Streetfighter, my bike build.

Before I got into modding PC's my main passion in life was motorcycles I've been mad about them since i was a kid and got my first one when I was eleven and I went on to train as a motor vehicle tech so I could eventually work just on bikes, I've owned, built and customized many bikes and this is the latest.
I did have a website with the details of this build but since I moved ISP's I no longer have any free web space and as I'm too tight to pay for it the site is down but while I'm waiting for some PC parts I thought I would post some shots of my last bike build, yeah, I'm bored ;)

The bike started out as a Yamaha FZX750 (called a Fazer and 700cc in the USA) it was a bit tatty and definitely needed a make over so I decided to make it into a streetfighter, basic lean and mean that's all about go rather than show with no flash paint and loads of chrome just satin black paint, kind of Mad Max style.

I stripped the bike down completely and fitted the front forks from a FZR1000 Yamaha because the standard FZX750 forks are a bit spindly and flex and the front wheel is a small 16" which doesn't help the handling and there are not many decent 16" tyres that fit it, the FZR1000 fork legs are stronger with a bigger diameter with a 17" wheel and big brake discs with four piston calipers, a billet alloy top fork yoke was fitted with short risers and flat anodized gold bars.

The tailpiece is from an R1 Yamaha 1000 it was bought cheap because it was cracked but some fibreglass and filler sorted that.

I made a new tank top from fibreglass which is a dummy tank top and cut two holes in it for the air filters to come up through.

The most expensive item was the stainless steel exhaust system, ouch, but it still cleans up like new after nearly 6 years and was worth the money.

Finally the complete back end from a Yamaha XJR 1200 was fitted which has a much bigger and stronger alloy swinging arm and a 17" wheel, this replaces the original 15" wheel which is even harder to find a decent tyre for than the 16" front!

I fitted a set of FZR1000 carbs and a Dynojet jet kit which took a while to get the jetting right but gives the motor more mid range torque and the bike pulls like a train, I've used the bike for about 6 years and it been very reliable which is more than some of the PC's I've built :facepalm:

That's sick. There's just something about bikes....I dunno, they're awesome.

SWEET!!! 8) Really like the style. I've got a '79 Kawasaki KZ650 that I want to do Mad Max style.

Very nice...though I imagine it must be a little awkward with the air filters poking up in your chest. Beautiful result though, I love the matte black look, and the extended tailpiece makes it look a lot lower-slung than it really is; hurrah for function before form 8) I've got a (relatively) little old 1980 Honda CM400T (yay for historic vehicles having way less paperwork to deal with :P ). It that works just fine for now, but once I get a garage again, I want to do a fully electric build...put an in-wheel motor in the back and stuff batteries wherever I can get away with...

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Originally Posted by x88x

Very nice...though I imagine it must be a little awkward with the air filters poking up in your chest.

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Your right, It would be a problem with very low clip-on bars but I'm not into back breaking riding positions anymore which is why I fitted the flat bars on risers but they proved to be a bit too low so I changed them to some higher motoX type bars which are quite comfortable, the most notable thing about having the air filters there is the intake noise over about 40mph they really start to roar and over about 50mph you can't hear the exhaust at all and even though the exhaust is legal it's not that quiet, many people don't believe that the filters are connected to the motor so I say "Put your ear to the filter" and blip the throttle...point proved 8)

You mentioned building an electric bike and if you followed the Ilse of Man TT racing this year you will have seen the worlds first electric bike race the TTXGP with fifteen all-electric bikes from all over the world, it looked strange with virtually no noise but they weren't hanging around!
There's more about it here and a video http://www.ttxgp.com/

I think this guy thought it was a LAN party and brought his PC but you've got to love the pioneers of new tech.

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You mentioned building an electric bike and if you followed the Ilse of Man TT racing this year you will have seen the worlds first electric bike race the TTXGP with fifteen all-electric bikes from all over the world, it looked strange with virtually no noise but they weren't hanging around!

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Heheh, yeah, that's the fun thing about electric motors; since they have maximum torque at 0 rpm, they blow conventional acceleration expectations out of the water. Case in point, the Tesla Roadster...~1.5 tons, but goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds :P

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Yeah, that's just about the sexiest bike of all time. :D

+REP.

Nice work!

I just got my sportster back from an engine modification (89" big bore kit, racing cams, crankshaft, Supertrapp SS exhaust, Forcewinder intake, fram modification, etc...).

I am now in the process of getting rid of all the chrome and going for a similar look.

Speaking of electric bikes;
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/?_kk=...FRIcawodbmNGow

Just a stones throw from my house...

RE: Tesla roadster;
My brother in law's company has the contract for the service manual and test/repair equipment for Tesla and he has ridden in the Roadster a couple of times. He said it is the most fun he has ever had in a street legal car, second only to the rides he got back in Briton in a Lamborghini on a test track (not a street legal machine). He is hoping to actually drive one himself soon. I told him I would go along as his post sales engineer and hope for a ride... ;)

Thanks for all your comments glad you like it, now all I've got to do is get over the vertigo and balance problems I've had for about eight months and hopefully I can ride it again :( it's also why the work and posting on my PC mod stopped but I've got some new meds which actually seem to be helping so at least the modding has restarted. :banana:

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Originally Posted by Luke122

Yeah, that's just about the sexiest bike of all time. :D

+REP.

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except for maybe the GoldWing!

I think you did an excelent job, but i've always loved the goldwing, i plan on getting a trike version so i can drive on my car licence

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Originally Posted by XcOM

I think you did an excelent job, but i've always loved the goldwing, i plan on getting a trike version so i can drive on my car licence

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Goldwings make great trikes with their shaft drive especially if you use the 1800 flat six motor they go on for 100,000's miles, some of the Honda models are often considered mundane but Honda have always been very innovative and not afraid to try new designs.

I had an early CB750 the first 4 cylinder mass produced road bike and that blew people away and it was the same with Goldwing, the first time I saw one I couldn't believe they had put such a huge motor in a bike, then there was the unique Honda CX500 across the frame water cooled shaft drive V-Twin and of course the CBX 6 cylinder, makes me smile just thinking about that huge motor hanging out the frame, the strange thing is that when you see these bikes today they don't look so big apart from the Aspencade of course :D

I have seen this build on another forum and I can not place it and its driving me insane.

Hi Snowman, You might have seen it on the FZX - Fazer Yahoo group where I used to be the admin and I think it was also on the "International fzx - fazer forum" which might now be closed as the domain name is for sale, the bike is also on Woz's great FZX - Fazer site, I gave him some web pages from my old site when it closed and he took over from me as admin on the yahoo group, I did hear that the bike build had been linked to a few Yamaha bike forums when I had my own site about the build but I never really checked.

I still have the bike which is very reliable and hardly showing any signs of wear after 5-6 years of use (stainless steel worth every penny) and as it's my only transport it gets used a lot 8)