Twin rotors,100 horsepower, and an engine created for one of Citroën’s strangest cars… In 1974, Honda unveiled the original Gold Wing at the Cologne Motorcycle Show, featuring an unexpected flat-four powerplant. But it wasn’t the […]
Tag: Extreme Bikes
310-hp Honda CBX1000 Twin Turbo
Twin-Turbo CBX from Salvanos Drag Racing: “Unless you ride it yourself you can’t believe it…” The Honda CBX1000 remains one of the most revered and iconic street bikes ever produced. Aeronautical engineer Shoichiro Irimajiri, who […]
WMC Mono RR: Supercharged Krämer 450 Aero Concept
A Supercharged 450 with an aerodynamic duct running right through the middle of the motorcycle… Most high-performance motorcycles are designed around the engine. White Motorcycle Concepts, whose WMC250EV land speed bike we previously featured, approached […]
Highland 950 V2: The Swedish V-Twin Super Enduro
In the late 1990s, a tiny Swedish company built a 320-lb, 85-hp enduro… In 1999, most large-capacity twin-cylinder motorcycles intended for unpaved roads were still fundamentally adventure-tourers. BMW had the R1150GS, Honda had the Africa […]
Otto Cilindri: The 500cc Moto Guzzi V8 GP Bike
Eight cylinders, eight carbs, four overhead cams: One of the most ambitious Grand Prix motorcycles ever built… If you divide 498.5 cubic centimeters among eight cylinders, each one displaces just over 62cc. That was the […]
Bimota Tesi H2: 239-bhp Supercharged Hub-Center Superbike
Bimota’s most radical chassis meets Kawasaki’s wildest engine… For most of its history, Bimota has taken powerful engines from larger manufacturers and surrounded them with exotic Italian chassis engineering. In 2019, Kawasaki acquired a 49.9% […]
334-hp PGM V8: “The World’s Most Powerful Production Motorcycle”
2000cc, 334 horsepower, 534 lbs, and a V8 built from two Yamaha R1 engines… Most V8 motorcycles begin with an automobile engine. That approach has produced everything from Boss Hoss cruisers to one-off specials, […]
Vyrus 987 C³ 4V: 350-lb Ducati-Powered Hub-Center Superbike
Ducati 1098R power, 350 pounds, and hub-center steering… In 2009, the Ducati 1098R already represented an extreme interpretation of the Italian V-twin superbike. Its Testastretta Evoluzione engine (actually 1198cc despite the model name) had been […]
Münch Mammut 2000: The 260-hp Turbo Bike
Übermoto: 2000cc, Turbocharged, 260 horsepower, and 218 lb-ft of torque… At the turn of the millennium, the motorcycle world was engaged in an escalating superbike arms race. The Suzuki Hayabusa and Kawasaki ZX-12R were pushing […]
Honda NR750: The Oval-Piston Superbike
32-Valve, 15,000-rpm V4: Honda’s attempt to build a V8…without technically building one… In 1992, Honda put one of the strangest engines ever developed for Grand Prix racing into a road-going motorcycle. The resulting Honda NR750 […]
