Are You Brave Enough to Ride a 300 Horsepower Turb...

I have been lucky to trip a whole lot of very quick, very sketchy machines. From turbocharged two-stroke backcountry snowmobiles, to superbikes with over 200 horsepower, and all the pieces in between, pace and horsepower do not often section me. I as soon as drove a Bugatti Chiron and allegedly noticed 186 mph in lower than a mile. 

However there’s one thing about once you simply throw gobs of horsepower into a comparatively light-weight bike that terrifies even me, a lover of lunacy. And that is the sensation I bought once I first noticed the Langen LS12 Lightspeed Turbo, a liter bike with a turbocharger and a whopping 300 horsepower. 

Oh yeah, did I point out it is a bare bike? Trigger it’s.

Good lord. 

First reported on by our associates over at Visordown, Langen is a small motorcycling firm out of Ashton-in-Makerfield in the UK, and has produced a collection of small-batch bikes for plenty of years. This bike, nevertheless, is aimed toward producing a monstrosity of epic proportions. 

In keeping with Langen, the LS12 Lightspeed Turbo can be centered round a turbocharged Rotax engine producing 300 horsepower in “full energy” mode, although a extra bodily-friendly “street mode” will supply riders solely 250 horsepower. For reference, the present KTM 1390 Evo produces 190 and may barely maintain its entrance wheel on the pavement. 

Picture by: Langen Bikes

The bodywork of the bike will use carbon fiber, with aluminum and metal elsewhere within the chassis. Stopping all these rampaging horses is claimed to be a set of HEL Efficiency calipers with 320mm discs, whereas Ohlins-sourced suspension helps to maintain all the pieces rubber-side down. What’s extra, the corporate is trying to begin testing this hellion fairly quickly, with dyno work already accomplished, and real-world testing on the nation’s famed Santa Pod Raceway occurring later this yr. 

“Now we have now entered a major milestone yr the place we’re prepared to maneuver the corporate to the following stage,” mentioned Christofer Ratcliffe, Langen Bikes’ founder, including, “The following step up for Langen means rising manufacturing with our second mannequin—the Lightspeed—together with getting into new markets outdoors of the UK.”