Ah, the good british compromise... ;D
Lovely bikes though!!!! 8-)
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Ah, the good british compromise... ;D
Lovely bikes though!!!! 8-)
Triples...
One long crank with three pedals, lefthand, righthand & centre - a near PERFECT comprimise between the revvy four-cylinder engines with little bottom end grunt but good powerful top-end & the twins with good bottom-end but no top-end rev-out.
(Would this bicycle configuration need a three-legged man to ride it? How would he sit on the saddle? Not sure... Am on 12-hour nightshift's this week so just be glad this stays coherent & I dont go wibbling on about treefrogs.)
Think of a four cylinder bike engine as a petrol car engine & a twin as a diesel car engine and you wont go far wrong!
Triples are nicely balanced due to their layout - less moving parts too! Tend to be narrower than a Four (only three cylinders so can be bunched up more) so give a smaller & lighter bike. :)
Singles... Simplicity being the key here - nice and easy to work on, just one of everything so easy to troubleshoot. The bigger singles can be a pig to start, especially anything British or a hot engine, four-stroke singles will only fire every other crank rotation so trying to get a good swing on the kickstart when it is at its best place in this cycle takes a lot of practice (swearing, broken ankles, broken boots, broken kickstarts, swearing)
Thankfully modern technology has given us electric starters for the bigger singles and they can make excellent road bikes if you arnt in too much of a hurry? One big piston making BIG fat thumps of power almost from tickover??!
THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP THUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMPTHUMP :D
I heard a giant cruiser (HD?) outside GW last time I was there start up in that exact pattern of thumps.
One long crank with three pedals, lefthand, righthand & centre - a near PERFECT comprimise between the revvy four-cylinder engines with little bottom end grunt but good powerful top-end & the twins with good bottom-end but no top-end rev-out.
My Yamaha TDM850 is a twin and that will rev out,The red line is at 8K but it does have a 270 crank rather than a 360.
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Originally Posted by 470four
If you want fun to start, try a Velocette.... with the low ratio kick start, they can be an utter pig!! But for all the convinience of electric start, there is somthing satifying about kicking a bike into life!!!
Anyhow, my old dream would rev out at 10.5k... 360 crank with balancers. As smooth as!!!
hahaha, please come and tell that to my WR250f ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by 470four
thats a single cylinder 250 with FECK ALL torque and 11,000 redline with all the power in the top 2000 revs ;-)
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hahaha, please come and tell that to my WR250f ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by jonnydangerous
thats a single cylinder 250 with FECK ALL torque and 11,000 redline with all the power in the top 2000 revs ;-)
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I suggest you get it serviced/rebored then :D
Joking! The little singles will never be stump-pullers, hence bigger bikes are avaliable... ;)
Honda's CBR250RR redlines at 19,000RPM - and as such remains a much wanted bike for my Fantasy Garage Of Joy. :) :) :)
Imagain the abuse factor... they sound like F1 cars...