28 August 2009 - 11:00
Dodge this
The trouble with bikes is that your engine has to somehow fit between your legs. Fine if you've got a compact little four-cylinder. But if you fancy stuffing a V10 in the frame, you'll have to have spread your legs wider than an elephant jockey.
Which is exactly what you'll have to do to get astride this Millyard. Because between your thighs rests an enormous 8.0-litre V10 from a Viper. So you sit right on top of 500bhp and have to lean forward over the expansive engine and fuel tank just to reach the bars.
Watch the Millyard Viper V10 in action in this YouTube clip from Motor Cycle News:
What other examples of massive car engines being wedged into small, non-car objects have you seen? We're always suckers for this brilliant V8 chainsaw clip. Heck yeah...
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And I thought the Boss Hoss was nuts...bloody hell.
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The problem with bike like these, other than the massive weight and ridiculous handling, is that when you mount an engine laterally, the crank shaft tends to tilt the motorcycle.
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No way I would ever ride this. Look at how close his knees are to the cylinder head, valve cover, and header pipe. Not to mention that reach looks very uncomfortable, and holding that bike up when you stop at a light would be very difficult indeed. Impractical and stupid. If you want a Viper bike, find yourself a Tomahawk. Oh, I guess there's only one of those, eh?
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Well I have done over 300 miles on A and B roads at speeds up to 160mph (on a runway) and my legs still work and are not cooked! When you ride the bike it feels normal once moving and is remarkably good in corners, and second to none down the straight! The chicken strips on the Avon Venom tyres are barely 10mm wide. Oh by the way the 10 owners of Dodge Tomaharks are legally bound never to attempt to ride them!
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Whaa!! I thought that Triumph Rocket had a massively pointlessly big engine... Well, 800cc for a bike is more than enough for me... thanks!
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They had something like that at the Philadelphia auto show from dodge, only alot better looking
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ratfuML9QA&feature=related 48 cylinder kawasaki
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A 193 MPH, 500 bhp 8.0 V10 motercycle??? got your new liver yet???
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Perhaps they should just write 'bell-end' down the side of the fuel tank, just in case there's any confusion.
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if you look at a regular bike it's packed of bits and bobs, now it's a v10 not a twin 2-cylinder
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if you look at a regular bike it's packed of bits and bobs, now it's a v10 not a twin 2-cylinder
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My 1914 Excelsior wants to hump your Opra Winfree.
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thats a lot of power between your legs. that size of engine would work perfectly in one of those big chopper bikes with the wide handlebars. or one of them 3 wheeler machines that can be seen occasionaly
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looks like it would fall over at the first corner
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nowhere near as good as the dodge tomahawk
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ça n'a aucun interet , pur perte de temps et d'argent
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to the eejit that said this. "Oh by the way the 10 owners of Dodge Tomaharks are legally bound never to attempt to ride them!" Legally bound????? ha ha ha You mean they passed a law for 1 specific bike.sounds like a real sensible way of marketing your goods.
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I'd like to see it go round a corner, and the owner get it up on a centre stand, but, then again if you eat as many cheeseburgers as the people likely to buy a bike like this it probably has a sat nav with all the Maccy D's programmed in.
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Impressive. But 5 foot feather weight boys makes it look silly. It would probably look less stupid if you put a bit of super-dunking Shack O'Neil (obviously a black Irish, see Charlie's Angels 2) on it. Delivering that much power with a chain and not a shaft - well done. Maybe it sasy something in the manual not to exceed 2000rpm.
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@Laughinggas: What I think he meant was, the 10 owners of the Tomahawks signed a disclosure with the company that they will never ride it. Me, I am not a bike person and having a big v10 between my legs is not my cup of tea.
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pinkshinyalan, not only are you right concerning handling/weight, knee position etc, can u imagine how far u get on a tank its ridiculous, 8litre v10....hopefully he'll always have some buddies following with a dozen jerrycans haha
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if nothing else, it must get bloodly hot. and not very far between refuelling. i'd like to be the call centre opertive that fields that call: "hello i'd like to insure my 5.0L, 800hp, V-10 motorbike please. how much is that likely to cost?" hahaha.
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AlKim commented on this article
28 August 2009
Compensating for a small man-tool perhaps?
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