VonYinzer said:Build whatever the fuck puts a smile on your face. Call it wahtever the fuck you want. A great lookin bike is just a great looking bike... Argue style if it makes ya feel happy, but shit folks, cool is cool...
I agree with your sentiment, but you have to have "styles" of bikes or else everything gets homogenised. Even in this cafe forum, under the "big arse builds" there are cafes, chops and bobbers, and trackers. And there's cool bikes in every folder. Go figure :
Anyway, IMO you can NOT have a factory built fighter. It's a contradiction because the fighter is built in the cafe tradition of taking a fast factory sports bike and ripping all the cosmetic crap off it. It started in the UK (where cafe's started too...) where courier bikers either wrecked their GSXR's and ripped the plastics off them, or took the plastics off before being wrecked so they could use their bikes for work. Adding motocross bars was also done to make the bikes more useable for all day courier work. I don't care if Ducati have built a naked bike and called it a "streetfighter" - it isn't....
So I've probably said too much, but that's a brief history lesson and some fundamental criteria for fighters - removed plastics and 'crosser / upright bars ;D