The Only 8 Rotary Motorcycles Ever Sold

a rotary engine is a rare unit in an automobile let alone motorcycles while naming a couple of rotary cars is easy you are a real enthusiast if you know one or two rotary powered motorcycles some were only created as concepts but the following ones were officially produced and sold [Music] norton f1 the norton f1 was the only rotary superbike in the world and was also very lightweight before the production model there was this f1 rcw 588 which won the british f1 series and broke a speed record of 190 miles per hour the engine originally came from the commander model and the transmission was borrowed by [Music] yamaha suzuki re5 while all four major japanese bike manufacturers had their rotary concepts only suzuki managed to finish it although it was only a single rotor it was incredibly complex and heavy resulting in the high weight supposedly suzuki was eyeing up brotherbot cycles back in the 60s but it was one of the first of its kind anyway [Music] norton interpol 2 with a code name of p41 the interpol 2 was a production bike only sold to fleet customers like civil police military police or the royal air force police of the united kingdom these rotary idols at just 500 rpm and although rotaries do not like low revs the interpol 2 can pull from just 1500 rpm in top gear with ease up to 10 000 rpm [Music] vanvin ocr 1000 the vandevine motorcycle was built by a dutch importer hank van veen of cradle motorcycles the ocr-1000 allegedly had the largest wankel engine in the motorcycle the commodore twin road engine came from the citroen gs and to this day only 38 examples were produced [Music] up norton classic the interpol 2 was the first northern rotary motorcycle and as it was only sold to fleet buyers this was rather unfair towards individual customers norton solved it by creating this classic model with the very same air cooled engine but only a hundred bikes left the production line in 1987 [Music] hercules w2000 as the world's first production rotary bike the hercules elsewhere also sold as the dkw had the sax single rotor engine before automatic oil injection was added in 1976 for the last 199 of all 1800 motorcycles built a pre-mixed mixture of fuel and two-stroke oil was necessary [Music] ah [Music] norton commander succeeding the norton classic the new model was installed with a redesigned engine with a liquid cooling system which helped with power and reliability during its lifespan the company created 253 of them in two versions the p52 was a single seater for police the p53 had two seats and was sold as a civil bike both had the paneers integrated into the [Music] body [Music] uh [Music] hercules 502 gs that w2000 wasn't the only wrinkle-powered bike by hercules there was once a model called the hercules gs250 which used a two-stroke single cylinder engine but they swapped it in favor of the sax kc-31 engine which varied between 27 to 35 horsepower [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 7min 51sec (471 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 21 2017