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Author Topic: Dodge Offers 500-Hp Concept Motorcycle Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-06-2003 10:11 PM                     Holy Dodge Cycle Batman! Robin, This would beat the crap out of the Bat Cycle......Look at that 500 hp Viper V-10 engine, and those tires. What I want to know is this.......and having owned a Crotch Rocket in past years............ How the heck would one hold on to this thing........400 mph.......now thats faster than even the UHP radio system can go. This would really speed up emergency service calls. Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-06-2003 11:18 PM                     Mark, if a war does break out in Iraq and the oil fields are leveled by Sodamned Insane and things go badly for us and Saudi collapses, gasoline might shoot up to 5 bucks a gallon (so the local news rag says) Maybe we should make some moonshine to power that Batboy Bike.  |  IP: Logged Chris Rhode Film Handler Posts: 39 From: Tampa, FL, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 01-06-2003 11:20 PM                     Do you have a link to a story about this? I would be very interested in reading about this. I saw a webpage a while back that showcased a crotch rocket that was powered by a freakin' gas turbine engine!!! The blasted thing cost somewhere around $150k!!  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-06-2003 11:34 PM                     Sorry! I did mean to post it. Enjoy...its a bit over 250K to buy......for some reason or other I think we will be seeing this in the next Bond flick..... Click this URL that was so long that I had to have it edited for me Mark P.S. I have owned a Harley for the last 5 years....sort of makes me feel left in the dust reading that story.......  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 01-07-2003 09:02 AM                        Im not sure if why dodge is doing this. Suzuki already has a Huyabusa 1300 that is 187+ mph of the showroom floor for 13k. And that is electronically limited, the Suzuki rep told me at a seminar when I was working at a dealership that they go well over 200 mph when a couple of wires are disconnected (there is a box under the seat that has a module that limits top speed).  |  IP: Logged Sam Hunter Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 779 From: West Monroe, LA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-07-2003 09:12 AM                     I hope that thing gets good gas mileage as I don't see a fuel tank big enough to support that big of an engine.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-07-2003 09:50 AM                        I was at a car show about two months ago in Watertown, and someone had a motorcycle called a "BOSS HOSS", that had a big block V8 Corvette Engine in it. It was built by a custom bike shop here in the states. Boss Hoss Cycles  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-07-2003 09:56 AM                        Paul T said ," gasoline might shoot up to 5 bucks a gallon " Or what we already pay in the UK 74pence a litre ,£3.30 a UK gallon  |  IP: Logged David Favel Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 764 From: Ashburton, New Zealand Registered: Feb 2002 posted 01-07-2003 04:23 PM                     Check out the Britten http://www.britten.co.nz/  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 01-07-2003 06:58 PM                     500 horsepower motorcycle? Zero to pulverized death in 1.09 seconds. Phew! Motorcycles are scary enough, why does one need the horsepower of a truck?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-07-2003 09:45 PM                     What SHOULD happen is that Bob Marr ride into Showest on this thing!! Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-07-2003 10:29 PM                     I think the Sui-Cycle Mark was talking about is the Dodge Tomahawk. The write-up says the Dodge Tomahawk is like a beast of no other: a four-wheel motorcycle with a 500hp Viper V-10 engine. It goes 0-60 in 2.5 seconds and has a potential top speed of 400mph. Chrysler says there's an "appetite for a vehicle such as this in a limited production run." GM is playing with a new toy. It is supposed to have silk seats and lots of other very expensive trinkets. Cadillac Sixteen: This concept car has the most powerful engine in the world: A v-16 that produces 1,000 hp. Yet it gets 20mpg on the highway. An ultra-luxury sedan that's over 18 feet long with 24-inch wheels, it even has a crystal in the Cadillac crest on the grille. I am not making this one up, either. Ford is building a Model U. Building on the heritage of the Model T, the Model U takes Ford into the future. This truly green machine is made of enviromentally friendly material. The canvas roof is made from corn, the seat foam is made of soybeans and when you check the oil, it's made from sunflower seeds. The Model U begins production later this year.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-08-2003 12:01 AM                     Geez Paul....1000hp....thats like having the power of a small locomotive at your command. I bet every retiree living on Miami Beach will buy one of those ! I always felt that a Cadallac was a great car to attend a Funeral in......now they can haul the whole crowd tot he cemetary in one car! I'll take a suicide Lincoln any day over anything else luxury...... Mark  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-08-2003 12:11 AM                     Yeah, Mark. I am trying to figure out way anyone needs a car with a 1,000 hp engine. My little 4-banger Mercury Topaz is perfectly capable of running 100 mph, which is still too fast for me. It can still pull that 10 mile 5% grade hill outside of Vantage, Washington at 75 mph without losing any speed. That's even better than my Diesel truck can do. Even Bonny and Clyde had an old flathead Ford V-8, and it was capable of outrunning the cops in those days. Why do we need a 1000 hp engine for, anyway?  |  IP: Logged Brad Haven Master Film Handler Posts: 300 From: fremantle, West Australia Registered: Aug 2001 posted 01-08-2003 06:04 AM                     Dick Vaughan You are paying double what it costs us for a litre, we pay around 98 cents a litre, which is about 36p , and we think ours is expensive! Thats one mighty bike!  |  IP: Logged

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