05-04-13, 12:27 PM
(05-04-13, 10:15 AM)reillypadraig link Wrote: Thanks dude, gona need luck with this, it is very thin indeed, might just have to cut it of and weld a short new bit of pipe in its place, hope its easy job, don't want handing out a fortune for something that wasn't my fault. Also packie yes my own bike is flying, apart from the little splutter from 1k to 5k( which I have yet to investigate) (maybe new plug caps) it's running sweet, just Ur man has his street fightered ( horrible in my opinion. And he wanted to show it of on the parade, that's all, otherwise I would have brought mine. (Would have been more reliable
Personally, I have to agree. The streetfighter look on that bike is horrible. Actually, I wouldn't even call it a streetfighter. Ditching a fairing and putting a set of twin headlights in NOT a streetfighter....it's what it is....just a bike that someone turned from a faired bike to a semi-naked one.
If you are going to do a streetfighter....you REALLY need to just do it and not do a half baked effort. The lights work as a starting point, but I would have taken a big leap and ditched the clocks for something else...they look gammy stuck up there with that half baked bikini fairing. I would have gone for a one off hand made "feck off" stainless pipe with a one off wild paint paint job just for starters too....then it would be on the way on becoming in some way a REAL streetfighter.
But if I was doing a jobby on an old model fazer, I wouldn't go the streetfigher look at all. I just would have picked up a foxeye cone which looks real aggressive and angry and I would have modified that onto the old model bike and got a wild agressive paint job to suit, and then got a stubby type can and taken it from there.
Anyway man....your bike is YOUR pride and joy, so that is the bike you should be riding in the parade....not his. If he wants to show off his half baked effort....then he should have rode it himself. So there is a goal to set yourself now....to ride your own bike next year and to get it tidied up and spotless for the parade instead of putting your hard earned cash into someone elses bike!!