"Streetfighter"ing a bike - how do I do it.

[c_dug]

I use the term Streetfighter in the loosest possible way. Basically my front fairing frame is pretty buggered from a previous owner crashing the bike. My fairing is also cracked and holed and one of the mounts on my clocks has snapped meaning they wobble all over the place. Spares are proving a pain to find in the right colour and in decent condition.

So Assuming I take everything off of the front down to the wiring and leave myself with the forks and handle bars plus the brackets for the fairing/subframe, what is the next stage? A headligth seems pretty simple to rig up, just clamps to the forks right? How about clocks? Indicators? Blah blah...
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[Scootaloo]

take the existing shitty fairing, and melt/cut it into a new shape, then mount it to the clocks and mount the clocks to the bike using the brackets from the old fairing... takes forever but can be make to look good.


Otherwise just gaffer-tape away until the existing fairing is cool.

Or, don't be such a cheap skate and just buy some fairing for replacement.
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[snowsurfer]

crash it?
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[Irn-Bru]

Rip all the plastics off, put a cheap enduro style headlight on and paint it matt black. Mmmmm...
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[c_dug]

Haha,

No interest in touching anything other than what is in front of the handle bars!
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

A street fighter in the truest sense is about getting a crashed sports bike back on the road as cheaply as possible.

Rip the plastics off, new headlights, and some high bars and you're good to go. They've become something of a fashion statement of late. People getting carried away, changing the sub frame to tint the seat unit at an unrideable angle, lots of metal flake paint etc.

To each their own though.
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[-Matt-]

Rip off everything valuable - attach obscenely mis-shapened out of proportion add-ons like giant bar ends/huge alien headlights.

Warp parts of the bikes shape until it barely resembles any form of transport.

Then for bonus points complete it with a ridiculously over the top near-blinding paint job.

At least thats what most seem to do ...

[c_dug]

As above, no interest in touching anything behind the bars, I just have no idea how to sort clocks out?

Not sure if my tacho is mechanical or electronic (Best guess is mechanical?) how does an electronic one work? Or if I was to buy something like these: clicky are they likely to work as they should.

Really I just want a simple solution that won't cost me the earth, the whole point of this is that judging by prices and availability on ebay it will almost certainly work out cheaper than fixing it back to standard.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Would've thought you'd have an electric tacho. The universal ones work by counting ignition pulses on your HT leads.
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[Ste]

Renthal bars & streetfighter headlight = you're too poor to fix it properly!!

[-Matt-]

Fairly straight forward to change over with haynes manual or similar, just make sure you keep old clocks/good paperwork of mileage etc in case you want to sell the bike on or people might get a bit suspicious about the genuiene mileage etc.

[evoboy]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/163166_496965412249_3259491_n.jpg

£250 bike with crashed fairings and snapped clip ons.

£20 bars.
£Free Bar risers.
A drill.
A dremel.


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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

What, no stubby can, and pink anodised footrests?
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[c_dug]

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Az]

I always thought street fighting your bike just meant taking off all the fairings putting on Renthal bars, universal/wanna-be-cool looking headlight unit, replacing speedo if needed-to suit headlight and adding little unnecessary mods like coloured bar ends or bar end mirrors, new paint job and other little "cool" bits and bobs.

[c_dug]

Anybody know if something like this: clicky would work?

I say like because I think that particular one looks a bit pants.
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[garth]

Just to clarify, the bike is a 900 diversion?

So, in answer to your question; Don't.


Edit, here's why.

https://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z44/709davidb/divvy%20900/yxj900si.jpg

[map]

IMHO it's a fine line between streetfighter and rat bike.

As said streetfighter was originally a way of getting a crashed sports bike back on the road because all that plastic is way too expensive to replace/paint.

My thoughts on a rat bike is it's a way of keeping a bike on the road using any bits necessary ans salvaging/cannibalising other bikes or knocking up bits as required (fray bentos pie tin side panel springs to mind as seen on bike at work).

IMHO the best rat bikes evolve although there is a trend to make them look like that. I'm rather tired of animal skull headlight as an attempt to get the Mad Max look. Any rat bike that looks like it's taken too much effort to get the bits or modify the frame doesn't work for me.

So on topic to streetfighter your bike do as little as possible. The hard bit is routing/hiding the wiring, cables and brake lines so it doesn't look like it's just come from the accident.
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[c_dug]

Not a fan of the double lights like that. I'd rather end up with something like this front end:

https://givitsum.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/2000-xjr1300sp-blue_black_dpbmc_ps1.jpg

edited for picture fail.
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[SQL]

needs upside downs

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