Budget Bikes Swindon

[Trev_P]

sounds like your experience is in line with a lot of reviews, have discounted them permanently now. looking for a 600 to share the garage with my blackbird, as my blackbird has a fat arse to get down through some tightish twisties that we encounter on the WB rideouts as Burbler can testify to with his one plus i'm not as light nimble and flexible as i was in my yoof

sounds like you know the ZZR pretty well, will have to bring it over to you for a tune and once over when i get it

any zzr 600 pre 2000 will probably need carb diaphragms as well, Ive worked on 3 and all the same ,also the small filters in the carbs get blocked.
my youngest had his eye on a budget bikes item, we made sure owner was there to take his up to trade in, the owner wasn't there and away. made another appointment he was at home. waited half hour and he turned up. then he found faults with our bike. we then asked to look at the one we were interested in, he then said it wasn't there, his mate was using it. had to wait another hour for his mate to turn up with said item. it was in a worse state than the one we wanted to trade in.
best to ask around, our local van rental owner had a very tidy ZZR1100 with panniers for sale at a reasonable price, as usual Caveat Emptor, buyer beware!!

[Trev_P]

Update:
I found a 2003 1 owner from new ZZR600
FSH and all receipts, MOT's, parts etc just done shy of 17k, carbs cleaned, balanced and new innards etc at last service. new tyres and a scott oiler* oiler might be coming off if it fails to please
slight scrapes on fairing due to a slow off while stopping at a roundabout due to diesel.
just in the process of doing some fettling (sorting a few rusted screws and the remains of a luggage system etc which means fairing off hence the finding of rusty screws.) adjusting the rear shock to handle by manly physique.......lard,
should soon be ready for its first WB run

[Trev_P]

ZZR Update:

After going through all the components that WR6133 suggested nothing stood out so in it went to GP Auto's in Cricklade. now bear in mind when I bought it, it had Service paperwork stating the Carbs had been cleaned etc.

faults found:
Pilot Jets and Pilot fuelways blocked, mixtures were lean and Carbs out of balance also float bowls and carbs were green with fuel residue
So they cleaned everything including the carb slides and diaphrams, sorted the jets etc balanced carbs and checked everything for leaks.

Bike now runs like new so it will make an appearance on a rideout.

[Badger-Roy]

ZZR Update:

After going through all the components that WR6133 suggested nothing stood out so in it went to GP Auto's in Cricklade. now bear in mind when I bought it, it had Service paperwork stating the Carbs had been cleaned etc.

faults found:
Pilot Jets and Pilot fuelways blocked, mixtures were lean and Carbs out of balance also float bowls and carbs were green with fuel residue
So they cleaned everything including the carb slides and diaphrams, sorted the jets etc balanced carbs and checked everything for leaks.

Bike now runs like new so it will make an appearance on a rideout.

Glad you got it sorted out.
To be honest I take service history with a pinch of salt as just about anything can be printed of online,
I go more on what it sounds and rides like on the day I view it.
The way I look at it I'd rather buy a bike with no history that rides well than a bike with full history that don't.
At the end of the day a bike could have full service history but could have spent its life being thrashed around a track in which case the history means jack.

[BB]

Bike now runs like new so it will make an appearance on a rideout.

Result, so very good to hear

[BB]

Result, good to hear

[WR6133]

Sounds like a good buy.

I'd bin the stock shock. Best thing I did to both my zzr's was a YSS rear shock. It transforms the handling, the stock shocks even at low mileage are a bit naff.

[Trev_P]

Sounds like a good buy.

I'd bin the stock shock. Best thing I did to both my zzr's was a YSS rear shock. It transforms the handling, the stock shocks even at low mileage are a bit naff.

twas 1500 of your english pounds which compared to the quality/prices of some I have looked at was defo a reasonable sum
When I rode it home it handled like a bedspread which the removed luggage system probably disguised before I bought it, when I adjusted the shock it was only set to position 1 !

the shock is well past is best before date and on the list for next year along with new front fork oil but at the moment my splurge spending on not inconsiderable items has the mrs frowning so baby steps

[Dazr]

Glad you got a good one and look forward to seeing it on one of the rideouts.

[wheelers]

fuel problems, gone off maybe needs a carb clean as ....well, plenty of write ups about ethanol.
ZZR6's Ive had needed to change filter in fuel cut off valves on each carb comes with new orings to stop overfuelling.