The 10-cylinder, 500-hp motorcycle, the brutal Millyard Viper V10

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In the motorcycle world there is only one man who has been able to create a lot of incredible handcrafted bikes, like this Millyard Viper V10…

The father of this bestial creature is a well-known British engineer, Allen Millyard, who has been dedicated to creating impossible motorcycles for several decades.

Millyard’s career as a builder of different handcrafted motorcycles began by transforming the already beastly three-cylinder Kawasaki 2-stroke engines of the seventies into 5-cylinder motorcycles.

Just imagine a brutal 750 cc two-stroke transformed into a 1,250 cc five-cylinder…

Later he decided to transform the legendary KZ four-cylinder 4-stroke cycle bikes into V8s, yes, V8s, by coupling two KZ engines…

It started with a V8 based on the Z1000 and continued with an incredible V12 using two cylinder blocks from the Z1300, a shaft drive naked six-cylinder engine.

The Millyard Viper V10 has an 8,000cc Dodge Viper heart and is capable of 200 mph.

But of course, they were motorcycle engines so he decided it was time to switch to cars, a decision he made after seeing a Dodge Tomahawk evolve at the 2003 Goodwood Festival.

After seeing it, he thought that he could create a real motorcycle with the same engine… The next thing was to buy an old V10 engine from a Dodge Viper with 8,000 cc and 500 hp on Ebay. And so it all began in 2007.

Millyard Viper V10 Photo
This 8,000 cc and 500 hp V10 is a one off, there is only one in the world.

The bike was built around the V10 engine, so the chassis and bodywork were obviously bespoke, as was the massive single-sided swingarm.

The rear and front wheels would be 20 and 18 inches, due to the great height of the engine, so that the whole would be balanced.

The suspensions also had to be custom-made since the entire bike would weigh more than 600 kg… A thick inverted fork and a pair of inclined and raised rear monoshock absorbers working as a Cantilever system, on the monolithic single-sided swingarm.

To create it, he was inspired by the gigantic Dodge Tomahawk

To brake, it would use only a self-ventilated front brake disc bitten by a pair of four-piston brake calipers from the British brand Pretech, plus a rear disc.

Two years later, in 2009, the bike was ready to roll, an incredible feat for an engineer working out of his garage at home…

The set is really huge -and impractical-, since the V10 engine occupies the entire bike and is responsible for its tremendous wheelbase. Even the pilot is very far back and far from the handlebars. By the way, the transmission is by chain and the gearbox has a single relationship.

Millyard V10 Action Photo
Yes, Millyard continues to use it regularly, with consumption of 19 liters per 100 km…

Incredible as it may seem, Millyard managed to homologate and register it for road use and continues to use it today. Of course, with consumption of 19 liters per 100 km…

Its maximum speed is 322 km/h, but Millyard believes that it could reach 400 km/h with a new development and the necessary conditions for it.

In any case, it is an incredible engineering exercise, a dream of a man that seems to have no limits. What will be his next project?

You can follow him on his Instagram account.

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