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    Why oh Why

    Why would you do this to a perfectly good ZX10

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkid_one
    Why would you do this to a perfectly good ZX10
    I could be wrong, but after watcing the motorsport on Prime this afternoon, I would speculate that it may have been done for drag racing purposes.

    The pipe on it looks a lot like the pipes they put on turbocharged Busa's.

    Of course, it could be the motorcycle equivalent of those stupid bouncing cars...
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by celticno6
    I could be wrong, but after watcing the motorsport on Prime this afternoon, I would speculate that it may have been done for drag racing purposes.

    The pipe on it looks a lot like the pipes they put on turbocharged Busa's.

    Of course, it could be the motorcycle equivalent of those stupid bouncing cars...
    He wouldn't be drag racing with that swing arm I can tell you that now!

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkid_one
    He wouldn't be drag racing with that swing arm I can tell you that now!
    Oh, okay, I thought it would have worked a bit like a wheelie bar, to stop the front coming up.

    Maybe it is just "art" and we are all heathens who don't appreciate it
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    That be a dragger orright,or at least a make-believe one.
    Long arm,fat as rear rim,drag pipe and single front disc all point that direction anyway....
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    Quote Originally Posted by DEATH_INC.
    That be a dragger orright,or at least a make-believe one.
    Long arm,fat as rear rim,drag pipe and single front disc all point that direction anyway....
    Swing arm too weak and fuck all braking - he has NO rear and only one front - it isn't strapped and lowered.

    It is purely for pose value

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkid_one
    It is purely for pose value
    So it's a ricer?
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by celticno6
    Maybe it is just "art" and we are all heathens who don't appreciate it
    That`s friggin awful,I`d say the owner`s a total poser who rides it to impress by-standers.It`s certainly not a lot of good for anything else now it`s been butchered,bet it`s bloody evil to ride.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkid_one
    Swing arm too weak and fuck all braking - he has NO rear and only one front - it isn't strapped and lowered.

    It is purely for pose value
    That's how they run 'em over there(I assume the us) it's lowered alright look at the front fork tops....and there's a rear brake(it's by the sprocket,ss arm remember).
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    No apparently there isn't a rear brake according to the guy who built it - and it isn't for drag racing - purely for posing on the weekends. Other front disk was removed to show the rims off.

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    Here are some drag bikes

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    Quote Originally Posted by wkid_one
    Why would you do this to a perfectly good ZX10

    Umm, because he can?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mongoose
    Umm, because he can?
    And to be the equivalent of our white/black-windowed/big-bore exhaust/18" rimmed&low profiled shod Subarus - that have to duck around man-hole covers and handle like pigs and can't carry much in the back because of the audio junk.

    It's all about indivuiduality, - even if the rest of us think it looks like all the dozens of other similarly equiped Subarus
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    I think it looks pretty cool, each to their own and that, why does every one have to ride the same way? Ohhh, look at those chicken strips, blah, blah, blah. No, I wouldnt do it if I had a ZX10R but so? Its called customising, isnt it?







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    Crickey, that sure shows a lot of individuality in those pics. While not are all to my taste(suprise-suprise) if the work was mainly done by the owners, you gotta give them the thumbs up for effort. That all chrome looking thingaminyjig would be a tad ard on the eys in the sunlight, huh?

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