Leave it to Americans to build and design motorcycles and you’ll probably end up with works of art. But how much power is too much?
This awesome looking thing is called Bienville Legacy Motorcycle and we’ll just cut to the chase and say it has a fuel-injected 1645cc Motus V4, which develops around 300 horses. That’s a big number- even for cars – but for a motorcycle that weighs next to nothing is absolutely outstanding.
The water-cooled engine produces 185 BHP, but it can push up to 300 BHP with an optional supercharger kit and a little bit of tuning.
And it looks the part, too. A steam-punk theme manages to integrate nicely in the marvelous design. It does resemble the work of Swiss watchmakers, a carefully manufactured and assembled rolling piece of art. A motorcycle variant of the Pagani Huayra. Ok, we’ll stop here with the praising.
It has carbon fiber everything: four carbon fiber suspension arms, carbon fiber wheels, a single carbon composite leaf spring and carbon composite blades that can tweak the suspension in endless ways. This saves both sprung and unsprung weight, which in turn makes the bike terribly fast.
This motorcycle will make its world debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and will be ridden on the iconic 1.8 Kilometer hillclimb course by Jim Jacoby and Scott Miller, the founders of American Design and Master-Craft initiative – the company that produces this bike.
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