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;D Well I finnaly picked up my new FZ10 at the dealer ship saturday. I rode her home 487mi. This is my 30th bike I have owned since 1973. I half to say it IS the BEST bike I have ever owned for ME. rideing this bike in my mountians to me is like a scapel going thru a big steak, just carves them up. love the cruise control. But useing it has a weird feeling. Most people relax their left arm off the left bar and keep their right hand on the throttle. So useing the cruise control to relax my right arm and steer with my left is just a unusuall feeling. ill get use to it.As far as gas mileage goes, the horror stories I read on the FZ10 forum about bad gas mileage isnt really that bad. I did 487 miles of mostly high speed rideing on the interstates so I didn't get run over by picem up trucks, suv's and mini vans doing 80+ mph in their false sence of securty gas guzzeles! Any way my speeds were between 70-90MPH for at least 300mi and my average set from 0 at the dealer with 0 miles on the odo was 38.7 MPG. By the time I got home I noticed my MPG was falling to a average of 38.1 mpg as I pulled into my driveway. trust me, my 09 R1 was way,way worse. The seat. Well lets just say after the first 200 mi I was in pain. I will be buying the touring seat they offer. This is also the first metric bike to have a pretty accurate speedo. I was optomistic only 1mph or less according to my gps. If I was doing 80 on my bike it was really 79-79.5 on my gps! Wind plast is fine up to 70mph, but gonna need the optional wind shield also for high speed cruiseing. Oh the engine. AWSOME as my 09R1 was. Got to at least get a slipon to get the music of the cross plane to sing out loud. light were very good at night. Today I put in another 75mi on my twisty roads and this bike for me is like a scapel. just does what I want it to. Im rideing it for awhile with traction set on #2 and power mode on A. Love the passing light switch and the four way way flashers. Power outlet looks and feels like its made from 1/8" tubing. not a cheap after thought. Nice and Yamaha solid quality.Oh, of course I get crowds around it and they even want to sit on it and have their pic's taken. This is one hot motorcyle and ALOT of guys want it. Seems dealers are running out of them too? This is my style of rideing and type of bike for me. The brakes to me are just fine. I don't ride that aggressive so maybe thats why? I just installed the luggage rack and it takes away from the over al look, but I really have no choise as my passenger needs to be more comphy. Ill be installing FZ09 rear passenger peg mounts and I probably will get 1" risers for the handle bar. Over all im in BIKETOPIA. I had four FZ1'S, three GEN1 and one GEN11 and this blows them away in every thing except gas mileage,LOL. Thanks again Yamaha, You made me proud again to ride an awsome naked sport bike with well thought out amenities and accessories. ;D
