My 94 Streetfighter Project

nice work mate , not to keen on ya light tho

Hi all, I made myself some risers out of some alloy tube & a pair of heavy duty downhill mountian bike handle bar stems, it cost me about £35 in total. I can't fit the standard type of risers on my bike due to the tank skin being so big, I needed ones that would push the handlebars further away from the tank & to get a special made top yoke was way out of my budget.

Its a bit of a different look, what do you think?

Definately liking that griz.
Keep up the awesome work dude!

1992fireblade wrote:Definately liking that griz.
Keep up the awesome work dude!

Thanks mate, its a cheap fix for what could have bean a very pricey one & that alone makes me happy lol

That looks the dogs danglies mate, keep going.

cabbie wrote:That looks the dogs danglies mate, keep going.

Cheers mate, will do!

Are those bars Carbon fibre?

alsieboy wrote:Are those bars Carbon fibre?

Yep sure are! all the way from the good old USA!!

There lovely & had to have them when I saw em.

They cost about $150 including shipping but I think there worth it.

Here's the website I bought them from:-
http://moto-madness.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6_26_480&products_id=716

WOW

looks great mate...
not seen a set up like that before.

well done mate

radiobloke wrote:looks great mate...
not seen a set up like that before.

well done mate

Thanks mate!

Its a bit different isn't it, can't say I've seen it done before either. I was in halfords buying a few bits & spotted some clamps which gave me the idea. It was a bit of a result as I was a bit stumped before hand how get the bars further way from the tank.

Nice one mate, thinking outside the box! Looks the biz and good money too!!! Keep em coming.

WOW, gr8 lookin risers and cheeper too.
Keep the Brainwaves coming,
Yr 'fighters gonna be AWESOME.

Hi all I thought I'd post up some more progress. I changed my mind about using the 999 headlight frame & I'm now just going to use the projector lamps inside, I made some brackets & had a quick fit up..

Here it is.



I then also had a little play with the standard levers, what do you think?

Before


After

Looks fine to me mate.

How about the levers like that, but in black?

shadow wrote:Looks fine to me mate.

How about the levers like that, but in black?

Thanks mate!

Yep they need colour, there off to be powder coated with the rest as soon as I finish stripping the bike down

I did a bit more work today, I removed the fairing stay mounts & also removed the steering stops off of the lower yoke as I need to weld some new ones to match up with the blade frame & then I went on to remove the frame from the engine.

I've just got a whole load of degreasing to do now to get my parts ready for powder coating, so all being well I'll get all the parts to them before christmas

Great job.

With all the talk of powder coating and strip down, all i can think of is amercian chopper.
"kick it into high gear" (best Paul snr voice)

shadow wrote:Great job.

With all the talk of powder coating and strip down, all i can think of is amercian chopper.
"kick it into high gear" (best Paul snr voice)

Cheers mate!

lol thats funny as my name is Paul! lol I'm not a tutle though

I love that program, there's nothing like a good old strip down & powder coat

Good progress there mate, fresh powder coat will add some bling

cabbie wrote:Good progress there mate, fresh powder coat will add some bling

Thanks mate!

Yep sure will & with the colour I'm having the parts coated it will bring some real bling to the build, I just hope not too much as I don't want it to look gay

griz wrote:

cabbie wrote:Good progress there mate, fresh powder coat will add some bling

Thanks mate!

Yep sure will & with the colour I'm having the parts coated it will bring some real bling to the build, I just hope not too much as I don't want it to look gay

The whole lot's lookin good Griz, love the two Kore stem set-up, should look the bo!!ocks when it's done. Can't wait.

wild bill wrote:The whole lot's lookin good Griz, love the two Kore stem set-up, should look the bo!!ocks when it's done. Can't wait.

Cheers mate I can't wait either! lol

Ok another update, after much hard work I at long last took the rest of my parts to the powder coaters & picked up my completed wheels!

Before



After....

There darker than I could get the camera to show, more of a dark claret & just the colour I was looking for. I'm a bit fed up though as they couldn't get the trye to go up on both sides of the rim! as there air pump topped out at 120lbs, I took the wheel to another garage & they couldn't get it to pop up neither & wouldn't go any higher than 100lbs of presure, so now I need to find somewhere that has the balls to get some air into the thing!!!




& here's the other parts I took to the powder coaters today.

Looks like a fine job.

For your tyre, what about someone that works on trucks, the standard on some of them is 100 psi, so they should be able to give it the beans on your one.

shadow wrote:Looks like a fine job.

For your tyre, what about someone that works on trucks, the standard on some of them is 100 psi, so they should be able to give it the beans on your one.

Cheers mate!

Yep thats a good idea, I'll give that a shot

Im lovin` that colour scheme griz!

Awesome colour on them wheels

Thanks chaps