Streetfighter Motorcycles

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Worth discussing, or a load of ugly old tosh ridden by retards in urban camo trousers?

[Skub]

I used to buy the mag occasionally back in the day,plus that other one Nik Samson edited,Back Street Horrors.

Some great ideas,but as with any custom bike style,some do it better than others.

[weeksy]

They sure had their moments. But then all got a bit silly. For me there are/were some awesome Bandit 1200s, but some of the sticky up seats took it to the next level.

Looking at Google pics, they're well... interesting !!!

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

There seem to be more hideous ones than attractive ones, what started out as MX bars on a crashed GSXR appears to have turned into garish and unrideable.

[Skub]

The naked bikes we all know and love here,are streetfighters,but not so long ago the name meant crashed sportsbike with no fairing and high bars.

Like this 'mint beauty'.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/393871797509 ... Sw2J9hp0XK

[Mr. Dazzle]

If someone could just explain the seat thing I'd be happy.

[Yorick]

I could happily own this bugger

[KungFooBob]

The oil cooled GSXR's were used in street fighters a lot because they didn't need any plumbing.

Water cooled naked/streetfighters usually look a bit rubbish because of all the pipes.

[Bigjawa]

There seem to be more hideous ones than attractive ones, what started out as MX bars on a crashed GSXR appears to have turned into garish and unrideable.

This. I followed the fashion with my 87 GSXR 11. Looking back, it looks a bit daft. Hence it will be getting replaced with a TZ250 one. A lot of them look utterly daft with a 1980s bike with a noughties tail unit, it's like putting Helen Mirren in a tracksuit.

The oil cooled GSXR's were used in street fighters a lot because they didn't need any plumbing.

Water cooled naked/streetfighters usually look a bit rubbish because of all the pipes.

Also this, the old oil boilers had a sort of brutality about their looks, no matter how many silicone hoses you put on your liquid cooled motor, it'll never look as good as the oil coolers.

[demographic]

Some were ok but most were a bit...


For me there were "Specials" like I'd see in the back of late 80s Performance Bikes and then there were "Streetfighters" which looked like they'd got into a fight with a street, lost, then some bellend had dropped a tail unit from 20,000 feet onto it, stuck a kitchen downlight onto an MX numberplate then wasted a few grand on paint to make it look less shit.
Extra wally points for doing a burnout in white trainerboots, urban camelflange keks, a Simpson Bandit lid and ideally flipping the bird at the camera.

[Bigyin]

I always looked at them as sports bikes that had been crashed and all the plastics smashed to shit so bung a set of Renthal bars on and a crap little light and call it a streetfighter. In that way i get why they became a "thing"

When the manufacturers started making their sports bikes with flat bars and no fairings and calling them Steetfighter models ..... i remember riding the Ducati 848 Streetfighter as a loan bike and didnt really get it as it was supposable a baby Panigale with really low set instruments, headlight and flat bars but it didnt work for me....the view across the tank sums it up

[The Spin Doctor]

it's like putting Helen Mirren in a tracksuit.

I'm struggling to see how that's a bad thing...

[Taipan]

I liked them when they were just race reps with the fairings and clip ons removed as those are the parts I had no use for. They made better naked bikes than were available from the manufacturers. Sadly they evolved into something stupid looking.