Comments on: Confederate Teams with S&S for New Hellcat – Plans Return to New Orleans http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/16/confederate-teams-with-ss-for-new-hellcat-plans-return-to-new-orleans/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: todd http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/16/confederate-teams-with-ss-for-new-hellcat-plans-return-to-new-orleans/#comment-275529 todd Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:02:22 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=11038#comment-275529 the singles I have and had never vibrated as bad as my twins - except the boxers, those can be as bad as a single at some rpms. I've never ridden a new, rubber mounted harley but I've ridden isolastic twins (Nortons) and those are smooth. To each his own. I do love the smooth, effortless power that an inline-4 makes but every "real" motorcycle I've ridden has any number of different engine configurations, all giving different (or the same) riding experience. Don't limit yourself. -todd the singles I have and had never vibrated as bad as my twins – except the boxers, those can be as bad as a single at some rpms. I’ve never ridden a new, rubber mounted harley but I’ve ridden isolastic twins (Nortons) and those are smooth.

To each his own. I do love the smooth, effortless power that an inline-4 makes but every “real” motorcycle I’ve ridden has any number of different engine configurations, all giving different (or the same) riding experience. Don’t limit yourself.

-todd

]]> By: Boog http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/16/confederate-teams-with-ss-for-new-hellcat-plans-return-to-new-orleans/#comment-275516 Boog Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:10:19 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=11038#comment-275516 Well, I may be ill-informed, but most V-twins I have had the dubious pleasure to ride for any length of time are usually enormously uncomfortable in engine vibration. I am not including L-twins like the Ducati or Laverda OR vertical twins. I cut my teeth on vertical twins and they were ok, if not the smoothest. Just call me prejudiced, as the first inline four I threw a leg over was like riding an electric-motor powered bike...there was not nearly enough O's in smooth to describe the experience...but then again, this was way back in the sixties. Now, some will say "what about those jackhammer singles?" Well, they have a certain chutzpah of their own, regardless of the vibration! Speaking of boxer twins, I have got my eye on a Ural sidecar rig...never owned a sidecar rig, and the price is right...but this is a topic for another thread. Sorry for the hijack! Well, I may be ill-informed, but most V-twins I have had the dubious pleasure to ride for any length of time are usually enormously uncomfortable in engine vibration. I am not including L-twins like the Ducati or Laverda OR vertical twins. I cut my teeth on vertical twins and they were ok, if not the smoothest. Just call me prejudiced, as the first inline four I threw a leg over was like riding an electric-motor powered bike…there was not nearly enough O’s in smooth to describe the experience…but then again, this was way back in the sixties. Now, some will say “what about those jackhammer singles?” Well, they have a certain chutzpah of their own, regardless of the vibration!

Speaking of boxer twins, I have got my eye on a Ural sidecar rig…never owned a sidecar rig, and the price is right…but this is a topic for another thread. Sorry for the hijack!

]]> By: Richard Gozinya http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/16/confederate-teams-with-ss-for-new-hellcat-plans-return-to-new-orleans/#comment-275331 Richard Gozinya Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:35:08 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=11038#comment-275331 Boog, maybe you're forgetting about Ducati, with its L-Twin, or the BMW boxer, or the infinitely cool Moto Guzzi engine. Inline 4s are nice, but they have advantages and disadvantages, just like every other configuration. Saying twins aren't real bikes is as lame and ill-informed as when Harley riders say that about non-Harleys. Boog, maybe you’re forgetting about Ducati, with its L-Twin, or the BMW boxer, or the infinitely cool Moto Guzzi engine. Inline 4s are nice, but they have advantages and disadvantages, just like every other configuration. Saying twins aren’t real bikes is as lame and ill-informed as when Harley riders say that about non-Harleys.

]]> By: Boog http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/16/confederate-teams-with-ss-for-new-hellcat-plans-return-to-new-orleans/#comment-275241 Boog Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:27:58 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=11038#comment-275241 Here's a lozenge.... Yeah, triples and sixes MIGHT qualify... Here’s a lozenge….

Yeah, triples and sixes MIGHT qualify…

]]> By: aaron http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2010/04/16/confederate-teams-with-ss-for-new-hellcat-plans-return-to-new-orleans/#comment-275235 aaron Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:55:49 +0000 http://thekneeslider.com/?p=11038#comment-275235 *COUGH* boog - you forgot triples and 6cyls... *COUGH*

boog – you forgot triples and 6cyls…

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