New bike time

[TheSmiler]

Fancy a new bike, currently saving up. I'm after something in similar looks to this hayabusa with decent power. The bike won't be kept normal will be made into a survival bike.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b0/ac/c4/b0acc43d323e3760d14c4da6e4a3fb68.jpg


Anyone got any suggestions, don't want a bandit want something more sporty
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[Bloggsy]

That looks like something Judge Dredd would ride
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[almostthere]

wtf is a survival bike! you wont need to save up if it's something like you've pictured £200 should get you a good one
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[MarJay]

Smiler,

Having a direct access to the things you post both on here and Facebook, I'm worried that a lot of what you do is governed by something else external to you. You want to buy a Hayabusa (or similar I guess) and turn it into a terrible survival bike. You spend tons of money on old K series BMWs. There are other things I've seen but as they could be interpreted in a certain way I'll not mention them here, but it's a recent post on Facebook I'm thinking of particularly.

It just seems like you don't do these things to make yourself happy, but rather you do them because you want people to think of you in a certain way... I'm not really sure why I get this feeling, but it is nevertheless there. It's like you're desperate to get accepted by the communities you've chosen to join somehow.

Having been through my twenties and looking back, I rather wish I'd spent more of it chasing women and doing stupid things on motorcycles (and I did a fair few stupid things!) rather than grinding at work trying to get money, paying a mortgage and generally trying to be more of a grown up than I really was at the time. A lot of this was down to what I thought other people would assume I should do. This is nonsense, I should have cared less about what other people think and more about doing what I wanted. In the end this isn't such a bad thing, It's not like a major life regret, but I'm just illustrating this to warn you that if you fill your young life up with old man bikes and mortgage payments you may well miss out on some of the good stuff...

Apologies for the slightly irrelevant tangent.... In terms of the bike, what I suggest you do is sell the Beemers and buy a 1998 onwards ZX9R for about £1200. Take the bottom fairing off (but leave the top and the ram air pipework) and just ride it. No matt black paint, no yellow radiation symbols... JFRI.
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[recman]

I suspect these types of bike builds are solely to draw attention but when you're amongst other bikers and they ask about it, are you really going to say it's a survival bike?

[Shaft]

So, you're saving up to buy a perfectly good bike, to turn it into an impractical, unrideable POS?

Way to go
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[stinkwheel]

Get a plastics write-off R1. Hide as much wiring as you can. Fit renthals and a 250LC headlight.
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[Kentol750]

An old knackered shot hayabusa limping around a scrap yard....are pixar sponsoring this build/thread?
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Some bikes.

[TheSmiler]

[Kentol750]

Survival bike? Really? Is that a thing now?
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Some bikes.

[ThatDippyTwat]

[Ste]

Rat bike, survival bike, streetfighter, all about the urban grind, modern rat bikes... call it what you will, they're all the same.

You're wanting a crash damaged bike that you can take the fairings off of, fit some flat bars, paint it matt black, fit an aftermarket cheapo headlight unit, etc etc etc so that you can then call it your own unique masterpiece.

Surrey Motorcycle Salvage on eBay have lots of different crash damaged bikes on their eBay page. https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/Surrey-Motorcycle-Salvage?_trksid=p2047675.l2563

Find somewhere like that which isn't a few hours away from where you live and wait until they've got something you like the look of.

[Kentol750]

Ahhhhhhhh right, I get it. Streetfighter not cool any more, invent a 'brand new' genre. So, for goth read emo, for cockwomble read hipster.
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[ThatDippyTwat]

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I would buy this.

https://blog.motorcycle.com.vsassets.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11611-yamaha-xtw250-ryoku-concept.jpg

All they gotta do is make it.

[TheSmiler]

I've decided to go for a cbr900 I know this isn't the normal way of going about a street fighter however i don't really fancy taking a bike down the road. Can't risk that anyway with my health.

I'm not going to get a perfect bike all I'm going to do is get a ratty one and just customise it to my taste. All I was after from this thread was a good selection of decent bikes that are more modern than my rat more power. Better brakes with still the ease of repair and reliability.

Survival bikes have been around for a while I'm suprised that some on here don't realise that. Mainly influenced by mad max but they have a military look that can survive anything.

My 84 rat at the moment is decent and will do anything I need but I'm using it for work. So there is no more fun anymore doing the normal commute. I just don't fancy taking it out when the weather is nice.

I'm sure we have all come across that before when you use a bike constantly for commuting you get rid of all the fun aspect.

Just understand why now this forum is dying.
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