A truly unique chopper...

[benVFR]

No Cookie-cutter V-twin here!



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[beet]

I bet it can fly

[bump909]

i've seen that before somewhere.. totally badass.

[Tabby]

I wonder what the torque reaction would feel like on that beast?
Make a Guzzi seem limp wristed.

[ab420]

WOW! That thing is freaking crazy!LOL!

[HBerry]

What is it?

[bump909]

it's a motorcycle with a radial engine. need help with anything else?

[HBerry]

Originally posted by bump909
it's a motorcycle with a radial engine. need help with anything else?

Is it more betterer than an inline engine? What about one of them rotarty engines?

[OreoGaborio]

that's 1/2 assed... 7 cylinders are for pusses... i woulda gotten the 9 cylinder radial

[HBerry]

Originally posted by OreoGaborio
that's 1/2 assed... 7 cylinders are for pusses... i woulda gotten the 9 cylinder rotary

It isnt a rotary engine jackass!

[OreoGaborio]

i know, i corrected myself but u know what i meant

[HBerry]

[OreoGaborio]

with that said, you can have more than one rotor in a rotary (Wankel) engine.... and that's cool too

[benVFR]

The original rotaries did look like this... the whole engine spun around the crank inside the plane. Those were the ones that were a bitch to fly supposedly... no way that would work on a MC!

[benVFR]

Never mind.... found one.

A non-wankel rotary piston engine motorcycle:





Piston Rotary



Wankel Rotary

[OreoGaborio]

Originally posted by benVFR
The original rotaries did look like this... the whole engine spun around the crank inside the plane. Those were the ones that were a bitch to fly supposedly

Sopwith Camel for one, the most successful fighter plane of World War I

[Stoneman]

Originally posted by OreoGaborio
Sopwith Camel for one, the most successful fighter plane of World War I

Damn skippy! Snoopy even flew one to many victories...

[benVFR]

With Further snooping I found a reference in Wikipedia that someone DID built an actual "piston rotary" motorcycle with the engine rotating inside the frame, and also a BMW boxer style "rotary" that rotated inside the frame.

Didn't find any pics though.

[x2468]

wouldn't want to hit a speed bump eh.

[OreoGaborio]

Originally posted by Stoneman
Damn skippy! Snoopy even flew one to many victories...

[sanfelice]

A what? A Wanker engine? wouldn't be caught dead with one of those.

[ancosta]

Frame sliders are built into the engine