I owned a 1979 Honda CBX for 14 years. It was a fantastic bike with the best sound a motorcycle has ever made if you had the 6-into-1 exhaust system, which I did. There have been other 6 cylinder bikes since but the CBX was the only one designed as a high performance machine. The others have been designed as cruisers or touring bikes.
You also can't forget about the Kawasaki KZ1300. It was also an inline 6 and actually made 120 HP just one year after the CBX was released. It also lasted 10 years in production.
I had the 1980, first year KZ1300A. It had a black Windjammer fairing. It was a nice-riding and powerful machine, except short-legged me had to left-foot, right-foot it at stops.
I owned a GTS1000 for around 4 years. It was a fantastic long-distance mile-muncher, and a fun scratcher in the twisties. Super comfortable, quick, and the handling was was absolutely rock solid. The down side was the fact that there was absolutely ZERO feedback through the bars. Pushing it too hard into corners came with the risk that there would be no forewarning of any loss of grip. I certainly never regretted buying it though.
I rode one very soon after it came out on PCH 1 (I was 20 years old, ran into another rider randomly while on my CBR600, he insisted I ride the bike he had bought that week) and it was glorious. Many years later I bought what I consider the spiritual successor to it...the BMW K1200R which had the tele lever front suspension. While I do respect alternative front suspension, my last bike had massive upside down front forks and impossibly large Brembo brakes, while being 150 pounds lighter and making 50 more HP. Technology marches on.
Someone rode this thing in the IoM TT and finished pretty respectably so it wasn’t all bad. I think the main problem was the price which was over £10k which was pretty steep when a similar bike was about £8k.
One major problem was the wheel size. With a smaller 120mm test had shown much better handling. But Yamaha unfortunately didn't change. The bike was one of the best tourers build at that time.
Ide love a Honda nsr 500 there price is ungodly tho so I'll stick to racing around on my lil 2005 gsxr 600 might even slap a 750cc or 1000cc engine in it for lols since I'm rebuilding it anyway
As a proud owner of a Honda CX500 Turbo i can tell you that it's definetly a fail if you're a reasonable human beeing. If you like rare, pointless and crazy cool bikes from the 80s like me, it's the best fail there ever was and i would buy one again no doubt. Greetings from Austria (Arnold Schwarzenegger, not Kangoroos)
excluding race engines, we have the cbx1000, Benelli 750 sei, the Benelli 900 sei, the Bmw k1600, the honda goldwing and valkyrie, the kawasaki z1300.. Horex did a V6, as did Laverda (although I have no idea if that was mass produced, I suspect not..) there are more six pots than you realise.
I owned a GTS1000 (no abs) and it was a great bike. I think I bought it in early 1995 second hand and sold it end of 1997. Drove to work every day even in winter and went with it on holiday from the Netherlands to Poland, many road trips sometimes with 2. For me. a perfect bike. Some flaws, it was quite heavy, and 5 speed not 6. I have to say it was tuned slightly when I bought it, and on the dyno it had 100 din ps on the rear wheel. It was electronically limited at 240 km/h, which it quickly reached also with 2 people on the bike, and it could easily hold that speed for over an hour. (But then needed a refuel). Great bike. Commercially not a succes.
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Here's a winner for you. The first ever production front disk brake was introduced in 1962 on the Lambretta TV175. My favorite innovation that has never to my knowledge been copied is on my Benelli 900 Tre. It has the radiator behind the seat rather than at the front of the bike, enabling the engine to be mounted further forward putting more weight over the front wheel, and also reducing the width of the bike so the front end was more streamlined. Brilliant idea with the cooling fans behind the seat blowing out hot air, which is also great for warming your hands on frosty days.
in 93, I took the Yamaha GTS1000 for a test through Yellowstone National Park. The motor was amazing, and the power delivery was spot on. Grabbing a handful of front brake at 90mph, 2-up and zero headbang! Tight turning in small areas at slow speeds was the weakness.
The Norton rotary was reasonably successful, many Police forces in England used them and they had great success in racing. A 'winner', literally but ultimately a commercial 'fail'. The general rider just didn't want them. You must also consider the Van Veen rotary engined bike. A brave attempt but not to my taste. DKW also made a foray into the world of rotary powered motorcycles. Along with the RE5, a whole video in itself I reckon! Love the videos. I sometimes have to re-wind because you talk so fast, I hope you're not a robot. Love and peace.
Do another Scooter video soon with scooters like the Zuma, or maxi scooters even. For $1000 a Zuma 125 and similar scooters are a good buy lol Or maybe do a similar video to Motorcycle Magazine and take the small scooters ADV riding, but maybe try with a 2stroke or 125cc+. It’s cool to see what they are capable of and there aren’t many videos.
A bigger fail than the Suzuki RE5 was the Hercules Wankel 2000. An air-cooled rotary, which ran on oil/gas mixture, with a blower in front that gave it the nickname "the vacuum cleaner"
I got a chance to ride a CBX back in the 70's. I expected to be on a rocketship. It wasn't near as fast as I expected. Maybe it was my exoeriences with a couple of H1s, one modified. Also the CBX had a horrible weave that set in at about 90mph. horrible motorcycle, big fail in my opinion.
Most motorcycles lack one thing that I think should be standard and that's an oil dipstick. I HATE having to get down on my knees with a flashlight just to check my oil.
Randon I know, but when I was racing sled-dogs, at a latitude where we don't get much snow, we used scooters and rigs made from bicycle parts, I had the lightest scooter, but one guy had a rig made with what could only be describes as an Aluminium twin spar. it looked good, and was fast, but bounce around quite badly, just as I found with the lightest scooter... stability was not the strong point of these things, yet the nimbleness and ability to change direction so fast is what allowed us to win races. more so than the abilities of the dogs pulling them!
Turbo in the eighties were shit…so were most of the small displacement vehicles they sold with it. Getting older I see the huuuuge difference between opinions created with researched info as opposed to actually living the facts. Lol
I always hear it called wankel engines. Since rotary engine includes piston airplane engines where the cylinders are in a circle pattern around the crankshaft.
Since you can currently get 200 HP from a naturally-aspirated engine there really isn't any need for a turbocharger with its additional cost, complication, and weight.
@@countryguywithcamera Sounds like a fun idea but literally unnecessary since whatever power you get from a small displacement turbo, you'd be able to get anyway with a larger displacement naturally aspirated engine with more predictable throttle control. Turbo motorbikes will never be a thing unless forced to by strict emission standards one day...
@shabs2134 I've seen the old ex250 ninjas making 50+hp with turbo setups with minimal effort. They are insanely fun machines with their power to weight ratios. With modern turbo technology and modern boost/fuel management it's doable. Plus I would love my bike to make spoolie noises 🤣
The first electric start Motorcycle was the Harley-Davidson Duo-Glide, introduced in 1965. This innovative bike featured an electric starter motor that eliminated the need for kick-starting, making it easier and more convenient for riders to start their motorcycles.
First harley maybe. But definitely not the first. As said they had them way back in 1914. So many things get so called invented in modern times. Only for you to find out it was thought of way back in the beginning of cars n motorcycles, some 120 years ago Even the Honda 90 had it in 1962, but not a big bike though .
I'll be honest, I would love to see manufactures revisit some of the classic bikes and remake them with today's technology! I just love the straight seat, chrome bikes but they are just too horrible to own and ride one in todays world, lack of power, vibration problems, no brakes etc. lol what I would do to have a nice new CB400SS that had a 3 cylinder 850cc engine in it!!
A plethora of valid information as always. If you're Yammie Noob, I guess I'm Yammie Old School? My definition of sport touring is steel frame, carbureted 1200cc, non-ABS, 6.6 gallons of fuel and someone with a death grip riding safely on the back. Yamaha of course.
I owned one of the bikes on the list it was the Suzuki GT750 l loved that motorcycle and at the same time my brother had the Suzuki RE5 yes the infamous rotary and l rode it a couple of times it was very quick and after riding it l was never going to challenge my brother to a drag race it was faster than my GT750 he used to blow of Honda CB750s as for the fuel injection on the Kawasaki Z1000 worked well on the rode but not on the race track as for the turbo motorcycles as much as a normally aspirated with a bigger engine were cheaper and much faster so they were a fail
The rotary wasn't a complete flop. Norton made several rotary models and won a lot of races with them. They aren't at all complex, there's only one moving part in the engine
Rotaries are about as simply as an engine can get, the main issue is that a lot of people don't know how to service them properly and the 1 part that is known to fail requires an engine teardown to fix. While I have no personal experience with them I do love them a lot. Objectively they're perfect for motorcycles, small, lightweight and lots of power for the size
that pc with 4090 is a nice way to spend wnter time ) I always miss my bike the second it starts getting cold and snowy. those 3/4 months of waiting until its a steady 12 degrees or higher again.. And you notice on the dutch roads the second its ovr 12 degrees. They all come out people complain about all the motorcycles on the road and by the time its summer things have slowed down again and people are used to it again
Skunk Works X-59 is practically a time machine. You should get one & let us know if electric motorcycles will ever be a success. I think 100+ years is a long enough wait. Cheers
I put it to you, speaking of motorcycle companies taking risks, the only big one that's taken any risk is Harlalalaley with that livewire thing. That was a massive risk, gotta respect them for that. Edit: I mean in the past 15 years or so, not... Ever.
I actually SAW one in the wild outside my house the other day, nearly dropped my phone. What an utterly bizarre thing. I'm glad they're still doing weird stuff though, I love weird bikes.
cable throttle bikes had traction control as well using secondaries / ignition timing to get the similar result where as fly by wire just meant you could lob the secondaries and just have the ecu manipulate the primaries separate from rider input. im guessing this was done because early fly by wire in cars was very hit and miss (delayed response).
my first bike way back when had carbs and i did not care for it. the work it took to take apart the bike, remove the carbs, clean them, and then put it all back together is why fuel injection is so great.
With more and more strict emissions on I.C.E's I think we will see a return of some turbos. It would be see interesting to see a turbo V-4 fuel injected machine. Are you listening to me Ducati/Aprillia/Yamaha? (think turbo Street Fighter, Factory or V-Max!)
As of 2023 They still make the Niken, just isn't shipped to North America anymore. That is six years of production and still going. Not really a fail just a little weird but the grip in corners is supposedly great without noticing any weird feeling
Yamm where is the daytona 660 video
RE5 also happens to be one of the 10 worst survival horror games.
Listen we can't all punch boulders for a living
I owned a 1979 Honda CBX for 14 years. It was a fantastic bike with the best sound a motorcycle has ever made if you had the 6-into-1 exhaust system, which I did. There have been other 6 cylinder bikes since but the CBX was the only one designed as a high performance machine. The others have been designed as cruisers or touring bikes.
I wouldn't mind having one, or at least the engine to build a track day sports car around.
Do you think the 6-into-1 sounded that much better than twin 3-to-1 because of the arrangement or because of the muffler and header tuning?
Damn... I love the NM4, kind of what I picture futuristic cruisers looking like
Exactly. Came out of nowhere blindsided us. I love the NM4.
I knew I couldn't be the only one out there ❤
You also can't forget about the Kawasaki KZ1300. It was also an inline 6 and actually made 120 HP just one year after the CBX was released. It also lasted 10 years in production.
I had the 1980, first year KZ1300A. It had a black Windjammer fairing. It was a nice-riding and powerful machine, except short-legged me had to left-foot, right-foot it at stops.
I owned a GTS1000 for around 4 years. It was a fantastic long-distance mile-muncher, and a fun scratcher in the twisties. Super comfortable, quick, and the handling was was absolutely rock solid. The down side was the fact that there was absolutely ZERO feedback through the bars. Pushing it too hard into corners came with the risk that there would be no forewarning of any loss of grip. I certainly never regretted buying it though.
I rode one very soon after it came out on PCH 1 (I was 20 years old, ran into another rider randomly while on my CBR600, he insisted I ride the bike he had bought that week) and it was glorious. Many years later I bought what I consider the spiritual successor to it...the BMW K1200R which had the tele lever front suspension.
While I do respect alternative front suspension, my last bike had massive upside down front forks and impossibly large Brembo brakes, while being 150 pounds lighter and making 50 more HP. Technology marches on.
Someone rode this thing in the IoM TT and finished pretty respectably so it wasn’t all bad. I think the main problem was the price which was over £10k which was pretty steep when a similar bike was about £8k.
@@johnludmon510 Yep, it was quite expensive at the time
One major problem was the wheel size. With a smaller 120mm test had shown much better handling. But Yamaha unfortunately didn't change. The bike was one of the best tourers build at that time.
exactly. Great bike, but the front end felt so, so dead.. no feedback at all.. pity, because i really loved riding that bike!
No way I was just binge watching your channel because it’s snowing down here in Texas 🤣
A GST? They must've mislabeled the bike lol
Could be worst: "The LGBT 1000".
I love Honda Vultus/NM4. I wanted to buy one, but there are not many on the market.
Ide love a Honda nsr 500 there price is ungodly tho so I'll stick to racing around on my lil 2005 gsxr 600 might even slap a 750cc or 1000cc engine in it for lols since I'm rebuilding it anyway
"They use a triangular shaped Dorito" 🤣🤣
what other shaped Dorito is there
As a proud owner of a Honda CX500 Turbo i can tell you that it's definetly a fail if you're a reasonable human beeing. If you like rare, pointless and crazy cool bikes from the 80s like me, it's the best fail there ever was and i would buy one again no doubt. Greetings from Austria (Arnold Schwarzenegger, not Kangoroos)
excluding race engines, we have the cbx1000, Benelli 750 sei, the Benelli 900 sei, the Bmw k1600, the honda goldwing and valkyrie, the kawasaki z1300.. Horex did a V6, as did Laverda (although I have no idea if that was mass produced, I suspect not..) there are more six pots than you realise.
And the current gen Goldwing is one of the very greatest. That thing pulls like a truck made of butter.
I want the NM4!! You are wrong!!! Unsubscribe! Just kidding, I'm odd and do like the NM4 but I'm not the norm.
I owned a GTS1000 (no abs) and it was a great bike. I think I bought it in early 1995 second hand and sold it end of 1997. Drove to work every day even in winter and went with it on holiday from the Netherlands to Poland, many road trips sometimes with 2. For me. a perfect bike. Some flaws, it was quite heavy, and 5 speed not 6. I have to say it was tuned slightly when I bought it, and on the dyno it had 100 din ps on the rear wheel. It was electronically limited at 240 km/h, which it quickly reached also with 2 people on the bike, and it could easily hold that speed for over an hour. (But then needed a refuel). Great bike. Commercially not a succes.
Norton built some rotary engine motorcycles in the '80s and some of them had some racing success.
The single rear suspension, the self canceling turn signal lights/winker, it was mentioned on the 50th anniversary of Cycle World.
Cycle Guide was owned and published by my my cousin - Bill Quinn - The six was front heavy as well.
My GPZ750 turbo was the most fun bike I've ever owned.
GTS
I had to stop watching...gts...not gst...wtf
It wouldn't have been difficult to edit the soundtrack
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I dont really understand on why the Honda NM4 is considered a fail , can someone explain?
It just didn't sell well. I for one would absolutely love to put one in my garage, but they're rare as hens teeth.
doesn't the GoldWing have a flat six? Can't rly be a "FAIL" if it's the backbone of such an old and successful nameplate
are you incapable of saying GTS
I still want a NM4 just because it's so sci-fi and goofy. It's like if the Akira bike became a mobility scooter.
I'm still sad on the fact that the NM4 failed. Loved the bike when it appeared on the Kamen Rider series, specifically Kamen Rider Drive.
Anything OCC produced
Here's a winner for you. The first ever production front disk brake was introduced in 1962 on the Lambretta TV175.
My favorite innovation that has never to my knowledge been copied is on my Benelli 900 Tre. It has the radiator behind the seat rather than at the front of the bike, enabling the engine to be mounted further forward putting more weight over the front wheel, and also reducing the width of the bike so the front end was more streamlined. Brilliant idea with the cooling fans behind the seat blowing out hot air, which is also great for warming your hands on frosty days.
Honda magna huge success
It's weird you don't hear more about them honestly, they're a seriously cool and quite weird bike. Also, V4 fam for life. ✌️
You have no idea what you're talking about. *LOL*
Cool comment bro. Edgy
in 93, I took the Yamaha GTS1000 for a test through Yellowstone National Park. The motor was amazing, and the power delivery was spot on. Grabbing a handful of front brake at 90mph, 2-up and zero headbang! Tight turning in small areas at slow speeds was the weakness.
The honda power scooter seems to be a bike to resemble the one from Akira. Is more a tribute to fans than something to the general market
The Norton rotary was reasonably successful, many Police forces in England used them and they had great success in racing. A 'winner', literally but ultimately a commercial 'fail'. The general rider just didn't want them.
You must also consider the Van Veen rotary engined bike. A brave attempt but not to my taste. DKW also made a foray into the world of rotary powered motorcycles. Along with the RE5, a whole video in itself I reckon!
Love the videos. I sometimes have to re-wind because you talk so fast, I hope you're not a robot. Love and peace.
I was told the 2010 Honda VFR 1200f was the first motorcycle with fly-by-wire. Maybe what they meant is it was the first HONDA with fly-by-wire.
Do another Scooter video soon with scooters like the Zuma, or maxi scooters even. For $1000 a Zuma 125 and similar scooters are a good buy lol
Or maybe do a similar video to Motorcycle Magazine and take the small scooters ADV riding, but maybe try with a 2stroke or 125cc+. It’s cool to see what they are capable of and there aren’t many videos.
A bigger fail than the Suzuki RE5 was the Hercules Wankel 2000.
An air-cooled rotary, which ran on oil/gas mixture, with a blower in front that gave it the nickname "the vacuum cleaner"
I got a chance to ride a CBX back in the 70's. I expected to be on a rocketship. It wasn't near as fast as I expected. Maybe it was my exoeriences with a couple of H1s, one modified. Also the CBX had a horrible weave that set in at about 90mph. horrible motorcycle, big fail in my opinion.
where yam eating video on an extended turbo busa
Most motorcycles lack one thing that I think should be standard and that's an oil dipstick. I HATE having to get down on my knees with a flashlight just to check my oil.
I have two bikes from different manufacturers with a dip stick as we speak
one of mine has a dpistick and the other a sight glass, to be honest I kinda prefer the sight glass
Bikes aRe for Summer AND Sleds aRe for Winter. "Come on Dr. NOOB"-ie! GiVe aWay a Sled tHis Win-ter of The Snowy Yamimes.
Randon I know, but when I was racing sled-dogs, at a latitude where we don't get much snow, we used scooters and rigs made from bicycle parts, I had the lightest scooter, but one guy had a rig made with what could only be describes as an Aluminium twin spar. it looked good, and was fast, but bounce around quite badly, just as I found with the lightest scooter... stability was not the strong point of these things, yet the nimbleness and ability to change direction so fast is what allowed us to win races. more so than the abilities of the dogs pulling them!
Yamaha didn't design the front suspension on the GTS 1000. James Parker designed it and patented it in 1985. Yamaha licensed the designed and used it.
I absolutely adore the NM4 Vultus and I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL.
Fail! YAMAHA XZ550 Vision. Question: what manufacturer has had the most fails?
Turbo in the eighties were shit…so were most of the small displacement vehicles they sold with it. Getting older I see the huuuuge difference between opinions created with researched info as opposed to actually living the facts. Lol
6 cilinders nowadays: BMW's K1600GT's and Goldwing flat six engines.
Honda Pacific Coast from the late 80's. Absolutely the most boring bike I ever test rode!
how many 6 cylinder bikes have you seen since the cbx's disciontinuation. quite alot ie, honda goldwing.
Well I still love my 75 Suzuki re5 she's metallic blue and for a 49 year old girl she's still sweet. ❤
GST
I was wondering if you’d have shaft drive on the list. I don’t know much about it except that I don’t seem to see it anymore.
Heres another fail: the Ducati Indiana was Ducati's failed attempt at getting into the cruiser market back in the 80s
Carb rebuild kit 20 bucks! In the tool bag Injection system ? On the side of the road call AAA
The GPZ750 was actually amazing. The rest were messes, but the GPZ was a real machine
GST ... ans you kept saying it wrong throughout the whole dang video? o.m.g.
Another fail was in 1994 the Aprilia Moto 6.5. Also 30 years ago.
I always hear it called wankel engines. Since rotary engine includes piston airplane engines where the cylinders are in a circle pattern around the crankshaft.
Is there anyone who actually won a motorbike giveaway🎉????
Lol, actually when I started loving bikes the first one was Honda gwing and the second one the NM4 vultus
I see you're a person of culture 🧐
GTS! GTS! Is YN dyslexic or something?
What about the Norton rotary, dominated British super bikes for a few years
The turbo motorcycle fad from the 1980s would work with modern technology
Since you can currently get 200 HP from a naturally-aspirated engine there really isn't any need for a turbocharger with its additional cost, complication, and weight.
@@littleshopofelectrons4014 mo powah baybeh
@@littleshopofelectrons4014 I want to see turbo small displacement bikes
@@countryguywithcamera Sounds like a fun idea but literally unnecessary since whatever power you get from a small displacement turbo, you'd be able to get anyway with a larger displacement naturally aspirated engine with more predictable throttle control. Turbo motorbikes will never be a thing unless forced to by strict emission standards one day...
@shabs2134 I've seen the old ex250 ninjas making 50+hp with turbo setups with minimal effort.
They are insanely fun machines with their power to weight ratios.
With modern turbo technology and modern boost/fuel management it's doable.
Plus I would love my bike to make spoolie noises 🤣
Yammie going through all the MSF couse for us squids ❤
most common six cylinder is the Honda Gold Wing still made today.
I love riding my 750 turbo. So much fun 😁
0:55 “Ready to Shit”
Ahahahaha how did I not hear it first time
The first electric start Motorcycle was the Harley-Davidson Duo-Glide, introduced in 1965. This innovative bike featured an electric starter motor that eliminated the need for kick-starting, making it easier and more convenient for riders to start their motorcycles.
Errr... The 1914 Indian Hendee Special had electric start...
First harley maybe. But definitely not the first. As said they had them way back in 1914.
So many things get so called invented in modern times. Only for you to find out it was thought of way back in the beginning of cars n motorcycles, some 120 years ago
Even the Honda 90 had it in 1962, but not a big bike though .
that last bike actually looks pretty neat
The harley vrod is my favorite win/fail
Gimme a V6 supersport, it has to be done.
Can we get a v6 triumph/ducati 😔
Motorcycles never sleep in florida!
I'll be honest, I would love to see manufactures revisit some of the classic bikes and remake them with today's technology! I just love the straight seat, chrome bikes but they are just too horrible to own and ride one in todays world, lack of power, vibration problems, no brakes etc. lol what I would do to have a nice new CB400SS that had a 3 cylinder 850cc engine in it!!
A plethora of valid information as always. If you're Yammie Noob, I guess I'm Yammie Old School? My definition of sport touring is steel frame, carbureted 1200cc, non-ABS, 6.6 gallons of fuel and someone with a death grip riding safely on the back. Yamaha of course.
I owned one of the bikes on the list it was the Suzuki GT750 l loved that motorcycle and at the same time my brother had the Suzuki RE5 yes the infamous rotary and l rode it a couple of times it was very quick and after riding it l was never going to challenge my brother to a drag race it was faster than my GT750 he used to blow of Honda CB750s as for the fuel injection on the Kawasaki Z1000 worked well on the rode but not on the race track as for the turbo motorcycles as much as a normally aspirated with a bigger engine were cheaper and much faster so they were a fail
The rotary wasn't a complete flop. Norton made several rotary models and won a lot of races with them. They aren't at all complex, there's only one moving part in the engine
Rotaries are about as simply as an engine can get, the main issue is that a lot of people don't know how to service them properly and the 1 part that is known to fail requires an engine teardown to fix. While I have no personal experience with them I do love them a lot. Objectively they're perfect for motorcycles, small, lightweight and lots of power for the size
that pc with 4090 is a nice way to spend wnter time ) I always miss my bike the second it starts getting cold and snowy. those 3/4 months of waiting until its a steady 12 degrees or higher again.. And you notice on the dutch roads the second its ovr 12 degrees. They all come out people complain about all the motorcycles on the road and by the time its summer things have slowed down again and people are used to it again
Skunk Works X-59 is practically a time machine. You should get one & let us know if electric motorcycles will ever be a success. I think 100+ years is a long enough wait. Cheers
GSX-8S…. I know you want it!!!!!!!!
I put it to you, speaking of motorcycle companies taking risks, the only big one that's taken any risk is Harlalalaley with that livewire thing. That was a massive risk, gotta respect them for that.
Edit: I mean in the past 15 years or so, not... Ever.
Gen-X here, I forgot we used to have "starter fluid" for anything except campfires.
Holy crap that NM4 is gross
In 1993,my dealer had a gts 1000 and a zx11,was a tough choice at the time, both had something to offer, went with the zx11,i made the right choice!
I expected the Yamaha NIKEN to be no.1 on the list of failures..
I actually SAW one in the wild outside my house the other day, nearly dropped my phone. What an utterly bizarre thing. I'm glad they're still doing weird stuff though, I love weird bikes.
Tammie open a store in Australia
cable throttle bikes had traction control as well using secondaries / ignition timing to get the similar result where as fly by wire just meant you could lob the secondaries and just have the ecu manipulate the primaries separate from rider input. im guessing this was done because early fly by wire in cars was very hit and miss (delayed response).
Want an NM4... I want one bad!! 😅
my first bike way back when had carbs and i did not care for it. the work it took to take apart the bike, remove the carbs, clean them, and then put it all back together is why fuel injection is so great.
What about that AWD Honda or Ducatti race bike with the hydrostatic front wheel drive?
Who want the Beaty of an R1???
HOREX had a six cylinder motorcycle with an engine based on the VW VR6 as far as I know
That’s crazy the first ride by wire was on a R6. I didn’t know that I would’ve thought it was one of the expensive Euros or Italians
6:20 I think it's time for turbos to come back to motorcycles...
With more and more strict emissions on I.C.E's I think we will see a return of some turbos. It would be see interesting to see a turbo V-4 fuel injected machine. Are you listening to me Ducati/Aprillia/Yamaha? (think turbo Street Fighter, Factory or V-Max!)
@@patrickroberts7513 v4 are too complex... If we get turbos from an OEM are going to be in a parallel twin ...
Opinion on 89 Honda PC 800
The last honda reminded me id only seen one kid in school riding a bike besides myself, he had one and i had absolutely no clue what it was
My dad has that gts1000. Only bike he kept over the years. His other bikes come and go
I think the r7 is a fail.
GPZ750Turbo was one of my favorites.
The end part is what makes the difference. Always a thrill to see your videos!
Surprised you didn't talk about yamaha niken
As of 2023 They still make the Niken, just isn't shipped to North America anymore. That is six years of production and still going. Not really a fail just a little weird but the grip in corners is supposedly great without noticing any weird feeling
@plap. yes I love the bike but objectively the two front wheels is a failure but also could be a winner like says in title
@@animalgamer7517 mostly based on the MT09 as far as I've seen so it has a good, popular starting point