I’m getting straight to Bike instead of my personal experience. I own a 2011 White and Red FZ-S. 1 year old now clocking 11, 236 kms (Yes its still an young engine and I dont go long touring trips). What I really like about the bike is the engine’s behavior, seamlessly generating Torque in Low and Mid-range, Now this is a street bike so it has to be quicker than the rest of the 150cc’s (The drop in the mileage is because of this character) when rest of the 150cc generating 40 kmph at 3-4k RPM this one generates 50-60 kmph (of course it lags in the Top end performance).
If you are the first in signal line 100% you will be the quickest to reach the next one ALL ALONE! The bike handles corners like it always wanted to. Ive took corners at 60-70 kmph EXCEPTIONAL HANDLING! Again it scores in the styling department cent percent. But I feel 2012 edition of FZ and FZS has bit less sporty tails compared to the previous ones. But still its a great bike.
If you look for More power in High end, More Mileage and gentle matured ride you better take FZ out of your mind. If you seek power in street level, more torque in lower and mid range RPM, more style, don’t care about mileage and tear apart the corners when others think to handle it. Then this your macho machine. He is Brutal in Lower and Mid-range RPMs and gentle in Higher RPMs.
Finally its Yamaha man, you don’t have to think about reliability, refinement, built and performance!
PS: After all the free services are over try switching the engine oil to Semi-Synthetic it really gives the best of your bike. CUz I did!