Setup for stunt bike?
08-15-2007, 04:42 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
Around here, the GSXR is said to have a very weak subframe. Probably not a problem if you're just starting to stunt, unless you loop it (which you will at one point), you could easily **** up your subframe.
You'd either have to reinforce it or better yet Sell that bike and pick up an f4i or 636...
You'd either have to reinforce it or better yet Sell that bike and pick up an f4i or 636...
Yes I agree.. I destroyed my 01' GSXR Subframe... Same one thats in this pic
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So I built a new one out of Steel and made a 12 bar with it.. all in one
pretty dope..
I love gsxr's.. they own
08-16-2007, 01:42 AM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
shut the **** up. there is a rule that newbies can't give advice.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
08-16-2007, 05:55 AM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
Ok so it's mostly just gonna be a ZX636 with a cage and maybe a different rear sprocket, TBH i'm not too interested in doing the slow speed stuff ATM so I think the huge sprockets are never gonna be a thing I want. I take it larger bars are only mainly for low speed stuff? I won't need to change my bars. Don't worry I realise I'm a newbie i won't be asking aobut hand brakes ect. What about oil feed pickup on a ZX636 anything need to be changed?
08-16-2007, 10:21 AM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
shut the **** up. there is a rule that newbies can't give advice.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
08-16-2007, 11:23 AM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
shut the **** up. there is a rule that newbies can't give advice.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
08-17-2007, 07:05 AM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
shut the **** up. there is a rule that newbies can't give advice.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
if you're going to give advice you lose the right to post stupid **** about making a bike streetfighter and needing help doing it. if you can't do that on your own then you don't know **** about learning stuff.
If your serious about stunting.. you make it a streetfighter in the purpose of .. Not being able to afford the faring and plastics to replace what u broke
Thats my definition.. any other explanation is a poser streetfighter that has no use considering aerodynamics etc
that meand **** U! posers
08-17-2007, 12:36 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
NOBODY SAID STUNTIN IS CHEAP!!!!
08-17-2007, 01:49 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
gixxer is a great bike, but not for stuntriding. it is not good for any aspect of stuntriding whatoever. so if you dont want to completely destroy the thing and lose money i would suggest selling it now while you still can and getting a honda or kawi, dont get a yamaha either. i'm sorry but thats just the way it goes and anybody with experience will back me up on this. those who disagree and tell you a gixxer is a good stuntbike either have zero idea what they are talking about and are a noob themselves, or they are outrageously good and dont care what they ride because they are either sponsored or never crash. popular models for the pros being 04's and 05's, but many noobs stunt the 00-03 which is bad juju. 06 and 07, forget about it, 99 or earlier, forget about it
08-17-2007, 02:00 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
i'm sorry but thats just the way it goes and anybody with experience will back me up on this. those who disagree and tell you a gixxer is a good stuntbike either have zero idea what they are talking about and are a noob themselves, or they are outrageously good and dont care what they ride because they are either sponsored or never crash.
Damn I must be outrageously good then.. Since I'm not sponsored, bu wait I've been crashing the **** out of my bike for the past 3 1/2 years. Hmmm..
Maybe I just have zero idea what I'm talking about and I'm just a noob.
08-17-2007, 02:02 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
actually it would be a better learning experience to do it full fairing because you will sit back on your tailbone and distribute your weight the way you should and if you put some foam on your windscreen its easier on the legs
08-17-2007, 02:04 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
[QUOTE=DsK.#1;2896887] Ok so it's mostly just gonna be a ZX636 with a cage and maybe a different rear sprocket, TBH i'm not too interested in doing the slow speed stuff ATM so I think the huge sprockets are never gonna be a thing I want. QUOTE]
Ummm slow stuff and brake control is what you want to do first. Key word here is control..
Unless your not going to do any wheelies, then yeah don't worry about that stuff.
Ummm slow stuff and brake control is what you want to do first. Key word here is control..
Unless your not going to do any wheelies, then yeah don't worry about that stuff.
08-17-2007, 02:22 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
if youre gonna do it, do it right! dont go half ***. and if he looks at the list, prices everything out and says "theres no way im spendin that much money" then stuntin isnt for you. thats one less person we have askin the same stupid questions right??? im lettin them know from the start what it takes. hes gonna need those parts eventually anyways so why not have them now instead of holdin himself back or havin down time tryin to find/buy the parts right??
NOBODY SAID STUNTIN IS CHEAP!!!!
NOBODY SAID STUNTIN IS CHEAP!!!!
Last edited by Trachito; 08-17-2007 at 02:29 PM.
08-17-2007, 05:01 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
give me a ****** break. most guys that stunt started with a damn bike, cage, and maybe a 12 bar. some with just a ****** bike. **** breakin the bank just so u have the **** all at once. stuntin aint cheap but most **** u can piece it in as u progress, like the handbrake, stabilizer, etc. like i said, thats a good list, but dude doesnt need all that ****. for all u know, him being a newb, he's gonna end up in the hospital with a shitload of med bills and no money cuz he just spent $400 on a gahdamn stabilizer that he doesnt need just yet.
Ok so it's mostly just gonna be a ZX636 with a cage and maybe a different rear sprocket, TBH i'm not too interested in doing the slow speed stuff ATM so I think the huge sprockets are never gonna be a thing I want. I take it larger bars are only mainly for low speed stuff? I won't need to change my bars. Don't worry I realise I'm a newbie i won't be asking aobut hand brakes ect. What about oil feed pickup on a ZX636 anything need to be changed?
08-17-2007, 05:04 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
the very first sentence proves mine: "a bike and a cage"... and a rear sprocket. besides, in his first post he asked for a basic setup. those are the basics. thats all he needs, period.
Last edited by Trachito; 08-17-2007 at 05:09 PM.
08-17-2007, 05:16 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
so you can take youre "period" away
08-17-2007, 08:15 PM
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Re: Setup for stunt bike?
stunting a gixxer is like stunting a fat chick.
when you get that kawi you are longing for you'll see.
if you've been ridin that thing hard for 3 1/2 years i would find it
so hard to believe nothing is wrong with it. dont get me wrong, you probly got a decent bag of tricks going, and so does my buddy, but he hopped on my f4i and said wow. and i said the same thing after owning my gixxer for about the same time as you. they are known problem childs..... every structural component on that bike is weaker than a tin can and the motor hates being vertical = not a good stunt bike
08-17-2007, 08:28 PM
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