17 years old and building my first "streetfighter"

simpson no1 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Karma :

hi everyone im 17 years old and im building my first streetfighter. its a gsxr400 gk76a (built on a budget). i got it cheap at 250 pounds because the bloke i got it off didnt know why it wasnt running. i had a snoop about and i saw that one of the spark plugs was cracked and two spark plug caps were bust. so i bought it from him for which i considered a bargain! later i found out that he had put some water out of a jerry can into the bike thinking it was petrol (bit silly i know) so i drained the carbs and put some fresh petrol in and it fired up and ran as sweet as i could have hoped for. after that i started the fabrication and body work and im currently doing it.

I have some pictures here of what ive done so far. please comment on what you think!

thanks for taking time to look at my post.
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simpson no1 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Karma :

some of the other pictures dont show think youve got to click on them but the order i wanted them to be was bottom to top lol. tell me what you think?
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alun111 · World Chat Champion Joined: 31 May 2007 Karma :

That's shit hot mate. Seems like you got a bargain aswell - £250?!!

How did you go about making your own pipes?

Could you re-upload the first 4 pictures in their original size? They're a little small and hard to see the finishing touches.
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simpson no1 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Karma :

it is the original size, i took them with a camera phone sorry. i made the pipes out of normal exaust pipe n cutting and gas welding to get them to shape. i got the clamps from beowulf and made the end cans out of the old one (its at my dads house and he has a load of other end cans and things) i found 2 ends to match and riveted it all together.

im looking into getting the link pipes chromed but i might end up just spraying them black. the bike is going to be black and red i think.

going to spray them myself ill upload a picture of my scooter i did when i was 17.
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simpson no1 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Karma :

here are pictures of my peugeot speedfight 50 which i tidied up myself. it was blue and white and scraped all down one side where the previous rider (my brother haha) binned it around a corner.
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simpson no1 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Karma :

oops double post
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St0rmer66 · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Karma :

Looks good, love the twin stubby exhausts!
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TUG · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 May 2007 Karma :

Are we going to see a "fighter" or a set of renthals on a bike thats been smashed and a set of twin lights or enduro lights?
Custom fairings FTW with SS pipes and a nice stonkinly loud stubby with high angle seat unit off anything other than a fucking duke or MV please for the love of fucking god.
And are you going to make the bike aggresive with some engine tuning like gas flowing the head, actually having the correct carbs fitted other than "bigger ones" and other trick custom ONE OFF parts?
Please? You've got my hopes up, you best not fail to deliver now... Wink

EDIT: i love how people have give me bad karma on a joke... Rolling Eyes

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simpson no1 · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Karma :

well mate since its been built on a budget and i made the cans myself and the plastics i made myself out of the old ones it will be a one off bike. but since im 17 its going to have to be restricted Embarassed

so hope i can get it looking nice in the end
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Thom · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Oct 2007 Karma :

you got the certificate to say the bikes restricted right?

well then pull the washers out Wink

Phil_Norwich · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Karma :

well it sounds good, shame I can't see the pics Sad

can't see any at all.
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MaybeGuy · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Karma :

that looks like an awesome project!

i did my GSXR streetfighter at 17 on one hell of a budget... after paying £200 for it, i got it MOT'd for a further £140, this was just new tyres and a brake lever, all the rest was bodged together with electrical tape, zip ties, prayers and rivets.

heres a pic of it.

Before

https://aycu37.webshots.com/image/18116/2001644105413022916_rs.jpg

After

https://aycu16.webshots.com/image/41335/2006014286839050960_rs.jpg

aaand then i blew it up 6 months after passing my test

https://aycu34.webshots.com/image/41073/2006085171981602425_rs.jpg

just given it a top end rebuild, just the effort of getting the engine back in the frame.

must admit though, the riding position on it was fucking awesome! plus it gives you more chance to get the wheelies up.

GIX400's like wheelies. lots.
im a bit shit at them though, my personal best is like 50 meters, about 20 of which were at balancing point, so room for improvement.
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