The Only 8 Rotary Motorcycles Ever Sold
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“Norton Rotary engine” by Major Fatty
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“WizNorton Racing- Start Up” by WizNorton Racing
• WizNorton Racing- Star...
“Norton F1 @ RAF Valley June 2015” by TyeNoodle
• Norton F1 @ RAF Valley...
“SUZUKI RE5 - WANKEL” by meinkoehnbueffel
• Video
“1975 Suzuki RE5 Steve Mueller” by Steve Mueller
• Video
“Suzuki Re5 on the road” by rotarychris
• Suzuki Re5 on the road
“Norton Interpol 2” by ClassicSuperBikes
• Norton Interpol 2
“Norton Interpol 2 running better and better” by ClassicSuperBikes
• Norton Interpol 2 runn...
“Norton Interpol 2 reverse flow” by ClassicSuperBikes
• Norton Interpol 2 reve...
“Van Veen OCR - 1000 , rare rotary motorcycle.” by dutchurbanminer
• Van Veen OCR - 1000 , ...
“Van Veen OCR 1000” by Marcel Schuller
• Video
“Norton Rotary at Solvang Motorcycle Museum” by virgil elings
• Norton Rotary at Solva...
“Norton Classic” by ClassicSuperBikes
• Norton Classic
“Bike Show Chichester - Wankel bike - Mótorhjól” by Hellen Linda Drake
• Bike Show Chichester -...
“Hercules W2000 custom exhaust sound check” by lollixx95
• Hercules W2000 custom ...
“Hercules W2000 Wankel on board 02” by lollixx95
• Hercules W2000 Wankel ...
“Norton Commander” by ClassicSuperBikes
• Norton Commander
“Norton Commander” by ClassicSuperBikes
• Norton Commander
“Norton Commander” by Finn Nyrud
• Norton Commander
“Hercules Wankel 502 GS” by wankelgs
• Hercules Wankel 502 WGS
“Hercules Wankel 502 GS” by Manny Bernardez
• Hercules Wankel 502 GS
“Hercules Wankel 502 GS onBoard” by wankelgs
• Hercules Wankel 502 WG... - Auta a dopravní prostředky
As a rotary fan, I must say this was a real pleasure to make. Which one do you like the most? For me, the F1 was joy to listen and looks the best!
VisioRacer they all sound nice in my opinion
VisioRacer Do a video about the best sounding tractors engines.
by far the best
No, you can't. A PP 26B FTW for me :)
VisioRacer and a 20b bridge port turbo for me
Glad you didn't spoil those sounds with some lame music. Thanks heaps great collection of bikes.
Try You Tube for WIZNORTON RACING CLASSIC TT F1 ON BOARD KIRK
MICHAEL TO SULBY
"The RE5 was heavy, resulting in the high weight..."
Interesting 🤔
Now you know for sure it was a massive bike.
... and even more important: I won't forget ;)
go ez on him Heinz he may have a funny accent but he comes up with the coolest videos (for his age lol(
it,s lucky you have a twit to boost your knowledge then
The RE-5 was heavy for several reasons, not least being that it was actually 1000cc by any normal measure, it had very heavy counterweights to offset the single rotor, and it was built using many of the same parts as Suzuki's 750cc 'water buffalo' 2-stroke, 3-cylinder water cooled machine of the same era. As for the odd turn of phrase, I wonder if translation artifact is involved, like 'The RE5 was massive, resulting in the high weight'? [Weight (a force) being the product of mass times acceleration (usually of gravity)... F=ma]
never heard of rotary motorcycles but I can already tell it's gonna sound amazing as fuck
Try You Tube for WIZNORTON RACING CLASSIC TT F1 ONBOARD KIRK
MICHAEL TO SULBY
Haha same man I could hear it in my head before I even clicked
noob
Look up the Hercules w2000 ..even though I'm 4 years to late 😂
7:03 as people are fighting over 2 and 4 stroke dirt bikes. ill be like. bitch i got a rotary dirt bike lol
Well, this is awkward.
Well in general consensus. When people discuss two and four stroke engines, they usealy are referring to the reciprocating piston engine design.
rotary engines are 4 stroke technically.
Well you'll have a 3 stroke!
1 stroke dirt bike-
A rotorbike..
Correct sir
I see what you did there!👍🏻👩🏼👍🏻
Doritos on wheels!
OH MY GOD-
What an absolute genius
Have you ever seen a fkin instrument cover pop open?? How cool is that??
I used to own an RE 5. You still have to push it down manually.
First cycle I owned that a mtn bike didn't look like a Peterbilt in the rearview mirrors.
I came here just to comment that haha so amazing.
The killers human
My dad had that cluster in a parts lot he bought. (We do a bunch of swap meets when things are normal)...I thought it was super unique so I asked what it was for. That day I learned rotary engine's in bikes is a real thing
That rotary engine sound is so amazing
It truly is a music to my ears, I love rotary.
the first one sounds like a 2 stroxes...does it uses 2t oil?
Esspecially the Idle Sound is like a muscle car
Someone needs to set up a company dedicated purely to making rotary engines
there are companys dedicated to that, but mostly for aviation or low power duty. and companies like pac in Australia wich build "race" rotary using Mazda housings.
its getting harder and harder to make a Rotary legal cause of emission rules, rotary's by design use/burn oil every cycle like a 2 stroke does, they are smelly and smoky and are not fuel efficient and they kill trees or whatever, therefore your local green party will not allow them. (therefore noone is willing to do a real mass production)
Frietpan I meant companies who make rotary engines that could be sold to the public for use
Alex Hickey you can get a new rotary... but they are designed for gocarts. i bet your talking rotary as in for cars or pick-up trucks. the problem is no company could make money. the motor ready to go would cost $10,000 to 20,000 for a fresh new rotary cause there just is no real demand. i do think the rotary is a good fit for bikes. i could see a company make a lets say 0.25L or 0.40L 2 rotor turbo street bike or a rotary motor scooter like a vespa.
Making Rotary powered Bikes to order is like producing a Hyper-Car. Motorcycle with a Wankel engine would be Pagani Zonda in the motorcycles world, where Ducati is like a Ferrari.
BlueRonin true a good rotary bike in todays world would be like a Koenigsegg one:1. But it happens to be one of the only places a rotary would makes sense being that bikes dont rely on low tq or rpm.
BRAP BIKES
Deivi Y BRAAAAAAAAAAAP STUTUTUTU
Deivi Y BRAP CYCLES
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Armadilyo MOTORBRAPS
Aka 2 strokes
I've ridden the Norton Interpol 2 here in the USA. It was a B E A S T..
jdmeaux haha fuck USA
That Suzuki's dash is SO COOL.
Very!
I agree it looks just like the one in my crx
It only had 6 miles
I like bikes, but in a way other than cars. These rotor motorcycles are really super special. Big thumb up for all of those manufacturers who would like to revive the rotor engine. That's not happening today any more, but the creations you've made keep on living in Visio Racer videos! 😃👏
Awesome video as usual man! Been watching your content for a while now, and it honestly just keeps on getting better. And screw the haters who give you shit for the accent - it's not like you can help it, it's human nature. Peace out.
Your videos are getting better and better!
You're the best man! I've been watching you for years and this is one of my favorite shows of all time throughout all sources of media. Keep doing a great job man.
Another one to add to the list, track bike only this one! czcams.com/video/Z4UeqXktmOg/video.html
Thanks for sharing !
A lot of modells and brands I did no know about.
And I´ve been riding bikes for like 35 years.
Your most interesting film yet, when it started I kept saying to myself "Norton! Norton! Norton!" Your English is getting better, though Norton borrowed the transmission from Yamaha not "by" .
My mum when I was a child had a Citroen GS, I never knew the motor made it into a bike, thank you.
I've been a fan for a while.
Outstanding research as usual.
A+ man.
Your video's are so well done. Thanks for the entertainment!
Another great video.... Thanks for making and sharing this video, and thanks to the motor cycle owner, for showing there beautifull motor cycles
"it was heavy, resulting in high weight"
Thanks Kanye, very cool
Every 60 seconds in africa a minute passes. Think about that
Rotary motorcycles are an interesting concept to me. Thanks for this list!
Rotaries+Bikes=match made in heaven!
well it didint succeed =/
Ragimund VonWallat The reason the rotary motor doesn’t succeed is because it has very little tolerance. Slightly out in the thing runs like shit
great vids. Thanks for putting them all together and making them watchable.
My pleasure!
Great video! I didn't know any of the large manufacturers had built any rotary bikes. I did think that maybe some smaller ones did though.
Imagine how much oil you would need if harley made a rotary bike...
(get it?...because harleys are notorious for leaking oil, and rotaries are notorious for consuming it.....I'll see myself out...)
I'd still take a rotary bike over a harley any day, no matter the oil consumption
your_local_emo engines burn oil by nature rotary is more in the 2stroke family anyway they would be cheap to repair and fix if they were more common but being that they never caught on the parts and labor are higher
Yeah, or Triumph!
Saying rotaries are notorious for burning oil is like saying airplanes are notorious for needing jet fuel.
lol
100th like
Really enjoyable video, keep it up!
Nice. Only The Hercules GS was new to me. You just have to love the Van Veen OCR1000!
Love that Norton at the start and visio even your English syntax is funny it always make me smile...
These Motorcycles must've been the Gas Guzzlers of their Era.
But still Rotary Wankel is a legend engine in Automobile industry.
Great work Mate!
Almost 50 years ago I had a shop teacher in a small engine class who tore apart a rotary engine for the class and explained how superior it was to the piston engine we all used. It made a lot of sense to me. I'm no mechanic, though I dabble, and love motorccyles. I've always wondered myself why motorcycles didn't use these. But now I see it was tried.
These are Wankel engines, not rotary engines
In high school we had a Sachs rotary engine on a small dyno; it was at the time also used as a snowmobile engine in some Arctic Cat models during the 70s.
man you do awesome work here...keep it up!
I loved watching the Norton race, as well as being fast it sounded amazing. The growl of a 4 strike but the frantic revving if a 2 stroke. I remember Trevor Nation (works rider) doing a burnout, waving to the crowd through the smoke, unaware of the fire that was starting thanks to an oil leak. Bonkers but brilliant bikes.
I love your videos . KEEP IT UP!
Fantastic video.
Thoroughly enjoyed
keep up the great content
very interesting material, completed job!
The Norton F1 is a favourite. This model won the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race in 1992. The engine was then developed for aircraft use by Mid West Engines, then sadly handed over to a German company. I have the manuals, but no engine (yet). [Aussie in BC]
Great vid, didn't know before there was a rotary bike, cool.
Great research. Thanks for your efforts.
I read about Norton F1 in magazine back in the day.
First time hearing the sound and seeing in Acton.
Thanks for video
5:17 sounds like a galloping horse.. I love it.
they all sound unique and awesome. great video.
Great film dude. Thanks.
I'm surprised rotary bikes aren't more common. If it's like the Rx7's rotary, it'll be easy to work on and last longer because rotaries don't like to be babied and bike's usually see a lot of abuse. Only I issue I can see is the oil consumption problem that plagued the Wankel.
Another reason they may be uncommon is because of cooling. Because there's a combustion every rotation, it could get hot, and the rider of the bike is right above the engine. That could be very uncomfortable.
dekoldrick also it drinks fuel alot.
its extremely inefficient and difficult to improve as Ive heard.
The oil comsumption and not a fuel efficient engine
dekoldrick easy to work on HAHAHAHAHAHA good one
Never heard of the Van Veen, but damn what a good lookin bike....fantastic vid bro, one of my favs...
Awesome video bro.
Thanks for sharing. I love rotary engines. I have a 13b in my Fiat x19
Wankels and 2 strokes get a bum rap as far as I am concerned. Small engines that make good power are fun.
I agree
I agree two
I agree 3
2 stroke for life
Rotaries are heavy chew fuel wear rotor tips blow coolant seals and generally are slow by comparison
2 strokes on the other hand are none of those things and are the sweetest of all engines .
well done, well researched.
i love rotary engine, and this video is all i want
Sweet. I was familiar with the Suzuki, Hercules/DKW street model, and a couple of the Nortons, but the others were new to me.
I think, this channel's contents are like MR SLAV (but automotive). I like both of them.
I remember the late Robert Dunlop winning races on the Norton rotary in the NW200 in years 1990 and 1991. I think the bike won other races as well. Loved the sound of it as I had a good close view of Robert on the Norton at the NW 200 races.
You got to love the way some of these bikes sound. 😎👍
Hello. I am 54 years old and never read about some bikes described here. Congrats, once more a awesome video!
2:15
Never seen a Rotary before that hesitates to rev up quickly
Wankel engines
Sweet another cool video with Wankel motors! Good Job
The sound of that first Norton though! Braaap Braaap!
I had a 1975 RE5- heavy on juice when pushed,handled well even though very heavy- but so smooth when cruising around 90 mph riding two up- the mirrors never vibrated you could see behind you at any speed- still miss it.
The only one of these bikes I have actually seen and heard is the Suzuki RE-5. This "original" has the "space-age" circular concept within the styling. (Note the curved cover over the gauges) This didn't go over too well in the USA and the next year, it had more conventional styling. I am in Washington State in the USA and, in the early 80s, there was a guy who ran an RE-5 in motorcycle road racing. The biggest problem was putting it in the correct classification because the displacement of a rotary is different from a reciprocating engine. A "500cc rotary" acts bigger than a "500cc reciprocating" i.e. much more power per cc of displacement. It was first put in the 600cc Production class (up to 600cc factory stock bikes) and ran away and hid from everyone. It was then put into the 550cc Modified Production class (Production bikes with a set of modifications allowed so they had more power) and it still ran away and hid from everyone. So, it was put in Open Production (1000cc+ factory stock bikes) and it was about even with bikes like the Kawasaki KZ1000 and Suzuki GS1000. The RE5 had an open megaphone exhaust which was put on the bike for Modified Production and it was allowed to stay on in Open Production. Rotaries are absolutely the loudest motorcycles with open pipes. (Ask about Mazda rotary race cars! *There's* some noise!) Harley-Davidsons can make a heck of a noise with open pipes but the RE-5 was much, much louder than open pipe H-Ds. The track (Pacific Raceways outside Seattle) has a 1/2 mile straight and, when the bikes went by, it would be a bunch of stock sounding bikes, this loud BRAPPPPP of the RE-5 at 8-9000 RPM and then more stock bikes! I think it was a combination of the rider not having a lot of ability or money and the bike being a little too offbeat to do any real tuning because, the next season, it did not come back. Quite a memory though!
I think the motorcycle world is a little too conservative to adopt something as radical as the Wankel. There really was no specific advantage to the rotary except it could make a lot of power for displacement but many motorcyclists couldn't get their heads around the idea that there were no pistons going up and down.
+Westside Flyer Thank you for sharing that. It brings back warmest memories of my red RE-5! At the time I rode it, I had a friend with a 1200-cc Harley and I used to have fun at 50 mph telling him to pick any gear while I used top gear (5th). When we rolled on the throttles, I always left him well behind! If considered in terms of the air/fuel mixture moved per revolution of the crankshaft, the RE-5 would compare most closely to a 1000-cc 4-stroke twin. That is *part* of why it had such massive torque. The use of ports instead of poppet valves also plays a role, making Wankels 'breathe' better. My fully-stock RE-5 would go 50 mph in 1st gear, which it achieved in about 50 feet. From a dead stop against large "superbikes" of 1100-cc, I would be half a block down the street before the "superbike" stopped slipping his clutch. It was like riding a catapult. Man, was that fun!
Back in the day, if your RE-5 had a problem and you took it to the dealer, they would swap out the engine and send the defective one back to Japan
The last bike sounds like a 4 stroke at low RPM and an 2 stroke at high revs. Amazin stuff.
My favourite has always been the Van Veen OCR 1000. 2nd is All Nortons. Thank you for putting these together 😊
true! Seen it ones in the streets. Beautiful from the right site (always shown in pics) not so much from the left site; very nice green colour and with timeless styling.
btw: its pronounced in Dutch as "Vain" with the "ee" as "ai" in the English"pain"
Thanks for the great video
The last bike, the hercules have a very cool sound. Nice bikes👌🏽💥
thank you for sharing!
0.50 engine was borrowed FROM Yamaha....van veen sounded like a mouse!! thank you for a great video
Very good channel my friend!!! thank you!! but there is a motorcycle you never mentioned: the tehuelche from argentina, it is not a great one but just to complete your collection.
THAT SOUNDS GREAT 🎧💯
Hi Visio great videos as always. Can I request your next video maybe about Rotary powered cars that aren't from Mazda? Thanks
Hm, I could do that
Love the 588 Norton racer . Saw them several times in JPS livery and later with Brian Crighton Norton racing at cadwell Park. No better sound ever than those things roaring round echoing in the Lincolnshire wolds , the popping and burbles as they decelerated was awesome too .. not much engine brake like a regular piston engine I beleive so hard on the brakes !!!!
Lack of engine braking was just one of many problems with the engine design... hard to believe that Norton and Crighton carried on so long with this doomed failure. It ruined Norton twice, Crighton Racing was a failure too.
I had a rotary snowmobile, a 1975 Arctic Cat 295 Panther. The biggest differences I noticed were the idle is weird, "rup, rup, rup," it's very smooth when you're running around, and it has fantastic low end torque. Also, the exhaust gets so hot it glows red, normal for a rotary. All in all, it's one of my favorite vintage sleds. If you ever get a small rotary, always use Shell Rotella T as your mixing oil, otherwise the apex seals will carbon up and it will quit. It's possible there are other oils that work as well in a rotary, but that's the standard one to use.
It's the brap sound, not rup. The most common words when talking about the rotary. The more aggressive porting you have, more it braps.
Thanks
Very interesting thanks! 👍
Great video. Im not into bikes, but love anything rotary.
Norton rotary is finest sounding engine I ever heard .
watched them race in early nineties, astonishing bikes .
I have only two questions. 1) Where do find the ideas for your videos and 2) how much time do you spend researching this stuff daily to release a video?
Would also like to say, keep up the great work. I love your content.
The ideas often come from you or the internet, sometimes it just comes to my mind out of nowhere. If I hurry myself, I can do a video in two days, normally it is three.
OK, here is an idea...and apologize if you have done it before.....Most powerful v8s NOT released in America.
Sounds awesome.
in the early 80's , i was a motorcycle mechanic apprentice and at college we rebuilt a suzuki re5 to get our rotary engine qualification, was only 1 of 5 re5's in australia at the time, probably the only one now , its at bald hills tafe college brisbane. also a rare beast was the 750/4 honda with a 2 speed auto gearbox, rare as rocking horse shit!
The idling sounds like 3 cylinder. Actually reminds the DKW 3 cylinders 2 stroke of 1950-60.
Thanks for the interesting video! Norton seemed to be ahead of time....it was a financial desaster.
Best Channel ever
Another interesting video, thanks.
I wonder why more of these engines are not used in bikes.
Are they too difficult to service, or too costly to make, I wonder?
Late answer but it's probably because rotaries tend to be really hard to cool properly and bikes have a tough time with cooling to begin with.
Two of my favourite things ever in one video yes please
Back when I was in college I read in a bike magazine about Norton F1.
The company was trying to revive famous Norton name with this.
First time actually hearing this engine and seeing it drive.🙂
I bought a 1989 Norton Commander (588cc rotary) from the factory and had it flown out to NZ, an absolute bike before its time, smooth, fast handled well and reasonably economical. I went from CHCH to Gore in 4 hrs back in the day overtaking a mufti south of Balclutha at over 200kph, rode it around Pukekohe on the weekend celebrating 100 years of Norton about 1992 and down the back straight the speedo was a touch over 150 mph, (note mph not kph), Best one was when I lent it to a mate to ride from Twizel to Tekapo and he didn't realise the speedo was in MPH, he came back to see why I was taking so long on his Triumph after getting to Tekapo very quickly
2:10
that speedo kinnda flashes me more than the bike itself.
The problem with the Norton F1 was the original bikes were fitted with crap Yamaha XJ900 forks, fitted to a beautiful Spondon alloy beam frame.
Awesome to see that beasts 😎
can you do series top 10-15 highest performance 50cc 2 stroke motorcycle/mopeds and same for 4 stroke? check out the Honda Dream 50
Imagine putting a turbo on one of these :D
astonishing historic video
they sound so damn good!
borrowed by Yamaha or from Yamaha?
from his english is not great since he did explain it's not his first language
Yes, it is a mistake I've found a little too late. Sorry about it
Puffalupagus360 i think we all know what he meant
SuperMechguy no I was genuinely curious if Yamaha had licensed a transmission design from another motorcycle manufacturer.
Puffalupagus360 oh I understand now
Norton commander looks like the body parts are all connected even fairing? Cool!
These engine's are hell for the environment
Nice video bro...
i claim being old when i remember the suzuki being at the dealers and actually getting to ride one. it was a very strange bike in both sound and power delivery. brakes were a chuckle and because of very little engine braking like a two stroke they were toast after about 10 minutes of hard riding.....at least as hard as the suspension would allow.. not too bad for a bike of it's time though.