Written by Martin Hodgson
It’s the most powerful production motorcycle ever produced, nothing else even comes close, but this missile on two-wheels is more than just the sum of its parts. The brainchild of Australian race engineer Paul Maloney, who spent two decades in the paddocks of the world’s premier racing categories, the PGMV8 is the ultimate street bike he came back to the Victorian bush to build. The carbon bodied, road-legal machine is a mechanical masterpiece, packing 334hp from its signature 2.0l V8. So to get the inside word, Pipeburn spent considerable time over the last six months getting to know the man and his machine.

From Sir Jack Brabham winning the Formula One championship in his own car, to Jeremy Burgess guiding riders to fourteen Motorcycle GP championships, Australian’s have been a dominant force in global motorsport. But the ever modest Maloney started his adventure in equally humble beginnings, in the BSB paddock doing all the dirty work to get a gig. He quickly rose through the ranks, first as a race engineer with the dominant Loctite Yamaha squad, before heading to the continent. There he had success in national and world superbike championships, before stints at Sauber Petronas F1 and Eckl’s Kawasaki, building and developing their MotoGP engine programs.
But for years Maloney dreamed of building his own motorcycle and I first wanted to know why a V8" ?It’s the Aussie thing isn’t it?, he laughs. ?IR...