Comments on: Radial Engine Sport Bike?

By: joe

joe — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:41:23 +0000

Great to see what people come up with using a bit of imagination.This one looks like a design to barbeque the rider ,the heat given off would be unbelievable. And what about the gyro forces involved when cornering.
I was thinking of slipping a Boing 747 jet engine into a bike.Now that would be interesting !

By: nortley

nortley — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:17:23 +0000

If Jimmy Stewart had ridden one of these, that scene in North By Northwest might have been even better.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:10:54 +0000

This looks to me like the kind of sketch you make when you ask “what if…you put a radial engine in a sport-bike?” The answer pretty obviously is “This, and that’s why you don’t want to do it.” Clearly, the radial engine does not fit well in a motorcycle application. Looking at the sketch does start to show why singles, inline multis, and Vees (“L”s for the ducati fans), are the engine configurations of choice for motorcycles. You engine builders out there, if you want to be different, how about a transverse “W”? Moto-Wuzzi, anyone? Or use the balancing scheme from the Ducati supermono to smooth out things in a parallel twin! I would think those would be more fertile grounds to explore.

By: NextVoiceUHear

NextVoiceUHear — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:26:47 +0000

Like yippy little dogs, some things should not be allowed to live. This is one of them. In short: BAD CAD.
NVUH

By: Ian W

Ian W — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:49:17 +0000

Well it’s a new one!
I wouldn’t read too much into it, the sketch underneath is just a copy of a ‘how to render a motorcycle in photoshop’ tutorials that’s been doing the rounds on various design websites for years.