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PostPosted: 22:59 - 31 Oct 2012    Post subject: Making a Street fighter! Reply with quote
So basically i crashed my bike the other week, It already looked abit like a streetfighter so i took the oppurtunity to start building a streetfighter!! Slapped some renthal bars on there, making some jack up bars for it tomorrow gonna lift it another 40mm, gonna rebuild all the back end and was thinking about putting some checker plate underneath the tailpiece make it look mean! just need some twin round headlamps and im set! anyone else have any mods I could do or any youve done yourself? Story time!!
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PostPosted: 23:09 - 31 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
what bike ? dont use checker plate nasty horrible cheesy stuff yuck
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PostPosted: 08:18 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 10:06 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
OP, maybe if you told us what kind of bike it was, or provided some pictures, or said hello, you might get more constructive responses.
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PostPosted: 10:11 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
OP, maybe if you told us what kind of bike it was, or provided some pictures, or said hello, you might get more constructive responses.


YellowX5 gave him the best answer IMO.
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PostPosted: 10:52 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
It truly depresses me that somewhere along the way "I made a streetfighter" became synonymous with "I crashed" Neutral
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PostPosted: 11:00 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tarmacsurfer wrote:
It truly depresses me that somewhere along the way "I made a streetfighter" became synonymous with "I crashed" Neutral


It truly depresses me that people build horrid disgusting hideous streetfighters out of mint bikes... Sad

I saw a '92 Blade, mint, ripped apart to build a black high tailed monstrosity with plenty of chequerplate. Ugh.
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PostPosted: 12:30 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
MarJay wrote:
It truly depresses me that people build horrid disgusting hideous streetfighters out of mint bikes... Sad

I saw a '92 Blade, mint, ripped apart to build a black high tailed monstrosity with plenty of chequerplate. Ugh.


While the aesthetic isn't to everyone's taste a good streetfighter is engineered and tuned to suit the rider, no mean feat. My whole point is that people now seem to consider the acts of crashing then bolting on a set of Renthals and spilling a tub of hammerite to be "making a streetfighter". It irks me in the same way that people neglect their machines and claim "it's a rat, innit".

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PostPosted: 12:48 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I left my YBR well alone TBF -and just turned meself into a streetfighter, although tbf - I don't go on the streets much, too many fighters. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 14:03 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
YellowX5 wrote:
covdude wrote:
I left my YBR well alone TBF -and just turned meself into a streetfighter, although tbf - I don't go on the streets much, too many fighters. Rolling Eyes



Ssshhhhhhhh, ban boy. Shhh!

Why is he still posting? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 14:16 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
YellowX5 wrote:
Show me a streetfighter that does anything better than a standard bike and I'll laugh in your face. The whole movement came around as a cheap way to put a crashed sportsbike back on the road, it was purely about poverty, not any claims that the finished product was actually any good compared to a standard, uncrashed bike. I hate the culture that surrounds the fucking things too - all that camo pant and goatee beard shit. You look like a scruffy cunt and you've ruined your bike, congratulations.


Either learn to use google, get around the custom bike scene a bit more or go back to counting rivets, you're just sulking because so many of the badly built bags of crap that label themselves as a streetfighter involve old Suzukis Laughing
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PostPosted: 14:33 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tarmacsurfer wrote:
a good streetfighter is engineered and tuned to suit the rider

Genuine question, how often does that actually happen? Did it ever?

I've vaguely aware that there's some top shelf wank-mag for streetfighers, but you can "engineer and tune" a bike without taking the plastics off, yes?

I'm not knocking it, I like a casual fettle, but I think I'm missing what makes a "good" streetfighter any different from a "good" bike that's not been cosmetically altered.
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PostPosted: 15:04 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
I was unaware that the term streetfighter included full custom jobs. A streetfighter is a sportsbike that has been crashed and the fairings ripped off as they were too expensive to replace.

I bought a zzr for 600 quid, about 6 months later it was reversed into by a truck at a junction and wrecked the front fairing. A new aftermarket fairing is circa 300 quid and although the chap had given me 300 bones to avoid going through insurance Ibought some dommies and renthal bars and streetfightered the thing.

That is a streetfightered bike, not some glitzy shiny thing with a gash paintjob and stupid back end.
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PostPosted: 15:39 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
covdude wrote:
I left my YBR well alone TBF -and just turned meself into a streetfighter, although tbf - I don't go on the streets much, too many fighters. Rolling Eyes


What YBR? Don't you have some err thing ...raptor?

Honda raptor or something?
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PostPosted: 15:49 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dunno about not improving the original, The R1 forkson the '97 'Blade I'm doing are a head and shoulders improvement on the silly 16'' wheel original. Sticking an '08 swinger and 190 sction wheel in the back might prove to be overkill, but I can always put the standard swinger and wheel back in.
I agree that throwing some Hammerite and God awful Rentalls at it does not constitute any kind of improvement, but some streeters do have a considerable amount of time and skill thrown at them.
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PostPosted: 16:04 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
lilredmachine wrote:
I bought a zzr for 600 quid, about 6 months later it was reversed into by a truck at a junction and wrecked the front fairing. A new aftermarket fairing is circa 300 quid and although the chap had given me 300 bones to avoid going through insurance Ibought some dommies and renthal bars and streetfightered the thing.


I gaffer taped my fairings back together and put them back on.
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PostPosted: 16:28 - 01 Nov 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tarmacsurfer wrote:

While the aesthetic isn't to everyone's taste a good streetfighter is engineered and tuned to suit the rider, no mean feat. My whole point is that people now seem to consider the acts of crashing then bolting on a set of Renthals and spilling a tub of hammerite to be "making a streetfighter". It irks me in the same way that people neglect their machines and claim "it's a rat, innit".

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Well, Here's a new one on me. I'm disagreeing with you wholeheartedly Wolf.

A rat in the truest sense of the term is a bike that is kept running in the cheapest way possible. Neglect, in a sense, is an integral part of this.

Anyone who sprays a reasonable bike matt black and calls it a rat is actually wrong. Its like the Rat car scene where brand new Fiestas have rust paint put onto the bonnet. It is an affectation.

At the end of the day, I'm not to bothered how a bike looks as long as it is functional, and not hideous or dirty etc. This means that I absolutely do not see the point of 'custom' stretfighters with airbrushed naked ladies, vertical seats and stupidly wide rims etc. In fact, most of them are an affront to taste, but that is beside the point. A true rat does actually fit in with my opinion of bikes, and even a crashed renthalled sportsbike is still functional.

However, to take a rare and precious thing like a mint '92 blade (not many left!) and then spray it black, rip off the fairing and airbrush fake carbon fibre over the tank and bodywork is pretty much a tragedy.

Take my example at the moment. I'm currently semi looking at RGV250's again. Can I find one that is unmolested? Yes. Can I find one that is unmolested and is reasonably priced? No. In the case of the RGV this is down to the fragile engines and the fact that there was a point where nobody wanted one. But now people of a certain age are realising they want the bikes of their youth, and the prices have skyrocketed. Now, transpose that situation to that of the Blade I spoke about earlier. If I wanted to buy a bike that I had back in '93 but a fair chunk had been crashed, and another chunk had been turned into tasteless crap, I'd be pretty upset. Not least for being forced to pay £10k for a 'good' example.

Sure, take crashed bikes and do what you want to them. If that means making it look like a horror show, then I've got nothing against that. I wouldn't ride one personally, but I've got nothing against it. However, do that to a mint bike, particularly one that is rare and certainly a future classic.

Look what some foreign pratt did to a mint '92 Blade.

I'm sorry to say but being that modern bikes are becoming ruined by emissions and electronics, mint bikes from the 80's '90's and early 2000's are something to covet and protect, not ruin.

If that means you berate me for counting rivets, then what the heck.

I definitely don't see anything wrong with rescuing pre knackered bikes and improving them a little. That does rely on the bike being flawed in the first place of course... I fail to see how taking, say a GSXR and raising the seat angle or airbrushing a skull or a naked chick to the tank is actually improving it though.

Suspension mods? Understandable. Tuning? Maybe. Making it look like a bad transvestite's party outfit? Nah thanks.
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Mines a streetfighter, don't care what ones sposed to be, although bigger than 125 may help Shocked Smile

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I couldn't care less what people did with their own bikes. If they wanna street fighter them, go nuts. People do unusual things everyday that doesn't conform to the taste of the masses.
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