Where did the idea for the bike come from?
Frustrated at not being able to find a source for a truly custom motorcycle that suited his tastes, Jim Davis founded MotoMorphic. In inspiration for MotoMorphic’s first bike, the JaFM came from four seemingly disparate things: streetfighters, a fat tire, American muscle cars, and fighter planes. The streetfighter is a bike that starts life as a sport bike, and is cosmetically wrecked, usually due to the abundance of power and speed meeting a real world limitation, such as an over exuberant application of throttle on the street, or gravel in a corner. The owner, after healing from road rash, would rehabilitate and modify the bike; installing upright handlebars and projector beam headlights, eliminating most of the plastic, and creating a bike that looked like it was spoiling for a fight with battle scars for street credibility. It was often more comfortable to ride, and capable of being ridden fast on the twisty back roads. There is something aggressive and appealing about streetfighte
