So true.!! Don’t forget the triple three Mach 500cc Kawasaki two stroke. The widow maker. This bike, and the CBX 1100, 6 cylinder Honda were my favourites in the late 70s, and still are.!! I had the Kawa 500. Always wanted the 1100 CBX, but never drove one.
I did not know some of those configs. Thank you for the education. I only ever had a 1 cylinder 2 stroke. Kawasaki AE80 but I loved it. Best 6 months of my life, March-October 1985.
I had only 2-stroke bikes, my favorit was the CZ 485/2, made in Czehoslovakia, single-cylinder 246 ccm, 18 hp, but it had much more torque than you expected. It was easy to ride, and it was reliable and economical. And, I think, it was beautyful. Twelve years ago, I had a big mistake: I married... you can imagine the consequences... :(
Judging by the characteristics it seems the triple is the best for street riding in terms of performance and sound. The MT-09 is a beast and sounds amazing.
Boxers give superb low down torque and excellent fuel consumption. One issue is they can be a bugger to start when very cold, as it takes a lot of 'juice' to crank them.
MT09 is flat plane so sounds poor considered to a 120 degree triple, a slightly sad fact as ive got 2 MT09s and miss the sound of my street triple on Zards.
wonderful content , i got boxer 2 cylinder on my BMW 1250 and 4 cylinder on my Honda cbx 750 café racer and i got 1 cylinder on my Honda super cup 125 and ktm450 is 2 cylinder and i found that the boxer engine is the most reliable :)
Best sounding motorcycle engines: 1 Cylinder V-Twin Straight 3 Inline 4 Flat Six V8 V10 But overall, I think the Inline 4 sounds the best followed by the Inline six.
You really need to cover crankshaft designs in any video covering engine configuration, at least when you’re playing engine sounds. 360°, 180°, and 270° crank inline-two cylinder engines all sound quite different.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a distinction between a boxer and a flat twin. Boxers move in and out in time and in relation to eachother, as you described. A flat twin has one cylinder doing the opposite of the other, ie one goes in while the other goes out.
I've only ever heard of the boxer in any motorcycle applications, or really any other than airplanes. Do you know of any motorcycles using the flat twin?
I own a 1973 BMW R75/5 that's a 745cc flat twin. The engine's pistons move in and out at the same time to balance their rotation. The faster one goes, the smoother the engine becomes. The VW Bug uses a 4 cylinder boxer engine where the two cylinders on each side have a piston at TDC and the other piston at the bottom of the stroke so resembles a boxer punching with a right then a left. Grew up with a neighbor that fell in love with BMW motorcycles and VW's while serving as a tank mechanic with the 3RD Army during WW2. They would find them intact and out of gas so painted them green, added a white star then put them to use. He said they ran exceptionally well and were simple to maintain. They tore down a VW Kubelwagen engine and were shocked to find that the crankshaft had no counterweights and just was a forged bar.
I’d pay good money to hear all these engines idling. One of my pet peeves is blipping the throttle. The recoding for the Gold Wing motor has gotta be a carbureted engine. My 2019 starts up and stays running perfectly, doesn’t sound like that at all. That being said, I wish there more videos like this on TH-cam, maybe I’d actually be on here more often. I love the animated pictures of cylinder movement.
My current bike is a 2001 st 1100 4 cyl vee four . Smooth as silk and great torque good 21 klm per litre and can pack a heap of torque to flatten any hill or highway at high speed without any stress on the bike or rider .Behaves very well though a bit heavy in traffic and low speeds
I think what you labelled an inline engine is actually called "A parallel twin". I've owned many Triumphs and BSA's , 650 cc parallel twins back in the 60's and 70's. And unlike your diagram for the inline twin, my parallel twins had both pistons rising and falling together, parallel as it were. The valve and ignition timing was different for each cylinder of course. This design was how they could keep the engine so narrow and did away with the need for a center bearing and journal. The parallel twins had only two bearings, one on each side of the crank. At present I have a Can Am Ryker 900 ACE. 3 cylinder inline, 82 hp and that 3 vibrates at idle so bad I can't see anything in the mirrors. Once above idle the vibration is gone.
Lets see... you missed the 4 cylinder boxer motor as used on the early gold wings and the Wankel engines as used by Suzuki and Hercules.. And if you are listing one off configurations such as Allan Millyards' V10, he also did a V12 and Simon Whitlock did a 48 Cylinder motorcycle.
I have a 2011 H-D XL883N 'Iron' and a 1980 Benelli 900 Sei, as you can imagine they are two very different motorcycles. Although the Harley has a rubber mounted engine it still vibrates as it rumbles. The Benelli on the other hand is silky smooth all through the rev range, it also handles considerably better than the Harley.
Beautiful video, but you forgot the Honda CB400 Vtec Super Four…VTEC is well known in Honda automobiles, being the company’s version of variable valve control. What’s less known is that Honda has its own version of VTEC for motorcycles. VTEC stands for Variable Valve Timing & Lift Electronic Control, which is Honda’s variable valve timing system. The result? Cleaner operation and higher fuel efficiency. According to Honda tests, Hyper VTEC engines produced lower emissions and higher output, with fuel efficiency improved by about 6.5 per cent
Wonderful survey! You did miss "dual pin crankshafts" of a few V-Twins that were exceedingly smooth in vibration. A 70 degree head angle could vibrate as little as a 90 degree head angle because there were two different crankshaft pins on one crankshaft that cancelled a lot of piston shake. I had the Honda PC-800 which was amazingly smooth, yet quite light for a "sport touring" full-fairing bike, and relatively inexpensive. My hands never went numb even on day long tours...........................elsullo
The term thumpers would normally only be attached from 500cc 4 stroke and up single-cylinder engines. You also didn't mention split singles commonly used by Puch. Straight twin engines are known as Parallel Twins unless the US is different. Most common having 360, 180, or 270-degree cranks In your description of V-Twins, you included Ducati and believe you are correct, the L-Twin term is a recent description. Rear cylinder cooling can be a problem with air-cooled bikes. You didn't mention the Square 4 engine used by Ariel. There may be more but hey!
Hello friend. You have forgotten the v four honda St 1300 Paneuropean. I own one here in Venezuela. I did not whatch that engine in your video. Very good video yours
Jawa produced a single cylinder engine that had two pistons. that shared a special connecting rod. the second piston was for valving. BSA also made single cylinder 500cc engines. Triumph has a different firing order then other inline twins. Suzuki made the Virago that was a V twin. Kawasaki also made inline triple cylinder two stroke engines. and Yamaha made twin cylinder two stroke engines. Honda also made 350cc, 450cc, 550cc, inline four cylinder engines. and Honda also produced the most inline four cylinder engines. and they produced the most reliable fours. Kawasaki also produced inline four cylinder engines. in the KZ 650cc and 900cc and 1000cc bikes.
Why no mention of the Ariel Square 4? A four cylinder, square arrangement, Brit bike with a long production history. Overall a great video, really enjoyed viewing it. Thank you!
Or even drum roll enter stage left ...The Megola must be on the "cat dad" step with the parallel twins behind the Bmw "INLINE" bricks unlike all the Universal TRANSVERSE Japanese Motorcycles ...make one think the "cat dad" voice over dude not a "tire" with a Y dude who thinks across the frame is inline ....Bless
Don't forget Suzuki's Square four and stepped square four two strokes or Honda's 2 different types of V3 two stroke for the road and Grand Prix racing. Also in the Sammy Millar Museum in England, there is a 3 cylinder radial engined bike or recently the Wonderful Allen Millyard with his 4 and 5 cylinder 2 strokes and many more.
I didn’t see the bike I had in the late 70. The “widow maker”. It was a triple three, 750cc, two stroke monster from Kawasaki. The sound of that thing when you drove it slow in traffic…..my gosh.!
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3:50 180degrees between cilinders in not V engine, but an Opposite one
i like how 6 seconds into he says single cylinder and ignores that bike being a vtwin
It only got worse from there, like the RE single cylinder twin can be showed for the twin cylinder sound because it has two exhausts
Does he cover diesel and rotary?
He said primarily so basically the v twin is two single cylinders.
Did you just assume that Bike's identity? What if it doesn't identifies as a Harley?
The sound of the h2 with turned off super charger was epic
Great video!!
I’m 66 years old now, and I remember almost all of those bikes very well.
And the sound were absolutely great.
Thanks a lot!!
thank you for the video, did u know about the upside-down engines? such as the one used on nembo motociclette 32? awesome video!
Yes I did, I thought it should be mentioned as a separate video
Great to see that our enfeild is featured here
Enfield, ... no show and no go!
Thanks for this video....
Man the sound from 6 cylinder engine from Honda CBX are just beautiful....
So true.!! Don’t forget the triple three Mach 500cc Kawasaki two stroke. The widow maker. This bike, and the CBX 1100, 6 cylinder Honda were my favourites in the late 70s, and still are.!! I had the Kawa 500. Always wanted the 1100 CBX, but never drove one.
Never stop making these. You’re awesome thank you.
This channel is absolutely amazing! Congratulations!
Thank you very much!
I have to appreciate your research my friend. Keep it up and make us we'll informed as well. 😀
All the best 💐
Thanks a ton
I did not know some of those configs. Thank you for the education. I only ever had a 1 cylinder 2 stroke. Kawasaki AE80 but I loved it. Best 6 months of my life, March-October 1985.
I had only 2-stroke bikes, my favorit was the CZ 485/2, made in Czehoslovakia, single-cylinder 246 ccm, 18 hp, but it had much more torque than you expected. It was easy to ride, and it was reliable and economical. And, I think, it was beautyful. Twelve years ago, I had a big mistake: I married... you can imagine the consequences... :(
Never too late to come back. :)
As far as jokes go, this one belongs in the really, really nasty category!😂😂😂
Talk about being ungrateful for your blessings
CZs are legendary. Mythical. They practically owned the early 70s.
I didn't see any mention of rotary engines, like the Suziki RE-8 had. There was a Hercules rotary too.
And Norton too. And no mention of twingles, one cylindered engines with 2 pistons…
You forget the RE-5
Rotary engines don't have cylinders.
Suzuki Re5 not 8
Judging by the characteristics it seems the triple is the best for street riding in terms of performance and sound. The MT-09 is a beast and sounds amazing.
Boxers give superb low down torque and excellent fuel consumption. One issue is they can be a bugger to start when very cold, as it takes a lot of 'juice' to crank them.
the zx25r is best sounding bike ever
@@IntoTheDepths444no
MT09 is flat plane so sounds poor considered to a 120 degree triple, a slightly sad fact as ive got 2 MT09s and miss the sound of my street triple on Zards.
@@theravedaddytriumph does a T plane on their triple
I went from the most common inline-4, through single, twin, boxer, ending up with a triple now. Great mix of everything.
Thankyou.
Five star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
Fast good video.
Second good example.
3rd for hard work.
4th for animation.
5th for me.😊
Nice video. Too bad you skipped the flat, or horizontally opposed, 4 cylinder. Very common engine in 1970’s and 1980’s Honda GL1000, 1100 & 1200.
thats a wonderful piece of knowledge
Thanks for watching
Wow! Fantastic. Inow understood my thumper more. 2020 Royal Enfield 500 Classic Chrome nee Bullet.
Before 3 months I have watched this video and again I Love to watch it again and again... 🥰
Thanks this video. .
What a great explaination on bike engines ❤️ and that bike sounds make this video more useful to understand the engines 🙌🏻
Thanks ✌️
Excellent 👌
Very in-depth information provided... thanks 🙏
Excellent technical explanations. Thank you. 👍
Honda motorcycle department have built every configuration of engine available, on and off the track
with outrages redlines of over 20,000 rpm
square 4? boxer twin?
I know more cylinder engine sounds amazing and smooth but i really like Parallel Twins sounds, they sounds awesome
The Engineers Post : YOU ARE AWESOME. Greetings from a Brazilian subscriiber.
Hey, thanks!
Hi. Thanks. Interesting and valuable film.
Wow thx for the information, as u mentioned u must know about these engines
Trust me my life was a dud without this knowledge
Thank you for making this and also for the excellent explanation of what and why these engines are. Very good,
Nice explanation. I understood a lot on bike engineering.
Masterpiece video🎉🎉🎉🎉 thanks
great mix everything god bless!
wonderful content , i got boxer 2 cylinder on my BMW 1250 and 4 cylinder on my Honda cbx 750 café racer and i got 1 cylinder on my Honda super cup 125 and ktm450 is 2 cylinder and i found that the boxer engine is the most reliable :)
Engine sounds that you added is unique
Thanks for the video I have single cylinder engine on my bike economy easy to repair cheap spare parts it's great
Best sounding motorcycle engines:
1 Cylinder
V-Twin
Straight 3
Inline 4
Flat Six
V8
V10
But overall, I think the Inline 4 sounds the best followed by the Inline six.
bsme: harley shovelhead idling; almost any 6 revving; big bore or two-stroke multis revving.
Good knowledge of all engines
Great ....👍 I have single cylinder Yamaha Fz
thankyou great content ❤
You really need to cover crankshaft designs in any video covering engine configuration, at least when you’re playing engine sounds. 360°, 180°, and 270° crank inline-two cylinder engines all sound quite different.
And talk about the Yamaha CP4 engine, which I have in my MT10.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a distinction between a boxer and a flat twin.
Boxers move in and out in time and in relation to eachother, as you described. A flat twin has one cylinder doing the opposite of the other, ie one goes in while the other goes out.
I've only ever heard of the boxer in any motorcycle applications, or really any other than airplanes. Do you know of any motorcycles using the flat twin?
What would be the point of such a configuration? It would be horribly unbalanced. I doubt that such a configuration would be used anywhere.
same thing, boxer and flat twin. They have to move in opposite directions (same point in the combustion cycle).
I own a 1973 BMW R75/5 that's a 745cc flat twin. The engine's pistons move in and out at the same time to balance their rotation. The faster one goes, the smoother the engine becomes.
The VW Bug uses a 4 cylinder boxer engine where the two cylinders on each side have a piston at TDC and the other piston at the bottom of the stroke so resembles a boxer punching with a right then a left.
Grew up with a neighbor that fell in love with BMW motorcycles and VW's while serving as a tank mechanic with the 3RD Army during WW2. They would find them intact and out of gas so painted them green, added a white star then put them to use. He said they ran exceptionally well and were simple to maintain. They tore down a VW Kubelwagen engine and were shocked to find that the crankshaft had no counterweights and just was a forged bar.
@@rogercohn I hope you're kidding. A boxer CAN have two cylinders firing at the same time.
A flat twin? It's a physical impossibility.
Really interesting video very nicely done like the sounds added too.
Amazing bro
More knowledge in this video ,super keep it up....
I’d pay good money to hear all these engines idling. One of my pet peeves is blipping the throttle.
The recoding for the Gold Wing motor has gotta be a carbureted engine. My 2019 starts up and stays running perfectly, doesn’t sound like that at all.
That being said, I wish there more videos like this on TH-cam, maybe I’d actually be on here more often. I love the animated pictures of cylinder movement.
I had a motorcycle that had to have its throttle blipped when stopped to keep it from stalling. I was self-conscious about it, but had to do it.
Thanks
My current bike is a 2001 st 1100 4 cyl vee four . Smooth as silk and great torque good 21 klm per litre and can pack a heap of torque to flatten any hill or highway at high speed without any stress on the bike or rider .Behaves very well though a bit heavy in traffic and low speeds
Thanks for your knowledge
Very interesting and informative 👌👌👌
I have a Suzuki Bandit 600N, I love this motorcycle
I think what you labelled an inline engine is actually called "A parallel twin". I've owned many Triumphs and BSA's , 650 cc parallel twins back in the 60's and 70's. And unlike your diagram for the inline twin, my parallel twins had both pistons rising and falling together, parallel as it were. The valve and ignition timing was different for each cylinder of course. This design was how they could keep the engine so narrow and did away with the need for a center bearing and journal. The parallel twins had only two bearings, one on each side of the crank. At present I have a Can Am Ryker 900 ACE. 3 cylinder inline, 82 hp and that 3 vibrates at idle so bad I can't see anything in the mirrors. Once above idle the vibration is gone.
They’re both called parallel twins they just have a different crankshaft design
superb explanation. wonderful.
Its very excellent video sir tq sir
Many thanks Sir.
Very very informative video
Mono < v2 < v3 < v4 < 3inline < w3 < flat6, great thanks
Very good informative video
Lets see... you missed the 4 cylinder boxer motor as used on the early gold wings and the Wankel engines as used by Suzuki and Hercules.. And if you are listing one off configurations such as Allan Millyards' V10, he also did a V12 and Simon Whitlock did a 48 Cylinder motorcycle.
And the RG500 square four.
Rotary engines don't have cylinders.
@@musicauthority5635 It doesn't say anywhere in this very post that rotary engines have cylinders.
Thanks💖😍
You're welcome 😊
@@TheEngineersPost i naver seen an chanel like yours i am learning mechanical enginioring 😇
In-Line Four Engine Is My Dream ❤
Nice video, Suzi 03, 800cc V2, Intruder Velosia
Nd believe me you are awesome narrator and presenter. Enjoyed
I have to say that the Honda gold wing flat 6 sounds SWEET!!!
Thank you so much
Nice informative video.
Amazing research done here. I had the Yamaha XS 750E, in 1976, great bike toured around here Australia
I don't know why but "inline 4 Cylinders" are just 🔥🔥💯
Great video. Love the cbx sound. I have a boss hoss with a 383 cu in motor. Because... you know... why the heck not?
Inline 5 sounds awesome 😎😎.
Very charismatic
Great vid! I never knew the V3, W3, V5 and Viper V10 bikes existed, interesting
I have a 2011 H-D XL883N 'Iron' and a 1980 Benelli 900 Sei, as you can imagine they are two very different motorcycles. Although the Harley has a rubber mounted engine it still vibrates as it rumbles. The Benelli on the other hand is silky smooth all through the rev range, it also handles considerably better than the Harley.
Thanks ❤
The most I can get is the 4 stroke 4 cylinder 250cc ZX25R. A really nice and fun bike to ride
Great video.
I have an in line 4.
V4s are the best for motorcycles and best sound as well.
Yes
2018 Goldwing 7 speed DCT, best touring bike ever.
Surprised you didn't mention the ST1300 V4 Honda, very smooth.
Good info.
I love the Honda CBX sound when in high revs.
I do have a Hayabusa 2002 and a Boulevard m109r 2018.
Very nice information. Regards from bhupinder singh east punjab.
Beautiful video, but you forgot the Honda CB400 Vtec Super Four…VTEC is well known in Honda automobiles, being the company’s version of variable valve control. What’s less known is that Honda has its own version of VTEC for motorcycles. VTEC stands for Variable Valve Timing & Lift Electronic Control, which is Honda’s variable valve timing system. The result? Cleaner operation and higher fuel efficiency. According to Honda tests, Hyper VTEC engines produced lower emissions and higher output, with fuel efficiency improved by about 6.5 per cent
Wonderful survey! You did miss "dual pin crankshafts" of a few V-Twins that were exceedingly smooth in vibration. A 70 degree head angle could vibrate as little as a 90 degree head angle because there were two different crankshaft pins on one crankshaft that cancelled a lot of piston shake. I had the Honda PC-800 which was amazingly smooth, yet quite light for a "sport touring" full-fairing bike, and relatively inexpensive. My hands never went numb even on day long tours...........................elsullo
I have a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 and I love it.
Very good sir ❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👌👌👌👌👌👌👌super sir 😊😊
Thanks! I know that my bike has twin but never knew what it means.
Great video, I own an Rc51
Love in line 4s smooth powerful and nice sound with a Les restricted pipe
David you beat me to it I was going to say the same thing. I use to work on them and boy did they have top end.
19:05 Imagine going 136MPH in 1907 on that homemade Curtis V8! Especially on those tires and the tracks back then.
The term thumpers would normally only be attached from 500cc 4 stroke and up single-cylinder engines. You also didn't mention split singles commonly used by Puch.
Straight twin engines are known as Parallel Twins unless the US is different. Most common having 360, 180, or 270-degree cranks
In your description of V-Twins, you included Ducati and believe you are correct, the L-Twin term is a recent description. Rear cylinder cooling can be a problem with air-cooled bikes.
You didn't mention the Square 4 engine used by Ariel.
There may be more but hey!
Hello friend. You have forgotten the v four honda St 1300 Paneuropean. I own one here in Venezuela. I did not whatch that engine in your video. Very good video yours
I have:
- 2001 BMW R1100RL (boxer)
- 1937 BMW R20 (single cylinder, 200cc )
- 1925 Wurttembergia (198cc, single cylinder )
You forgot to mention the rotary and turbine engines, 2 of the most exciting motorcycle engines in my opinion
Jawa produced a single cylinder engine that had two pistons. that shared a special connecting rod. the second piston was for valving. BSA also made single cylinder 500cc engines. Triumph has a different firing order then other inline twins. Suzuki made the Virago that was a V twin. Kawasaki also made inline triple cylinder two stroke engines. and Yamaha made twin cylinder two stroke engines. Honda also made 350cc, 450cc, 550cc, inline four cylinder engines. and Honda also produced the most inline four cylinder engines. and they produced the most reliable fours. Kawasaki also produced inline four cylinder engines. in the KZ 650cc and 900cc and 1000cc bikes.
NSU made a 250 single that used a second cylinder to push the air/fuel mixture into it. Think they called it a 250 compressor engine.
"V-twin engines have good balance" hmmm I don't think so, my dad's older 99 Harley 1200 shook like a shivering hairless cat
very good
Nothing sounds more beautiful than a 6 cylinder motorcycle
Why no mention of the Ariel Square 4? A four cylinder, square arrangement, Brit bike with a long production history. Overall a great video, really enjoyed viewing it. Thank you!
Or even drum roll enter stage left ...The Megola must be on the "cat dad" step with the parallel twins behind the Bmw "INLINE" bricks unlike all the Universal TRANSVERSE Japanese Motorcycles ...make one think the "cat dad" voice over dude not a "tire" with a Y dude who thinks across the frame is inline ....Bless
Don't forget Suzuki's Square four and stepped square four two strokes or Honda's 2 different types of V3 two stroke for the road and Grand Prix racing. Also in the Sammy Millar Museum in England, there is a 3 cylinder radial engined bike or recently the Wonderful Allen Millyard with his 4 and 5 cylinder 2 strokes and many more.
You missd the rotary engine nice vid anyway good job
Rotary engines don't have cylinders.
I love Honda CBX sound. 6 cylinders and great.
I own a 500 bullet 🥰, had a inline 4 benelli, now will be getting a 650 parallel twin🥰🥰🥰🥰
I didn’t see the bike I had in the late 70. The “widow maker”. It was a triple three, 750cc, two stroke monster from Kawasaki. The sound of that thing when you drove it slow in traffic…..my gosh.!
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