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Ulasan Mengenai Minor Fighter di Majalah terbitan luar Negri Streets fighter |
The most common way of transportation here in Indonesia
is the scooter or small bike whit 125 cc. It is simple, effective and gas is quite cheap.
Indonesia is one of the biggest consumers for these little scooters in
the world. Nearly everyone owns a Honda, Yamaha or Suzuki scooter. With
the given fact that there are 260 million people living in Indonesia,
that is a LOT of scooters.
Bigger bikes are limited here, because the government
restricted the maximum CC’s to 250. Any higher than that, and you have
to pay a whopping 100% tax! If you then also want to drive it legal on
the road, it will cost an additional 50 million IDR (exchange rate being
1$ is 8000-9000 IDR). My friend owns a Yamaha R1 that he imported new
and paid 280 million IDR for it. Needless to say many people, the
majority actually, will never be able to pay for a nice and shiny Ducati
or Suzuki. (that friend is plenty rich, being the son of the Governor
of Bali).
Having bikes limited to 250cc is disappointing, but
nonetheless the Indonesian people can’t be bothered. What happens is
that you will see some crazy modified bikes around here. They will go
to great lengths to have that big bike look, replacing stock swing arms
of a 200cc bike with a swinger from a GSX1000 or a stock telescopic
shock with a R1 USD. Call it crazy, but that’s how it goes down here.
Bigger bikes are rare, so where do these bike parts come
from then, one might ask. Well, this is all imported, mostly from
Singapore. The most common bigger bikes, we call them MOGE which is an
abbreviation from motor gede which means big bike, are Honda’s CB400′s
and Suzuki Bandits.
There are a lot of importers here where you can find really old spare
parts as well as the newer spare parts. . When it comes to swing
arms, front forks and any other big bike part you are in need of to
pimp your 200cc bike, they are the ones to see.
This bring me conveniently to my next point, because
modifying a Honda Tiger 200cc bike into a mean looking streetfighting
machine requires some knowledge. The man who started to do this is one
of the very first, was Agus Djanuar from XK Bike Design Purwokerto. He is also known in Indonesia is
the ‘Father of Streetfighters’. Not only giving name and face to
Streetfighter bikes, but also founder of Indonesia’s biggest
Streetfighter club, the Minor Fighters. This is THE club when you have a
Fighter and want to hang out with like-minded. The club has more than
10 chapters, spread out all over Indonesia.
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Ulasan Tentang Minor Fighter di Majalah Steets Fighter |
There are a lot of Streetfighter gatherings here,
organized by the Minor Fighters, which are good fun! Indonesia has
beautiful landscapes with nice hills and mountains surrounded by rice
paddies. However, these roads are also scary dangerous with wild dogs,
cows walking in the street and overall people who totally ignore the
(almost non-existent) road rules. It is literally total anarchy on the
streets! I come from Holland, and there we do have rules, but here it is
just, go whenever, pass on the left or the right whatever you like and
seeing more than 4 people on one scooter, well that’s just common
practice. When I drive to work, 80% of the time I see some accident
happening. It’s not your ordinary traffic scenario, and it has gotten
me into fights more than once.
So with the roads being dangerous and with no disciplined drivers, at
all, makes restricting bigger bikes not such a bad idea after all.
However, shouldn’t a streetfighter bike be all about horsepower that can
back up the crazy looks of a mean looking bike? Yes, it should. I mean,
putting a big ass swing arm, heavy UDS’s and rims that are 6” wide
(stock is around 2,25” on a 200CC) kinda slows the whole bike down. So,
people tune there bike until they have at least the acceleration they
look for. Giving a big 100cc extra will set you back around 100-200
dollar, so that’s no biggie compared to the prices you need to pay for
USD’s or a nice swingarm. A complete set off a fairly new R1 can cost
more than 1000$ here. Yes, shipping is a bitch.
Fiber also plays a big role here in creating the Fighter
look. Being stock parts from a bigger bike not only costs a lot (yup,
shipping again) but it is also hard to make it look right. Small fuel
tank and big and wide back fairing don’t match, so everything will be
custom done. You can get everything made here, fuel tank cover, added
cover over your swingarm (creating that bigger look -pictured in
gallery), race fairings and even headlight masks.
Good quality however is rare, maybe because of the
price. Quality like, for example Showyomoto, is hard to find. I only
know a few good fiber guys here in Indonesia, one of them being Pak Agus
and the guys in his shop, XK-bike design. Custom bodywork will costs
you around 100-300 dollar depending on what needs to be done.
I am sure many of you have an opinion now about the
scene here in Indonesia. It might sound silly putting expensive parts on
a small bike, but we make do with what we have. Most important here is
that we have great fun while modifying bikes and DO stand out from the
crowd. Who cares we can only drive those 200CC bikes? We make them look
tits, and we sure drive them hard!
Thanks Customfighters for allowing us to share about the Fighter scene here in Indonesia!