This motor cycle was parked outside at my work

[peranders]

.... http://www.bosshoss.net

Wow!

 

[gareth]

And a V8 too...what size is that engine?

 

[peranders]

You can click at the link but the motor is huge 475 HORSEPOWERS and 6 liters Typical american. Everything is big over there.

 

[dave_gerecke]

The six liter engine. Not the largest available. I believe they offer a bike with either a 7.4 or 8.1 liter engine. They are using either the "small" block or "big" block GM engines. The 6 liter is a new version of the small block. That is the largest regularly offered displacement of the small block at this time. We have a couple of them here in the Burlington area of Vermont. It doesn't sound like a bike, it sounds like what it is, an American V-8. 😀 Yes we can be a bit extreme on here in the states, but it's nice to be different. If I remember correctly, the owner of a Boss Hoss I spoke with said that his bike would do zero to 60 in about 2 seconds. And that is with the small block, not the big block.

Peace,

Dave

 

[Eva]

I wonder how much do these bikes weight. The manufacturer doesn't seem to provide that data. There doesn't seem to be any data on fuel consumption either.

 

[theAnonymous1]

I wonder how much do these bikes weight. The manufacturer doesn't seem to provide that data. There doesn't seem to be any data on fuel consumption either.

I've compiled my own data......

Weight = Too much
Fuel consumption = Too much

My little bro just bought a Yamaha VMAX with the money Uncle Sam was nice to give him after a year and a half in the sand. Not quite a V-8, but still a V engine.....

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[peranders]

The Yamaha motor sound really nice compared to a HD. The Yamaha motor sounds like music.

 

[peranders]

Rumours said that there was an admiring crowd of people around the cycle when the Hoss Boss took of. Unfortunately there are lot's of speed bumps..... no burned rubber exactly.

 

[dangus]

About 20 years ago there was a feature in a bike(r) mag about a homebuilt V8 bike. IIRC, the owner was a NASA engineer with access to a machine shop, and he designed his own transmission to work with a Buick 215 cubic inch aluminum block V8.

I never much liked the look of the Vmax... fake scoops and a nonfunctional gas tank just seem to come from the atomic cockroach school of Japanese industrial design.

 

[ChocoHolic]

...if you cannot lift your bike from horizontal to vertical, then it is to heavy for you... 😀 😀 😀
Very simple rule