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The MTT Y2K Turbine Motorcycle, also known as the Y2K Turbine Superbike, is an American motorcycle powered by a turboshaft engine, made by Marine Turbine Technologies since 2000. The bikes are not mass-produced in continuous series; each unique bike is hand made to order after receiving the buyer's specifications. [1]
The Model 250 powers a large number of helicopters, small aircraft and even a motorcycle (MTT Turbine Superbike). [2] As a result, nearly 30,000 Model 250 engines have been produced, of which approximately 16,000 remain in service, making the Model 250 one of the highest-selling engines made by Rolls-Royce.
The company develops, designs and produces high performance turbines for primarily for marine applications, boats and fire-suppression pumps. It gained fame and became noted for developing and building what may be the most powerful and fastest street-legal motorcycle in the world, the turboshaft-powered MTT Y2K Turbine Superbike.
A transverse engine is an engine mounted in a vehicle so that the engine's crankshaft axis is perpendicular to the direction of travel. In a longitudinal engine configuration, the engine's crankshaft axis is parallel with the direction of travel. However, the description of the orientation of "V" and "flat" motorcycle engines differs from this ...
The MTT Turbine Superbike appeared in 2000 (hence the designation of Y2K Superbike by MTT) and is the first production motorcycle powered by a turbine engine – specifically, a Rolls-Royce Allison model 250 turboshaft engine, producing about 283 kW (380 bhp). Speed-tested to 365 km/h or 227 mph (according to some stories, the testing team ran ...
The following is a list of motorcycle manufacturers worldwide, sorted by extant/extinct status and by country. These are producers whose motorcycles are available to the public, including both street legal as well as racetrack-only or off-road-only motorcycles.
MTT Turbine Superbike This page was last edited on 26 July 2021, at 07:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Engine Displacement Power Top speed Image Notes Kawasaki Ninja H2R: 2015–present Inline 4 998 cc (60.9 cu in) [citation needed] [35] 310 / 326 hp (231 / 243 kW) (without/with ram air) [citation needed] 250 mph (400 km/h) [citation needed] Excluded as the record-beating H2R variant is track-only and not street-legal.