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streetfighters

AkatomboRR said:
yea there is...

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BULLSHIT. its just a naked bike named "Street Fighter"


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this is closer to a streetfighter than that thing will ever be.

Its the difference between a factory custom vs a real chopper.
 
Hate ducati for that. When they decide to make a cruiser will they call it ducati chopper? ghey.

Here's mine:

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Karbon said:
BULLSHIT. its just a naked bike named "Street Fighter"
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...with a killer motor and drop dead gorgeous looks.

Course, if someone had taken a stock 1098, stripped it down, painted it matt black, put flat bars on it and twin headlights, everyone would be talking about how cool it was...

I've always thought the term street fighter was the dumbest term for a class of motos. It means different things to different people and has a such a faux tough guy aura about it. Too often home grown 'street fighters' are nothing more than rat bikes with a fancy name.
 
dont get me wrong i'd punch a nun for that duc.

I like the spirit and idea of the street fighter, but have more love for rat bikes.
 
A streetfighter is nothing more than another name for a ratted out naked bike.
It is a naked bike, or a rat bike.
 
I did the same thing when I had an SV, granted mine was more rat, than street fighter.

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This is a bad bitch. (Fr. svrider.com)
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imagine that. there is even a wiki entry for of one.


somewhere, being broke has a lot to do with it lol.

A streetfighter is a superbike that is customized by removing the fairing, and making other changes that result in an overall more aggressive look.[1][2] Beyond simply removing fairings, specific changes that exemplify the streetfighter look are a pair of large, round headlights, tall, upright handlebars such as those on a motocross bike, and short, loud, lightweight mufflers. Completely custom-built one-off frames, originally intended to overcome the weakness of the tubular steel frames of the early 4-cylinder super-bikes of the 70's and 80's, also characterize the streetfighter trend. Many of these frames turned out to be "beautifully crafted pieces of metallurgical art," perhaps only unintentionally.[3]

It is also possible that the streetfighter came about simply because young stunters of the 80s in the UK couldn't afford to replace their damaged fairings after repeated crashes, so they took them off. Later, more appropriate headlights were added, then high handlebars to aid in wheelies and other stunts.[4][5]

Made popular by European riders, this type of custom motorcycle is gaining popularity all over the world, and motorcycle manufacturers began responding in the late 1990s by producing factory streetfighters, beginning with the 1998 Triumph Speed Triple[6] and the 1999 Honda X11[7], to the up through the 2009 Ducati Streetfighter.
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Audacious Nick said:
A streetfighter is nothing more than another name for a ratted out naked bike.
It is a naked bike, or a rat bike.
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A rat bike is ratted, rattle canned, chopped up and bobbed. It usually starts out as a naked. Streetfighters are essentially naked super sport bikes that started out as faired sport bikes.

Streetfighters were born out of prohibitive insurance (or otherwise non replaceable) costs to replace fairings.

Rat bikes make me think of XS650's and CB400 or 500's and other 70's-80's naked bikes.

"Factory" streetfighters take it one step further to detune the supersport engine to make a more practical powerband. I like having the lower end torque on my street triple as it makes wheelies much more fun :teeth
 
MSFIT said:
Hate ducati for that. When they decide to make a cruiser will they call it ducati chopper? ghey.
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Amen to that. The Ducati streetfighter is anything but. I don't like it because it's horribly overdone, which is the exact opposite of what the term streetfighter means. Hell, they could have made a factory naked 1098, and it would be more of a "streetfighter" than that atrocity. :rolleyes

That said, here's my ratfighter
 

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+1 ^

IMO streetfighters require custom work, meaning that I will never consider a bike off the showroom floor a streetfighter.

You can take a great picture of a sunset with a high dollar camera, but I would never call it a painting.
 
number_6 said:
I love how something that got its start as an accessable everyman type of thing can bring out so much snobbery. its so punk rock.
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Fine, wanna ride your straight off the showroom floor bike to bux and call it a streetfighter go ahead. It just seems like a disgrace to the people that actually got their hands dirty making their fighters.

I guess people that ride real choppers should also be a-ok with harley owners (bone stock) calling their bikes choppers too :thumbup
 
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I love how something that got its start as an accessable everyman type of thing can bring out so much snobbery. its so punk rock.
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Well, I wouldn't call the Duc streetfighter an accessible everyman type thing by a long shot. I'm hatin on it because it's not a streetfighter by any definition.

If that makes me a snob, then so be it.
 
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