Tsunami Makes A Splash

TSUNAMI MAKES A SPLASH

What do you get when you cross a

Honda CBR900RR with a Suzuki

Quadracer? Well, Brian Koelle,

an Industrial Design student at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, got the Tsunami. Koelle’s one-quarter-scale model calls for a Quadracer to be widened to accept the Honda engine, lowered for street handling

and modified to allow fitment of a single car-sized rear tire. A full-size prototype and production of the Tsunami are possibilities, says David Pence, one of Koelle’s professors who is managing the project, if investors can be found. Pence says the Tsunami, which would weigh around 550 pounds, could be sold for about $12,500.