Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Motorcycle enthusiasts, meet the 300HP Bienville Legacy! (move over, Hayabusa!)

Seen a Boss Hoss motorcycle at a car show a couple weeks ago. This beast had a 502 ci 8100cc's with 700-800 HP. Now that's crazy

I saw one of those in the shop that was making the turbocharger headers for my harley some time ago. The owner said that he, also, has never had the guts to throw the throttle all the way to wide open, ever. Not sure I would, even at the drag strip.

Shows the folly of ever trying to be the fastest or most powerful. At some point in the high performance continuum, rider skill plays a bigger part than the machine being ridden.

Got to admit they're are impressive. I was talking to the owner at the Harley show, he said with even the weight 600lbs they are torqey (sp) as hell. Be fun to take one out for a spin.

8100 cc is mind boggling.

back when those 1100 Ninjas were first brought out, Twin City Cycle in Metro Minneapolis, started selling them the first of May of that year... they refused to take orders for any more of them as of July 1....

of the first 5 they sold the first week of May, all 5 buyers had manage to kill themselves by the end of June...

Twin City Cycle was the largest motorcycle dealer in Minnesota at the time...located down in Burnsville on Hwy 101....

at one of the spring motorcycle shows in the Twin Cities, I remember there was a vendor out of New Mexico, that was making custom bikes with the theme being mounting Chevy V 8s on them...

every thing from a 305 to a highly worked 454....

a motor, two wheels, a seat and a fuel tank...

friggin nuts...

When I was fortunate enough to get a real close look at a Boss Hog Chevy V-8 trike, among my first thoughts was "the single motorcycle front tire is NOT going to be able to properly steer or help stop all this weight or power" The owner confirmed as much and was planning to sell it. Same guy that was smart enough to know better than to twist the throttle all the way to wide open.

There is a reason that big V-8's have FOUR sizeable tires and FOUR sets of brake rotor/caliper's around you..... That will be scary enough and far less likely to kill you (though it - getting dead- can still can be done if mixed in with enough alchohol or stupidity)

If you want V-8 power in a superlight frame, build a V-8 Vega or something, maybe even using some carbonfiber parts. But put a good set of tires and brakes all around and a roll cage then go have a blast.

my 90 fxrs makes about 70 hp and weighs 580 lbs with a full tank. its all i need or want.

And a fine bike that is! FXRS being one of my all time favorite flavors of Harley.

So, we now know that you have TWO Eagle scouts in your home (CONGRATULATIONS! BTW) and a very cool Harley.

How does one nominate you as campfire member of the year?

Really nothing new about mounting big horsepower engines on motorcycles.

The real deal - E. J. Potter, The Michigan Madman.

http://thekneeslider.com/e-j-potter-the-michigan-madman-r-i-p/

I recall when the V-max first came out. The commercial was sooooo cool.

A guy at work had a Boss Hog and it just looked unbelievably uncomfortable to ride. Way too wide, heavy, just looked bloated in every dimension.
Always wanted to ride a Hayabusa, or the Kawi, but I'm one of those potential "organ donors" so I've sworn off bikes for quite a few years now.
Still lust after the look of a fast bike that will also corner with the best of them and would love to ride one if I had a closed track to have fun on.
Guess I'll have to settle for my hot rod instead. Should be plenty fast to make me look stupid a time or two.....

Bob