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books.google.com/books?id=4b_qJyw-ZX8C, “Streetfighter — Also known as a ‘hooligan’ cycle, this is a sportbike stripped of all superflous bodywork.”
^ Doeden, Matt; Leonard, Joe (2007), Choppers, ISBN 0822572885, 9780822572886, http://books.google.com/books?id=7wDcbl-UsmYC&pg=PA46, “streetfighter: a type of superbike customized for maximum speed and performance.”
^ Seate, Mike (2007), How to Build a Pro Streetbike, MBI Publishing Company, pp. 92-3 ff, ISBN 0760324506, 9780760324509, http://books.google.com/books?id=mqMGQPuFEFsC&pg=PA92, “[In London in the early 1990s,] I noticed an odd-looking motorcycle idling loudly across the crowded intersection. The bike’s upside-down front end was topped by a pair of oversized headlights that appeared to have been stolen from a car. The rider’s gloved hands clutched a set of what looked like handlebars from a motocross bike, while the exhaust can — or what little remained of it — was burbling like a beehive on fire.
Was this a prop from Mel Gibson’s Road Warrior? Some poor motorcycle courier who had dropped his machine so many times that he’d refused to replace his damaged fairing? [more]”
^ Inman, Gary (June 2008), Hooligan Bikes (cover story), “Freedom Fighter; Triumph’s stripped-down sportbike came from the street”, Cycle World: 36-7, “The origins of the species are disputed. Some say that the Germans put high-bar conversions on sportbikes to lessen the soft tissue damage of the annual high-mileage pilgrimage to the Isle of Man for the TT races, and these were the first streetfighters. Others say — and I agree — that young British GSX-R riders removed their bike’ fairings after crashes. They were already up to their Simpson Bandits debt to buy the bikes; they still owed three years of payments and dared not claim on the insurance for fear of having their policies loaded to the point they were priced off the road. The situation wasn’t helped by the Japanese firms’ replacement-parts pricing structure making new bodywork out of the question. And the old oil-cooled Gixxer Four is just about the best looking Japanese motorcycle ever, so why not show it off?” , water based coating .
^ Brooke, A. Lindsay (2002), Triumph motorcycles: a century of passion and power, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, p. 160, ISBN 0760304564, 9780760304563, http://books.google.com/books?id=I8sIulyI7xoC&pg=PA160 , tile coating .
^ de Cet, Mirco (2002), The illustrated directory of motorcycles, MotorBooks/MBI Publishing Company, p. 214, ISBN 0760314179, 9780760314173, http://books.google.com/books?id=wNzyIcw2vxoC&pg=PA214
^ Inman, Gary (June 2008), Hooligan Bikes (cover story), “Freedom Fighter; Triumph’s stripped-down sportbike came from the street”, Cycle World: 37, “While the exact genesis of the breed may be up for interpretation, the first use of the evocative name of these bikes is not: My friend Clink coined it. This British photojournalist and serial bike builder used it first to describe a Harley. A hot-rodded Harley custom that used sportbike suspension and eschewed the chrome and engraving of the day for powdercoating and motorsport finishes. Clink also noticed the groundswell of Japanese custom sportbikes being built, mainly in the north of England, that would be described as streetfighters. He is related to these bikes in the same way Tom Wolfe is to Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Babies.”
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