honest opinions please bandit streetfighter

spinglass · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Karma :

I agree with the exhaust being shorted it’s much better.

There are two more things you must do:

1. Paint the wheels red or black or anything else, white is too much.

2. LOOSE those grips now!
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mark allsopp · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Karma :

well they always say wheres there's a method there's madness and boy you've got loads of that. i can take constructive criticism but when it comes from a WET BEHIND EARS CHILD THAT RIDES A BIKE LIKE YOURS it's hard to take so grow up and go back to school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jenks · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 May 2006 Karma :

I do quite like that!

Very shiney too!

Nice one.

Method · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Karma :

phk6 · Nearly there... Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Karma :

it looks good but get stainless steel down pipes to go to the stubby can insted of them black ones they make it look awfull lol
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0ddball · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

Sell it and buy a 600 sports with a race can like everyone else.

Either that or be happy with being an individual (well, as individual as anyone with a modded bandit can be Wink

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For what it's worth, to echo what many have already said. If it was mine i'd do the wheels darker, move the stubby lower or replace the standard can, and lose the grips.

Gazdaman · I did a trackday!!! Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Karma :

I don't like it.

The frame looks different though, has it been modded?

Those lights are too cliche'd. Don't like the grips at all. The can looks ok when it's mounted lower.

Do you have that old can? My bandit would love it.

At the end of the day, it's still a bandit, not enough ground clearance, not enough power, and not really that great for pissing about with stunts.

Gaz

JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

It's crap cause it's the 400 version. Laughing

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dodsi · Dirty Carny Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Karma :

Sorry I hate it, Its just a perfectly good bike with as much aftermarket tat bolted onto it as possible.

Sorry you didnt want any honest opinions.

Oh yeah love it mate, superb can I bum you?

FZ-streetfighter-gav · Renault 5 Driver Joined: 08 Jun 2006 Karma :

looking good better than mine wanna help me ?

Tom C RX50 · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Karma :

Sorry but u think that looks wank, standard bandits are much niver than that, and as you were after the streetfighter look it hasnt been acheived, keep tryin and it might end up looking good one day.
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400bandit · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Karma :

Couldn't have been that pleased with it as it's on ebay...
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/L-K-BANDIT-400-FOR-SWOP-OR-SALE_W0QQitemZ8073968077QQcategoryZ10534QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
And 60bhp? not likely, yours is the UK version which is less powerful than the Jap imports and they make (supposedly Very Happy

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ram_doom · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Karma :

Sephiroths has 20 bhp Mr. Green

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Sephiroth · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

Only when I'm riding it Wink

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mark allsopp · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Karma :

Sephiroth · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

The German version from the same year has only 50hp!

400bandit · World Chat Champion Joined: 21 Dec 2005 Karma :

Maybe your right, however it also has the black down pipes...
Joe
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Sephiroth · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

Yep I noticed that, but the rest of the specs are pretty much the same as the German version.

Anyway, t'is no streetfighter Wink

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This is a streetfighter, andI would be quite happy if it were my bike.

https://www.whaccessories.com/StreetFighterBanditPuple.jpg

ram_doom · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Karma :

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Honest opinions?

You can't streetfighter a bandit because it's already a naked bike.

I think 'custom' would be a more appropriate name, or maybe 'modified' - as for what to do next (though seems like it's too late), the obvious thing would be to ride it Wink

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mark allsopp · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Karma :

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK everbody FOR THERE THOUGHTS BUT NOW SADLY I THINK IT HAS TO GO SO IF ANYBODY INTERESTED
PLS EMAIL ME Mr. Green

IT IS A GSF 400 1991 MODEL TAX/TEST TILL FEB 2007

v4forlife · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Karma :

agreed G, as far as i was aware, streetfightering a bike was taking a faired bike(often after a crash) and making it a custom unfaired one.

if you want custom...shorten the subframe and seat to fit, grab a set of 2005 forks with some radials and make them fit, set of wavies too. get smaller lights(i think) which are the brightest thing since a lighthouse, then paint it a large number of stupidly bright colours and add strange shapes...or failing that, matt black.

also, you might wanna think about chroming or polishing the frame and swingarm, or maybe bolting on a diff swingarm.

as it looks now......its a bandit. it looks like just about what everyone does to a bandit. nothing new or exciting.
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Mongrel · Scooby Slapper Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Karma :

Sure as hell nothing unusual about it, therefore as a slightly tarted Bandit 400, it's a pile of cheap Suzi tat, with cheap bells and whistles.

I wish people would either spend proper money to do the job properly or leave the standard bike the hell alone.

A cheap modification always looks cheap, end of.

Sorry, but as you may have guessed, I'm not a fan of Bandits in general and particularly not that one.

MIKEY B · Crazy Courier Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Karma :

As long as you the owner likes it that is all that matters!!!

And in my opinion it wouldn't be worth going over board with the mods as you will soon want something with a bigger engine and lose money when its time to sell. Thumbs Up

Mike.
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