
I drew this Tron, Akira like future bike around 2000, another Strata 3D modelling stuff.I build the engine first, and then drew parts by parts as my imagination navigated me. The only place I couldn't think of was the triple tree design. A future triple tree, what would it look like? In the beginning I was thinking of a logic design that makes sense in real, but I didn't want to cut the curved silhouette of the front-end, so I thought of a sphere-shaped, Sci-Fi ultra UFO baring joint somehow staying between the two suspensions, and holding the front-ends. The concept was a Sci-Fi bike, so why not jump the logic?
Funny to have a kick-pedal on a future bike, right? I wanted not only a future-look but also a retro-nostalgic kind of look somewhere in the design, a classic bike in the near future. Thought of a chopped bike version too, using the same bike.
I was living in Bali at this moment, and riding a black '81 Kawasaki chopper ; chopped Sportster handle, mid-mounted BSA gas tank, triumph-like muffler, K frame seat, short-bob fender, frisco grab-bars, goose-neck frame, . . . The engine was almost in stock, but had to full-restore. Odd sound from gear box, dead cam-shafts, dirty carb, etc... uhhh... After several operations, it become my everyday transport. Low tone but loud enough, nice sound from the pipe. It was my first Full-K-ustomized bike, starting from the frame, from head to toe, everything.
I don't have no pictures, I lost all of them. Sometimes I'm such an idiot, I hate myself.
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