Author Topic: Radial engine Motorcycle nyone ?  (Read 703 times)

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Re: Radial engine Motorcycle nyone ?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2016, 09:07:38 PM »
 This reminds me of the V-8 chainsaw.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-kyap7IAE
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Re: Radial engine Motorcycle nyone ?
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2016, 07:11:47 PM »
Kind of interesting to say the least.  But I can't think that the big radial can stay cool for very long unless you are running right down the highway with it.
Perhaps another more vintage solution would be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6xX0zSvp7w  Think ROTARY!

which had already been done on an Automobile!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZmd7k33JWE

I wonder what would happen if the gyroscopic forces of a rotary engine were applied in a motorcycle frame?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCHck1s-rA