Very Cool Bike Art
Well, you have to see this to believe it- WebBikeWorld has a great article up about an artist who does unique sculptures. In this case, he takes old bikes and transforms them into WWI replica fighter planes. Sounds crazy, but it is a very cool thing if you are into bikes and aviation. The amount of work and detail that goes into one of these is amazing. Here is a little of his story-
As an artist I express in sculptural form my fascination with flight. My art work reflects irony and whimsy. The color, shape and three dimensional movement of aircraft are integral to the design and execution of my aviation art.
The impetus for these motorcycle forms came from a flight I made in a Stearman biplane in 1994. The thing about a Stearman is that the cockpit is open not enclosed like all the other aircraft I had flown. I could feel the wind and smell the exhaust.
I got to do a loop and a low pass. The loop was phenomenal, I saw the ground disappear and then all I saw was sky. When the ground reappeared it was in the wrong place! The sky was on the bottom and the ground was on the top. Then all I could see was the ground. Finally, things came back to normal with the sky on top and the ground on the bottom.
Whew! I was so impressed with that flight that I knew I had to do some kind of artwork to memorialize and capture that feeling. I wanted to have that feeling of wind and movement again and have it on a regular basis.