Patent ID: 8857552

Claim:
A motorcycle having a frame assembly; a front wheel suspended from a fore section of the frame, a rear wheel suspended from the aft section of the frame, an internal combustion engine with cylinders in a V-type arrangement with a front cylinder and a rear cylinder including a crankshaft with the centerline axis in the lateral direction of said motorcycle, in which the engine is generally positioned between the wheels, said engine having at least one induction port and at least one exhaust port, a turbocharger system comprising: a turbocharger positioned fore of the front cylinder, aft of the front wheel, and below the front cylinder exhaust port; said turbocharger having a compressor with ambient air inlet and compressed air outlet, said turbocharger also having a turbine stage with intake and exhaust ports; an induction system which couples said compressed air outlet to said at least one engine induction port; an exhaust pipe configuration which couples said at least one engine exhaust port to said turbocharger turbine intake port; wherein said exhaust pipes are routed such that the rear exhaust pipe exits the rear cylinder exhaust port, then bends laterally and towards the front of the motorcycle and follows a horizontal plane along either the lateral left side of said V-type engine cylinders or the lateral right side of said V-type engine cylinders; then merges into a two-into-one collector before entering the turbocharger.