If a motorcycle offered different engine choices...

[oldnslo]

It was 850cc.

[Toyuzu]

Ah, I thought I remember reading that they had two different versions of it. One was a 750, and the other a 1200. Maybe that was when they were trying to revive the Norton with a V-8?

I'm too lazy to dig through all my old magazines to find the right one.

[oldnslo]

Make that 848cc, but it was called an 850. It's on a website. Sorry not to get the address. Type morbidelli motorcycle, and it's a couple pages in.

[boingk]

hell yeah, bring back the rotary!!! lots of power, minimal vibration compared to a piston engine, and the whole thing would be perfect for shaft drive if you mounted it with the rotor/rotors across the frame....ahh....now that'd be something. i think if i'm not mistaken that a company had a go at it way back when....but it didnt really take off because it was a pioneering technology. but yeah, be awesome to have a rotary bike!

[oldnslo]

Norton did it briefly, as did Suzuki, I think. Any more?

[BuzZz]

i read some where that the katana600(the bike i have) is actually a 750cc engine with sleeves and small pistons in it to make it a 600cc engine, anyone know if thats true. and if it is why not do that with other bikes, let someone buy an r1 or whatever but sleeve it so its a 500cc size engine and reduce the power?

I think the Katana 750 is just a bore job on the Katana 600 engine, but I could be wrong as I've never researched into that exactly.

But your idea of using "sleeves and smaller pistons" isn't a bad idea as you could "upgrade" or "downgrade" the engine...

Mike.

Suzuki's entire oil-cooled engine family(GSXR, Katana, Bandit, GSX) all decended from the first GSXR-750 in 84/85. The bigbores got slightly different cases and features, but came after the 750. The parts inter-changeability across the oil-cooled family is amazing.

Honda did something similar with the CB line, didn't they? Same basic motor in different sizes offered in very similar chassis.

[Nibblet99]

All sillyness aside for a moment, I was thinking about this last night.... Yamaha already make a detuned version of the R6 engine (I believe it's used in the fazer). It's not short on power, but should still be a vast improvement to learn with.... Why not chuck it back in the R6, Sell it as a reasonable starter bike, which actually looks really good, call it something subtle like an R6 D-type, and sell it. No design or extra production costs, and the possibility to sell the same bike twice (with different engines in) to the same person, has got to make more money for yamaha doesn't it?

[High_Side]

All sillyness aside for a moment, I was thinking about this last night.... Yamaha already make a detuned version of the R6 engine (I believe it's used in the fazer). It's not short on power, but should still be a vast improvement to learn with.... Why not chuck it back in the R6, Sell it as a reasonable starter bike, which actually looks really good, call it something subtle like an R6 D-type, and sell it. No design or extra production costs, and the possibility to sell the same bike twice (with different engines in) to the same person, has got to make more money for yamaha doesn't it?

They don't do it, because nobody would buy it! It would cost the same and if you were down at the dealer looking at to buy a bike, would you buy the one with the detuned engine? I doubt many people would.......
P.S. Your sig is throwing me off...... How is your U.S.A. representative living in Alberta????

[Nibblet99]

Does being in canada, stop the tele sales guys selling to americans, over there?


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Besides, my geography is rubbish. (Well, I was alright at the colouring in bit)