How the fuck did the comments on a friggin old motorcycle turn into some ignorant fat ass american and some farmer boy estonian insulting eachother?!?!?!?!?!?!
@iggnasio umad, ignorant peasant fuck? Are you that fucking dumb in the head that you rape people? In the end, America is better than your peasant Eurasian country.
Bla bla bla if I said 1mm then it is 1mm not 0,01 or 0.63. 0,01mm is not worn its worked in. It is pointless to argue with you. I don´t need nothing to prove, I'm just talking how things are if you do not believe it's not my problem. Rather it shows that you have no experience. Change your brake pads and spark plugs, and think that you're the world best mechanic and you know everything. So long P.O.S.
I am an automechanic and saw these rotory motorcycles and mazda engines fixed most of them and the bigest progblem is those corners of the triangle they wear out really really fast. you have to change those triangles 9 times faster than piston heads in normal OTO and Diesel engines.
@purpleGoAhead tommmasg has right, this rotory seals wear out quickly. You say 100k to 150k-miles this means engine repair not just maintenance. Otto 4-syl engine runs at the same time ca. 1 000 000 km without having to change pistons and rings. The more cylinders are, the longer lifetime engine have.Many car manufacturers have tried to make rotory same durable as otto but this is not succeeded. It is therefore not popular engine.
@iggnasio i think you'll need one of the best otto engines ever made to do 1 million km on it without having to hone the cylinders and replace pistons :/
but in general you're right, they last longer, but if you have to rebuild them, there's a lot more parts you have to buy and therefore a lot more work to do...
btw. lifetime's a matter of bore (the bigger the bore, the longer it'll last) and rpm (the lower, the better for lifetime) and does not mean it needs a lot of cylinders ;)
@purpleGoAhead it not have to be one of the best otto engines ever made just need to be well maintained and properly oil exchanged. I've seen 1 million km driven engines. 4 sylinder engins cylinders and pistons are worn but engine runs, v8 engines does not have even cylinders worn. All depends on oil and its exchange and how to run a car.
look i'm a mechanic and i know how parts from an engine look like after about 500'000km - even on very carefully driven ones...
if you keep running an engine (just because it can) with worn pistons / cyl. you're just an idiot :/
but i won't say it's impossible to run an engine for that long, just that for most of the parts the wear limit is exceeded, so you don't get the original power, it needs more oil, it produces more emissions, it sounds worse etc.
@purpleGoAhead i have Audi 80 2.0l which had driven 500'000km I took the engine open. Cylinder was worn out ca 1mm, pistons were not even turning grooves worn. Conrad bearings and main bearings was not in bad shape also. Reason why I started engine repair was that gearbox 3 gear synchro was worn and I thought that i could also replace engine worn parts and seals same time. I replaced conrad bearings, main bearings and piston rings. Pistons stayed the same I didnt bore cyl
@iggnasio wow i'm impressed... an engine that still runs when the cylinders are worn out by 1mm xD
you meant 0.01mm, 'cause even if the cylinders were worn out "just" 0.1mm you'd be better up using a 2-stroke engine 'cause that would need less oil :/
btw. 500'000km and only 0.01mm worn out cyl. is pretty much impossible, so you're talking out of your ass i guess...
I actually had one of these bikes...I loved it...Ran forever...up until 265 thousand miles to be exact... I maintained it very well... One day I was out riding and the temperature gauge started to slowly move up...Noticing the problem, I pulled off and shut it off... Unfortunately that little bit of a temp change egg shaped my rotor..it never ran again. Anyone have one for sale?
I had one of these about 20 years ago. The closer you got to redline... the smoother it was! Car type gas mileage was it's biggest downfall since it came out as the gas crisis in North America (especially USA) kicked in.
Probably would have been a bit more successful if they hadn't used a PP intake design, therefore making a bit more torque (something all rotors lack at low revs) lower in the rev range.
Really?! Some say the Stig; like Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear, dispises motorcycles. All I know is, this Stig has an identity and appears to love riding this very rare bike.
Who is it that starts dumb online arguments now, man? You know, people who swear too much only expose their own ignorance due to their misunderstanding of the language. Good work.
And I think you have it backwards... REAL men can appreciate the passions of others without mocking them, no matter his own lack of interest in the given subject.
gay ass motor heads would enjoy this boring crap, i searched RE 5(resident evil 5) in the hope of finding something, but no i find gay motorcycle videos
Maybe your gay ass should stay at home and play your queer little video games and leave the real toys to real men. And you should also be mad that your parents named your gay ass Carmine.
NO, a real man stands by his belief, you faggot, also my name isnt carmine its a character in a video shit fucker, so dont try to act all badass and continue and unwinnable argument you piece of shit faggot, just shows how manly you are starting fights online, i bet you work in a body shop with 3 other grease monkeys and on your days off you have a gay orgy you fucking faggot
you started the argument by calling a collective group of enthusiasts "gay ass motorheads" Now go back to your "constructive" video gaming.. someday maybe you'll change the world with all that you've learned playing gay-ass video games.
I remeber when this came out, i`d forgotten it existed. Good idea and bike, shame it got stopped, it`d be interesting to see where the rotary and two strokes would have gone had it not been foremission laws in the U.S.Thanks for remeinding me how old i am now haha.
rotary sound man you cant beat it yeah america should put them in the mustangs instead of those 4bangers why cant people see les moving parts less weight and straight forward rebuilds simlpe engines realy but we would rather complicate things and make more moving parts to get mor rpms like twinn overhead cams come on no heads huhu hahahaha
felix wankel invented the wankel engine. He colaborated with nsu in the process of developing the engine. the invention was, as you point out, used in a citroen model at some point, but with little success. the rotary engine was used in many different brands and types of installations. most sucessfully made by mazda. the japanese comany developed the engine type to it's highest point of achivement, in the making of the "renesis" engine for the mazda RX8.
And in modern day construction mazda are the only manufacturer to persue rotary engine technology and activly use it in cars. everyone else ignores it. Don't know why because the mazda rx 8 goe like a b****
They get bad gas mileage compared to internal combustion. This is the reason GM spent 50 million on rights to wankel patents, a lot in 1970 or so, only to abandon the project.
Bad mileage aside I've always been fond of these RE5s, heard they get 35mph. Also love the first Gen and Last Gen RX7. Saw a sticker for a first GEN on ebay, said 19/23 mpg. Horrible for a car of that size. Even worse when you realize those stickers are optimistic.
I rode the original model back in the mid 70s it was top heavy & the brakes did not work in the wet & the zorst sounded like a cross between a motor boat & a well controlled fart.
I saw an RE5 at the Ace Cafe London a few months ago, had about 80,000 miles on the original un-rebuilt engine. Was a real blast from the past, from some angles it looks like the famous kettle GT750.
The RE5 wasn't that unreliable, but it was ugly as heck. (I owned one BTW.) The original model looked like something Flash Gordon flew in on. Then they toned it down with normal gauges and lights but the engine was still ugly, just a big lump. Had a complicated two-stage carbruretor, an ugly radiator, oil in both crankcase and injectors, and a tendency to foul the single plug and. Not a bad bike really but still, it was the answer to a question nobody asked.
and the reason it didn't sell was because the engine was so unreliable, and hardly any mechanics could work on it. When bikes came in for warranty engine service, rather than repair the engine, Suzuki had to replace the entire engine.
the RB series engine top of the stock is RB26DETT which is 2.6 i6 twin turbo
the only bigger engines of RB series are
2.8 RB26DETT Z2 (GTR Z-Tune)
3.0 RB30DE (Tommykaira's R31 GTR M30)and RB30DET (which Nissan never made themselves, it's a RB30E with a twincam head and a turbocharger, popular hybrid of RB30E and RB26DETT in
Australia)
and the RBX-GT2, which was bored to 2.8 by Nismo and was specially made for Nissan Skyline GTR V-Spec Nismo 400 R
you are an idiot, get your facts right, mazda never produced an rx6 so who knows what it is you own. in the rx series they made rx2's, 3's, 4's, 5's 7's and 8's.
I've never been a huge rotary fan, but seeing the period engineering footage is great. Love the lead holders, drafting boards, nixie tube displays and the early pen plotter.
The RE5 was an interesting attempt at something radical but it almost killed Suzuki.
It was too heavy and too thirsty.
I loved the 3cy 2strokes (my restored mint GT550A was my pride & joy).
But time moves on and my (much loved) Gsxr1100w is so ahead of anything from those days (and compared to the lasted Gsxr1000k7 it is very old potatos).
All Wankel engines have a very low efficiency. They burn up fuel like nobody´s business and generate massive amounts of excess heat, so you need huge radiators. There´s nothing that can be done about it, it´s a flaw of the design. The surface of the combustion chamber is too large in relation to its volume.
This engine is great. Smaller and powerfull. I wonder why they stoped to use it on bikes. The heat was the only problem, but today with the composites and ceramic materials it's not a problem anymore.
mazda has the 13b rotary engine in their rx7s, i thought you were kidding when you said that. they're compact sports cars and sweet as hell. i've got a turbo one myself.
Where are these bikes now, 99 % written off or rusted away sad really now that everyone is into the classics
MrZzr12 1 month ago
How the fuck did the comments on a friggin old motorcycle turn into some ignorant fat ass american and some farmer boy estonian insulting eachother?!?!?!?!?!?!
TheDane95 6 months ago
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@iggnasio
Lmao your a dumb ass
WickedZZzY 8 months ago
@iggnasio umad, ignorant peasant fuck? Are you that fucking dumb in the head that you rape people? In the end, America is better than your peasant Eurasian country.
You. Kill. Game over.
Ryoukun16 9 months ago
@iggnasio: no need, I banged your mother lol
Ryoukun16 9 months ago
Bla bla bla if I said 1mm then it is 1mm not 0,01 or 0.63. 0,01mm is not worn its worked in. It is pointless to argue with you. I don´t need nothing to prove, I'm just talking how things are if you do not believe it's not my problem. Rather it shows that you have no experience. Change your brake pads and spark plugs, and think that you're the world best mechanic and you know everything. So long P.O.S.
iggnasio 1 year ago
I am an automechanic and saw these rotory motorcycles and mazda engines fixed most of them and the bigest progblem is those corners of the triangle they wear out really really fast. you have to change those triangles 9 times faster than piston heads in normal OTO and Diesel engines.
tommmasg 1 year ago
@tommmasg with "piston heads" you mean either piston rings or head gasket...
either way, you don't really wanna tell me that both of these things will be fine for about 1 million miles, do you?!
if you know how to treat a rotary (yeah, even an old '79 12A mazda rotary) those apex seals will hold between 100k to 150k-miles!
if you're really an automechanic, i never wanna get my car serviced by you, that's for sure :/
purpleGoAhead 1 year ago
@purpleGoAhead tommmasg has right, this rotory seals wear out quickly. You say 100k to 150k-miles this means engine repair not just maintenance. Otto 4-syl engine runs at the same time ca. 1 000 000 km without having to change pistons and rings. The more cylinders are, the longer lifetime engine have.Many car manufacturers have tried to make rotory same durable as otto but this is not succeeded. It is therefore not popular engine.
iggnasio 1 year ago
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purpleGoAhead 1 year ago
@iggnasio i think you'll need one of the best otto engines ever made to do 1 million km on it without having to hone the cylinders and replace pistons :/
but in general you're right, they last longer, but if you have to rebuild them, there's a lot more parts you have to buy and therefore a lot more work to do...
btw. lifetime's a matter of bore (the bigger the bore, the longer it'll last) and rpm (the lower, the better for lifetime) and does not mean it needs a lot of cylinders ;)
purpleGoAhead 1 year ago
@purpleGoAhead it not have to be one of the best otto engines ever made just need to be well maintained and properly oil exchanged. I've seen 1 million km driven engines. 4 sylinder engins cylinders and pistons are worn but engine runs, v8 engines does not have even cylinders worn. All depends on oil and its exchange and how to run a car.
iggnasio 1 year ago
@iggnasio if you say so...
look i'm a mechanic and i know how parts from an engine look like after about 500'000km - even on very carefully driven ones...
if you keep running an engine (just because it can) with worn pistons / cyl. you're just an idiot :/
but i won't say it's impossible to run an engine for that long, just that for most of the parts the wear limit is exceeded, so you don't get the original power, it needs more oil, it produces more emissions, it sounds worse etc.
purpleGoAhead 1 year ago
@purpleGoAhead i have Audi 80 2.0l which had driven 500'000km I took the engine open. Cylinder was worn out ca 1mm, pistons were not even turning grooves worn. Conrad bearings and main bearings was not in bad shape also. Reason why I started engine repair was that gearbox 3 gear synchro was worn and I thought that i could also replace engine worn parts and seals same time. I replaced conrad bearings, main bearings and piston rings. Pistons stayed the same I didnt bore cyl
iggnasio 1 year ago
@iggnasio And the engine runs great. I've heard that japan and korea cars run out 300´000 - 500´000 km I do not dispute that at all.
iggnasio 1 year ago
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purpleGoAhead 1 year ago
@iggnasio wow i'm impressed... an engine that still runs when the cylinders are worn out by 1mm xD
you meant 0.01mm, 'cause even if the cylinders were worn out "just" 0.1mm you'd be better up using a 2-stroke engine 'cause that would need less oil :/
btw. 500'000km and only 0.01mm worn out cyl. is pretty much impossible, so you're talking out of your ass i guess...
purpleGoAhead 1 year ago
@iggnasio How the hell do you NOT know how to spell a word right when you're a so-called "Best Mechanic?"
Ryoukun16 9 months ago
@Ryoukun16 Fuck you. If you do not have anything smart to say then shut the fuck up pedant retard.
iggnasio 9 months ago
@iggnasio Nice job of pulling a personal attack on someone who was just asking a question, idiot.
Ryoukun16 9 months ago
@Ryoukun16 Fuck off piece of shit. Go ask stupid questions from your mother.
iggnasio 9 months ago
@iggnasio And you can't even pull off a decent insult. Fuck off, "pedant Estonian fucktard."
Ryoukun16 9 months ago
@Ryoukun16 ou jeee yor fucking american go celebrate a fake Osama deth stupid ignorant Suzuki Rotary RE-5
iggnasio 9 months ago
@Ryoukun16 ou jeee yor fucking american go celebrate a fake Osama death stupid ignorant Suzuki Rotary RE-5 lover
iggnasio 9 months ago
I love the Japanese :)...
I actually had one of these bikes...I loved it...Ran forever...up until 265 thousand miles to be exact... I maintained it very well... One day I was out riding and the temperature gauge started to slowly move up...Noticing the problem, I pulled off and shut it off... Unfortunately that little bit of a temp change egg shaped my rotor..it never ran again. Anyone have one for sale?
scott93257 1 year ago
the music they incorporate into this video is absolutely amazing!
jcotteri 1 year ago
@jcotteri, that's the music of the 70's. This film was done in '73.
MrPman851 1 year ago
I love this old period stuff. Go Suzuki!
SpeedingStudent 1 year ago
I had one of these about 20 years ago. The closer you got to redline... the smoother it was! Car type gas mileage was it's biggest downfall since it came out as the gas crisis in North America (especially USA) kicked in.
David
vintageracer25 1 year ago
Great upload. This is some obscure stuff.
65DDTG 1 year ago
Probably would have been a bit more successful if they hadn't used a PP intake design, therefore making a bit more torque (something all rotors lack at low revs) lower in the rev range.
blyndrotor 2 years ago
i want!
angelb650650 2 years ago
Today, there are actually a bike which is powered by a 2 rotor wankel engine:
The Norton nrv588. Search on youtube!
bozzen91 2 years ago
To think I wanted one!!! Oh dear! It would be worth a few quid now though. Man that music is horrible!
10oooo01 2 years ago
Neat engine, but it did not lead the new age.
hawkermustang 2 years ago
Lol that old helmet. Looks like from a space ship
Aguijon1982 2 years ago
7:37 ,, Yes i learned this the hard way...
Always make sure the Oil cooler is Not blocked.. LOL i burned out my oil controll rings on the rotor
adam3176 2 years ago
i think these bikes made the rx7 More reliable... this is where the rx7 was born folks!
adam3176 2 years ago
Well you got that arse about face I think.
blyndrotor 2 years ago
I didn't know that Suzuki made a Rotary motorcycle.
I'm glad you put this up, I wish if had done better.
AngelCreator 3 years ago
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What a pile of shit the wankel bike was - unbelievable that these same people came up with the gs1000 a few years later!
garments1 3 years ago
Did anyone else notice the stig at the start? It goes to show The Stig does not age.
S3NOLSAN 3 years ago 20
Great Stig's ghost! Do my eyes deceive me!?
Vantss 3 years ago
I was thinking Stig's dad!
vector6977 2 years ago 2
Really?! Some say the Stig; like Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear, dispises motorcycles. All I know is, this Stig has an identity and appears to love riding this very rare bike.
pman1018 2 years ago
its sad, actually engine in this package is realy ugly, norton did it better
999miki 3 years ago
Great find. Never knew anyone even attempted a rotary M/C. Thanks for sharing.
ebugsy 3 years ago
I didn't know that a documentary of the RE5 existed,good find!!
jsupra 3 years ago
Who is it that starts dumb online arguments now, man? You know, people who swear too much only expose their own ignorance due to their misunderstanding of the language. Good work.
And I think you have it backwards... REAL men can appreciate the passions of others without mocking them, no matter his own lack of interest in the given subject.
Have fun being an idiot; I hope it hurts.
WorkingClassSkin 3 years ago
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gay ass motor heads would enjoy this boring crap, i searched RE 5(resident evil 5) in the hope of finding something, but no i find gay motorcycle videos
Carmine5467 3 years ago
Maybe your gay ass should stay at home and play your queer little video games and leave the real toys to real men. And you should also be mad that your parents named your gay ass Carmine.
WorkingClassSkin 3 years ago 4
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NO, a real man stands by his belief, you faggot, also my name isnt carmine its a character in a video shit fucker, so dont try to act all badass and continue and unwinnable argument you piece of shit faggot, just shows how manly you are starting fights online, i bet you work in a body shop with 3 other grease monkeys and on your days off you have a gay orgy you fucking faggot
Carmine5467 3 years ago
you started the argument by calling a collective group of enthusiasts "gay ass motorheads" Now go back to your "constructive" video gaming.. someday maybe you'll change the world with all that you've learned playing gay-ass video games.
ProfessorIgor 3 years ago 5
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yea resident evil 5 is defintly better than this shit
josephsalvo12 3 years ago
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THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING EVER!!! BUT I LOVE MY MOM AND DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY CHANCES!
If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours. sorry im kinda superstitious.
Zmpihp 3 years ago
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If only she had died before she could create something as stupid as you. GHEY!!!
mytoob24 3 years ago
one of the rarest rotory vid/documentory in the world,simply amazing that something like is still around,awesome piece!!!!!!!!
omyswift 3 years ago
I remeber when this came out, i`d forgotten it existed. Good idea and bike, shame it got stopped, it`d be interesting to see where the rotary and two strokes would have gone had it not been foremission laws in the U.S.Thanks for remeinding me how old i am now haha.
cobbykettle 3 years ago
whats with the weird ass music
itsonlyjersey 3 years ago 3
rotary sound man you cant beat it yeah america should put them in the mustangs instead of those 4bangers why cant people see les moving parts less weight and straight forward rebuilds simlpe engines realy but we would rather complicate things and make more moving parts to get mor rpms like twinn overhead cams come on no heads huhu hahahaha
expurb 3 years ago 2
Boring!!!
wesleysonic 3 years ago
I love this video! So much pride in workmanship. I wish more companies... ie not just Mazda had stuck with their rotary programs.
goclick 4 years ago
s/Mazda/Mazada
goclick 4 years ago
i didnt know this machine existed thanks , I thought mazda was the only one
carlosr428 4 years ago
Really interesting post, and a great description. Had no idea this machine existed.
Thanks mate.
zaphod3099 4 years ago
i thought mazda was the first one to use rotary...
NuitSanWoggaWogga 4 years ago
Actually Citroen invented the rotary angine.
driftability 4 years ago
felix wankel invented the wankel engine. He colaborated with nsu in the process of developing the engine. the invention was, as you point out, used in a citroen model at some point, but with little success. the rotary engine was used in many different brands and types of installations. most sucessfully made by mazda. the japanese comany developed the engine type to it's highest point of achivement, in the making of the "renesis" engine for the mazda RX8.
aukanmeister 4 years ago 4
And in modern day construction mazda are the only manufacturer to persue rotary engine technology and activly use it in cars. everyone else ignores it. Don't know why because the mazda rx 8 goe like a b****
firebladenut 4 years ago
It has to do with patent laws.
aukanmeister 4 years ago
They get bad gas mileage compared to internal combustion. This is the reason GM spent 50 million on rights to wankel patents, a lot in 1970 or so, only to abandon the project.
Bad mileage aside I've always been fond of these RE5s, heard they get 35mph. Also love the first Gen and Last Gen RX7. Saw a sticker for a first GEN on ebay, said 19/23 mpg. Horrible for a car of that size. Even worse when you realize those stickers are optimistic.
stang661 3 years ago
Nice soundtrack
muzzleray 4 years ago
suzuki eats lotsa sushi and sashimi on tuesday
dieselislife2 4 years ago
soo suzuki created rotary!!!! i knew they wer the best mazda is just gaaay
evets433 4 years ago
nope..
NSU used it in the ro80 in a production car.
NSU = Auto Union = Audi btw
blokjekaas 4 years ago
wow, skinny tires
sonic42797 4 years ago
We need a real GSX-R otary
manymerce 4 years ago 2
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suzuki where is thechnology now , Fuck you suzuki !
mptrax 4 years ago
I want Suzuki Rotary!!!
angelb650650 4 years ago
Great classic footage. I know those dual smooth GT brake discs didn't like the wet ;-)
dlosterman 4 years ago
Un document exceptionnel. A voir absolument.
MERCI
basa8599 4 years ago
I rode the original model back in the mid 70s it was top heavy & the brakes did not work in the wet & the zorst sounded like a cross between a motor boat & a well controlled fart.
veevum 4 years ago
I saw an RE5 at the Ace Cafe London a few months ago, had about 80,000 miles on the original un-rebuilt engine. Was a real blast from the past, from some angles it looks like the famous kettle GT750.
g0fvt 4 years ago
The RE5 wasn't that unreliable, but it was ugly as heck. (I owned one BTW.) The original model looked like something Flash Gordon flew in on. Then they toned it down with normal gauges and lights but the engine was still ugly, just a big lump. Had a complicated two-stage carbruretor, an ugly radiator, oil in both crankcase and injectors, and a tendency to foul the single plug and. Not a bad bike really but still, it was the answer to a question nobody asked.
townhall05446 4 years ago
and the reason it didn't sell was because the engine was so unreliable, and hardly any mechanics could work on it. When bikes came in for warranty engine service, rather than repair the engine, Suzuki had to replace the entire engine.
hisarrow 4 years ago
Too bad the RE-5 was such a disaster. It almost bancrupted Suzuki.
hisarrow 4 years ago
incredible that that this was 30 years ago, amazing quality of engineering. sounds fab
lumsdot 4 years ago
can you please explain wat all different types of ports are
bernal125 4 years ago
anyone know wot a bridgeport mazda re sounds like=fukin beautyfull,sounds better than any rb35,4aGE or wanky v8
sam2dope 4 years ago
RB35???
LOL
the RB series engine top of the stock is RB26DETT which is 2.6 i6 twin turbo
the only bigger engines of RB series are
2.8 RB26DETT Z2 (GTR Z-Tune)
3.0 RB30DE (Tommykaira's R31 GTR M30)and RB30DET (which Nissan never made themselves, it's a RB30E with a twincam head and a turbocharger, popular hybrid of RB30E and RB26DETT in
Australia)
and the RBX-GT2, which was bored to 2.8 by Nismo and was specially made for Nissan Skyline GTR V-Spec Nismo 400 R
LFSvidMan 4 years ago
one of the guys at the local Suzuki shop has one of these.
still rides it on good days
BikerTrashWolf 4 years ago
Dr Felix Wankel INVENTED the rotary engine
fatasdat 4 years ago
what about R100's?? They were before the rx2's
fatasdat 4 years ago
a simply fan-tas-tic document inside a japaneee industry
Thouveninpascal 4 years ago
you are an idiot, get your facts right, mazda never produced an rx6 so who knows what it is you own. in the rx series they made rx2's, 3's, 4's, 5's 7's and 8's.
rejectnz666 4 years ago
probably an mx-6
Raid3n 4 years ago
This wankel engine was invented early 50' for
the German Felix Wankel.
There's nothing new in this motor.
CealeX 4 years ago
lol- so the piston motor is the same after 100 years of technical refinement? Shut up.
optionfan1 4 years ago
I've never been a huge rotary fan, but seeing the period engineering footage is great. Love the lead holders, drafting boards, nixie tube displays and the early pen plotter.
MarcelloRupelli 5 years ago
this is a cool motorcycle. it may be old, but i would love to have that rotary motor.
jdmdsm 5 years ago
no you don't. there's no such thing as an rx6. rx5 is an anachronism too, it's badged as a cosmo. dummy.
trialsinhawaii 5 years ago
They should have bolted a turbo on it to highlight the shit brakes and wobbly handling.
9fifty5 5 years ago
Hahaha they do look like dorks!
renestgo 5 years ago
Great video! I can't believe those dorks built my awesome X6 Hustler and T500 Cobra!
phaedrus44 5 years ago
BTW anyone got anything on the other Jap company's rotarys?
The other 3 all tried it.
(and the 4cy 750 Yam 2st & square 4 2st Kawa were pretty interesting too.)
hocuspokus1 5 years ago
The RE5 was an interesting attempt at something radical but it almost killed Suzuki.
It was too heavy and too thirsty.
I loved the 3cy 2strokes (my restored mint GT550A was my pride & joy).
But time moves on and my (much loved) Gsxr1100w is so ahead of anything from those days (and compared to the lasted Gsxr1000k7 it is very old potatos).
hocuspokus1 5 years ago
This is my Dream motorcycle...
Rojao 5 years ago
All Wankel engines have a very low efficiency. They burn up fuel like nobody´s business and generate massive amounts of excess heat, so you need huge radiators. There´s nothing that can be done about it, it´s a flaw of the design. The surface of the combustion chamber is too large in relation to its volume.
BlackTalon53 5 years ago
Strange sound coming from that bike.
temelon 5 years ago
This engine is great. Smaller and powerfull. I wonder why they stoped to use it on bikes. The heat was the only problem, but today with the composites and ceramic materials it's not a problem anymore.
EzequielBaltazar 5 years ago
Great historical video
gs850gt 5 years ago
norton and nsu did make a motorcycle, suzki is not the only one, dkw was famous for making zweitakt and rotary powered stuff.. cars, bikes, what not
diesellover 5 years ago
suZuki should bring back a powerful street bike.
kegmap 5 years ago
?!
Have a look at the Gsxr & Gsx (and the SV V twins) range for the very definition of a "powerful street bikes".
hocuspokus1 5 years ago
nsu did 2 cars with wankel power RO80 and spidef
skodas 5 years ago
not so the only one, the norton motorcycle and i think nsu
diesellover 5 years ago
Suzuki should bring back the rotary but on a compact sports car.
chief2001 5 years ago
are you serious?...or just messin' around?
rotaryexperiment7 5 years ago
yeah Im serious it would be a much more reliable engine and turbo applications would be easier since I would like to turbo my suzuki baleno 1.8L.
chief2001 5 years ago
mazda has the 13b rotary engine in their rx7s, i thought you were kidding when you said that. they're compact sports cars and sweet as hell. i've got a turbo one myself.
rotaryexperiment7 5 years ago
man, thats awesome.. lovin on the re5's
rooskie 5 years ago
Suzuki Rotary #1
rated 1 star by accident, then 4 star then 5 star
jkuss 5 years ago