What's the point in doing this?

**placidfemme** · 31st August 2006, 15:43

Originally Posted by Shaun

Go down town Detroit over a weekend and you'll find about 1000 on the street at a time, all lined up, polished to hell, but going NOWHERE, and surrounded by some of the meanest looking Black dudes you will ever see

Yeah the bike scene there is HUGE (well obviously because the country is huge lol), but I think bikes there are cheaper then here (for what they earn compared to what we earn I imagine)...

A work mate came back from the states a month ago, and he reckons that you walk down any city street at any time and you'll past heaps of harley's just parked around... because there are so many there the thieving issues arn't as high...

Originally Posted by maha man

Moi kinda likes them me does.....mainly the R1 in placids first post...

I agree that is a mean looking bike... It even has NOS...

As I mentioned I like it when people bling their bikes up... whether its blinged for pure image or blinged for performance... I don't mean to dis anyone, but standard bikes are just that "standard"... Like all the KB'ers buying the gixxers... theres enough of them on here to start thier own gixxer club lol... I'd love a gixxer (or any bike 600+ lol), but mine would have to be different somehow...

**onearmedbandit** · 31st August 2006, 15:58

Ugly, imo, all of them ugly. Don't hate me for it, just my opinion. Ok, you can hate me.

**imdying** · 31st August 2006, 18:28

Some cool looking rides.. if I had plenty of other bikes, then sure, why not?

Bike means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, nothing wrong with tarting up some machine just for the look, if you've plenty of dough. Wouldn't have one for my only ride, but I'm guessing that these guys love bikes enough to have more than one or two

**gav** · 31st August 2006, 20:51

Different countries and cultures seem to have different ideas on customs, huh! The German seem to build these god damn ugly street fighter things which have a really weird pushed up tail section. The Japanese like to take older bikes and trick them up with cool suspension, wheels, exhaust etc. The French have real outrageous styling and look like nothing else.

**BAD DAD** · 31st August 2006, 21:15

Always enjoyed checking out other kinds of customising. Some of them are strange looking at first glance but youv'e got to admire the skill and obvious enthusiasm.

**McJim** · 31st August 2006, 21:25

Originally Posted by placidfemme

As I mentioned I like it when people bling their bikes up......

I can't help blingin' my bike up - every time I fall off I respray it a different colour (used to be red) and replace the broken bits with aftermarket.

Pretty soon there will be nothing left of the old bike!

**gav** · 31st August 2006, 22:58

Now this is brave and cool.
Looks like a mix between a VFR frame, Duc 996 engine and swingarm, ZXR750 front end and ZXR top fairing with a NR750 tail section, then paint it black.

Hmmm, think I might go post this on some American Ducati boards and tell 'em its the new 1200 replacement for the 999!