Would Rotory engines work in bikes?

[TadMC]

Rotories have more torque than a  cylinder engine plus arent they high reving low displacement engines?

It just seems like some one would have tried this once

[rangerbrown]

they have. i cant think of the names but there are a few out there. there old as crap too. google it and you will see

[BigTwin]

Our own Suzuki had created one in the past called the RE5.

As seen here: http://www.suzukicycles.org/RE5/RE5-Rotary.shtml

-BigTwin-

[makenzie71]

The Hercules was the first, but:



...the RE5 is the most famous.

Here's some reading material...

http://www.rotaryrecycle.net/default.asp?sid=vkupcn45jfoxgf55zhynhf45

[TadMC]

wow you'd think they'd be sexier

[makenzie71]

dude...those are 30 year old bikes.  They're f%$king sexy.

[rangerbrown]

would be nice to see them back on the road with new models, hell the



NEW GS-ROTORY-F all new for 2007

[joedude]

And with the advance in technology on the aviation side for rotary engines... a small engine could develop mucho horsepower!

Sounds pretty cool too!

[makenzie71]

Screw modern...I'd love to have that RE5 up there with a fuel injected, peripheral port 6B.

[lumpoffire]

[TadMC]

I wonder how that'd sound too just idling

EDIT: on a side note, If a manufacturer were to make a rotary engine, im sure in the alpha numeric designation they would add an "R"

Such as the rotary version of the GS500F would be something like the GSR500F or GS500FR, which in turn would make insurance go up 2 billion dollars

[joedude]

what the hell is that?

[makenzie71]

that would be a Norton F1 sport.

[joedude]

Never heard of em...

[joedude]

This norton company makes some nice bikes!

[makenzie71]

Norton's the people you want to go to if you want to find a modern parallel twin.

[MarkusN]

The design study that eventually led to the katana had a rotary engine in it. Never materialized, though.

Don't see them too practical in a bike though: Gas guzzlers, and the sound is more annoying than sexy. To my ears, anyway.

[Wrecent_Wryder]

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[Jeff P]

Actually the "new" Nortons are based somewhere on the west coast I believe, and that bike in joedude's post is essentially a one-off concept that hasn't actually made it into production.  This month's Cycle World has the news that the company is closing their facilities and returning deposits while they try to attract more capital investment to get off the ground.

jeff

[ets_gs500f2004]

1 cylender of a rotary produces power of 3 normal one....... BUT the big problem is that they do prematurely use... that means it cant last as long as the other engines due to the oiling the piston and cylender is alot harder.... so i would say stick with the regular engines !!!!