Bling! Bling!
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Bling! Bling!
Is this the opposite of a street fighter? 
No, it's not mine nor am I promoting the sale.
Its just that I haven't seen another 'Hawk like it.
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/mcy/1582724057.html
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Not my thing.
No, it's not mine nor am I promoting the sale.
Its just that I haven't seen another 'Hawk like it.
http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/mcy/1582724057.html
Praise or dis?
Not my thing.
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Chrome (or high polished aluminium) has no place on a sportbike IMO (although, that being said, I have seen some tasteful examples) and, similarly, the whole lowering bit is plain ridiculous. There are some nice pieces there, just get ruined by the ghetto factor....
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Love it or hate it, there is a loooot of work done on that puppy and you have to admire the work. Other than that I agree with Mikl, they could have stopped half way through and it would have still been too much.
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Well Shayne's all the way in Australia and he knows what it means. Look at all the shiny stuff he has on his bike yet look how tasteful it is.
"Ghetto" is Hayabusas with 300 rear tires, chrome spikey handlebars, & 10 foot long swingarms...Ghetto is a candy orange box Caprice on 26 inch rims with a trunk lid that rattles and vibrates from the subwoofers-it's ugly and obnoxious and in poor taste. Yes lots of folks like it and they'll usually be found with chrome **** pots on their heads and baggy pants down below their asses. That's a personal preference too, and it's also ugly, obnoxious and in poor taste. Air ride suspension on a sportbike?! Please...
No one's denying the work put into it. Sure I like bling too, but for me "bling" on a sportbike was the new cbr1000 I saw parked in front of my gym the other day. Ohlins forks & shock, marchesini wheels. WOW.
"Ghetto" is Hayabusas with 300 rear tires, chrome spikey handlebars, & 10 foot long swingarms...Ghetto is a candy orange box Caprice on 26 inch rims with a trunk lid that rattles and vibrates from the subwoofers-it's ugly and obnoxious and in poor taste. Yes lots of folks like it and they'll usually be found with chrome **** pots on their heads and baggy pants down below their asses. That's a personal preference too, and it's also ugly, obnoxious and in poor taste. Air ride suspension on a sportbike?! Please...
No one's denying the work put into it. Sure I like bling too, but for me "bling" on a sportbike was the new cbr1000 I saw parked in front of my gym the other day. Ohlins forks & shock, marchesini wheels. WOW.
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We have a lot of blinged out sport bikes here in Vegas but that's the first Ghetto Hawk I've ever seen. Poor thing! I'm not a hater of bling per se; the work looks technically sound and the paint is sick. But I agree form should follow function on a sportbike. Leave all those spikes for the choppers. 40 extra pounds of crome, air bladder and Death Race 2000 bar ends does not make for a very sporty ride. The squids here like to put an extended swing arm and a bunch of LEDs on a stock Gixxer 600 and call it badass.
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In a "designer's forum" - we do have some talent around here - these responses surprise me.
It's a new direction but like is said above - well done in its execution. It might have been all the rider could afford to build on. Certainly Superhawks are available cheap. They can be ridden everyday and built at the same time. A perfect hotrod for the young rider. I think it's an admirable effort.
It's a new direction but like is said above - well done in its execution. It might have been all the rider could afford to build on. Certainly Superhawks are available cheap. They can be ridden everyday and built at the same time. A perfect hotrod for the young rider. I think it's an admirable effort.
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My son put the same mirrors on his Shadow. Hawk is nice enough, but I personally would try to end up with a nice low mileage upgraded bike for cheap by selling off a few less practical items.
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meh, I'm not into the "custom sportbike" scene, at least following the generally accepted connotation of the term. I want my bikes to perform, and I generally ogle over bikes that perform better than mine or have the patina of age that only a vintage bike can have. Chrome for it's own sake is a waste to me.
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As a built bike, it's a nice example of custom work to the owners taste. Not my style, but at the right price I'd buy it in a heart beat spend an hour changing a few parts out and have a nice looking SH for the street (and a small pile of parts for ebay that would sell in days)
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Well Shayne's all the way in Australia and he knows what it means. Look at all the shiny stuff he has on his bike yet look how tasteful it is.
"Ghetto" is Hayabusas with 300 rear tires, chrome spikey handlebars, & 10 foot long swingarms...Ghetto is a candy orange box Caprice on 26 inch rims with a trunk lid that rattles and vibrates from the subwoofers-it's ugly and obnoxious and in poor taste. Yes lots of folks like it and they'll usually be found with chrome **** pots on their heads and baggy pants down below their asses. That's a personal preference too, and it's also ugly, obnoxious and in poor taste. Air ride suspension on a sportbike?! Please...
No one's denying the work put into it. Sure I like bling too, but for me "bling" on a sportbike was the new cbr1000 I saw parked in front of my gym the other day. Ohlins forks & shock, marchesini wheels. WOW.
"Ghetto" is Hayabusas with 300 rear tires, chrome spikey handlebars, & 10 foot long swingarms...Ghetto is a candy orange box Caprice on 26 inch rims with a trunk lid that rattles and vibrates from the subwoofers-it's ugly and obnoxious and in poor taste. Yes lots of folks like it and they'll usually be found with chrome **** pots on their heads and baggy pants down below their asses. That's a personal preference too, and it's also ugly, obnoxious and in poor taste. Air ride suspension on a sportbike?! Please...
No one's denying the work put into it. Sure I like bling too, but for me "bling" on a sportbike was the new cbr1000 I saw parked in front of my gym the other day. Ohlins forks & shock, marchesini wheels. WOW.
save the bling for the cruisers and alike ...
Not a big fan of chroming / Lowering / etc. sport bikes ... its wrong !!
BUT to each his own !
in the summer I saw an 08 R1 - with Ohlins front and rear, Akra full system, Scotts Damper, Dymag rims .. I jizemed my pants !!
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