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Cruisers, sportbikes, dualsport, touring?..... Posted by Mike Lynch [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: V-twin, 4 cyl, litre bikes....basic explanation needed., Thom, Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:31:39 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Cruisers are mostly V-twins, including all Harleys and immitators. Sportbikes are mostly transverse inline fours, although there are quite a few V-twins from the Japs and the Italians. Touring bikes come in all kinds of configurations, flat sixes, V-twins and V-fours for Hondas, transverse inline fours, longitudal inline fours, flat twins. Dualsports can be inline triples, V-twins or flat twins.
Some notables are the immense 2300cc longitudal inline triple cruiser from Triumph, the biggest production motorcycle of them all. I'm fond of BMW flat twins, I have a 1999 R1100RT, or "RT" the 1100cc boxer engine in the touring model, what many police departments use lately. BMW also makes boxers in dualsports, the famous "GS", sport and cruiser models too. New boxers or "oilheads" now come in new, lighter 1200cc versions. BMW just redid their inline four too.
Sometimes it's not so much about the configuration as the execution. Inline fours can be very smooth and high revving, too smooth and revvy for some. V-twins can have lots of low end torque and a friendly "lope" to them, some like Ducatis will rev and rev and rev too. BMW boxers are smooth to a point, and then what you have is two big singles banging against each other at high revs, not a sweet high rev bike like an inline four or non American V-twin.
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