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Offline Vishnuatepork

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Looking for more info on this bike.....
« on: July 15, 2011, 04:21:16 AM »
I ran across this streamliner a few months ago.  I am wondering if anybody here recognizes it?  I would love some more details.
suzuki vx800, 41mm FCR, shrink ported head, mega cycle cam, singh grooved head, custom headers, Supertapp exhaust, Ignitech ignition module, vs1400 drive hub, nology coils, magnecor wires, 12:1 cp pistons, carillo rods

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2011, 11:36:57 AM »
The setting looks Eurorean...

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2011, 11:45:52 AM »
For some reason I think it is a pedal bike ... made those guys know.
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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2011, 11:55:53 AM »
The tires sure look small, don't they?  And behind "UTAH 1" there's some small lettering that I can't read.  It might tell us what we want to know.

Didja notice the turntable for the streetcar?
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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2011, 12:33:48 PM »
Judging by the cars it is in America but it is late 70s or early 80s.

I think the first word is university so maybe it was an engineering class project?
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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2011, 12:59:02 PM »
The setting looks Eurorean...

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

I thought so too, I was thinking it was either a Dodge Omni or a VW Rabbit.  But Back them alot of the little cars looked the same.  Who knows..


Yup, noticed the street car turn table too.


I think it would be heavy for a pedal bike.  If its a motorbike, then I want to know wheres the engine, and how do they get power to the rear wheel?
« Last Edit: July 15, 2011, 01:40:48 PM by Vishnuatepork »
suzuki vx800, 41mm FCR, shrink ported head, mega cycle cam, singh grooved head, custom headers, Supertapp exhaust, Ignitech ignition module, vs1400 drive hub, nology coils, magnecor wires, 12:1 cp pistons, carillo rods

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2011, 02:51:48 PM »
Piece of cake:

One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani: POPULAR MECHANICS APRIL 1990

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2011, 03:41:10 PM »
I think he was the one who brought some "ideas" to the salt in the '80s(?).  One was a motorcycle with a transparent woman's body.  As I remember, you looked out thru the snatch (no, I didn't mean hatch).

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2011, 03:44:30 PM »
Stan, that'd make for one strange-looking contraption, wouldn't it?  Have you got any photos - of the bike or the "body"?
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« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2011, 07:18:06 PM »
Yeah -- but I don't know how to digitize them, let alone post them.  Could send it to the Doctor, but knowing him, he probably has a whole reel.
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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2011, 10:46:49 PM »
"One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani"

...so, it's a Colonic.  :-D

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #11 on: July 16, 2011, 01:38:09 AM »
Piece of cake:

One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani: POPULAR MECHANICS APRIL 1990

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Well thankyou!!!!!!!!!  In the back of my mind I could have said it looked familiar...but when you get older and youve seen lots, you see patterns. Now I know why

Funny when you mention Luigi, I still think he is one of our time most ambitious designers.

I used to have a whole stack of PM magazines.  That issue still stands out as one of my favs. I kept that one along with a handful of other when I moved from the magazines on the bottom rack, to the top rack.  I thought his designs were way above anything else at the time.  Its been years since I thought about his designs.  Thankyou.  His planes and trains are some of the most ambitious since Howard Hughes.


I wonder what happened to it?
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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #12 on: July 16, 2011, 09:55:08 AM »
Strasburgs had Colani's Corvette and his Diesel truck for quite a while. The Corvette might still be around their shop but I havent seen the big rig for several years.

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Re: Looking for more info on this bike.....
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2011, 10:06:21 AM »
Piece of cake:

One of many "UTAH"s by Luigi Colani: POPULAR MECHANICS APRIL 1990

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Well thankyou!!!!!!!!!  
You're welcome !

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I used to have a whole stack of PM magazines...
As a teenager, in the early seventies, I used to sit in the library for hours
going through year after year of Popular Mechanics issues.
SO much stuff to dream about, to dazzle the mind....and to learn from.
It build in my, and my friends minds a deep admiration
for especially American ingenuity and sense of enterprise.
Everything was possible if you set your mind to it.


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an eccentric guy...
Indeed...absolutely brilliant and slightly nuts.
All the more power to guys like him !

We need them.

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