Dorkiest “mods” you can do to your bike to make it look “Non-Factory”

5/15/2023 3:30pm
Spoke skins Colored chains Graphics with skulls, flames, graveyard scenes, etc. Helmet mohawks Polished aluminum frames Not really a mod, but when people put their instagram handle...

Spoke skins

Colored chains

Graphics with skulls, flames, graveyard scenes, etc.

Helmet mohawks

Polished aluminum frames

Not really a mod, but when people put their instagram handle on their truck

Fun fact about helmet mohawks, I worked at Cycle Gear from 2006-11, and out of over 16,000 active SKU's across 100+ stores, the Blue colored helmet mohawk was like the 8th best selling item by volume.... and no I never bought one.  

9
LungButter
Posts
8684
Joined
1/9/2016
Location
Yellow Pine, ID US
5/15/2023 3:34pm
BAD10 wrote:
I’ll go first.. Spoke Skins Any colored plastic rear chain guide or swingarm chain buffer such as the ones by TM Designs    Plastic upper fork...

I’ll go first..

Spoke Skins

Any colored plastic rear chain guide or swingarm chain buffer such as the ones by TM Designs 
 

Plastic upper fork tube protectors. 
 

The Giant aluminum or plastic lower frame/case guard combo. 

The thing I can't get over with spoke skins is not only do they look cheesy as hell.....they also make your bike handle worse.

2
dtl210
Posts
147
Joined
8/12/2018
Location
Post Falls, ID US
5/15/2023 3:37pm

Seat covers with multi-colored ribs.  

2
3
aeffertz
Posts
12400
Joined
7/16/2015
Location
La Crosse, WI US
5/15/2023 3:46pm

All black plastics 

goddy graphics

Exhaust company sticker on a stock pipE

8
1

The Shop

wydopen
Posts
1306
Joined
8/17/2011
Location
805, CA US
5/15/2023 3:52pm
BAD10 wrote:
I’ll go first.. Spoke Skins Any colored plastic rear chain guide or swingarm chain buffer such as the ones by TM Designs    Plastic upper fork...

I’ll go first..

Spoke Skins

Any colored plastic rear chain guide or swingarm chain buffer such as the ones by TM Designs 
 

Plastic upper fork tube protectors. 
 

The Giant aluminum or plastic lower frame/case guard combo. 

LungButter wrote:

The thing I can't get over with spoke skins is not only do they look cheesy as hell.....they also make your bike handle worse.

I bought a bike from the owner of spoke skins and see them at the races all the time. His grandson races the same series my kid does. While I don't condone running spoke skins they are nice people and he said it funded their racing and riding  for years until people started selling knockoffs from China..

5
RedTail
Posts
34
Joined
5/25/2020
Location
Orlando, FL US
Fantasy
5/15/2023 4:31pm

Push-button fork bleeders are cooler than stripped-to-f*$% bleeder screws...

That’s a bingo.

1
5/15/2023 4:54pm
bowens971 wrote:
 How about this? This was a Rockstar edition Husqvarna, kid spray painted the entire thing, goggles, helmet, and boots to match…….

8D5F0E49-96CC-4E7C-B25D-E93062CCF545

 How about this? This was a Rockstar edition Husqvarna, kid spray painted the entire thing, goggles, helmet, and boots to match…….

Looks like he ran out . The cylinder and pipe look  bare.   The unfinished Cylinder and  then the black crosses just ruin it for me.  

I think that you can do a powder coated frame and coat  everything and it can look good. But Factory teams  almost never do stuff like that. So while  you could argue the dorky, its still not Factory looking.  

5/15/2023 4:55pm
bowens971 wrote:
 How about this? This was a Rockstar edition Husqvarna, kid spray painted the entire thing, goggles, helmet, and boots to match…….

8D5F0E49-96CC-4E7C-B25D-E93062CCF545

 How about this? This was a Rockstar edition Husqvarna, kid spray painted the entire thing, goggles, helmet, and boots to match…….

BAD10 wrote:

How much meth did that require?

All of it.....

2
5/15/2023 4:58pm
Bruce372 wrote:

And I run a pc silencer on my fmf expansion chamber because the dyno man said that was cool. 😎

DV ran a similar combo on his Factory YZ250.  I don't remember if he ran a PC pipe with FMF silencer or the way you are doing it. But its been done on a factory bike.

-MAVERICK-
Posts
65388
Joined
3/26/2015
Location
Ontario CA
5/15/2023 5:05pm
Bruce372 wrote:

And I run a pc silencer on my fmf expansion chamber because the dyno man said that was cool. 😎

DV ran a similar combo on his Factory YZ250.  I don't remember if he ran a PC pipe with FMF silencer or the way you are...

DV ran a similar combo on his Factory YZ250.  I don't remember if he ran a PC pipe with FMF silencer or the way you are doing it. But its been done on a factory bike.

DV ran a PC silencer and FMF pipe on his YZ250.

5
5/15/2023 5:09pm
TriRacer27 wrote:
It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially...

It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially baja) ride in a full moto setup. One is fun and entertaining, the other one is asking to be left for dead by your buddies after your 4th flat and running out of fuel again. 

LungButter wrote:
I love showing up to a Moto track with one of my bikes with headlights, it's so funny watching dudes ride absolutely out of control to...

I love showing up to a Moto track with one of my bikes with headlights, it's so funny watching dudes ride absolutely out of control to not get passed by the dude with the headlight! 

I envision the same level of fury from the single track guys in the desert getting passed on super technical single track sections or whooped out sand sections on pure MX bikes set up for the track.  I never have understood the inferiority complex the off-road-only guys have for track riders.  I mainly ride MX about 80% and some single track at ~20%, like both well enough.  I never knew about the feelings toward track riders until I became more of a MX rider.  Can't we all just get along???  BTW - the offroad guys I ride with are super cool, they just have this thing against tracks for some reason.

1
5/15/2023 6:35pm Edited Date/Time 5/15/2023 6:35pm
Spoke skins Colored chains Graphics with skulls, flames, graveyard scenes, etc. Helmet mohawks Polished aluminum frames Not really a mod, but when people put their instagram handle...

Spoke skins

Colored chains

Graphics with skulls, flames, graveyard scenes, etc.

Helmet mohawks

Polished aluminum frames

Not really a mod, but when people put their instagram handle on their truck

mxracer618 wrote:
Fun fact about helmet mohawks, I worked at Cycle Gear from 2006-11, and out of over 16,000 active SKU's across 100+ stores, the Blue colored helmet...

Fun fact about helmet mohawks, I worked at Cycle Gear from 2006-11, and out of over 16,000 active SKU's across 100+ stores, the Blue colored helmet mohawk was like the 8th best selling item by volume.... and no I never bought one.  

That's funny you say that because I worked at a local shop when the mohawks were still popular and we couldn't keep up with the demand. They would sell quicker than we could stock them. Come to think of it, blue did seem to be the most popular color.

Dirt.Squirt
Posts
1433
Joined
1/5/2022
Location
The Low-Dez, OR US
5/15/2023 6:53pm
WarrenMX wrote:
I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the people commenting in this thread don't care what other people run, and would still befriend or happily help...

I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the people commenting in this thread don't care what other people run, and would still befriend or happily help a fellow rider out despite them running any of these "dorky" parts.

It's all just tongue in cheek, and we're all guilty of doing dorky stuff at some point. 

 

Bingo. A good friend of mine that just got into moto is the perfect example to a T of a Spode but I don’t bag in him or hold it against him what so ever because I’m just happy to have  another person to ride with and his pure ness is refreshing and an eye opener in some ways 

 

he rocks some weird ass gear combo, his visor way too low because it’s all busted up, does bar humps over his favorite jumps, absolutely loves the metal mulisha and all black bikes

But what’s important is that he absolutely loves motocross and has so damn much fun just doing his thing not giving two shits about what others think

17
vet323
Posts
3569
Joined
7/31/2010
Location
Lead, SD US
5/15/2023 9:01pm
TriRacer27 wrote:
It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially...

It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially baja) ride in a full moto setup. One is fun and entertaining, the other one is asking to be left for dead by your buddies after your 4th flat and running out of fuel again. 

LungButter wrote:
I love showing up to a Moto track with one of my bikes with headlights, it's so funny watching dudes ride absolutely out of control to...

I love showing up to a Moto track with one of my bikes with headlights, it's so funny watching dudes ride absolutely out of control to not get passed by the dude with the headlight! 

I don't even take my license plate off. I have found that if you pass someone and you have a license plate and brake lights, once you get a small gap they will give up very quickly. 

2
StillSmokin
Posts
739
Joined
3/18/2022
Location
Edmond, OK US
5/15/2023 9:27pm

VitalMX stickers.

5
Titan1
Posts
9406
Joined
2/3/2010
Location
Lehi, UT US
5/15/2023 9:44pm
TriRacer27 wrote:
It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially...

It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially baja) ride in a full moto setup. One is fun and entertaining, the other one is asking to be left for dead by your buddies after your 4th flat and running out of fuel again. 

LungButter wrote:
I love showing up to a Moto track with one of my bikes with headlights, it's so funny watching dudes ride absolutely out of control to...

I love showing up to a Moto track with one of my bikes with headlights, it's so funny watching dudes ride absolutely out of control to not get passed by the dude with the headlight! 

TbonesPop wrote:
I envision the same level of fury from the single track guys in the desert getting passed on super technical single track sections or whooped out...

I envision the same level of fury from the single track guys in the desert getting passed on super technical single track sections or whooped out sand sections on pure MX bikes set up for the track.  I never have understood the inferiority complex the off-road-only guys have for track riders.  I mainly ride MX about 80% and some single track at ~20%, like both well enough.  I never knew about the feelings toward track riders until I became more of a MX rider.  Can't we all just get along???  BTW - the offroad guys I ride with are super cool, they just have this thing against tracks for some reason.

I’m an off road only guy…and I believe that, for the most part, if you are fast on a moto track (talking A and fast B guys), you will be fast off road…but just because you are fast off road doesn’t mean you’ll be fast on a moto track.  
 

I have a ton of respect for moto guys….especially fast ones.  When I look down the A line and see bikes no hang guards, and stock tanks…I just assume there are going to be a few extra fast guys in the race.  Their only down fall could be endurance (since they aren’t used to 2-3 hour races…but the speed will be there).
 

Now, I think a slow moto guy, will be slower off road.  But I think a slow off road guy will be faster on a moto track….

1
5/15/2023 10:08pm

Damon Huffman ran an FMF pipe with a PC silencer on a factory KX125 in 96 or 97.

I think dorky is too many bolt ons, like plastic frame guards, handguards are dorky, fork seal skins, and obvious ebay brands like Kodiak anodized parts etc.  oh yeah Tusk parts waaaay dorky in my opinion

2
Bearuno
Posts
5239
Joined
6/28/2014
Location
AU
5/15/2023 10:43pm Edited Date/Time 5/15/2023 10:45pm
bowens971 wrote:
 How about this? This was a Rockstar edition Husqvarna, kid spray painted the entire thing, goggles, helmet, and boots to match…….

8D5F0E49-96CC-4E7C-B25D-E93062CCF545

 How about this? This was a Rockstar edition Husqvarna, kid spray painted the entire thing, goggles, helmet, and boots to match…….

Looks like that could be  a 'Revenge' type of thing.

Back in the 70s, there was a family that lived right by our local Tracks, that had a lot of conflict within it ( between brothers).

One brother did such a thing as this 'Red Rockstar'. To his brothers bike.

The other Brother, practiced flipping matches for a while. When he got good at it, he flipped a match at his brothers open gas tank, and, despite it being said a flame into liquid has little chance of causing a fire, well, it must have had enough "gas" in the air, to go BOOM.

Thing is, the 'flickers' own bike, and the rest of the families, were in the same garage, and, it all went up!

Angry buggers, and decidedly dumb, were said brothers. 

MaxPower
Posts
2697
Joined
8/15/2006
Location
NJ US
5/15/2023 11:00pm

All black plastics 

goddy graphics

Exhaust company sticker on a stock pipE

CPan wrote:
I disagree on the black plastic. These black HRC’s looked so good.  

I disagree on the black plastic. These black HRC’s looked so good.F87D6125-5D85-4B2D-B1D2-10147DB7952D

 

Needs Mullisha Graphics

Radical
Posts
2824
Joined
10/20/2012
Location
San Diego, CA US
5/16/2023 1:41am

Push-button fork bleeders are cooler than stripped-to-f*$% bleeder screws...

MKMX wrote:

Knowing how to use a flat blade and not over tighten things is cooler!

It's not that it's difficult to bleed forks with a screwdriver.  I just find that with the bleeders, I bleed them far more often.

Without the bleeders, I'll bleed my forks once at the beginning of the day.

With bleeders, I bleed them before every session.

4
Radical
Posts
2824
Joined
10/20/2012
Location
San Diego, CA US
5/16/2023 1:43am
DJS721 wrote:
Put these on every bike. Major dork factor, but a big labor and time saver loading and tying down bikes:  

Put these on every bike.

Major dork factor, but a big labor and time saver loading and tying down bikes:

LUGS.jpg?VersionId=NU

 

It seems convenient, but doesn't this create a lot of pressure on those small bolts, and the aluminum they thread into?

Crutcher
Posts
236
Joined
1/12/2023
Location
Lawrence, KS US
5/16/2023 6:33am

Pinstripes around numbers. Weird background colors. Grey bikes. Spider grips. 

3
3
DJS721
Posts
147
Joined
1/1/2014
Location
Slip Window, OH US
5/16/2023 6:36am
DJS721 wrote:
Put these on every bike. Major dork factor, but a big labor and time saver loading and tying down bikes:  

Put these on every bike.

Major dork factor, but a big labor and time saver loading and tying down bikes:

LUGS.jpg?VersionId=NU

 

Radical wrote:

It seems convenient, but doesn't this create a lot of pressure on those small bolts, and the aluminum they thread into?

Nope, no problems whatsoever, use the bottom triple clamp bolts and live happily ever after

1
MotofactioN
Posts
645
Joined
6/25/2020
Location
Gloucester, VA US
5/16/2023 6:50am
WarrenMX wrote:
I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the people commenting in this thread don't care what other people run, and would still befriend or happily help...

I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the people commenting in this thread don't care what other people run, and would still befriend or happily help a fellow rider out despite them running any of these "dorky" parts.

It's all just tongue in cheek, and we're all guilty of doing dorky stuff at some point. 

 

Bingo. A good friend of mine that just got into moto is the perfect example to a T of a Spode but I don’t bag in...

Bingo. A good friend of mine that just got into moto is the perfect example to a T of a Spode but I don’t bag in him or hold it against him what so ever because I’m just happy to have  another person to ride with and his pure ness is refreshing and an eye opener in some ways 

 

he rocks some weird ass gear combo, his visor way too low because it’s all busted up, does bar humps over his favorite jumps, absolutely loves the metal mulisha and all black bikes

But what’s important is that he absolutely loves motocross and has so damn much fun just doing his thing not giving two shits about what others think

You just described one of my really good riding friends to a T. The all black plastics, bar jumps, metal mulisha sticker, and t shirt gear combos, because apparently a Jersey it too hot??? 😂

1
TeamGreen
Posts
36606
Joined
11/25/2008
Location
Thru-out, CA US
5/16/2023 7:22am
WarrenMX wrote:
I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the people commenting in this thread don't care what other people run, and would still befriend or happily help...

I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the people commenting in this thread don't care what other people run, and would still befriend or happily help a fellow rider out despite them running any of these "dorky" parts.

It's all just tongue in cheek, and we're all guilty of doing dorky stuff at some point. 

 

TeamGreen wrote:
What’s so funny about this thread is the “mixed truisms” here-in… If you show up for one of our Baja rides WITHOUT a really good skid...

What’s so funny about this thread is the “mixed truisms” here-in…

If you show up for one of our Baja rides WITHOUT a really good skid like a TMD and Chain-Guide & blocks (along with reinforced chain-guide/swing-arm mounts)…? You’re not just a dork…you’re likely gonna be shit outta luck. 

TriRacer27 wrote:
It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially...

It's more fun showing up to a moto track in a full off-road setup on a dual sport than showing up to an off-road (or especially baja) ride in a full moto setup. One is fun and entertaining, the other one is asking to be left for dead by your buddies after your 4th flat and running out of fuel again. 

When I got my 2019 CRF450X…box stock…tires and all…

Took it to Pala and raced it at a Road to Mammoth race: took 2nd. Laughing

6
Skerby
Posts
1282
Joined
4/9/2013
Location
Mayes County, OK US
5/16/2023 7:56am
Titan1 wrote:
If you’ve ever ridden a Yamaha off road, you know that chain guide is gonna go “bye bye” very shortly.  One of the first things I...

If you’ve ever ridden a Yamaha off road, you know that chain guide is gonna go “bye bye” very shortly.  One of the first things I do is take off the stock chain guide and put on a TM designs one (Ive been stranded a time to many because of the stock chain guide).  It’s always the weld attaching the chain guide to the swing arm that goes…but the plastics seems to give just enough that it quadruples the life of that little weld.  

The tm guide and slider are legit parts. I put over 200 yz250 hrs on then when I was younger. Kinda noisy

6
sumdood
Posts
8637
Joined
3/11/2013
Location
San Clemente, CA US
Fantasy
5/16/2023 9:28am

Don't forget the guys with grab handles cut out of the airbox covers, hacked up black plastic, seat foam shaved down to 1/8'' thick, every square inch of what's left of the plastic covered with skulls fire and skateboard stickers doing no footers over every jump, and then dog paddling around the corners like it's the first time they've ridden   Grinning 

2
Heavyhitter
Posts
337
Joined
3/20/2023
Location
Machias, WA US
5/16/2023 12:03pm

Running heavy duty tubes. 

Titan1
Posts
9406
Joined
2/3/2010
Location
Lehi, UT US
5/16/2023 12:08pm
want to look non factory? keep wearing busy gear that doesn't match and has colors that don't gel with the bike. we get it. you want...

want to look non factory? keep wearing busy gear that doesn't match and has colors that don't gel with the bike. we get it. you want to be a non conformist. and it looks horrible, red boots on a kawasaki for instance, Reed was wrong to do it too. 80's/90's had it dialed. look at Jett and Hunter. that's factory. match your gear. 

I always assumed that the dude that showed up with his honda, red gear, red helmet, red gloves, red goggles, red/white boots...everything matchy-matchy...was the squid. 

10
5/16/2023 12:17pm
want to look non factory? keep wearing busy gear that doesn't match and has colors that don't gel with the bike. we get it. you want...

want to look non factory? keep wearing busy gear that doesn't match and has colors that don't gel with the bike. we get it. you want to be a non conformist. and it looks horrible, red boots on a kawasaki for instance, Reed was wrong to do it too. 80's/90's had it dialed. look at Jett and Hunter. that's factory. match your gear. 

Titan1 wrote:

I always assumed that the dude that showed up with his honda, red gear, red helmet, red gloves, red goggles, red/white boots...everything matchy-matchy...was the squid. 

Color coordination between gear and bike is some weird-ass try-hard shit to my eyes, but what do I know? What if I race two bike brands in the same weekend?

2
1

Post a reply to: Dorkiest “mods” you can do to your bike to make it look “Non-Factory”

The Latest