congrats buddy for owning The LOTS (The Lord of The Streets - as they say...). best of luck for taming the beast and keep posting your observations and experiences.

50 or 150?
i was quoted 150 for each!
and he too refereed to it as "Buffing"

Who has quoted that much of amt?

hey rahulsmile here are the pics of an orange fz with orange rim strips...

im sure man its 50 rs.....i got it done around 6 months back...
there is another one aluminium finish that only costs high...

Even I have a fazer, it says FZ-16ST on my card (I assume ST stands for sport touring). You sure it's a problem? Basically both the bikes are the same anyway...

WOW..Thanxx a Lot for the Pics man..Ur Bike Looks.awesome with those....n i love the shine On ur Bike..:-)..awesome..cheers...:-)..

that shine takes up at least 2 hours of my time every two weeks.... but totally worth it...

Bumpp!

Anyone with any knowledge about this?

Mine with lots of adjustment left and they say it's gone. It's making occasional clicking noise, but running fine.

Yep, you have to chane the sprocket set together with the chain, and it is recomended also.

The thing is, the frictional force between the old sprocket teeth and the new chain is lower than that of between the new set. Because of this friction loss, some amount of the power transmit from the engine is lost and therefore the perfomance will go down(though you not notice it)

Wonder why? Well, with the milage, the metal parts of the chain and the sprockets get "polished"(wear out) because of the continuos "rubbing" between the surfaces. This reduces the frictional force between them. So each "rubbing" will cause the surfaces to slip because of the less friction, hence some amount of power will lost at the time of the contact between the surfaces. In this way old sprockets and chain will cause loss of power!

So if you put a new chain with old sprocket set, still there are "polished" teeth in the combination, so less friction, so there will be a power loss. It is like you try to ride your bike on a polished surface, like on a tiled floor, the bike will slip, won't it? That happens because of no adequate frinctional force between the tyre and the floor. Same scenario happens with the chain as well.

So changing both sprockets and chain will guarantee you that there will be increased and sufficient friction between them, hence less loss of force.

Now you wonder why we lubricate chains, don't you? Well that is to minimize wear and tear and also oil will act as a cooling agent for the chain! By lubricating, we ensure that there will be minimum wear and hence increased life of the chain, but the main objective of lubrication is to free movement of links(O-rings), rather than lubricating the surface between the teeth and chain!

Mind you these power losses are neither marginal nor significant, but in the long run it will affect the mileage and performances.

You know why the chain has that "polished" like surface, well, that is to minimise the frictional force. Funny ha, no, that is a wonderful application of mechanical engineering really. Chain and sprockets are high speed frictional parts, they rub their surfaces very fast, so if there is incresed frictional force between the surfaces, the power will loose by the form of sound and heat(try rubbing two stones fiercly, you will get sound, often sparks). So the amount of power loss is more evident, therefore engineers try to minimise this frictional force to some level, actually try to kept in a optimum operating level by perfectly balancing it!

Chain is a vital part of the bike. No matter how much power an engine can produce, there is no use of it if it fails to transmit power to the rear wheel. This is a marvellous engineering application in a place where we don't figure out that it is there. There is a perfect balance.

Phew, I hope you got it! I tried my best to explain it. Try change your chain together with the sprocket set.

Dats totally worth it dude... Tried any polish on? i would like to know if so..

Btw are the stipes reflective? i checked one here with a reflective stripe and it was different to say the least couldn really comment if it was good or bad as it jus swayed away in a jiffy

am using a 3m polish with scratch remover.... it is good.... cost around 100rs

mine are reflective strips...

Have any of you had to replace the Cone set?,if yes after how many KM's was that?

Hmm.. ok.. but since I have the chain already, i think i'll change it up.

Wow! What a wonderful write up! Thanks a lot for this man! Really appreciate it . I'll start hunting for sprockets now.