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Rotarty Engine Motorcycle, readt this. very interesting.


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I found something rather interesting that I didn't know of. Apparently in 1976 Suzuki made a bike called an RE5 which was powered by a rotary engine and had alot of extremely complex shit. the lubrication system which was required for it had up until then been technology never used on a bike. It had a wet sump oil system similar to those on four stroke piston engines. But in order to properly lubricate the four piece seals it needed ANOTHER oil system. Ther tank for the second system was under the seat and fed oil into the float bowl of the carburetor like the injector system on a two stroke. The fucking carburetor is a two barrel, down draft, 18mm to 32mm car like carburetor, that weighed five pounds. The ignition system was also weird. Had two of em. one to deliver the spark under normal riding, and another one was altered ignition timing while decelerating above 1700rpm. cause the roatry engine had a bad habit popping and jumping and sometimes accerelrating when the throttle was shut off without the second system. And also there was the fact that the rotarty engine put out almost of extremly hot exhaust so they had to design a way to duct air into the exhaust system to help keep the temperature under tabs. The bike actually worked well, except for that fact that the bike weighed more than 500 pounds and they fact that the rotary loved to guzzle fuel, it only got like 30 - 35 miles to the gallon. it was a rather interesting idea... tongue.gif

-Zyklon Da Ratbiker

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There were a couple other rotary bikes made way back when. DKW did it first, and in the 80's Norton (or someone who owned the name by then) did it too.

 

Bet they'd be interesting to ride...

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