And this is most definitely fast!
Bill Warner, pilot of the turbocharged Hayabusa in question, clocks 278.6mph on this run. Just check out how fast it's accelerating when the bike passes through the 270mph mark...
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Oh, and talking of Greg...
... here's a video of that R1 'tracker that we featured back in SF191, courtesy of American bike magazine Cycle World.
Charity Blade
Built by Greg DeJardins of Gregg's Customs over in California, this CBR 1000RR Fireblade is up for grabs in a raffle to raise money for the Ride For Kids Organisation, with proceeds going to help sick kiddywinks and their families.
Whilst there are a lot of simple bolt-on upgrades to the Blade like the RSD wheels and Sato rearsets, as per Greg's other builds (such as the flat-tracker R1 we featured in SF191, and another R1 that's in the next issue) the Honda has some neat bespoke parts too - a one-off front number board style headlight shroud and the hand-formed sidepanels show what Greg likes to make - and is finished off with a paint scheme influenced by Freddie Spencer's 1981 Superbike Honda.
These pics were taken by Robert Pandya and blatantly ripped off the Cyril Huze blog although this last one was off the Gregg's website...
Whilst there are a lot of simple bolt-on upgrades to the Blade like the RSD wheels and Sato rearsets, as per Greg's other builds (such as the flat-tracker R1 we featured in SF191, and another R1 that's in the next issue) the Honda has some neat bespoke parts too - a one-off front number board style headlight shroud and the hand-formed sidepanels show what Greg likes to make - and is finished off with a paint scheme influenced by Freddie Spencer's 1981 Superbike Honda.
These pics were taken by Robert Pandya and blatantly ripped off the Cyril Huze blog although this last one was off the Gregg's website...
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Bring The Noise!
If you've got volume on your computer, turn it up now!
What, at casual glance, appears to be a cafe racer'd Suzuki Bandit, is far more than that. The engine is a 500cc inline eight cylinder, created from a pair of 250cc inline fours...
And another video of another bespoke multi-cylinder machine, spoilt only by the bloke who's had his arse stolen getting in the way of the camera, shows a six cylinder machine built, again, using 250cc Suzuki engine parts...
What, at casual glance, appears to be a cafe racer'd Suzuki Bandit, is far more than that. The engine is a 500cc inline eight cylinder, created from a pair of 250cc inline fours...
And another video of another bespoke multi-cylinder machine, spoilt only by the bloke who's had his arse stolen getting in the way of the camera, shows a six cylinder machine built, again, using 250cc Suzuki engine parts...
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Rocket Man
Bonkers Frenchman, Eric Teboul, set a new record on his peroxide-powered rocket bike at the UEM Finals at Santa Pod last September. He also had the foresight to fit a video camera onto the ballistic two wheeler before the run, and here's the result...
Tuesday, 4 January 2011
Magpul Ronin
Based around the, sadly defunct, Buell 1125CR, the Magpul Ronin is a rework that uses some interesting engineering and brutal design.
As yet, it is unclear whether any parts or, indeed, completed bikes will be available from Magpul, but the team continue to develop the project.
Find out more on the Magpul blog here
FT204
Happy New Year!
And here's something to addle your fuzzy New Year heads...
"As I sit huddled in front of my laptop in my thermals, two woolly jumpers, a beany hat, scarf and 'Scrooge' fingerless gloves, the UK is just coming out of its first fortnight of winter trauma. Councils are whining about running out of road salt, commuters are complaining about trains delayed because of the wrong kind of snow, and students are keeping warm by setting light to riot vans. There's more snow and sub-zero temperatures forecast and it's not even Christmas yet...
They're not ideal conditions for riding motorcycles, and readers in Australia, South Africa and the southern and south-western states of the US will be smug and toasty as they hack around in the sunshine, but there's no excuse for British readers to feel down in the mouth and grumpy. Well, no more than normal.
Winter is, traditionally, the time for us to be spending time in the shed, garage or workshop, although when temperatures are hitting minus ten and below all over the British Isles, it's no wonder that people would rather be sat in front of the fire / telly / lapdancer than be in a bitterly cold workshop, fingertips freezing to any bare metal surface and losing the feeling from their extremities.
Ironically, it does seem, at this point in time, that the 2010-2011 winter is the time when we should all be pulling our fingers out to build some really special bikes for the 2011 riding season, as there's a number of events that are crying out for some extra-special trick builds..."
Read the rest of this Fighting Talk in the new issue, out now!
And here's something to addle your fuzzy New Year heads...
"As I sit huddled in front of my laptop in my thermals, two woolly jumpers, a beany hat, scarf and 'Scrooge' fingerless gloves, the UK is just coming out of its first fortnight of winter trauma. Councils are whining about running out of road salt, commuters are complaining about trains delayed because of the wrong kind of snow, and students are keeping warm by setting light to riot vans. There's more snow and sub-zero temperatures forecast and it's not even Christmas yet...
They're not ideal conditions for riding motorcycles, and readers in Australia, South Africa and the southern and south-western states of the US will be smug and toasty as they hack around in the sunshine, but there's no excuse for British readers to feel down in the mouth and grumpy. Well, no more than normal.
Winter is, traditionally, the time for us to be spending time in the shed, garage or workshop, although when temperatures are hitting minus ten and below all over the British Isles, it's no wonder that people would rather be sat in front of the fire / telly / lapdancer than be in a bitterly cold workshop, fingertips freezing to any bare metal surface and losing the feeling from their extremities.
Ironically, it does seem, at this point in time, that the 2010-2011 winter is the time when we should all be pulling our fingers out to build some really special bikes for the 2011 riding season, as there's a number of events that are crying out for some extra-special trick builds..."
Read the rest of this Fighting Talk in the new issue, out now!
Monday, 27 December 2010
SF204
Heralding the dead time between Christmas and the New Year celebreations is the new issue of Streetfighters, fighting its way through snow, ice and slush to reach subscribers' doors this week. Those of you not wise enough to recognise the benefits of subscription will be able to buy your copy from newsagents during the first week of 2011.
With a second installment of our trip to Fighterama, coverage of the NEC show plus Will's excursion to Milan, a variety of feature bikes (including two turbos, a fat-tyred FireBlade and the stunt-tastic Bandit on the cover), updates on the project bikes we've been covering (including the completed Project Li'l Lives) and a very exciting episode of Andy Sparrow's superb cartoon, Jet Metal.
SF204, in newsagents from Thursday January 6th.
Thursday, 16 December 2010
SF203 Fighting Talk
Well, here we are. Only a matter of a few weeks since the Coalition’s austerity programme was announced and already there’s been widespread ConDem-Nation (woo, go me) and a small riot during a London protest. That riot, one would assume judging by the tone of the media coverage it received, was tantamount to the Storming Of The Bastille but it resulted, in fact, in nothing more serious than a few windows broken by hyperactive students, a renegade fire extinguisher obeying the laws of physics and some police-issue Kevlar underwear suffering mild distress.
Anyway, as a result of these swingeing cuts (great word, swingeing – I just wish I knew what it meant) we’re all going to have to tighten our belts. I’ve had to stop using the top 3000rpm on the ZX-10R to conserve fuel (which means it takes me nearly 0:47 minutes longer to get to work), and have initiated a campaign of maintaining an economic rate of front tyre wear by keeping the thing aloft as much as possible. Worst of all, Streetfighters Towers is now operating exclusively on low-cost budget toilet paper made of recycled Honda service manuals...
Read the rest of this Fighting Talk in SF203, and then add your comments here...
Anyway, as a result of these swingeing cuts (great word, swingeing – I just wish I knew what it meant) we’re all going to have to tighten our belts. I’ve had to stop using the top 3000rpm on the ZX-10R to conserve fuel (which means it takes me nearly 0:47 minutes longer to get to work), and have initiated a campaign of maintaining an economic rate of front tyre wear by keeping the thing aloft as much as possible. Worst of all, Streetfighters Towers is now operating exclusively on low-cost budget toilet paper made of recycled Honda service manuals...
Read the rest of this Fighting Talk in SF203, and then add your comments here...
Two Strokes Are Enough
A phenomenon of the 21st century (in fact of the digital age where the proles expect, and are expected, to have their entire personal life on public display on the internet) is the blog.
Now, many are life-sapping diaries of dull, keyboard-tapping souls who spend their waking hours in front of a computer monitor, but others are inspirational collections of pictures and quips that inspire you to unmanacle yourself from the PC, and go out and do something exciting.
Here's one - the 2 Stroke Bike Blog (found here ), and as the name suggests, it focuses on motorcycles powered by a two stroke engine. Any motorcycles, from ex-Sheene Grand Prix beasts, to modified Eastern Bloc commuters. Every smoker's dream...
Now, many are life-sapping diaries of dull, keyboard-tapping souls who spend their waking hours in front of a computer monitor, but others are inspirational collections of pictures and quips that inspire you to unmanacle yourself from the PC, and go out and do something exciting.
Here's one - the 2 Stroke Bike Blog (found here ), and as the name suggests, it focuses on motorcycles powered by a two stroke engine. Any motorcycles, from ex-Sheene Grand Prix beasts, to modified Eastern Bloc commuters. Every smoker's dream...
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Internally 'Charged
There's many wierd and wonderful things to be found on the internet. And some of them involve motorcycles.
This motorcycle was once a GS500. Until, that is, it was acquired by Matthew Neal and Prabesh Prandey, to use in their mechanical engineering design project at San Francisco University. Using convenional student wisdom, their project is most definitely 'outside the box' (and yes, that is a truly horrid turn of phrase). Their plan was to supercharge the little Suzuki, but instead of using an external (and conventional) supercharger, they've instead used one cylinder as the compressor...
You can find out more about this astounding project from the blog here
This motorcycle was once a GS500. Until, that is, it was acquired by Matthew Neal and Prabesh Prandey, to use in their mechanical engineering design project at San Francisco University. Using convenional student wisdom, their project is most definitely 'outside the box' (and yes, that is a truly horrid turn of phrase). Their plan was to supercharge the little Suzuki, but instead of using an external (and conventional) supercharger, they've instead used one cylinder as the compressor...
You can find out more about this astounding project from the blog here
Obituary of a CBR...
Faithful readers (as, no doubt, you all are) will have already seen the feature on Jon 'CBRRRT' Lungley's Blade in SF203...
However, given that we are limited in the number of pages we have each month, we don't get chance to tell you about all the issues encountered during the build. Rather conveniently, Jon ran a build thread on his Blade on the Custard Fighters forum - here as well as at the upside-downies forum at www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID+12308
Being the friendly, co-operative type, Jon has also ran a thread on how easy it is to fit a single-sided swinging arm into a Honda FireBlade, and that's here
However, given that we are limited in the number of pages we have each month, we don't get chance to tell you about all the issues encountered during the build. Rather conveniently, Jon ran a build thread on his Blade on the Custard Fighters forum - here as well as at the upside-downies forum at www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID+12308
Being the friendly, co-operative type, Jon has also ran a thread on how easy it is to fit a single-sided swinging arm into a Honda FireBlade, and that's here
Thursday, 9 December 2010
Going Down(hill)
While neither of these variations on two-wheeled lunacy are especially connected to streetfighters, a significant number of motorcycle hoodlums enjoy riding off-road, whether it be motocross, enduro or trials. And there's an ever-increasing number who're getting hooked on the joys on downhill mountain biking. Watch this video and you'll realise why...
Friday, 3 December 2010
SF203
Subscribers will have already received their copy, unless they're truly snowed-in, and the new issue is also on sale at the Streetfighters stand (X10) at Motorcycle Live at Birmingham's NEC.
Containing a shed-load of stunning feature bikes including the red hot turbo Bandit cover bike, plus the first of two reports from Fighterama, a comprehensive guide to loads of suspension goodies, a report from a totally barking French hillclimb plus all the usual project bike and race reports and childish malarky...
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Motorcycle Live! At the NEC
The International Motorcycle Show at Birmingham's NEC, this year having the exciting 'Motorcycle Live!' title, begins on Saturday. The SF team will be setting up the Custom Xtreme display tomorrow, showcasing thirteen of the UK's best streetfighters alongside a further thirteen of the country's best custom bikes as organised by Back Street Heroes.
Those of you who have seen the floor plan contained within this week's copy of 'the country's favourite motorcycling newspaper' may have noticed that we're not actually listed as Streetfighters or BSH (Yeah, thanks for that MCN!), but you will find us listed as 'Ocean Media'. Either way, we're located at stand X10, smack bang in the middle of Hall 4 and between Piaggio and Honda and the 'Get On' training zone.
At the Custom Xtreme display, you'll be able to see, amongst others, Lee Workman's Yoshi GSX-R (the cover bike from issue 200), Sammy's Pink Bits(a) Gixer and Tony Taysom's angular GSX from the same landmark issue, the turbo Bandit from the last ish and 203's centrespread bike, a trick-framed GSX1400. The new issue will also be avaiable at the show, along with some new merchandise.
See you there!
Those of you who have seen the floor plan contained within this week's copy of 'the country's favourite motorcycling newspaper' may have noticed that we're not actually listed as Streetfighters or BSH (Yeah, thanks for that MCN!), but you will find us listed as 'Ocean Media'. Either way, we're located at stand X10, smack bang in the middle of Hall 4 and between Piaggio and Honda and the 'Get On' training zone.
At the Custom Xtreme display, you'll be able to see, amongst others, Lee Workman's Yoshi GSX-R (the cover bike from issue 200), Sammy's Pink Bits(a) Gixer and Tony Taysom's angular GSX from the same landmark issue, the turbo Bandit from the last ish and 203's centrespread bike, a trick-framed GSX1400. The new issue will also be avaiable at the show, along with some new merchandise.
See you there!
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Veidec Vids
Blatantly blagged from the King Racing website, this is a lovely video from the Veidec racing featival in Sweden. Although the video states that it's nitro bikes, there's other stuff, like ProStockers, in it as well.
There's some beautiful slo-mo footage, and plenty of proof that the Pro bikes don't always go as straight as the riders would like...
There's some beautiful slo-mo footage, and plenty of proof that the Pro bikes don't always go as straight as the riders would like...
Friday, 12 November 2010
Stunt Starz feat Chesca Miles
Couldn't get enough of Chesca Miles, our featured babelicious stunt rider this month? No, us neither.
Well here she is in glorious technicolour moving image, out practicing with partner Alstar. Check out www.stuntstarz.co.uk or look up Stunt Starz on Facebook for more. And of course, if you haven't already, go out and buy SF #202 for our exclusive interview. With naughty pics! Wibble.
Well here she is in glorious technicolour moving image, out practicing with partner Alstar. Check out www.stuntstarz.co.uk or look up Stunt Starz on Facebook for more. And of course, if you haven't already, go out and buy SF #202 for our exclusive interview. With naughty pics! Wibble.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Fighting Talk 202
Despite our incessant whining over the issues that motorcyclists face in everyday life, it's actually been over a decade since we last had any great threat to the lifestyle of the inveterate motorcycle tinkerer, and while the huge Euro Demos of the time were, seemingly, effective in ridding us of the threats of power limits and anti-tampering regulations, nobody was under the illusion that the suits in power in Brussels were going to leave us alone for the rest of time...
So none of you should be surprised at the recent announcement by the European Commission, which intends to implement regulations that restrict modifications made to motorcycles – a move eerily close to the proposed anti-tampering legislation of a decade or so ago.
As has become common practice amongst those who, seemingly, create new legislation in order to keep themselves in a job, rather than pass on a consultation document to parties with an interest (and knowledge of) the area in question, they keep it quiet, whisper amongst themselves and hope that no-one who is likely to disagree with their aims ever hears about the legislation in question.
Luckily for us, we have our eyes and ears amongst both the British and European parliaments, and although they couldn't be seen as being quite as exciting as international espionage – we haven't quite got a mole in Whitehall, or even a badger in Brussels (although we do have a stoat in Amsterdam…W) – the work that the Motorcycle Action Group and the British Motorcyclists Federation do is invaluable for the future of motorcycling...
Read the rest of this Fighting Talk in SF202
So none of you should be surprised at the recent announcement by the European Commission, which intends to implement regulations that restrict modifications made to motorcycles – a move eerily close to the proposed anti-tampering legislation of a decade or so ago.
As has become common practice amongst those who, seemingly, create new legislation in order to keep themselves in a job, rather than pass on a consultation document to parties with an interest (and knowledge of) the area in question, they keep it quiet, whisper amongst themselves and hope that no-one who is likely to disagree with their aims ever hears about the legislation in question.
Luckily for us, we have our eyes and ears amongst both the British and European parliaments, and although they couldn't be seen as being quite as exciting as international espionage – we haven't quite got a mole in Whitehall, or even a badger in Brussels (although we do have a stoat in Amsterdam…W) – the work that the Motorcycle Action Group and the British Motorcyclists Federation do is invaluable for the future of motorcycling...
Read the rest of this Fighting Talk in SF202
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
One memory of Fighterama...
... but more are appearing through the fug.
There'll be loads more pics in issue 203!
There'll be loads more pics in issue 203!
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