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British nuclear engineer Allen Millyard is known for building huge motorcycles, often using car engines to replace the factory engines. His latest creation is this motorcycle, which uses a 500-hp, 8,400cc engine from the Dodge Viper sports car. That's as impressive as his prior feat of mounting two 6-cylinder engines on one bike.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/videos/2009/August/aug2509-video-500bhp-v10-viper/?R=EPI-117907 via OhGizmo!
Or maybe you have to be a motorcycle rider/enthusiast to appreciate what a frakken' cool piece of engineering this is. Haters, go home. You're not wanted here.
It must handle horribly in turns, and by the photo above it doesn't seem a bit confortable. Besides, even with an oversized fuel tank, it isn't enough to give fuel autonomy like a powerful 1800cc bike would.
I wouldn't want to have my legs that close to a hot V10 engine... but I guess that with that tiny fuel tank (compared to a car) it'd run out of fuel even before the engine has time to warm up.
Aren't Hayabusas and RR1's enough?