Tuesday 17th January 2006

1000bhp Bike from TVR Power

Drag racer to tour UK

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TVR Power in Coventry may be best known as the tuning arm of TVR, but they've got hidden talents in other areas too.

They are also the development team behind the UK's most powerful motorbike, a 1327cc dragster that thanks to supercharging and a nitro methane injected engine, can produce a mind boggling 1000bhp!

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If you can hang on to the machine it will hurl you to 60mph in 0.7 seconds, 100mph in just 1.1 seconds and on to 220mph in a mere 6.4!

This year it can be seen at the following events:

• 26th – 28th May – `The Main Event’ – Santa Pod, England
• 11th – 13th August – `The Bulldog Bash’ – Shakespeare County Raceway, England
• 19th – 20th August – `Nitro Bike Challenge’ – Drachten Raceway, The Netherlands
• 25th – 27th August – `NitrOlympx’ – Hockenheim, Germany
• 1st – 2nd September – `Mosten Raceday’ – Aalingboro, Denmark
• 8th – 10th September – `European Finals’ – Santa Pod, England

Links

• TVR Power
• (Loud) Video of the bike in Action (WMV, 26.9MB)

[gangstatom]

0-60 in 0.7 sec's..... didn't think that was going to be possible for a good while!
Thats gotta involve some serious g-force for the rider.
Still, I can get 0.6 out of my golf GTi. (Tee hee hee )

[GTRene]

TVR Powerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr thats anough for me at the moment I guess

[trackcar]

Oh my God. How on earth do you stay on at those rates of accelration.

As well as having big brains at TVR Power, someone there must have blinking big balls and blinking strong shoulders

[Steve_T]

That's one serious machine! On the build it/ride it front, it generally helps to have two people to do the job. The one with the brains to build the thing and one with slightly less imagination to ride it.

Steve.

[lucozade]

Just hope it all stays together

[oppressed mass]

Hope the pilot remembers to strap his wrists up prior to launch....

[Rawwr]

trackcar said:

Oh my God. How on earth do you stay on at those rates of accelration.

First time I used 100% open throttle in 2nd gear on my GSX-R600 I had a bit of a 'cling on for dear life' moment. The one above must be entertaining

[xm5er]

Is that (whats left of) an old GSXR engine?

[caduceus]

xm5er said:

Is that (whats left of) an old GSXR engine?

Does SOUND like the underpinnings of one does'nt it.

[humpbackmaniac]

Busa Engine surely?

And running on Notro Methane? What the hell is that?

[dinkel]

Nuts: to watch the vid . . . it's so fast . . . I like the part where the silence comes in. The last half is all black BTW

A bit strange to see TVR associated with dragracing and bikes . . .

[xm5er]

humpbackmaniac said:

Busa Engine surely? And running on Notro Methane? What the hell is that?

I didn't think the busa engine had cooling fins. The old GSX and GSXR engines are unbelievably strong as they a fecking sight heavier than busas.

[TooTall Paul]

I think it will be a Puma bottom end with a gsx head, 2.5g's aprox on launch. Depending on how much nitro you mix with the methanol governs how much horsepower you want to dial in.

[crankedup]

Its well documented that TVR were after Benelii but were rejected at the last minute. Meanwhile N.S. is a big bike fan and wants TVR to become a performance bike manufacturer alongside his car production. Live and hope

>> Edited by crankedup on Tuesday 17th January 11:48

[roop]

In a way this isn't surprising. TVR Power wasn't always a subsidiary of TVR Engineering - It was started as NCK (North Coventry Kawasaki) by Graham Nash. He built fast drag bikes like this. He then got into tuning the Rover V8 (Several RV8 based TVR engine parts have been imprinted with NCK over the years). NCK then became TVR Power and a subsidiary of TVR Engineering. Graham Nash exited shortly after and now TVR Power has been spun off from the factory IIRC...? It seems it's come full circle, but I will wager that there's an NCK legacy at TVR Power that's turned out this bike...

Roop

Edited to fix typos

>> Edited by roop on Tuesday 17th January 11:52

[HarryW]

As I understand it Dom at TVR Power is a bike nut so must be his hand in there. Funny thing is that Andy at APM has a drag bike and Ray at V8 developements has some serious sport bike normally. Perhaps there is something in working with TVR's that turns you to bikes (as opposed to dykes) . After all TVRs can be quick but bikes are mental

[Fire99]

And people think 500bhp in a Chim or Griff would be unmanageable!

Adrenaline rush of the year methinks!

[killer2005]

sweet zombie jesus

[victormeldrew]

dinkel said:

Nuts: to watch the vid . . . it's so fast . . . I like the part where the silence comes in. The last half is all black BTW A bit strange to see TVR associated with dragracing and bikes . . .

Not really, TVR Power was NCK Racing when I lived around the corner in Longford.

ooops, Roop beat me to it.

I use to be able to hear the bikes from my house - that was back when you could leave your windows open in the Foleshill Road without the house smelling like a Bombay curry house.

>> Edited by victormeldrew on Tuesday 17th January 14:37

[simon138]

gangstatom said:

0-60 in 0.7 sec's..... didn't think that was going to be possible for a good while! Thats gotta involve some serious g-force for the rider.

now, it's a LONG time since i did o'level physics but i think it would be as follows:-

60mph = (60 * 1609)/3600 = 26.8 m/sec
done in 0.7 secs so accel = 26.8/0.7 = 38.3 m/sec2
G is 9.81 m/sec2
so it's pulling 3.9G off the line !!!!

i guess you'd have to be glued on....