Totally disagree that a liter bike is pointless on the street. In fact, I think a strong case can be made that they’re better street cruisers than a 600. I used to love my CBR600RR, but the CONSTANT shifting that you had to do if you wanted that thing to do anything except bog was a pita. Liter bikes don’t have that…

The bike never goes faster than you let it.

I say spend $10,000 on a truck and the rest of the budget on food and hotels, you’ll have a lot more fun than you would living out of this Star Trek-mobile.

I don’t care if it beats the record, it’s still a squid with no gear. It should learn how to ride a 250 or 300 before it tries to break records on a liter bike maybe then it wouldn’t take until 2017

v2.0?

Just ignore the low load section of the above illustration. If you are optimizing for power, you aren’t going to be concern about what happens at low engine load.

Another advantage of electronically controlled hydraulic VVT is that cam chain wear can be compensated for continuously and automatically keeping cam timing precise as the cam chain “stretches”.

No R8 V8 anymore, I'm afraid. No h8 m8 it was gr8

I can tell it probably has cylinders, uses gas, and has a red Honda cover.

For one they switched the exhaust side to the front of the car instead of the firewall side which will make pulling the turbo out easier. The compressor inlet pipe sits directly above the turbine housing which is concerning. The wastegate is indeed electronically controlled as you can see the black solenoid connected…

We love the BMW New Class coupes around these parts, but did you know there was an electric 1602 as well? Road & Track says BMW built one in 1972 with a 32 kW electric motor and nearly 1,000 pounds of batteries that required swapping out entirely when they were out of juice. Charging? Overrated.

I said the same thing five minutes after I climbed up Pikes Peak...and then five days later I wanted to do it again. Humans, we’re freakin’ crazy

This is a good post. I wish this was the kind of info Tavarish had instead of his usual proclamations, followed by defensiveness in the comments about how anyone can fix an Audi S4 by watching youtube videos and he’s done it himself etc. You CAN own an old luxury car, yes. But unless you make a living writing a blog…

Literally found out about this just this morning. Millyard V12 Kawasaki: