Saturday, January 24, 2009

'52 Orion

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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