Talk:Dodge Tomahawk
Loving the car myself, the four wheels are entirely indepentdant of the other, mean that this is technically not a motorcycle. This (the independant wheel) is to aid turning and stability at high speeds, and the four wheels in the first place is to deal with the five hundred horsepower coming the from the 588 V10. :D im a huge viper fan. --Darkƒire Rules All!!! 21:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC) EDIT-No, the turning thing can't be officially verified, but many have said that it makes perfect sense, i won't put it in the article, im just answering peoples questions here.
The article claims that the 4-wheeled configuration is to aid turning.. can anyone verify this? All's I've read on the subject is that 4 wheels were necessary to deal with the power output of the engine. ZoFreX 15:31, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
It cannot be verified, it is the authors' POV. GrandfatherJoe (talk • contribs) 10:31, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- That's the laugh of the century. BTW did you mean me as the author who forced his POV here? +MATIA ☎ 10:33, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
From what i know, the wheels are on independent suspensions, allowing the wheels to slide by each other when the bike goes into a turn, allowing all four wheels to keep contact and allowing the bike to maintain a better grip through the turn.
- I had read too something like that, but I don't remember where. talk to +MATIA 08:54, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Correct.The Walkin Dude 16:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
The Official Dodge link is currently broken. --saritonin 00:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
I think it should be noted that the REAL WORLD top speed of this bike, so far is 35MPH, it has not been documented ever going any faster to my knowledge. A professional rider was driving the bike, in a showdown between it and the Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa(A 4 cylinder, 1300cc, 170HP engine). The driver of the Dodge Tomahawk only got to 35mph before he dropped the bike. It was completely useless. The Hayabusa was/is the worlds fastest production motorcycle. The Hayabusa is likely to remain the fastest because after the year 2000, ALL motorcycle companies reached an agreement to limit ALL motorcycles to 300KPH(Roughly 186MPH). The 1999 Hayabusa was clocked, dead stock at 200.2MPH in England. Because of the agreement, I don't think that speed will ever be broken by a stock bike, even though the current Kawasaki ZX-14 has more power, it is limited to 186 MPH in stock form, and there are still questions about it even reaching 200mph unrestricted due to wind resistance/aerodynamics.
Wikipedia prides itself on not printing opinions and fact checking, yet they tolerate this article saying that the bike has an estimated top speed of 300+ MPH. I could estimate my car goes 10,000 MPH, it can't, but you can't prove it can't and I am pretty sure I wouldn't be allowed to ype it on a page here at Wikipedia. I don;t think that just because Dodge said it, it should be put on the page, unless it can be proven. If anything, it has been proven it can-NOT go 300+ mph, nor did it prove it's 0-60 claim of 2.5 seconds, as it ONLY reached 35 mph before it became so unstable that it was dropped by a professional rider.
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