{"id":113478,"date":"2020-09-26T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/eisenbergs-berserk-500-horsepower-lightweight-v8-motorcycle"},"modified":"2020-09-26T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T05:24:12","slug":"eisenbergs-berserk-500-horsepower-lightweight-v8-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/eisenbergs-berserk-500-horsepower-lightweight-v8-motorcycle","title":{"rendered":"Eisenberg\u2019s berserk 500-horsepower lightweight V8 motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eisenbergs-berserk-500-horsepower-lightweight-v8-motorcycle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a primordial drive in certain motorcyclists that can only be satisfied by shoehorning the largest and most excessive engines possible into the frames of two-wheelers. The mighty V8, a staple of the muscle car world, has frequently found itself driving half the wheels it was designed for, but typically there\u2019s been one glaring problem with the resulting motorbikes: they\u2019re colossal.<\/p>\n<p>Take the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bosshoss.com\/bikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boss Hoss<\/a>, probably the best known V8 bike you can slap some money down and buy. Those things use engines up to 7 and a half liters in displacement, and you\u2019d better bring a packed lunch if you want to walk around one.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/the-rapom-v8-1000-bhp-motorcycle\/6762\/\">Nick Argyle\u2019s Rapom V8<\/a>, which uses an 8.2-liter, thousand-horsepower supercharged engine out of a freakin\u2019 monster truck. That thing\u2019s even bigger, and gets a hilarious four miles a gallon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a primordial drive in certain motorcyclists that can only be satisfied by shoehorning the largest and most excessive engines possible into the frames of two-wheelers. The mighty V8, a staple of the muscle car world, has frequently found itself driving half the wheels it was designed for, but typically there\u2019s been one glaring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}