These were truly 'terror in a teacup'! The amount of technology that went into these tiny twin cylinder twin-cam 4 strokes was astronomical for the time they were produced. The fact that they actually stayed together for a complete race was even more impressive! Making around 16hp @ 21,000 rpm these little bikes would do close to 110 mph. in the straights.😮
In 1967, motorcycle GP came to Canada, it was Canada's Centennial year. The race was held at Mosport and I was able to wander into the Honda pits during practice. There was the 50cc twin being warmed up by a mechanic. I walked over and stood behind the little Honda, I could clearly see the tachometer and watched the mechanic methodically blip the throttle to 19,000 rpm. Hailwood and Agostini were also competing. I got to witness a lot of motorcycle legends that day.
The first TT race I ever saw was the 1964 50cc TT.The Hondas and Suzukis were amazing.Most of the other bikes seemed to struggle to reach 60MPH!I was back at the TT in 1966 and again watched the 50cc race.It was a massed start for the first time ever at the TT.But it was a bad idea ...they all buzzed off at the start and we had to wait about half an hour to see them again!
The fact that this has a 50cc twin Cylinder, having 16HP, near a Honda CBR150 or a CB150R, and having a top speed of around 180-190, the same as 300cc bikes. Is just amazing
That little engine used to do 20,000 rpm when racing, and ended up with a 14 speed gearbox to keep it on song. In those days Honda refused to "go two stroke), and developed the little twin. It had four-valve heads too! They used the same cylinder configuration on their five cylinder 125cc bike. Astounding technology for those times, and I remember them well at race circuits all over the placer, not least the Isle of Man where the little fifty lapped at incredible speed (around 80mph if my memory serves).... Halycon days in the development of the wonderful engines that we now take for granted on our road bikes..... :-)
Walter Tacey I guess it's not quite the same. Those pioneering days are gone, but what was learned then we now get to enjoy every day on the roads. I have a 25 year old Honda CBR600, and such a machine was undreamed of back in the 60s and 70s. The latest versions of it are really 'hard edged' and not for old girls like me these days, but the milder sports-tourers we ride now would have acquitted themselves well at the "Island" back then, and the supersports machines of today would leave those old bikes for dead.. I still get goosebumps, though, when I see a nice Vincent, Norton, Triumph or BSA from that era. The designs were, by 21st century standards, crude, but those bikes had a "je ne sais quoi" that is often lacking in modern iron. Still, it's nice to have a bike that starts at the press of a button, doesn't stop when it rains, holds the road like a limpet, stops on a dime, uses little gas and goes like a rat up a drainpipe! I was off bikes for some 20-odd years from the late 70's, and when I got back on one (a 400 Katana) the advances in tyres, brakes and handling were quite startling, not to mention the sheer grunt of that little 400cc motor. I love technology! xo
It's a lot more FUN to ride a small displacement motorcycle to it's limits, than a larger one! I have owned many many bikes, and one of the most fun, 'purist' ones i've had is my 1982 50cc, 2-stroke, Honda MB5. It is a 5-speed, 7HP screamer that can hit 55, even with my 220 pound frame!
Some of the craziest fun I've had is with shitty cars. There is something very fun in pushing a SEAT Inca with its 64hp engine to its limits on a mountain road. It's also great fun to scare people with that since they never expect a courier van so stupidly fast around hairpins and all.
I ride a fireblade at the moment which is a great bike; but my most fun biking was my MC21, i paid a small fortune ( to me at the time in the early 90's) for it and it was worth every penny and every penny of every motor rebuild. Get more enjoyment like you say out of small capacity machines.
Same here. My MB5 redlined at 10500rpm. It was fun to pass the officers running radar in a 25 mph zone, drop a gear to second, hold 9500 rpm, see the officer perk up expecting to nab a speeder, and here I come, engine screaming, doing about 23 mph.
This bike is a marvel of machining. Shoichiro Irimajiri designed it, the president of Sega Genesis video game systems. Achieving 21,500rpm, 9 speed transmissions and over 110mph on a 50cc was a feat for 1966. Irimajiri also made the RC147 5 cylinder 125cc, RC166 250cc six cylinder, 1.5Litre V12 RA271 Formula car, Oval pistpn NR500, and the CBX1000 six cylinder bike. All his machines were four strokes, all hondas bikes in the 60s were four stroke.
@@hh-pk6pl forget the cylinder. Its piston was so tiny just 25cc, smaller than single 50cc. Its equal with single 50cc volume and power. And the end, only suzuki with 2 piston in rk67 with 14 speed that could beat this bike. No one 50cc 2t shit get podium in its last race with single cylinder.
@@febriyogapratama7462 Honda would have beaten Suzuki with their 3 cylinder 50cc bike they were designing but the rules changed and only 2 cylinders were allowed in the 50cc class.
Angry little gnat. At these high revs, with radical valve timing and cams.. these super high output 4 strokes begin to sound very much like 2 strokes. obviously a little tuning still to do.
The RC116 for 1966 was the result of developmental work on the RC115 a year earlier. It was an inline Twin with a 33mm Bore and 29mm stroke. 32mm's is equal to 1"-1/4" inch, so add another .040 thousandth and you have your cylinder bore. It had 4 valve per cylinder and was rated at 16bhp @ 20,500rpm although knowledable insiders say the HP was closer to 20bhp ( Honda never gives true HP numbers) Much like other Honda small CC RRers it relied on high RPM and with the narrow powerband even with redline being over 20,000 rpms, it incorporated a 9 speed gearbox. When you consider Honda's little Street Sport 50cc motorcycle designated C110 and producing 5bhp. This would be a rocket in comparison. as you can see by the Video Demo; if you hadn't been told it was only a 50cc motorcycle, you more than likely wouldn't have believed it. The RC116 won 3 out of 6 FIM Races in 66 and grabbed the Mfgers title. Another little RRer marvel from Honda Racing ...
You're right except for one thing: the power figure was 16 PS - i.e., it was the rear wheel power. Crankshaft power was 18.8 PS @ 21,500 rpm, red line at 22,500 rpm.
This bike's engine had the highest specific output (bhp per litre) ever recorded for any naturally aspirated (not turbo or supercharged) four-stroke engine. Today's MotoGP and F1 units don't even get close. Honda were working on a 3-cylinder 50cc race motor when the decision was taken to drop out of the 50cc GP class. The 2-strokes won in the end but Honda held them off for a very long time.
@@gourishankar52 Yes, the book "Honda's Four-Stroke Race History" is still in print, you can order it from Rosedog Books, 701 Smithfield street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. ISBN: 978-1-4349-8083-0. The price is $ 19.00.
@@gourishankar52 When I visited the Honda museum in Osaka some time ago, I asked Ozaki Mitsuo, the head of restoration about it, and he said that a 50 cc three cylinder was built, and underwent a 24 hour test on the dyno, but since Honda stopped their GP efforts, the project was not pursued. He didn't know what became of the engine.
Wicked sounding little bike. I couldn't help but imagine having this engine on on an old Sears, Daimler Puch , 49cc Mo-ped, or something similar, and cruising around and someone on a larger, 80mph, top speed motorcycle, picking on me, which did happen, a couple of times, when I was a kid.
There are so many videos of classic Honda bikes being demonstrated in that same “parking lot” that I have to imagine it all happened on one hell of a demo day!
When Ralph Bryan's was riding it at the IOM the rev limit was about 17 thou, when he finished the race the mechanics asked him what he was revving it to as they knew by the sound of it that it wasn't 17, he said 21 thousand odd. He told them that was what he had to do to keep up with the Suzukis so they altered the rev limit then to suit !
These little monsters were anything but fun to ride, as a narrow power band and minimal contact patch meant you had to keep "rowing" from gear to gear, continuously, to stay "on the boil". Add in the bumpy, often slick road courses of the era and you can see why Hugh Anderson and the other 50cc class riders were complaining. Note the bicycle-type rim brakes as well. Rotsaruck with stopping power on those. The FIM instituted a minimum 50kg weight limit for riders, forcing some of the tiny Japanese guys to carry a lead weight belt to qualify. The 125s were marginally better; when I rode Redman's ex-250 four-cylinder at Suzuka in 1968 I found it very steady and forgiving (except for the tires, which along with suspension were far behind the rest of the engineering). You can hear these tiny singles and twins at the IoM TT on old recordings from miles away, a jumpy nervous scream as they bounced from bump to bump. Honda even built a 3cyl 50 prototype, which they smuggled into Suzuka in the back seat of a taxi to evade motorcycle journalists. Never raced it though..
The Motorcycle model was from 1966 The video footage was from 2012. First of all before you all mock the video footage, read the description of the video.
no idle. power band to high /short..notice even when warm and running it needed a push. these are built to run at 10k min and redline at 25k happiest at 19k missiles.
I love how Honda shows their realibility and their confiance by besides another companies they turn those historical things on to at least register it and keep it alive
+leopold klop This is not a matter of debate or opinion mate - it's a simple question of FACT. The fact is this is a four-stroke engine and you having a smoke theory won't make camshafts and valves vanish.
my 56 year old uncle phil had a honda cb50 back in his youth,if this mods and high revving was done to his bike.parts, pistons and coils etc will be all over the place
I suppose why 9 gears, cause power range is very high and maybe not very wide, the short gears keep the rev in that range when accelerating, more gears (between) than normaly.
Still the only motorsport category that’s affordable. Nobody understands why the 50cc class was abandoned. Just when I was 16! Officially the age that we’re allowed to ride 50s! SMH
14hp on a 50kg bike Let's say the rider is about 85 the Total weight would be 135kg so the power to weight ratio would be around 280hp per ton on 20k rpms that's pretty hardcore to be honest
+Nacho Frostman All Honda GP bikes in the 1960s were 4 strokes, and they were insane. 50cc twin, 125cc five cylinders, 250cc & 350cc 6 cylinders. They all had redlines in the 18-20,000rpm range and almost no flywheel. They would not idle, but would only run cleanly around the redline. Oh, and they were LOUD.
Engines are capable of producing so much more power than people realize. Road vehicle are limited so that engines can’t blow themselves within the warrantee period if people abuse them
I know they are saying in the comments below that this is a 4 stroke but, i have never heard a 4 stroke have that 2 stroke twang to it , and and exhaust smoke from oil & gas mixed.
Jebus frackin' cripes -- there are plenty of engineering diagrams for this mill posted online. Ever see intake and exhaust valves in the cylinder head of a 2-stroke?
@@mantrapjicker It's you who has no clue about engines. Why do all you idiots keep on saying it's a two-stroke, when you can read anywhere the Honda history, especially in my book "Honda's Four-Stroke Race History 1954 ~ 1981".
Air cool 50cc twin
max power ：16hp
max rotation ：22500
max spped ：175km/h
+朱大寶 what the . . . .amaziing
this is why I choose Honda moto,my scooter is Honda sh150 made in 2014
+朱大寶 THAT,is impressive!!! Wow!!!
+朱大寶 Chinese Honda, made by chinese people, because of something in 1966? :D
Really? A 50cc with a top speed of 175km/h? That's incredible! Even if the sounds is little bit weird...
That's the most fearsome sounding 50 I've ever heard.
Honda Not more no less. Cause the Best!!
Imagine doing its top speed on that tiny thing, don't think you'd feel very safe
58kg , 16hp , top end of about 118mph ( 188kmh ) lapped the IOM at 85mph , all this in 1966 , very impressive
Donald Walklett Thats crazy just double the size of a average weed whacker.
They use a high quality camera in 1966. Impressive.
@@pritzjay hey this is 66' model... 😅😊😊😅
50cc...
Sorry, but there were no digital video cameras in 1966. This movie is a lot more recent, still the motorcycle is awesome.
These were truly 'terror in a teacup'! The amount of technology that went into these tiny twin cylinder twin-cam 4 strokes was astronomical for the time they were produced. The fact that they actually stayed together for a complete race was even more impressive! Making around 16hp @ 21,000 rpm these little bikes would do close to 110 mph. in the straights.😮
Its a 2 stroke....
@@Tangobaldy no,,, its 4 stroke,, created by honda to beat suzuki 2 stroke 50 cc
That is deff no 4 stroke. You can easily tell it’s a 2 stroke
@@jonnysnipes3123 Search 'Honda RC 116 race bike' on Wikipedia. They're definitely ultra high revving 4 stroke engines.🙄
@@jonnysnipes3123 4 stroke actually, you should probably educate yourself before leaving comments that make you look unintelligent.
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@@Deckay_F ты не прав братка... этот моцык отвечаю четкий
In 1967, motorcycle GP came to Canada, it was Canada's Centennial year. The race was held at Mosport and I was able to wander into the Honda pits during practice. There was the 50cc twin being warmed up by a mechanic. I walked over and stood behind the little Honda, I could clearly see the tachometer and watched the mechanic methodically blip the throttle to 19,000 rpm.
Hailwood and Agostini were also competing. I got to witness a lot of motorcycle legends that day.
Thank you Mr. Honda for letting your people make some of the greatest motorcycles ever made in the RC series.
Each Honda from Japan is a Masterpiece of Engeneering !!!
Damn quality 1960s camera they had
XD
66 is model u dummy, vid 7 years ago
@@randomthing4639 r/woosh
this is indeed an r/woosh moment
Lol shithead
The first TT race I ever saw was the 1964 50cc TT.The Hondas and Suzukis were amazing.Most of the other bikes seemed to struggle to reach 60MPH!I was back at the TT in 1966 and again watched the 50cc race.It was a massed start for the first time ever at the TT.But it was a bad idea ...they all buzzed off at the start and we had to wait about half an hour to see them again!
Plot twist: cameraman was making bike noise with his mouth.
LOL
Beatboxer
LOL
XDDDD
Are you sure he was using his mouth?
戦後20年でこんなバイク作ってんだから50年後は空を飛ぶバイクも作れると思っちゃうなw
The fact that this has a 50cc twin Cylinder, having 16HP, near a Honda CBR150 or a CB150R, and having a top speed of around 180-190, the same as 300cc bikes. Is just amazing
And in 1966!
By comparison, even an F1 engine with special fuel and such, cannot beat this bikes power to weight ratio.
2 stroke power
@@diogoribeiro3811 no, it's 4 stroke.
@@orangepekoe7096it’s a 2 stroke. You can hear the sound very easily
Can never replace that
awesome shifting sound
Love how happy the crew looked seeing it run :)
A 50 cc 2 cilinder 4 stroke motorcycle??? That is not a motorcycle, that is a Swiss watch!
,we are ASEAN country can make anything coz nothing possible is impossible
This is the best in they era dump ass... This is 1966 motor cycle... Dont you read the caption...
hahahaha true
@@norizalejan7251 actually this not made by ASEAN
I remember reading somewhere that Honda actually hired Swiss watchmaking engineers to help in designing these motors.
When your starter motor (generator) is larger than your your own motor...
It's not the starter is real quiet the loud noise is the bike
Randomthing1222
The starter motor is in the beginning and allows the bike to start.. it's larger than the engine on the bike.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Tom Jones sound nice
the bike is a 4stroke aswell
That little engine used to do 20,000 rpm when racing, and ended up with a 14 speed gearbox to keep it on song. In those days Honda refused to "go two stroke), and developed the little twin. It had four-valve heads too! They used the same cylinder configuration on their five cylinder 125cc bike. Astounding technology for those times, and I remember them well at race circuits all over the placer, not least the Isle of Man where the little fifty lapped at incredible speed (around 80mph if my memory serves).... Halycon days in the development of the wonderful engines that we now take for granted on our road bikes..... :-)
Indeed, great days - is it me, or are things just not the same anymore?
Walter Tacey I guess it's not quite the same. Those pioneering days are gone, but what was learned then we now get to enjoy every day on the roads. I have a 25 year old Honda CBR600, and such a machine was undreamed of back in the 60s and 70s. The latest versions of it are really 'hard edged' and not for old girls like me these days, but the milder sports-tourers we ride now would have acquitted themselves well at the "Island" back then, and the supersports machines of today would leave those old bikes for dead..
I still get goosebumps, though, when I see a nice Vincent, Norton, Triumph or BSA from that era. The designs were, by 21st century standards, crude, but those bikes had a "je ne sais quoi" that is often lacking in modern iron.
Still, it's nice to have a bike that starts at the press of a button, doesn't stop when it rains, holds the road like a limpet, stops on a dime, uses little gas and goes like a rat up a drainpipe!
I was off bikes for some 20-odd years from the late 70's, and when I got back on one (a 400 Katana) the advances in tyres, brakes and handling were quite startling, not to mention the sheer grunt of that little 400cc motor.
I love technology! xo
no not a 14 speed the Suzuki 50 cc twin did however
cidertom You are quite correct,, it was the Suzuki with the "eleventy speed gearbox"... I think the Honda had 8 or 9.... it was a long time ago... :-)
this is in the days before I was born in 79!!!!! it sounds incredible
It's a lot more FUN to ride a small displacement motorcycle to it's limits, than a larger one! I have owned many many bikes, and one of the most fun, 'purist' ones i've had is my 1982 50cc, 2-stroke, Honda MB5. It is a 5-speed, 7HP screamer that can hit 55, even with my 220 pound frame!
its always better to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow
Some of the craziest fun I've had is with shitty cars. There is something very fun in pushing a SEAT Inca with its 64hp engine to its limits on a mountain road. It's also great fun to scare people with that since they never expect a courier van so stupidly fast around hairpins and all.
I ride a fireblade at the moment which is a great bike; but my most fun biking was my MC21, i paid a small fortune ( to me at the time in the early 90's) for it and it was worth every penny and every penny of every motor rebuild. Get more enjoyment like you say out of small capacity machines.
Same here. My MB5 redlined at 10500rpm. It was fun to pass the officers running radar in a 25 mph zone, drop a gear to second, hold 9500 rpm, see the officer perk up expecting to nab a speeder, and here I come, engine screaming, doing about 23 mph.
This bike is a marvel of machining. Shoichiro Irimajiri designed it, the president of Sega Genesis video game systems. Achieving 21,500rpm, 9 speed transmissions and over 110mph on a 50cc was a feat for 1966. Irimajiri also made the RC147 5 cylinder 125cc, RC166 250cc six cylinder, 1.5Litre V12 RA271 Formula car, Oval pistpn NR500, and the CBX1000 six cylinder bike. All his machines were four strokes, all hondas bikes in the 60s were four stroke.
rc166 250 cc 4 stroke 6 cylinder DOHC can compete with dual cylinder 250 cc 2 stroke Yamaha and Suzuki, Honda is trully king of 4 stroke.
@@babaabdul6510 4 strokes suck balls. If ICE have a future, it's 2 stroke.
Honda won half of the races those days!! 16bhp for a Twin50cc was too much for 60's
Jim Pink of Wallingford held the track record at Silverstone on one of these
@@susanadams8595 Mr. Pink never rode a Honda GP twin!
Some of the single 2 stroke 50cc were getting 20+hp
@@hh-pk6pl forget the cylinder. Its piston was so tiny just 25cc, smaller than single 50cc. Its equal with single 50cc volume and power.
And the end, only suzuki with 2 piston in rk67 with 14 speed that could beat this bike. No one 50cc 2t shit get podium in its last race with single cylinder.
@@febriyogapratama7462 Honda would have beaten Suzuki with their 3 cylinder 50cc bike they were designing but the rules changed and only 2 cylinders were allowed in the 50cc class.
Angry little gnat. At these high revs, with radical valve timing and cams.. these super high output 4 strokes begin to sound very much like 2 strokes. obviously a little tuning still to do.
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The 1960's were by far the best decade for technical interest in motorcycle racing.
The RC116 for 1966 was the result of developmental work on the RC115 a year earlier. It was an inline Twin with a 33mm Bore and 29mm stroke. 32mm's is equal to 1"-1/4" inch, so add another .040 thousandth and you have your cylinder bore. It had 4 valve per cylinder and was rated at 16bhp @ 20,500rpm although knowledable insiders say the HP was closer to 20bhp ( Honda never gives true HP numbers) Much like other Honda small CC RRers it relied on high RPM and with the narrow powerband even with redline being over 20,000 rpms, it incorporated a 9 speed gearbox. When you consider Honda's little Street Sport 50cc motorcycle designated C110 and producing 5bhp. This would be a rocket in comparison. as you can see by the Video Demo; if you hadn't been told it was only a 50cc motorcycle, you more than likely wouldn't have believed it. The RC116 won 3 out of 6 FIM Races in 66 and grabbed the Mfgers title. Another little RRer marvel from Honda Racing ...
You're right except for one thing: the power figure was 16 PS - i.e., it was the rear wheel power. Crankshaft power was 18.8 PS @ 21,500 rpm, red line at 22,500 rpm.
Hard to believe that there was room for a spark plug. I think they were only 8 mm
This bike's engine had the highest specific output (bhp per litre) ever recorded for any naturally aspirated (not turbo or supercharged) four-stroke engine. Today's MotoGP and F1 units don't even get close. Honda were working on a 3-cylinder 50cc race motor when the decision was taken to drop out of the 50cc GP class. The 2-strokes won in the end but Honda held them off for a very long time.
Thank you, Sir, for quoting from my book!
Hi Joep. Which book? Is it still in print?
@@gourishankar52 Yes, the book "Honda's Four-Stroke Race History" is still in print, you can order it from Rosedog Books, 701 Smithfield street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. ISBN: 978-1-4349-8083-0. The price is $ 19.00.
Hi Joep. Do any plans, photos or sketches exist of Honda's 3 cylinder 50cc race engine?
@@gourishankar52 When I visited the Honda museum in Osaka some time ago, I asked Ozaki Mitsuo, the head of restoration about it, and he said that a 50 cc three cylinder was built, and underwent a 24 hour test on the dyno, but since Honda stopped their GP efforts, the project was not pursued. He didn't know what became of the engine.
Wicked sounding little bike. I couldn't help but imagine having this engine on on an old Sears, Daimler Puch , 49cc Mo-ped, or something similar, and cruising around and someone on a larger, 80mph, top speed motorcycle, picking on me, which did happen, a couple of times, when I was a kid.
I wanted one of these and also the 6 cyl 250cc, when I was a very young teenager....Honda was so ahead of everyone back in those years.....
Didn't they make a five cylinder 50?
Hey, i want it too.
But if this bike was produce again, i wanna take rc115
@@ronalddaub7965 the regulation didnt allow honda make more cylinder on their 50cc race bikes.
With 4 st. 50cc twin, honda shock the theory
There are so many videos of classic Honda bikes being demonstrated in that same “parking lot” that I have to imagine it all happened on one hell of a demo day!
One of the masterpiece of crazy 60s era
Used to love the smell of the vegetable based Castrol R that 4 strokes used in those far off halcyon days.
+John R I smelled that when visiting the IOM in 1971.
+John R two strokes used it too.
When Ralph Bryan's was riding it at the IOM the rev limit was about 17 thou, when he finished the race the mechanics asked him what he was revving it to as they knew by the sound of it that it wasn't 17, he said 21 thousand odd. He told them that was what he had to do to keep up with the Suzukis so they altered the rev limit then to suit !
Random TH-cam recommendations 😂
Thank you to visit my chanel.
@@Deckay_F you reply after 7 years video
These little monsters were anything but fun to ride, as a narrow power band and minimal contact patch meant you had to keep "rowing" from gear to gear, continuously, to stay "on the boil". Add in the bumpy, often slick road courses of the era and you can see why Hugh Anderson and the other 50cc class riders were complaining.
Note the bicycle-type rim brakes as well. Rotsaruck with stopping power on those.
The FIM instituted a minimum 50kg weight limit for riders, forcing some of the tiny Japanese guys to carry a lead weight belt to qualify.
The 125s were marginally better; when I rode Redman's ex-250 four-cylinder at Suzuka in 1968 I found it very steady and forgiving (except for the tires, which along with suspension were far behind the rest of the engineering).
You can hear these tiny singles and twins at the IoM TT on old recordings from miles away, a jumpy nervous scream as they bounced from bump to bump.
Honda even built a 3cyl 50 prototype, which they smuggled into Suzuka in the back seat of a taxi to evade motorcycle journalists. Never raced it though..
The weight limit was for the bikes, not the riders!
This thing is insane
Apparently Suzuki's answer to this bike dominating GP and IOM was supposed to be a 50cc *triple* with a *fourteen* speed gearbox
Jesus that would sound incredible!
So 2 very tiny 25cc cylinders, nice nice 👍🏼
Ok now. This finally gave me the confidence to participate at the TT Isle of Man.
2:36 start buibui
Never thought a 50cc 4 stroke would sound THIS intimidating!!
Well it sounds like a 2 stroke tho. Correct me if im wrong.
@@vanderVies792 The higher the state of tune of a (normally aspirated) 4 stroke, the more it behaves and sounds like a 2 stroke, or so I have read.
Rim brakes on the front wheel!
Just like my bicycle.
I was wondering about that!
Still 2 stroke killer at 60's
Soichiro-san was crazy genius for this little demon
This 70 years ago n it held together, now my respect for Honda climes up like missile
More like 54 years ago!
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22,000 rpm? Wow! In 1966?
Who else got this in their recommendations 7 years later?
50cc, three technicians, three cameramen and one rider. I'd call that very cool indeed
i love that it wont even run below 5k
Idling RPM higher than my car's max RPM
Me: Why?
TH-cam recommendation: Why not? :^)
Then came Honda's 250 6 cylinder gp bike.
Awesome!
50cc frickin awesome what a noise , best bike I ever heard was think z650 sounded similar like ripping metal
9 gears is not wierd.. kreidler made a 14 gears 50 cc racer once
lars kristensen kreidler with a "drie bakvoet"w
lars kristensen And Suzuki's 18 geared ;)
and suzuki even developed a V3 50 cc!!!!!!!!!!!! two stroke kriedler made one with a 12 speed
kreidler 12 gerabox
I wonder what the power output would be if it was a two stroke
probably has about the cutest little valves you ever seen.
2 strokes don't have valves
@@TurboNuke26
Of course they don't,that would be just silly .
@ds 23
People don't believe it because of the sound , but it ain't running till it hits like 10k🤣
Inlet valves 13 mm (x2), exhaust valves 11.5 mm (x2).
@@joepkortekaas8813
To get an idea of that size , grab a couple of wrenches and look at them.
Jus look at em!!😄
The Motorcycle model was from 1966
The video footage was from 2012.
First of all before you all mock the video footage, read the description of the video.
what does that thing idle at, 5000 rpm? or does it even idle?
+69roadr Not Idle, don't have Flywheel
no idle. power band to high /short..notice even when warm and running it needed a push. these are built to run at 10k min and redline at 25k happiest at 19k
missiles.
+69roadr i think its either full throttle or stall .
ちなみにですが、「スズキ」は試作で50ｃｃ」90度Ｖ型3気筒の2ストエンジンを造りましたが、ピーキーすぎて使い物にならず、結局お蔵入り（というか廃棄）になったそうです。レーサーか関係者が密かに部品を持ち帰り、「形だけ」は残っているというのを、某バイクの専門書で見ました。
2 cylinder 50cc?! The pistons must be the size of shot glasses.
Ramond Ferreal thimbles!
bore 32mm (1 3/8") stroke 29mm (1 3/16")
@@russelldawkins3408 No, bore 35.5 mm, stroke 25.14 mm.
I love how Honda shows their realibility and their confiance by besides another companies they turn those historical things on to at least register it and keep it alive
Wow ! I am build in 1966. And my Mom says "The same sound every day, week, month. At 18 years old it got better . Today i am 53 ! ;-)
What are you trying to say??🤯
@@nusratkhan5386 Hä ? Honda RC116 (1966) I'am borne in the same Year and i make the same sounds ... every day, week, month. !!!
@@DocHolle1 ohh...
@@DocHolle1 rc166 sounds like a v12 f1 tho..... check that out. Its a 1966 as well!!!
DETROIT !!!! Rode my Honda 50 mini motorcycle. It was oldest first built bike when I little kid in Detroit.
A pit crew and 2 1/2 mins to start a 50cc motorcycle must be pretty serious 🤣🤣
How many gears grate sound. Wish I could smell the castrol R👃
Twin cylinder four stroke. What an engine.
+Hannu Mäkynen This sounds more like a 2-stroke in my ears...
+Berta Riise cause its a 2stroke
+MrProkiller98 No it's not mate. Jeez, look up Honda's racing history.
+MrProkiller98 not the two stroke years .this is 4 stroke all the way.
+leopold klop This is not a matter of debate or opinion mate - it's a simple question of FACT. The fact is this is a four-stroke engine and you having a smoke theory won't make camshafts and valves vanish.
These sounds Last for Ever&Make you Realise What Fantastic Machinery there was& IS WOW
Absolutely amazing! :)
my 56 year old uncle phil had a honda cb50 back in his youth,if this mods and high revving was done to his bike.parts, pistons and coils etc will be all over the place
This is my shit , I love small engines with big power
I suppose why 9 gears, cause power range is very high and maybe not very wide, the short gears keep the rev in that range when accelerating, more gears (between) than normaly.
3:12 this what I call a superbike sound
They never showed the 50cc racing on TV But I find those races very enjoyable as well
Still the only motorsport category that’s affordable. Nobody understands why the 50cc class was abandoned. Just when I was 16! Officially the age that we’re allowed to ride 50s! SMH
Kok suara nya bisa menggelegar gtu yaa? Padahal cuma 50cc 2 silinder, ada yg bisa jelasin?
soalnya rpm-nya tinggi
2 tak bro
@@gabutmax451 4tak bro.
*is that the same bike luigi taveri used during the 1966 world championship 50cc class?*
Yes.
Sangar suaranya😍
Orang indonesia like👍👍
14hp on a 50kg bike
Let's say the rider is about 85
the Total weight would be 135kg
so the power to weight ratio would be
around 280hp per ton on 20k rpms
that's pretty hardcore to be honest
when that thing is on the pipe sounds like a swarm angry hornets
お疲れ様です。素晴らしい！！
ありがとうございます！
Gotta be the most badass 50cc motor of all time.
Is that the honda museum' s driver?
Yes, His name is Hikaru Miyagi who honda facvory NSR500 rider in 1988〜1991.
@@Deckay_F Grazie.
It is a 2 stroke or a 4 stroke bike?
2 stroke.
+Nacho Frostman 4 stroke!!!!! bro look the pipes and listen the sound
Didn't minded the pipes
loool sure ahah
+Nacho Frostman All Honda GP bikes in the 1960s were 4 strokes, and they were insane. 50cc twin, 125cc five cylinders, 250cc & 350cc 6 cylinders. They all had redlines in the 18-20,000rpm range and almost no flywheel. They would not idle, but would only run cleanly around the redline. Oh, and they were LOUD.
Cool stuff, I like the fact, they used bicycle front brake on those...
2019?
Gtfo
At first you don't think much of that little motorcycle... then, it fires up! Wow!
カブにこのエンジン積んでみたい(笑)
What sort of brakes does it have or did they dispense with them because they only slowed the bike down ;)
Caliper brakes like on bicycles, on the front anyway
How amazing the engineering in 1966
Engines are capable of producing so much more power than people realize. Road vehicle are limited so that engines can’t blow themselves within the warrantee period if people abuse them
いい音だ・・・
nice sound
I’ve always wondered what 46,300rpm’s sounds like.
I sure would love to get my hands on one of those motors.
The power of dreams
I know they are saying in the comments below that this is a 4 stroke but, i have never heard a 4 stroke have that 2 stroke twang to it , and and exhaust smoke from oil & gas mixed.
Jebus frackin' cripes -- there are plenty of engineering diagrams for this mill posted online. Ever see intake and exhaust valves in the cylinder head of a 2-stroke?
it's a 2 stroke they obviously have no clue about engines.
Julian Hiatt no you are wrong. It's four stroke.
@@mantrapjicker It's you who has no clue about engines. Why do all you idiots keep on saying it's a two-stroke, when you can read anywhere the Honda history, especially in my book "Honda's Four-Stroke Race History 1954 ~ 1981".
市販車で、気筒数は500ｃｃまでなら単気筒でもかまわない、という考えですが、９速ミッションとか出して欲しいな。どうしてもエンジンの気筒数にフォーカスがいきがちですが、減速機の魅力も捨てたもんじゃ無いと思います・
Banzai
@@narpchanel 賛成か
ibuki okuyama バカやろ、おまえ
凄く楽しそうですね！
*パッと見フルカウルついてるチャリンコ*
Dream Fighter それw
7 tahun lalu baru di rekomendasiin youtube?
2stみたいな音しますね
We got to hear about 10k RPM?
Moto gp 1900 50 cc, 12 Gear woww😎😎
No.... 250cc six cilinder 4 stroke
Just wondering about this motorcycle gas consumption... Any idea?
8 valves in 50cc? Damn that's so tiny IWANNIT SO BAD