Quote from: scottychop on April 07, 2011, 02:50:52 PM
How about some updates!!

Patience! They are coming!

You could do this paint job 

Lol Adidas. I almost dry reached when I saw that bike. It doesn't float my boat at all. Someone should paint their car as a lion and take this zebra out.

Then you're going to love this site:
http://www.furrybikes.com/

or these:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asb353/4430253017/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/celesteh/132344196/


If you're going to be a fighter, you gotta have fur.
How about a GS in a loin cloth? With a sword?

Way to throw off the thread Addidas!

Quote from: scottychop on April 07, 2011, 04:30:20 PM
Way to throw off the thread Addidas!

Just one of my many under-used talents

OK - then back to FIGHTERS!

Quote from: adidasguy on April 07, 2011, 04:10:41 PM
Then you're going to love this site:
http://www.furrybikes.com/


Could be worse - could be 1960's shag carpet!

Is this Chewbacca's bike? Looks like a freakin wookie

Hard to believe this little bike hasn't been fightered more.  I'd like to see some more photos for sure.  I just spent an hour on customfighers and google searching, nada.....

Oh, and addidas, mind deleting the hairy marmots?

Never stifle creativity or joviality. It can lead to other areas never considered. Like...



From... http://www.vincelewis.net/bonebike.html

Michael

What really is the definition of a "street fighter"?
Do you really fight? Are they for jousting?
To me, half of them are how hacked up and ugly you can make your bike. "fugley" is probably the only word I can use that's not filtered out.
"Cafe Racer" I understand and read the history on the cafe racer site. Very interesting history! That makes sense: make the bike light and fast so you can get free beer.

Actor Huggy Leaver is credited with being inspired to build such customized motorcycles in this style and there was a proliferation of 'ratted' streetfighters in London around the late 1980s. The term streetfighter was first applied to a custom street bike by a British photojournalist and bike builder to a Harley-Davidson customized sports-bike, and later extended to the Japanese four-cylinder customs being created at the time.

Though it has its styling roots in the Café racer culture of the 1950s and 1960s, the streetfighter is very much inspired by the new Japanese bikes of the late 1970s and early 1980s, possibly from young riders in the UK who couldn't afford to replace damaged fairings after repeated crashes. Later, more appropriate headlights were added, then high handlebars to aid in wheelies and other stunts.

The word does get tossed around a lot, and a lot of people like to toss out the fairings from their gsxr, stick on one of those $30 ebay headlights and call it a streetfighter, which definitely offends the people but put a ton of work into making their bike into something. Sportbikes are fun, but clearly they aren't meant for the street. I think the idea of a streetfighter is just to take a sportbike, keep the strong engine and good handling/suspension, but make it more useful for the street. Put some normal handlebars on it, ditch the fairing that you don't need when you're on the street, and make it look how you want. These are the kinds of bikes I think of when I think about a streetfighter....





Although I'm not partial to extended swingarms. I guess they could come in use if you live in a town where everything is straight. There's also a pretty big debate about whether 'factory fighters' should be considered real streetfighters... speed triples, buells, whatever else. I don't see the big fuss though, considering that's exactly what they are, sportbikes made for the street.

I like them both.  But then again, I subscribe to SF mag, and am on Custom Fighters all day.  Not sure I would build one again, but love the concept of someone doing a GS500 just right.  Any idea what tail is on the blue one?

I'm not sure which tail it is, but I've seen it on a good amount of bikes so i'm sure you could find one if you browsed around some of the websites that sell streetfighter bodywork/parts.

Did you just snag these from my thread on CF?  ha!

haha sure did  

I'm loving that green one.

My GS without the lower fairing could be a fighter(?)

Quote from: scottychop on April 14, 2011, 10:02:43 PM

scotty, where's this image from? Your design? I love it.