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    Art deco or retro bike?

    This is pretty cool looking

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    The style is called 'steam punk'. People are coming up with all sorts of cool re-imagined things such as sci fi space stuff but done in a 1800's style.

    Here is some other stuff: http://tinyurl.com/cxxdokc

    Here are some other bikes, sure enough that bike comes up in the search for 'steampunk motorcycle':http://tinyurl.com/ck3pm3s

    If you like that sort of thing then check out Shinya Kimura. That guy makes some epic motorcycles.
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    1900s. Steampunk is late-Victorian, early-Edwardian Britain in tone.
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    I don't think I would actually catergorise that as Steampunk. Maybe a meaningless point however I would regard it as retro-futurism ie. like the Jetsons, Flash Gordon etc

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro-futurism

    Interesting design nontheless. thanks for posting
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