{"id":9595,"date":"2014-03-10T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=9595"},"modified":"2014-03-10T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T11:18:40","slug":"city-boys-chopper-bike-burns-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/?p=9595","title":{"rendered":"City boy\u2019s chopper bike burns rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zakir’s 10-feet long\u00a0Captain\u00a0America-style bikesports monster\u00a0Trepador tyre; actor Upendra asked him if the bike can be used in one of his movies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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If you find a monstrous 10-feet\u00a0long bike\u00a0zipping around the streets of Bangalore, ridden by a young lad, don’t mistake him for a ghost rider. It is actually 25-year-old interior designer Zakir Hussain Khan, who has passionately created this unique chopper bike which sports a converted 500 cc Royal Enfield engine.
\nZakir Hussain, aka Zak as he’s popularly known among motorcycle enthusiasts, was inspired by the intriguing ‘Captain America’ chopper bikes in the West. Choppers are handcrafted or modified bikes. Captain America is the lead character in the counterculture 1960s movie Easy Rider, in which the two protagonists ride a chopper bike.
\nIt took Zak three months to create this mean machine, which he calls the ‘Big Indian’. He now has Sandalwood bigwigs\u00a0queuing\u00a0up to feature this\u00a0monster\u00a0in their movies.
\n“Actually, I was\u00a0test-riding the bike near actor Upendra’s house when his son saw the bike and called his father to check it out. He seemed quite impressed,” said Zak.
\nUppi, known to wow his audience with his exuberant and larger-than-life characters, has even asked him if the bike can be used in one of his movies \u2014 this of course, after spending a few minutesinspecting\u00a0the bike and its unusually big hind wheel.
\nThe young\u00a0designer, who invests most of his earnings from\u00a0interior designing\u00a0on modifying bikes, used the imported Maxxis Trepador tyre made by Taiwanese company Cheng Shin Rubber, doing business as Maxxis International, for the hind wheel. The tyre, made to be used on light\u00a0trucks and SUVs, reportedly cost Zak a whopping Rs 60,000 to import from Germany. He thinks it gives the machine a mean look.
\nThe bike cost him Rs 6.25 lakh to make from scratch. Another of its unique features is its silencer, which emits fire from its exhaust. This lone cost him a cool INR 1,50,000. Some of the characteristic features of this single-seater bike, now grabbing onlooker eyeballs, are its lengthened frame,\u00a0extended forks, a skull for headlight, and Gatling-style (a forerunner of the modern machine gun) barrels, extending from one side of both the fork tubes.
\nZak, always keen on wanting to make something different, started modifying\u00a0cars\u00a0and bikes since he was an 18-year-old. “I want to create another\u00a0chopper bike\u00a0which is 18-feet long,” said the ambitious Zak. And what is he going to do with this one? “I want to auction it after a few months,” he said.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.bangaloremirror.com \/ Bangalore Mirror \/ Home> Bangalore> Others \/ by Nandini Kumar, Bangalore Mirror Bureau \/ March 08th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zakir’s 10-feet long\u00a0Captain\u00a0America-style bikesports monster\u00a0Trepador tyre; actor Upendra asked him if the bike can be used in one of his movies. If you find a monstrous 10-feet\u00a0long bike\u00a0zipping around the streets of Bangalore, ridden by a young lad, don’t mistake him for a ghost rider. It is actually 25-year-old interior designer Zakir Hussain Khan, who … Continue reading City boy\u2019s chopper bike burns rubber<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-records-all","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9597,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9595\/revisions\/9597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bangalorefirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}