I thought maybe if you made it with full farings and turbocharged the heck out of the tiny engine, you might be able to get a fairly practical, fuel efficient, freeway capable machine.
no, it's just not practical to turbo-charge such a small capacity engine, & not safe to be buzzing about in the freeway with bigger, heavier monsters whizzing past you... they'll simply blow you away (literally)... :)
This is a mini bike that I picked from the trash. The turbo came from a 1992 740 Turbo Volvo. This took me about 3 days to make not including the ...
500Bhp Suzuki Hayabusa Turbo Motorcycle Fast - Gr2 Ghostrider Goes Wild 248Mph / 400 km/h
Mark Paquette 4.32@172mph 1/8th mile drag racing, Kawasaki Turbo Pro Comp drag bike NHDRO 8-20-11.
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Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 2) Wastegates – Fourteen Years As President of the Turbo Motorcycle Owners Association The internet has emerged as the dominant source of news and information about turbocharged motorcycles and it has created an increasingly popular ... |
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Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 3) Turbo Chronicles – 137,000 Miles With A Yamaha Turbo Ludwigsen's Turbo race bike to compete in their events. The letter follows: December 12, 1997 Mr. Rick Brecron WERA MOTORCYCLE ROADRACING 113 Applewood ... |
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Pictorial history of Japanese motorcycles Both appeared in 1985, a little more than a year after Kawasaki's GPZ 900 R, the machine that made it clear that turbocharged motorcycles were dead in the ... |
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Turbochargers Hp49 21 Motorcycles Mr. Turbo Kawasaki Funny Bike with turbocharged engine turns ... Turbocharging a motorcycle engine involves all the same basic principles as ... |
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Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 13) People, Places, & Things – Four Decades Motorcycling the USA They lit motorcycledom's horizon like the Fourth of July and they had that magic word spelled TURB- O. Unless you have ridden a turbocharged motorcycle you ... |
A serious add-more-power option for your motorcycle is nitrous oxide 'Juice' and 'squeeze' are typically associated with nitrous. A nitrous oxide system (NOS) is not mechanically driven and does not pressurize the engine's induction system (intake port, manifold, carburetor or EFI throttle body), as do superchargers and turbochargers. Essentially, nitrous oxide is power in a bottle. In other words, it is a chemical-based supercharger that increases pressure in the engine's combustion chamber.
LIMESTONE, Maine — Bill Warner of Wimauma, Fla., driving a turbocharged Suzuki motorcycle, became the fastest man on two wheels Sunday morning at the Loring Timing Association’s Land Speed Race at the former Loring Air Force Base. Warner’s world speed record of 311.945 miles per hour topped his record 273.356 ...
A Dutch company has released a diesel motorcycle with adjustable front wheel hydraulic Drive system as an optional extra. The 50 bhp in-line 3 cylinder diesel is both turbocharged and intercooled and offers a whopping 130Nm of torque. The CVT (Constantly Variable Transmission) helps the bike keep its revs low and it hence uses 2.1 L/100km at 90 kmh
The M1030M1 Diesel Combat Motorcycle is based on a 650cc Kawasaki KLR650 gasoline engined motorcycle. The manufacturer took it to Bonneville Salt Flats in 2004: "... the normally aspirated bike came away with a national record of 84mph average and the turbocharged bike took the blown record with an average of two passes at 92 mph."
Turbocharged 2002 Suzuki Hayabusa at the 29th Annual Northeastern Wisconsin Charity Motorcycle Show in Manitowoc.
Strobist St. Louis, February 2011.
