I am not much into two-stroke engines, but some of them sound interesting. The first one especially is closed to a rotary engine. The BMW inline-6 and Yamaha crossplane inline-4 wins for me! And the Moto Guzzi!
VisioRacer two strokes have great advantages over 4 strokes. They are simple, easy to fix, light, extremely powerful, and they are so exciting when boost comes. Too bad laws practically forbid those.
The 2t engines like Kawasaki ,Suzuki Yamaha and so on were awesome, but they sound the best with Air Age exhaust pipes especially the 3 cylinders. I still have a original Suzuki GT in my bedroom just to look at it .
LoflcopteronBF3 Maybe so, but is this BMW bike shaft-driven or belt-driven? Because if it's shaft-driven, it might be easier for car-adaptation. Just my speculation though.
I think it was Jay Leno that had one of those, he once told that a car behind it stopped on the red light suddenly started to have it's front bumper warped up Now that's something I call BRUTAL
Lots of my friends used Castrol R. It was expensive but it smelt great and it was what all the racers we used to watch used in their bikes. I can still remember the smell. It's a stupid waste of money burning all that oil but I look back on those two strokes with great fondness and I especially loved the anti-social noise they made.
Haha, they sure sound different (and raspy/loud). I guess you couldn't muffle the sound too much without affecting the scavenging from the exhaust? Good times! Thanks for the post.
Visio Racer, thanks a lot man for making such videos I'm from India and we don't have a lot choices when it comes to motorcycles (mostly single cylinder) . So couldn't really. learn about the various kinds of engines but thanks to you man, got to learn a lot. Keep up the good work!
Isabel juarez Waste?! I have a saying: If you spend money on something, its yours. The money goes to the seller, the money goes to the distributor. Which will be able for them to make more fuel. (I know its an resource which means it will eventually be used up)
Thanks for this video. It has a lot of engine sounds I've never heard, but wished I had. The Honda NR750 sounded pretty much as I expected. The V5 had a sound that is just indescribable. Never heard anything like it. The I5 was wicked when the rider was revving it to 12,000 rpm, and would just be scary at 20,000. The BMW I6 sounds as glorious as any BMW I6 should sound.
For the Yamaha TZ750, privateers were getting 145hp out of them in 1977, Cycle Magazine rode Harry Klinzman's and wrote it up fairly well, with the exception of the porting specs. Kenny Roberts famously remarked that he preferred the 500cc machine, as the 750 "made too much torque".
Great video as always! I was surprised to see no Ducatis on the list - they were the only manufacturer to use desmodronic valves for years and it gave their bikes (which are mostly big V-twins) a distinctive sound. As for bikes with longitudinal engines, see Honda's CX500 from the late 1970s and most Moto Guzzis - V-twins mostly. The CX500 used a shaft drive (so did Guzzi), not chain, and there was a turbocharged CX500 available too.
Does anybody else want to slap the dudes that feel a constant repetitious rev that sounds like a skipping record is good for showing us what the engine sounds like? Show us the whole rev range and a few throttle position combos!
good vídeo. for the next you can remember Suter MMX 500 (2-strokes, V4, 195 hp and only 127 kg) Kawasaki H2R (the first stock bike with a supercharger) Dodge Tomahawk (the bike with a Viper engine) Ducati panigale 1299 (the most powerfull 2 cilindres engine) the maseratti bike (with quattroporte engine) and more...
"How many bikes with a longitudinally mounted engine can you think of?" Pretty much all the V-twins from Moto Guzzi, the flat twins from BMW, the flat 4 and flat 6s from Honda particularly the Goldwings, the Boss Hoss V8s, The V4 from Motus, which by the way is a modern pushrod V4 so it should have made your list..... it's not all that rare.
One of my mates had an RD-RZ500, he never took passengers, his Jerry can was strapped to the seat as it never made it between Gas Stations! Excellent post thanks VR.
I love how many TH-cam channels copy the layout of your videos, but won't go the extra mile to give us accurate information from a reliable source like you do. Good job mate 👍🏾
A friend of mine has the R1 and it sounds soooo weird compared to my Kawasaki inline-4! And when I say weird, I mean cool! A cool bike to listen to, a cool bike to look at and even more cool to ride! :) edit: Oh and I totally agree about the Merc, my absolute dream car.
There are still some more unusual motorcycle engines: the Moto Morini / Morbidelli V8 with a longitudinal V8, the BMW K75/100 with longitudinal 3/4cylinder engines tilted by 90°, the Ariel Square 4, the Triumph Rocket III with a huge 2.3 litre longitudinal 3 cylinder engine, the massive V8 Boss Hoss, the Tomahawk V10, etc. However, very interesting video...
The RG500 was as close as most people would get to driving a 500cc two stroke race bike on the road. Tuned they had lousy economy and a powerband sharp enough to cut yourself on, but boy did they deliver huge power for their size and weight. Spondon used to make a frame for them, probably still would if you asked, that gave you a more rigid connection between the front and rear wheels.
The 500cc two strokes were awesome. I had a RD350 YPVS and every ride was a huge grin, I so much wanted a 500 but never got one. Probably best as I nearly killed myself with the 350.
BMW needs to put that 6-cylinder engine in a V-Max/Diavel style cruiser or simply strip down a K1600GT into a sports naked. That engine would be insane in a lightweight bike.
8:19 One of my teacher (as a car mechanic) worked for Honda on this oval pistons and on the grid . As I asked, why oval, he told me, to fit 6 valves on one zylinder. Only the piston rings made them some problems. At least in the beginning.
HONDA was only about 45 years ahead of everyone else making inline 6 bike engines. Some of the most amazing machines, even today. The technology was unbelievable.
There has been a true square four motorcycle engine made from 1930 up to 1959, it's the Ariel square four, a British motorcycle manufacturer. The four cylinders with 2 cranckshafts were aranged in a flat plane, and not stepped like the Suzuki engine, also the housing for all four cylinders was a single, aircooled casting, it had a problem with overheating rear cylinders which was overcome after a redesign. Being from such an early era it only did around 40hp from 1 liter, but it reved up to only 5800rpm. It was still one of the fastest streetbikes of it's era.
I miss the two strokes. They where easy to fix and lots of fun to ride. I wish the big manufacturers would of developed them more instead of just getting rid of them. Honda doesn't even make a two stroke engine production motorcycle anymore....sad.
@visioRacer Very interesting videos. Do you have any idea what today's literbikes have? I understand that Ducati has a 90 degree V, RSV4 has a 65 degree V, R1 has the crossplane inline 4, what about the rest? Andy why isn't everyone just using R1's Crossplane inline 4? it sounds like it's the best by far? Also how is RSV4's 65 degree efficient? what about the other 25 degrees?! :) What does the S1000rr have??
Thoroughly enjoyable video, thank you for keeping it to "real bikes" ( no bat bike or Tomahawk). Saw a couple I didn't know about and some details I didn't know about the parallel cranks in the the v and square two strokes, thought that was unique to the Ariel. I was wondering if you would catch the oval piston bikes and you did it with some nice trivia to boot. This video is a win!
Sweet music to the ears especially the 2 stroke triple kwaka and the V6 Laverda. Only thing I would have loved to see/hear that wasn't on there is a water cooled 2 stroke triple i.e. The Suzuki GT750 aka 'the kettle'. My dad had one and it was lovely, had a real off beat sound on the original pipes (middle cylinder is a 1 into 2 system, outside cylinders 1 pipe each).
Back in the 80's I had a series of 70's two stroke triples. Mine were Suzuki GT series. I had a couple 380s and a 550 before briefly having the 750 two stroke kawi. Sadly it died almost immediately. I had shop class with one of my 380's so I milled the head down 1mm, tore out the oil pump (and just ran pre-mix like a dirt bike), bolted on the 550 carb plate, and ran velocity stack intakes. It had drag bars on it and I was in the process of making rear sets for it when the center piston exploded and metal fragments destroyed the bottom end. I was also tracking down a 3-into-1 exhaust that was made for those bikes. A rattle can paint job and some paint marker lettering by my high school girlfriend completed the machine. They were fun but sold as touring machines, so they were really heavy and sprung soft as heck. Sounded like a popcorn popper at idle. I think the 380's would only do about 90mph but they got there pretty quick. But at full tilt boogie they smoked like a tractor and the center cylinder needed a cooler plug (and I still blew two of them up).
Great video ! As for a follow up I might suggest the mighty inline 6 CBX 1000 (the sound of it is just incredible), the Boss Hoss, and some dude who put like 12 chainsaw motors in a row to power his motorcycle ? Thanks Visio !
Wow what a vlog.I dint know about so many types of engine and their placement on the bike.This opened a new horizon for learning more.Thanks Would like to hear more about non piston engines .my knowledge is limited to Wankel rotary,are there any other kinds?
Turbine engines and there are liquid piston rotary engines but not many more. Some very obscure spherical engines that never made it to bigger production
Interesting how the engines all sound "right". The V6s sound like V6s, the inline 6s sound the part, the two-stroke fours sound a lot like flat plane V8s, the Honda V5 sounds like any other five, and so on. I'd love to hear that tiny Honda 5 cylinder engine at some real revs. A cross between an F1 engine and a model airplane. :-)
In my town there is an important Honda dealer, he had for a lot of years an NR750 (oval pistons) in his showroom... Jay Leno owns an Y2K... very interesting video, thanks!
The Honda V5 was working like V2. Firstly were triggered the three cylinders together on the one side and then the other two cylinders together. Also the BMW sound reminds M3 e46 sound.
I've got a more complete listing of oddballs just from recent history alone: I'd suggest in future, you take a good look at the SOHC-4 CB750K contrasted with a DOHC-4 CB900F or other UJM, the CBX 6-cyl preferably the twin-shock version, KZ1300 liquid-cooled six, GL1000 through GL1200 boxer fours & GL1500 & GL1800 Boxer sixes, ST1100 & ST1300 transverse shaft-drive V-fours, the chain-drive VF500C through VF1100C Magna & VF750S VF1100S Sabre with their shaft final-drive plus chain-drive versions VF400F through VF1000F & VF1000R INTERCEPTORS of course, VFR1200F shaft-drive with dual slip clutches - the CX500 "Twisted Twin" with it's oddly oriented cylinders allowing parallel bank carburetors on a transverse V-twin ... along with it's TURBO derivatives the CX500T & CX650T, AND the horizontal-slant SINGLES from the Honda Cub all the way through the Guzzi Nuovo Falcone 700cc with particular attention to the Benelli & Aermacchi 250-400cc versions and the "LINTO" twin with two siamese-twinned pair of Aermacchi heads, on and speaking of Benelli the Benelli-Guzzi SOHC-4 250cc, plus the 270-degree V-twin Guzzi racers which preceded their famous V-8 - OH and of course the Honda MVX250F V3 and the Jawa Type 673 V4 which it so closely resembled PLUS the Cezeta CZ Type 860 V-four air-cooled four-stroke racer, the KONIG boxer-four with TRANSVERSE crankshaft & CHAIN final-drive, Hercules single rotor air-cooled & the Suzuki RE-5 twin rotor liquid-cooled WANKEL/ROTARY powered bikes of course (thought YOU'D have 'em, what with your several rotary engine vids) plus the liquid-cooled inline triple too-smoke GT750 especially the '72 GT750J version with the puny 200mm 4LS drum (which I'm feeling like an ass for putting on my kid's KZ44LTD derived "KZ440LOL" project) Heck the KZ440LTD & KZ750LTD twin KZ305CSR & GPZ305 should count for SOMETHING being that they've all got a BELT final-drive at such an early point in motorcycle history - There's really not all that many ORDINARY bike engine configurations, perhaps the V-twins, Parallel-twins, DOHC-fours - there are a few unique series which are nevertheless so UBIQUITOUS and plentiful that they don't really SEEM unusual, like the Beemer boxer twins, or the SOHC-4 Honda CB series for instance. Honda made theirs for something like thirteen-fourteen years maybe fifteen tops - I've gotta look into the CB650 Nighthawks and see where they switched from SOHC to DOHC - Meanwhile the BMW squatted & dumped out boxer twins from the early '30s up to the present day - Brit-bikes did the same thing with Parallel twins but there were so many companies doing it the same damn way for so long it doesn't seem like they were all leaning on each other, but of course they were - no more no less than the Japanese "Big Four" have done for the past several decades. Really though, the CHAMPIONSHIP has gotta go to HONDA - 'cause they've made a bike in practically ALL of the different configurations! Plus, they've brought us the COMSTAR wheels - a poor performer in practice only, but with the BEST type of rims onboard ie the AKRONT ''NERVI'' center-flange featherweight alloy rims, in practically any & all widths & diameters any other wheel was ever made.....
One of my dream bikes is a Honda CB1000, nicknamed the CB6. An inline 6 liter bike that sounds sooo smooth with the right pipes. I think I-6's sound better on high revving bikes than cars.
There are plenty of bikes with longitudinal engines. All the BMW boxers, BMW K75 & K100, the Ural and Dnepr motorcycles (boxer twins too), All the Honda Gold Wing and Silver Wing (and the related CX500), Boss Hoss... and probably more that I don't remember right now. Inline 6 isn't a very common motorcycle engine either, should've been here too I think. CBX 1000, Kawasaki 1300 and Benelli 750 are the only three I'm aware of.
Hoping to see a Ducati SuperMono for its unique balancer, an Ariel Square Four, cause they did it before Suzuki and of course the RE5 rotary.... But never the less, well done list and clips.
It is a mass produced inline 3 cylinder two stroke. Kawasaki made them from 1969 - into 1975, IIRC. I was a tech with a Kaw/Suzuki dealership in Westchester Co. , N.Y. and serviced many of them. The line up of that type included a 250cc, 350cc, 400cc, 500cc, and a 750cc. All were air cooled and for the most part quite reliable though harsh to ride. The Suzukis of the period were smoother and more refined.
Thank you so much for letting us hear the engines without crappy over-dubbed music as in so many videos.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
100% agree.👍
I agree, let the engines speak 👍
That inline 6 sounds nuts.
I am not much into two-stroke engines, but some of them sound interesting. The first one especially is closed to a rotary engine. The BMW inline-6 and Yamaha crossplane inline-4 wins for me! And the Moto Guzzi!
VisioRacer yes i love the crossplane inline 4!
VisioRacer two strokes have great advantages over 4 strokes. They are simple, easy to fix, light, extremely powerful, and they are so exciting when boost comes.
Too bad laws practically forbid those.
VisioRacer The k1600 is quite an impressive machine, not quite as impressive as the cbx 1000 or the benelli sei.
The 2t engines like Kawasaki ,Suzuki Yamaha and so on were awesome, but they sound the best with Air Age exhaust pipes especially the 3 cylinders. I still have a original Suzuki GT in my bedroom just to look at it .
there is Norton Rotary and Honda CBX you missed tho
The BMW K1600's inline-6 engine could probably be used in a small car.
That would be a beast car
...I'm waiting to see someone put a turbo on there and crank out 300 HP.....
I bet it would spew out its connecting rods
Triumphs rocket 3 actually has an even better engine for a car since it has a 2.3litre inline 3 motor
LoflcopteronBF3 Maybe so, but is this BMW bike shaft-driven or belt-driven? Because if it's shaft-driven, it might be easier for car-adaptation. Just my speculation though.
I need that Y2K for the neighbors when I suit up for a ride at 6 AM.
that suzuki square sounded amazing
same with the Honda engine with oval pistons
Big multi cylinder two strokes, gotta love em.
Sound box
That turbine bike has a silly amount of power.
I want one.
And can probably burn anyone standing around it's exhaust pipe
Kalvinjj eh, that's just a minor issue.
I think it was Jay Leno that had one of those, he once told that a car behind it stopped on the red light suddenly started to have it's front bumper warped up
Now that's something I call BRUTAL
Kalvinjj It'll buff out :)
***** Yeah...no. Anything but those tbh.
These 2-strokes... holy smokes! Literally.
good old oilburners
Lots of my friends used Castrol R. It was expensive but it smelt great and it was what all the racers we used to watch used in their bikes. I can still remember the smell.
It's a stupid waste of money burning all that oil but I look back on those two strokes with great fondness and I especially loved the anti-social noise they made.
Haha, they sure sound different (and raspy/loud). I guess you couldn't muffle the sound too much without affecting the scavenging from the exhaust? Good times! Thanks for the post.
Visio Racer, thanks a lot man for making such videos I'm from India and we don't have a lot choices when it comes to motorcycles (mostly single cylinder) . So couldn't really. learn about the various kinds of engines but thanks to you man, got to learn a lot. Keep up the good work!
Huge two stroke engines... One rev and $100 flew out the exhaust pipe. Fucking worth it tho!
wat a waste of gasoline men
Isabel juarez Waste?! I have a saying: If you spend money on something, its yours. The money goes to the seller, the money goes to the distributor. Which will be able for them to make more fuel. (I know its an resource which means it will eventually be used up)
in my country Argentina the price goes up more and more
Isabel juarez Same here rbuh
We were going well, but there was a change of president last year
Thanks for this video. It has a lot of engine sounds I've never heard, but wished I had. The Honda NR750 sounded pretty much as I expected. The V5 had a sound that is just indescribable. Never heard anything like it. The I5 was wicked when the rider was revving it to 12,000 rpm, and would just be scary at 20,000. The BMW I6 sounds as glorious as any BMW I6 should sound.
Finally a video with motorcycle !!!
:)
yea!, but should have been a H2 at the start!
I used to be insane. I had both an H1 and then an H2.
Nice! Please do more motorcycle stuff :D
Yup
VisioRacer Great! Looking forward to that.
Patrick Carta yes!
awesome vid ! what a show of amazing bikes ! Nice job on finding all thoses clips !
Thank you :)
That Yamaha 4 sounds like a mini V8.
For the Yamaha TZ750, privateers were getting 145hp out of them in 1977, Cycle Magazine rode Harry Klinzman's and wrote it up fairly well, with the exception of the porting specs. Kenny Roberts famously remarked that he preferred the 500cc machine, as the 750 "made too much torque".
Where are the Norton with their rotaries?
in his other videos
That 6 cylinder BMW is fuckin Scary. Sounds like a RB26 :O
friend of mine owns one ! i can't hold him at full throttle with my R1200R !! it screams like hell (Akrapovic) and leave me way behind like a TGV !
N NO sounds like a BMW M2
billy heaton yup ! tiny inline-6 !
it's bigger than the one in my dad's car
Max Rutté Yep it does XD
umm ... suzuki RE500? Norton classic, RCW, etc? Triumph triples? Honda CBX1000? Suzuki GT750? etc etc
Lots of very cool engine configurations out there.
Great video as always! I was surprised to see no Ducatis on the list - they were the only manufacturer to use desmodronic valves for years and it gave their bikes (which are mostly big V-twins) a distinctive sound.
As for bikes with longitudinal engines, see Honda's CX500 from the late 1970s and most Moto Guzzis - V-twins mostly. The CX500 used a shaft drive (so did Guzzi), not chain, and there was a turbocharged CX500 available too.
Crossplane 4 has to the best engine sound ever
Definitely the best sounding bike ever
Yup
I think the Y2K turbine out-sounds it (while being almost completely impractical), but otherwise yeah for a piston engine that CP4 is sweet.
The sound is cool, way ahead of the electric bike sounds in the sense of futuristic. The bike is mostly totally impractical.
+Arne Hurnik no joke my uncle has an axial flow turbine on a bicycle lol. they do exist.
Does anybody else want to slap the dudes that feel a constant repetitious rev that sounds like a skipping record is good for showing us what the engine sounds like?
Show us the whole rev range and a few throttle position combos!
good vídeo. for the next you can remember Suter MMX 500 (2-strokes, V4, 195 hp and only 127 kg) Kawasaki H2R (the first stock bike with a supercharger) Dodge Tomahawk (the bike with a Viper engine) Ducati panigale 1299 (the most powerfull 2 cilindres engine) the maseratti bike (with quattroporte engine) and more...
Coming back 5 years later to encourage a redux of this awesome video! 🙏
"How many bikes with a longitudinally mounted engine can you think of?" Pretty much all the V-twins from Moto Guzzi, the flat twins from BMW, the flat 4 and flat 6s from Honda particularly the Goldwings, the Boss Hoss V8s, The V4 from Motus, which by the way is a modern pushrod V4 so it should have made your list..... it's not all that rare.
motorcycles ! so many original designs ! the creativity of motorcycle engineers is incredible ! they are passionated about their projects...
One of my mates had an RD-RZ500, he never took passengers, his Jerry can was strapped to the seat as it never made it between Gas Stations!
Excellent post thanks VR.
I love how many TH-cam channels copy the layout of your videos, but won't go the extra mile to give us accurate information from a reliable source like you do. Good job mate 👍🏾
I should be honoured because I don't remember so many people making similar videos like me before I started. Anyway, thank you for your kind words!
VisioRacer you should definetly monetize these and make some cash
Another super video. Thanks.
What sort of clutch did the turbine use?
Yamaha R1 Crossplane is the second best sounding thing, first is the C63 AMG
Not even close
Try the Aprilia V4
Andrew Lewer not as good in my opinion
SecondGear To each their own.
A friend of mine has the R1 and it sounds soooo weird compared to my Kawasaki inline-4! And when I say weird, I mean cool! A cool bike to listen to, a cool bike to look at and even more cool to ride! :)
edit: Oh and I totally agree about the Merc, my absolute dream car.
I usually hate the sound of 2 strokes, but damn that square 4 sounded majestic
TwinSpinner indeed! i fell in love with it!
the power ban would rip ur arms off.
mitchsfarm i think you are thinking if the gas turbine, not the 2 stroke lol
There are still some more unusual motorcycle engines: the Moto Morini / Morbidelli V8 with a longitudinal V8, the BMW K75/100 with longitudinal 3/4cylinder engines tilted by 90°, the Ariel Square 4, the Triumph Rocket III with a huge 2.3 litre longitudinal 3 cylinder engine, the massive V8 Boss Hoss, the Tomahawk V10, etc. However, very interesting video...
visio always makes such high quality videos. and that last bike is ridiculous lol
Thanks
Nice video...please review Kawasaki 2300 cc V12 2 stroke by Allen Millyard
The RG500 was as close as most people would get to driving a 500cc two stroke race bike on the road. Tuned they had lousy economy and a powerband sharp enough to cut yourself on, but boy did they deliver huge power for their size and weight. Spondon used to make a frame for them, probably still would if you asked, that gave you a more rigid connection between the front and rear wheels.
The 500cc two strokes were awesome. I had a RD350 YPVS and every ride was a huge grin, I so much wanted a 500 but never got one. Probably best as I nearly killed myself with the 350.
RG500 wins in my books. the sound of these things coming on the pipe is something a four stroke will ne er duplicate. plus I own one still
Or maybe stick the RG500 in🤔
An NSR 250 chassis??
Maybe 300lbs? Stiff as anything.
Might work really well?
Great footage and nicely put together.
Unlike similar themed videos this one did not disappoint.
BMW needs to put that 6-cylinder engine in a V-Max/Diavel style cruiser or simply strip down a K1600GT into a sports naked. That engine would be insane in a lightweight bike.
nice video, keep up the good work Visio
Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Those motorcycle engineers sure are a wacky bunch.
8:19 One of my teacher (as a car mechanic) worked for Honda on this oval pistons and on the grid . As I asked, why oval, he told me, to fit 6 valves on one zylinder.
Only the piston rings made them some problems. At least in the beginning.
The BMW is not the only I6 bike, look at the Honda CBX 1000, Kawasaki Z1300 and Benelli Sei.
Yet another video that makes me need to watch Can`t Die Tonight, Ghost Rider Tribute, AGAIN..
nice to see visio covering motorcycles 2 keep up the good work :)
I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for the video! :)
You are welcome, cheers!
Awesome video! Notably missing the Kawasaki inline 6, circa 70's-80's.
Or the Honda CBX 6 cyl.
HONDA was only about 45 years ahead of everyone else making inline 6 bike engines. Some of the most amazing machines, even today. The technology was unbelievable.
Honda was just plain mental back then.. wicked technology
Guzzi V-8
There has been a true square four motorcycle engine made from 1930 up to 1959, it's the Ariel square four, a British motorcycle manufacturer.
The four cylinders with 2 cranckshafts were aranged in a flat plane, and not stepped like the Suzuki engine, also the housing for all four cylinders was a single, aircooled casting, it had a problem with overheating rear cylinders which was overcome after a redesign.
Being from such an early era it only did around 40hp from 1 liter, but it reved up to only 5800rpm.
It was still one of the fastest streetbikes of it's era.
Single Cylinder Sound in:
2:41 Boxer 2 Engine
3:34 Square 4 Engine
4:32 - 8:18 V4 Engine
7:22 i4 Engine
8:48 Honda NR500
Twin Cylinder Sound in:
0:57 i4 Engine
6:22 V8 Engine
Triple Cylinder Sound in:
9:09 V6 Engine
10:00 i6 Engine
I've ridden a Kawasaki H1, they're so much fun.
Love this channel lots of cool engines out there please keep making videos
Awesome upload. Really enjoyed abd am waiting for more engine videos
I miss the two strokes. They where easy to fix and lots of fun to ride. I wish the big manufacturers would of developed them more instead of just getting rid of them. Honda doesn't even make a two stroke engine production motorcycle anymore....sad.
@visioRacer Very interesting videos. Do you have any idea what today's literbikes have? I understand that Ducati has a 90 degree V, RSV4 has a 65 degree V, R1 has the crossplane inline 4, what about the rest? Andy why isn't everyone just using R1's Crossplane inline 4? it sounds like it's the best by far?
Also how is RSV4's 65 degree efficient? what about the other 25 degrees?! :)
What does the S1000rr have??
Good Guy Visio.Never forgets about polish vids.
I love the old two strokes. They were great to ride and sounded fantastic.
Thoroughly enjoyable video, thank you for keeping it to "real bikes" ( no bat bike or Tomahawk). Saw a couple I didn't know about and some details I didn't know about the parallel cranks in the the v and square two strokes, thought that was unique to the Ariel. I was wondering if you would catch the oval piston bikes and you did it with some nice trivia to boot. This video is a win!
Sweet music to the ears especially the 2 stroke triple kwaka and the V6 Laverda. Only thing I would have loved to see/hear that wasn't on there is a water cooled 2 stroke triple i.e. The Suzuki GT750 aka 'the kettle'. My dad had one and it was lovely, had a real off beat sound on the original pipes (middle cylinder is a 1 into 2 system, outside cylinders 1 pipe each).
Back in the 80's I had a series of 70's two stroke triples. Mine were Suzuki GT series. I had a couple 380s and a 550 before briefly having the 750 two stroke kawi. Sadly it died almost immediately. I had shop class with one of my 380's so I milled the head down 1mm, tore out the oil pump (and just ran pre-mix like a dirt bike), bolted on the 550 carb plate, and ran velocity stack intakes. It had drag bars on it and I was in the process of making rear sets for it when the center piston exploded and metal fragments destroyed the bottom end. I was also tracking down a 3-into-1 exhaust that was made for those bikes. A rattle can paint job and some paint marker lettering by my high school girlfriend completed the machine.
They were fun but sold as touring machines, so they were really heavy and sprung soft as heck. Sounded like a popcorn popper at idle. I think the 380's would only do about 90mph but they got there pretty quick. But at full tilt boogie they smoked like a tractor and the center cylinder needed a cooler plug (and I still blew two of them up).
Nice upload man, would have liked to have seen that gas turbine tearing up the road !
That crossplane inline 4 sounds really baddass, a lot different than you would expect from a 4 cylinder engine
I never knew there was a V5 engine on a bike ! please do more of these videos :D
Wow that mtt turbine is a monster of a bike
OH YESH bikes + 2stroke = AWESOME i LOVE bikes and 2strokes :D great video as always visio!
Great video ! As for a follow up I might suggest the mighty inline 6 CBX 1000 (the sound of it is just incredible), the Boss Hoss, and some dude who put like 12 chainsaw motors in a row to power his motorcycle ? Thanks Visio !
I had the CBX 1000 on the list, but as there were more Hondas yet on the list, I swapped it for the BMW inline-6
Oh, I see then ! Hopefully in another video ;)
The sound of the inline 6 kinda reminded me of a high revving 2JZ
I wonder why
more like the inline sixes from the M3's
haha idiot..
Anthony Levin Jean Paul I know it said that but Ik for some reason I was hearing more of a 2JZ sound
RB26 Skyline under big boost sounds better than the 2JZ.
Awesome vid! I love these quirky engine vids, but what about the three cam inline 4 prototype developed by Motoczysz? It was definitely unique.
Wow what a vlog.I dint know about so many types of engine and their placement on the bike.This opened a new horizon for learning more.Thanks
Would like to hear more about non piston engines .my knowledge is limited to Wankel rotary,are there any other kinds?
Turbine engines and there are liquid piston rotary engines but not many more. Some very obscure spherical engines that never made it to bigger production
Interesting how the engines all sound "right". The V6s sound like V6s, the inline 6s sound the part, the two-stroke fours sound a lot like flat plane V8s, the Honda V5 sounds like any other five, and so on.
I'd love to hear that tiny Honda 5 cylinder engine at some real revs. A cross between an F1 engine and a model airplane. :-)
125 cc 5 cylinder wtf. hahahaha
Love the sound of the 3 cylinder 2 stroke!
I remember reading that Rossi's contract apparently included one of the V5s. I imagine he uses it as the coolest dining table centerpiece in history.
You forgot the longitudinal inline 3 and 4's from the earlier BMW K series. Those are some funky engines. Basically a small car engine on a bike.
In my town there is an important Honda dealer, he had for a lot of years an NR750 (oval pistons) in his showroom... Jay Leno owns an Y2K... very interesting video, thanks!
The Moto Guzzi V8. Footage from Pukekohe Raceway in New Zealand.
The Honda V5 was working like V2. Firstly were triggered the three cylinders together on the one side and then the other two cylinders together. Also the BMW sound reminds M3 e46 sound.
The R1 Crossplane engine I think is pretty much the sexiest sounding engine to date. Its incredible with a decent exhaust
that first one sounds like a 20b rotor, love it👌👌👌
I've got a more complete listing of oddballs just from recent history alone:
I'd suggest in future, you take a good look at the SOHC-4 CB750K contrasted with a DOHC-4 CB900F or other UJM, the CBX 6-cyl preferably the twin-shock version, KZ1300 liquid-cooled six, GL1000 through GL1200 boxer fours & GL1500 & GL1800 Boxer sixes, ST1100 & ST1300 transverse shaft-drive V-fours, the chain-drive VF500C through VF1100C Magna & VF750S VF1100S Sabre with their shaft final-drive plus chain-drive versions VF400F through VF1000F & VF1000R INTERCEPTORS of course, VFR1200F shaft-drive with dual slip clutches - the CX500 "Twisted Twin" with it's oddly oriented cylinders allowing parallel bank carburetors on a transverse V-twin ... along with it's TURBO derivatives the CX500T & CX650T, AND the horizontal-slant SINGLES from the Honda Cub all the way through the Guzzi Nuovo Falcone 700cc with particular attention to the Benelli & Aermacchi 250-400cc versions and the "LINTO" twin with two siamese-twinned pair of Aermacchi heads, on and speaking of Benelli the Benelli-Guzzi SOHC-4 250cc, plus the 270-degree V-twin Guzzi racers which preceded their famous V-8 - OH and of course the Honda MVX250F V3 and the Jawa Type 673 V4 which it so closely resembled PLUS the Cezeta CZ Type 860 V-four air-cooled four-stroke racer, the KONIG boxer-four with TRANSVERSE crankshaft & CHAIN final-drive, Hercules single rotor air-cooled & the Suzuki RE-5 twin rotor liquid-cooled WANKEL/ROTARY powered bikes of course (thought YOU'D have 'em, what with your several rotary engine vids) plus the liquid-cooled inline triple too-smoke GT750 especially the '72 GT750J version with the puny 200mm 4LS drum (which I'm feeling like an ass for putting on my kid's KZ44LTD derived "KZ440LOL" project) Heck the KZ440LTD & KZ750LTD twin KZ305CSR & GPZ305 should count for SOMETHING being that they've all got a BELT final-drive at such an early point in motorcycle history - There's really not all that many ORDINARY bike engine configurations, perhaps the V-twins, Parallel-twins, DOHC-fours - there are a few unique series which are nevertheless so UBIQUITOUS and plentiful that they don't really SEEM unusual, like the Beemer boxer twins, or the SOHC-4 Honda CB series for instance. Honda made theirs for something like thirteen-fourteen years maybe fifteen tops - I've gotta look into the CB650 Nighthawks and see where they switched from SOHC to DOHC - Meanwhile the BMW squatted & dumped out boxer twins from the early '30s up to the present day - Brit-bikes did the same thing with Parallel twins but there were so many companies doing it the same damn way for so long it doesn't seem like they were all leaning on each other, but of course they were - no more no less than the Japanese "Big Four" have done for the past several decades. Really though, the CHAMPIONSHIP has gotta go to HONDA - 'cause they've made a bike in practically ALL of the different configurations! Plus, they've brought us the COMSTAR wheels - a poor performer in practice only, but with the BEST type of rims onboard ie the AKRONT ''NERVI'' center-flange featherweight alloy rims, in practically any & all widths & diameters any other wheel was ever made.....
you are by far the craziest engine nut I know of!
That BWM 6 was amazing and did sound just like a M3. The star of the show was the Honda NS 500! 3 cylinder 2stroke!!
Also you forgot the Suzuki rotary engine from the 70s!
the last is epic, hahaha... jetplane
Except for the spool up time. *Sigh*
It's one of its kind and epic
another great video!
One of my dream bikes is a Honda CB1000, nicknamed the CB6.
An inline 6 liter bike that sounds sooo smooth with the right pipes.
I think I-6's sound better on high revving bikes than cars.
That cross plane crank i4 sounds like a mini American v8
What about the Horex VR6 with the VW VR6 Engine or the Münch Mammutt 1000TT with a 2.0 Litre Opel Calibra Turbo engine?
Nice one as always.
For me, the Honda nr 500's engine note and the yamaha r1's one win. They sound even better in real life as well.
There are plenty of bikes with longitudinal engines. All the BMW boxers, BMW K75 & K100, the Ural and Dnepr motorcycles (boxer twins too), All the Honda Gold Wing and Silver Wing (and the related CX500), Boss Hoss... and probably more that I don't remember right now.
Inline 6 isn't a very common motorcycle engine either, should've been here too I think. CBX 1000, Kawasaki 1300 and Benelli 750 are the only three I'm aware of.
Hoping to see a Ducati SuperMono for its unique balancer, an Ariel Square Four, cause they did it before Suzuki and of course the RE5 rotary.... But never the less, well done list and clips.
Triumph Rocket 3 is Longitudinally mounted but only 3cyl (Laverda V6 question).
love this channel
Bikes. Now we're talking.
that honda inline 5 doehh sochiro honda sure he is mad enginer or mad mechanic hahahah
Boxer is the worst, nice vid btw
love the crossplane sound!
Thank you for not polluting this video with needless garbage music. The motors sing the best tunes of all.
There was the Suzuki RE5 and Van Veen OCR 1000 back in the 70's. They had rotary engines.
0:13 that inline 3 sound like a Wankel 3! Could it be mistake lol
CineRaphael exactly
nop, it's a two stroke
It is a mass produced inline 3 cylinder two stroke. Kawasaki made them from 1969 - into 1975, IIRC. I was a tech with a Kaw/Suzuki dealership in Westchester Co. , N.Y. and serviced many of them. The line up of that type included a 250cc, 350cc, 400cc, 500cc, and a 750cc. All were air cooled and for the most part quite reliable though harsh to ride. The Suzukis of the period were smoother and more refined.
dont give rob dahm any ideas
That laverda v6 sounds soooo gooood!!
Great video!!!
Oh the Y2K. the bike from the movie Torque. That was my childhood hero