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I had the Tamiya Yamaha FZR750R (#14058) laying on my shelf during several months, after I bought it on E-Bay for 5$ from a very nice guy in Hong-Kong, when I got a wrecked Tamiya Yamaha YZF-R1 (item # 14073) as a gift from a friend in Australia; so I decided to build a streetfighter.
Streetfighters are a leading trend now in Europe, basically is a chopped, naked, radical sportbike. You begin removing the fairings, and from there the sky is the limit.

Building a streetfighter

Anyway, I decided to use the FZR frame and engine, and detail them as much as I could since the bike was going to be naked and the mechanics visible. I used the wider R1 wheels, the beefier R1 fork and trees, the stronger R1 brakes and the R1 tailpiece which has a better look.
The exhaust is from another model, an Aoshima Honda CB400SF (#25918).
This pipe was chosen because its rise high and it tucks very close under the tail, giving a very radical look. It was mounted into the OW engine without any significant changes.
For the rear swingarm, I used the original FZR, I gently cut off the top bracing on the R1 swingarm (being careful not to harm the welding marks), smoothened it, and glued it to the OW arm.

I decided to go without a front fender, so the fork legs had to be modified, to remove the fender struts. I also decided to use a straight handlebar, and not the original, low mounted clip-on; a very common modification in streetfighters.
So I used an old upper triple tree for the handlebar mounts, over the R1 tree.
The handlebar was made from scratch (actually, I just cut a piece from a wire clothes hanger and polished it) and the small mirror is a modified rear blinker on a piece of wire.
I modified the R1 tailpiece to make it smoother, and then changed the rear/brake light/ license plate carrier piece so it would fit deep into the tail; giving a clean line.
The fuel tank was also cut to fit, and the rear shock gas tank mounting plate was shortened so that it would fit snugly under the tail.

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