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Any GPX owners here toyed with removing some of the fairings to create a more streetfighter look? Was thinking that if you removed the side fairings but added some kind of bracket to allow you to keep the bottom fairing on securely you'd create a pretty mean looking machine...

Sorry, just bored and wondering how I can make my bike different while I wait till I can upgrade :wink:
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theres a few on http://www.bikepics.com/kawasaki, look for the gpx & gpz series photos. I'd point out individual ones that i had in mind, but unfortunately bikepics is severely misbehaving for me today.

I've seen a naked gpx750 in the metal and i don't mean mine without the fairing, but a de-faired (is there such a word?) one. Didn't look bad, but as i said, have a look and then think about it.
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ok, its behaving again

i was thinking of the likes of
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/152892/
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/217453/
or http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/176975/ if you top-nakified it even more.

oh yeah, the shit uglified gpx750 is at
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/136750/
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mike-s wrote:ooh yeah, the shit uglified gpx750 is at
http://www.bikepics.com/pictures/136750/


shit uglified..aint that the truth.....

and it even has the standard zorst :shock:
on a streetfighter? :P
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Ask TY of he has any photo's of his old GPX sans fairings ... from what I undersatnd it wasn't so much a Streetfighter mod as a 'oh fark all my fairings exploded' mod, but they were missing all the same. :D
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I am currently riding mine around without the lower fairing as I was repairing an oil leak and can't be arsed putting it back on!
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Some bikies just look better streetfightered / nakefied than others. I don't think it really suits the GP's.
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Some of those images from Mike-S didn't look so bad, if you just remove the mid-section it seems to keep a bit of toughness. Even the uglified one looked alright :wink:

I'm pretty tempted to try it out, for one thing I'm jack of the windscreen directing wind straight into my face on the hwy.
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If you do go ahead, especially with the removing part of the fairing, make *SURE* you plan it ahead propperly and reinforce the parts of the fairing that remain on the bike.
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dave#3 wrote:Ask TY of he has any photo's of his old GPX sans fairings ... from what I undersatnd it wasn't so much a Streetfighter mod as a 'oh fark all my fairings exploded' mod, but they were missing all the same. :D

:D I'll have a look - but I don't think I ever took pics of it sans fairings ;)
I'll post here if I find some.
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