Not satisfied with the 20-something horsepower in your lightweight Yamaha WR250X supermoto?
Morgan Performance Fabrication makes a turbo kit for them.
Me likey.
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A really cool history of the Moto Guzzi V8 Grand Prix bike of 1955.
But not, as the coverage suggests, the only "futuristic" V8 bike in history.
In fact you have to go back another 50 years to 1907 and Glenn Curtiss' horribly dangerous looking land speed record bike to find the first V8 motorcycle.
The spread of machinery at the 14th street vintage bike block party in Greenpoint was pretty f*ckin epic.
Just so's you know - Brooklyn rules.
Dig the iron:
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This video clip of a 500bhp Suzuki Hayabusa Turbo Motorcycle has been on the Global Interwebs for a few years. It's still one of the best videos ever recorded of unacceptable behavior on a public highway. Scary and exciting to watch no matter how many times I see it. Freakin Great.
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continue reading oldie but goodie - turbo bike shenanigans...
Who is Yuji Ochiai?
Apparently he's some dude in Tokyo who builds turbo bikes.
Not your average Euro-American style mega bikes. In Japan 400cc 4-cylinder and 250cc twins must be more common because his company Metal Speed Inc appears to have turned a bunch of them into forced induction mini hyper bikes.
Poke around his site a bit and you'll find a Kawasaki 1100 twin turbo beastie.
Crazy.
As Yuji so succinctly puts it: "Turbo is NO.1!"
Damn right, baby.
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Well then. This will cure your ills when a suitcase full of Viagra and Roofies fall short. The 2009 V-Max.
Even guys like me, who aren't into the whole "Boulevard Cruiser" muscle-bike thing, give a nod of respect to the balls-out insanity of such machines.
210 horsepower? TWO-hundred-ten... HOLYJEEZZUZGAWD!
Thank you Yanaha. I'm sure your attorneys are NOT pleased.
Yeah, I can picture myself aboard a V-Max with a broadsword slung on my back... wandering the post apocalypse urban wastelands - foraging for food and slaying vampire-zombies in my spare time.
What? It could happen.
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"Look at the blower! She's meanness put to music, and the bitch is born to run."
I can not believe I have never heard of these cats before today. TTS Performance in the UK specialize in integrating Rotrex centrifugal superchargers with cars and motorcycles. Belt-driven superchargers: forced induction just the way god meant it to be.
They have kits. For motorcycles. Supercharger kits.
They cost anywhere from £2,000 to £5,000 for a complete kit. There are kits for the Triumph Speed Triple and Rocket-3, BMW 1150, various Jap 4-bangers and Harley-Buells.
Centrifugal blowers allegedly have a very smooth power delivery. Though I don't know how smooth 200 horsepower can ever feel as it runs through the one little tire patch of a motorbike. Clearly, further investigation is warranted.
Someone... get one of these. Now.
Go for it. What are you? Chicken?
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