VIDEO: Chained Honda CB550 on full throttle

Modern art or just utter claptrap? Check this footage of a classic Honda thrashing about on full throttle

Posted: 17 September 2008
by Visordown News

Who said modern art was just a load of nonsense?

THIS IS the latest work of installation art at Jack the Pelican Gallery in Brooklyn, in New York City.

It's a Honda CB550 chained to the ceiling of a warehouse with the throttle stuck open. The work has been made by artist Hubert Dobler, who really should get out a bit more.

No, we don't get it either. But it does remind us of the time our friend Mad Chris tried to jump his MB5 off the roof of an abandoned WWII storage barn near where we lived as kids.

Stupid boy...

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tjz1100

Absolute cock and a waste of a bike. funny as hell though and I bet the vandal that did this had a good laugh, apeals to the 'destructor' in all of us.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 11:14

iano

Put some mats around it, more fun than one of those bucking bronco machines in the rednck bars huh?

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 15:30

zub

that was painful and hard to watch, almost seemed like the poor thing was in pain

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 15:37

I thought that was very impressive. Not for the mechanically sympathetic, admittedly, but like watching a caged gorilla.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 17:28

Screwdriver

Interesting, almost animal. I wonder if the installation itself constituted the work of the artist or if the poorly edited video was the end result. Either way it's nice to see some non-negative motorcycle topic presented to the public. Personally, I would have liked to have been there to watch.

Oh and they should have used a GIXXER.

Screwd.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 19:19

baldy brent

There are some sick bastards out there!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 19:47

Screwdriver

It's a machine...

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 19:50

sidekick

looked like a wild stallion snared in a trap, sooooo cruel.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 20:12

K100RS

Would have been more impressed if he had tried to sit on it for 10 seconds.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 20:57

falcorob

No.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 21:00

FatBoyTim

waste of a bike IMO, and definately not art

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 21:02

gio.m

I'm like that trying to get out of my garage.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 22:56

Marko

That bike will be on Ebay next week, careful owner and all that.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 23:36

Lhibou Sage

Quite a clever idea that

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 23:41

Mike Hunt 2

What a load of shite

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 23:46

c_mb2006

I liked it! Should have been a crappy CB500 though rather than a sweet old 550 four, as said a nasty waste of a bike but as a piece of performance art very interesting.

Quite brutal.

He's combing the notion of 'free' power (in the technical sense of the bike) and restraint I believe, the bike represents power, the shitty urban architecture and confined space represents restraint.

One of the big hypocrisies inherent in the modern world - in that we simply create the 'illusion' of power/choice for the individual yet constrain his free will and direct it in all manner of directions.

Posted: 17/09/2008 at 23:56

iano

That's what I thought, didn't want to say it though...