendly price of this Varadero, i could try out dual purposes...perhap in the long run, i could like this category and eventually go on to have more pro-dual purposes, like KTMs and BMWs... Lets try...


With no much time wasted, i got my hands on the Vara and to make my spending spree even more sinful, Claudio, the guy from Leo Vince, knew that I have acquired a XL1000, delibrately told me that there is a exisitng stock of a Leo Vince Titanium waiting to be cleared and is offering a very good price for me only.....well, no prize for guessing whether I got the pipes....


* Catch a glimpse of the Leo Vince pipes installed on the Fat Lady....



To carry on my tradition, I immediately organised a ride up Thailand with the boys.

This time to Hatyai but coming back via Betong, which consisted of more B-roads which is what I like to test out this biggy dual purposes...


The ride is one of a kind i would never forget, its the most comfortable ride up Hatyai thru the North South Highway. Fat Lady is never as heavy as it seem. Sitting posture was straight, windscreen is big enough to leave me fresh and unbeaten after every distant. Luggage was more then convenient for me with the side panniers and the 52litre top case. Leo Vince was performing at its job too, providing the sound to complete a perfect scenario like a the frosting of a ice cold beer flowing out of the beer mug...


But thru this lady, i also discover the things I do not like for my riding preference.
I still prefer the characterisitc of inline fours, pickup was okay but inline were smoother, i would like more of that power-on-tap thing, but when I did the throttling I was doing with my Z1, i didnt get it.... cornering is alittle bit more tricky and required more attention. Mainstand is hard to hit, had a few near missed stationary falls, not to mention the embarassment the incidents it has caused...


But the main killer was a little problem in the bike, the engine does not have a smooth power delivery, every other second I experienced a little power loss from the throttle, resulting in little jerks along the whole journey. Its nagging and the mechs could not solved it. I lose hope....

I went back to the dealer after the Betong ride...and told him I had enough of this "different" ride...and moved on....in one corner of my mind I was thinking maybe its a good idea to have a brand new bike...so that there is warranty and no nagging problems the previous owner left behind...


Well, timing is always good when you think it is.....


Had a longer chat with the same dealer lead me an information about Yamaha is releasing some brand new old stock models for cheap clearance....one model especially intrigues me when one of my riding buddies was riding it....


Check out the next blog of one of my loveliest and longest affairs....

The Other Japanese

Its time to blog again…it seems like this blogspot account of mine as been missing a big portion of my latest action in motorcycling recently. So now here I am, in the office, during lunchtime, while waiting for my lovely finance gal Kelly to buy lunch for me, pick up the “pen” and start “writing”, updating the adventures of 2009 and 2010.

Ok where did I stop? On the CB750? Oh yes and Thailand! Well, still love the destination. Love it even when I fly there without my bike to Phuket recently with wifey to enjoy a nice weekend there.

Ok coming back to riding. Well, yes, I admit, I do not like being called an uncle…in fact, in the period of time when I was with my CB750, I grew to such paranoid of portraying an uncle image, that I promised myself, that my next ride will definitely silent those who called me an uncle…. And it was sooner then expected….

In my line of work, I have to visit some motorcycle dealers to chat up with them and follow up orders from them, at the same time, getting to know them better for my own sake, cus I will be in some point of time, their customer too. Eventually after a lot of roundings with the dealers, I eventually visited afew of my more favourite dealers more often then the others. Loois motor is one of them…

There is always an eagerness inside me, when I do the last right turn into Kaki Bukit Place where Loois Motors is located. The eagerness to know and see whats new in their showroom, especially the used bike section on the 3rd floor. Everytime, I would hope that my love for a new bike will not overcome my sense of logic (especially the logic of not wasting money)

But came this fateful Saturday. The lift opens, the always-friendly Mr Lee say hi to me and finger-pointed something in a corner of the showroom. “Just came in! Want to try a different brand?” he shouted across the showroom to me….

It was dark black with matt gold handlebar, the original headlight cowling was something out from a batman or ironman movie, upside-down forkies, the tail nicely flushed to a sharp point like a robotic wasp, not forgetting the give-away design: 4 copper aluminium straight cigerette-style exhaust sticking 2 by 2 sides.

Yes, for those knew. It was Kawasaki. The formidable Z1000R.

I have no control over myself, lose all logics discussed with Mr Lee and headed to the 5th floor for payment…that night I could not sleep, knowing that I will be shedding my uncle image soon….

well didn’t really had a good picture of my new Z with the original exhaust, cus sooner then most of you guy blinked, I have replaced them with a 4-in-1 Leo Vince SBK short tip which I could not describe how the sound can make me climax every time I blip the throttle…it always leave my trouser wet…


Remembered Lee told me to be careful with this bike, he said its not like your uncle’s CB750 and asked me to ride it with great responsibility….well I didn’t know what exactly he meant until I tried setting it free on North South a few months later…

At North South Highway, I nearly wet my pants too….but with pee this time….after I did a high speed corner at 250kph. Enuf said….Z1000R is a caged beast waiting for opportunity to be released and when it is released, prepared for the wildest ride…

The Leo Vince did not help at all in taming the wild beast but fuelled the adrenaline instead.

I remembered I was tearing down a carpark locally…was dragging to about 8,000rpm on 1st gear when I set off the alarm of a few cars parking at the side when I whizzed past….the next reaction was to look around to hope that there are no men-in-blues. Haha.

I was happy. I metaphor from an uncle to a head turner who has beast under my control. Super 4s stopped behind me at the lights, uncles stopped beside me shaking their head thinking that this bike is not for him. Gals gave me a 2nd look to prompt me to blip the throttle harder….Life is full of pride…