What do you get when you bolt a supercharged 1,000bhp engine, hitherto found under the bonnet of a four-wheel-drive monster truck, into a home-made motorbike chassis? Most people would probably say “trouble” or possibly “a ride in an ambulance”.
But for engineer Nick Argyle, it seemed the obvious thing to do when tinkering with some bits in his garage one day. Argyle had built his own monster truck some years previously before selling the chassis but keeping the whopping 8.2-litre Mopar V8 engine.
Lacking the space to build another truck, he decided that the ideal home for the supercharged powerplant would be a two-wheeler.
Called the Rapom V8, the result is the most powerful road legal motorbike in Britain, with between 1,000 and 1,200bhp depending on the boost from the Littlefield supercharger.
That makes the Bugatti Veyron, the fastest car in the world with 987bhp, look rather tame. And if you thought your neighbour’s SUV was a gas-guzzler, the Rapom consumes a gallon of pure alcohol ever four miles.
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