Questions about streetfightering bikes...

[5v3d3b0]

What the hell is the point? What's with the ass in the air? They look worse in my opinion. Tell me a few reasons to do it to a bike. I see it as torture to my eyes

[palmer]

from what i can tell, they are tarty forms of stunt bikes. and the turned up tail are there for making wheelies more comfortable

buts its gone far bejond ripping off the fairing and sticking straight bars on a sports bike, its become a fashion, hobby or a passion.

much like 'choppers' and how they origionated from getting old ww2 bikes and removing all the unwanted bits - 'chopping'

[mr.z]

You could say the same about allot of sports bikes..

Its just personal taste, if you dont get it you just dont get it..
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[Mudskipper]

Proper streetfightering - fair enough, can look pretty cool.

Half-arsed attempts at 'fightering' some trashed sports bike cause you can't be arsed replacing expensive fairing - utter toss.

Mudskipper
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[DucatiEVO]

Wot Mr.Z says! They (when done nicely) make the bike individual and different. I know a few I'd certainly like to ride down the road!
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[Mudskipper]

No, it's not supposed to be a half-arsed attempt.

I saw some fighters at RBCS last year that made me want to weep, they were so pretty. Immense effort goes into proper streetfightering.

What I object to is the shite that gets dumped on FleaBay, where someone has thought 'ah, can't afford the fairing, i know, i'll fighter it'.

Then after some renthals, cheap headlight and (on the butchered CBR400's i've seen) an R1 tailpiece slapped on, they get bored and sell it as '95% completed project'. Meaning they've realised what a complete fcuking horror they've made.

I like sports bikes, i've also seen a lot of streetfighters i've liked.

Proper ones. That's the distinction - going halfway is just shoddy and disappointing. Don't do it kids!

Mudskipper
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[BFG]

[G]

For some people the point seems to be to make a bike that 'looks' as mean as possible with an expensive paint job and expensive after-market items bolted all-over - like a 'custom' cruiser, but a bit sportier.

For me, it's to make a sports bike into a bike suited for going fast in an urban environment.
A lightly jacked up rear end will speed up turn in. As will wide bars - which makes sense for tight urban corners. No fairing isn't a problem if you aren't going really silly speeds and means less to be damaged when you fall off.

Sadly for me the majority of streetfighters do seem to be owned by those that have bought bits with those brand names all over them, covered in cling film rather than those that have hacked a bit on to make it a better ride cheaply.

[Sparks!]

[BFG]

[G]

To be fair, I think for a long time people have been buying shiny bits with 'names' on them more for the sake of that than their actual use.

[DucatiEVO]

My mates one with a 'shit turned up tail', looks pretty awesome to me! (it's the euro look)

https://www.driftmoto.com/pictures/morgy/morgs1.jpg
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[stinkwheel]

Well I think you're all a bunch of snobs.

Nothing wrong with a bike that has been bodged into a fighter after a crash. Maybe the bike was a financial write-off, maybe they were skint, maybe they care more about how it runs than how it looks.

The fact is that OE motorcycle parts are rediculously overpriced, especially plastics. Given the choice of spending £500+ on replacement parts or £60 on a couple of clamps, some renthalls and a headlamp unit. I have to say I'd be hard pushed to justify the former when the latter works just as effectively. Especially if the bike works perfectly well but is classified as 'beyond economic repair'.

Hell, get down a salvage sale and buy a top of the range, low mileage bike with light front-end crash damage, fork out £60 to £100 on a lash up 'fighter setup and go have some fun. Laugh like hell at the people who sneer at the bikes cosmetics as you go honking past them knowing how little it cost you to have just as much fun as they are.

I'll wheel out the picture of my mate Andys professionally built Harris streetfighter again, just to demonstrate what you can do if you want to spend the money and time to make something special and unique.
https://www.bikechatforums.com/download.php?id=22064

[bazza]

[Keen]

[DucatiEVO]

[kat250]

The old school streetfighters were things like rd`s cb`s and basicly making them better with what was lieing around like trailie bars and such on. But now a days street fighters tend to be the same old Gixxer 1100/750 7/11 or bandit and its the same crap monthly now(ok occasionaly something nice pops up) Basicly i believe original concept was cheap.
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[hmmmnz]

bollocks to that, art and engineering..... what a bunch of piffle and snobbery.
a street fighter is just a bike with out fairings that originally had them. a rat bike is a bike generly made of bits and peices lying around the back garden to get your old crashed crapper running, i think you've been thinking about this just too much,
if i buy a bike the first thing i do is remove the fairings, put on a light.
for me fairings are pointless for the riding i do, and the speeds that im legally allowed to go.

street fighters don't have to look nice to be a functional peice of kit.

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[mark83]

Streetfighering a bike means to mess around with it and making a complete pig's ear of it.

Then realising that you want a proper bike and having to sell your little 'project' at a massive loss.

But it beats staying at home wondering what to do with your weekend!

I hope I have been clear.
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[sickpup]

Just some of the bikes owned by the boys.

https://www.spartgsxrspecials.com/al%20main/DSC01528.JPG

https://www.spartgsxrspecials.com/EXCILE/2.JPG

https://www.spartgsxrspecials.com/oncusmain/images/216_JPG.JPG

https://www.spartgsxrspecials.com/terry/my%20fighter%20001.jpg

https://www.spartgsxrspecials.com/gary%20bandit/images/g15_jpg.jpg

https://www.spartgsxrspecials.com/douggies/images/1_JPG.jpg

[MarkJ]

As I've said before, my cousin made this GSXR 750 Turbo himself. Did the frame and everything.
https://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f186/markjackson13/pict0021.jpg

https://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f186/markjackson13/pict0024.jpg

Streetfighters done properly look awesome. And it's all a matter of opinion anyway.

You'll find the people saying they don't like streetfighters are generally the ones all on identical GSXRs/R-somethings/CBRs

[TOM M]

Some cracking pics there


Streetfighters arent really my style but i can apreciate the work gone into them
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