1966 Honda RC166 Exhaust Engine Sound

[TheSuzukinutt]

Fuck I think I just came ;)

[AqAquilan]

fuck that sounds brutal!

[neochase1]

um to favorites ? yeah i think so! Damn why dont bikes sound like this any more ? ugh electric bikes are gonna suck so much.

[aditbije]

this crying engine @ 18k rpm just me my tears and horny at the same time

i could hear this sounds every single morning for my breakfast

[yannf6c]

Far better than Beethoven's symphony!!!!! :-)

[Roby100HP]

:O i'm moved..!!

[aprodimenti]

what a beautiful sound!

[gorflunk]

At 0:50 look at the guy in the glasses in the background. He knows what's up.

[gorflunk]

Outstanding.  I loved the shocked looks and then the smiles.

[DoubleYouPee1]

Haha still so funny 0:45 "oh..that's actually not that bad" 0:49 WAMWAAAAAMWAAAAAAAVRRAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAaAAAAAAAAA

[gunmanscotland]

Just awesome.

[browny993]

I'd rather watch this then moto2 or moto 3

[Qnickel27]

look at that engine touch 18k-RPM like its the easiest thing, Simply Amazing! love how what I'm assuming are judges all cover their ears, and the crowd behind them just soaks in the glorious song.

[danielMMachado1]

magnifica!!!!!!!!!!

[duaneafields]

That was Mr. Miyagi at the end!  "Ah! Look Eye, ALWAYS LOOK EYE! Come back tomorrow."

[mikejlp]

Gabriel's bugle get an airing ! BRING IT ON !

[Barvbarv]

*kneels down*

[4shizzonthetube]

huurrrrrfffffffffaaaaaaaaaaaaa­arrrrrrrrkkkmeeeeeee...... dear santa...

[Pablo34643]

Sound wasted on people at :50 - WTF - it is a privellage to hear this machine !!!

[Pablo34643]

greatest engine ever made....... all hail Sochiro !

[klepetar]

brap--pa--dapppp!!!!

[jtophe51]

excellent !!!! j'adore !

[transdetendal]

wicked sound



[davetsu77]

@transdetendal i know your water pump sound better LOL hahahahaha

[mcbain1212]

How can anyone dislike this, it's amazing

[emp29]

I'm not into bikes, but the sound of this one gave me goose bumps. Like!

[frank09busa]

sound of vtec kick in from the 60s priceless

[carl2017]

Probably one of the most awesomme sounds in motorcycling.

[gymkhanadog]

Wow. Now that's a pretty sound. And a pretty bike.

[marianito1968]

music



[deltanine100]

Those hubs remind me of my CB92 Benly.

[TheKuroshiranami]

絵に描いたようなンダヲタが閲覧席に沢山いるわｗｗｗ

[unclewilly2]

Niiice :)

[bellapetuttidario93]

2 stroke?

[thekkl]

@bellapetuttidario93 No, 4.

[reading70]

@bellapetuttidario93 Assolutamente, 4 tempi con regime di rotazione prossimo ai 20.000 giri. 

[bellapetuttidario93]

@reading70 esistono attulalmente in commercio moto con lo stesso tipo di motore?

[reading70]

@bellapetuttidario93 Purtroppo no, queste erano moto fatte apposta per la competizione ed erano plurifrazionate in 4 o 5 cilindri, oggi in commercio troverai solo monocilindriche da 125, ed ovviamente il regime di rotazione è notevolmente più basso, questo anche perchè la sfruttabilità di questi motori Honda era molto in alto, pensa che per riscaldarla se non la si teneva sopra un certo numero di giri la moto si spegneva da sola.

[computername]

0:49 guy in the middle backround: "yeah we japanese are so sick!"

but he´s right, outstanding awesome piece of metal, this bike

[abcesveomuertos]

one of the better gp of the history

[TheRonaldo666]

Girls has sweet sweet pussy wet with anticipation of straddling beast honda.

[brapboys503]

Fuckin pussies covering their ears (talking about the guys in the audience.

[twowheelflyercr]

@brapboys503 Any idea how loud that bike is INDOORS? Go ahead pull the silencers off your bike and start it in your living room ! ! Just saying...........

[brapboys503]

@twowheelflyercr Or the alcohol injected 502ci Keith Black drag rail engine five feet away on the dyno in my shop right now? Makes this thing sound like a mewling kitten. I can take lots of noise, and my hearing is still outstanding.

[boo66]

@brapboys503

Have you heard the CR166 in person.. Maybe 10,000 mewling kittens (on Ketamine!)

;o)

[brapboys503]

@boo66 No, but I've done staging prep at the Portland International Raceway, and have been RIGHT behind 13B peripheral-port alcohol rotary funny cars, and those are probably the loudest thing sitting on rubber tread today.

[turtlemann14]

that thing revs sooo fast. dry clutch? how many hp did these little guys produce?

[boo66]

@turtlemann14 60bhp @ 18,000rpm. It can rev so fast because everytjhing is tiny.. Less reciprocating mass and inertia.. That's (most of) the point of 6 tiny cylinders rather than one big one.

[mrchopperking1]

One of the BEST motorcycles Japan has ever built,truly a classic and very beautiful to ride,although tight steep turns are out of the question though, its still a thrill a minute,cheap,easy to work on,enjoyable motorcycle;(espescially with a big bore kit OH-MY!! and they make a most beautiful CHOPPER BIKE!!

[Backpacker1uk]

Great memories of the TT long ago

[SuperBesier]

To Start the Honda Enginge you need to start another Engine First :D

[Daschickenify]

what has happened with the racing bikes? in 1955 there was the moto guzzi v8 that did 16,000 rpm, 1966 and 1965 the 4 and 6 cylinder 125s and 250s that do 18,000 rpm, then there is the CBR 250RR in 1990 that did 20,000 rpm, and now the racing four stroke 250s only do like 13,000 rpm! and they sound like crap! Fix this problem!

[nagasako7]

16,000 RPM in 1966. .would be like 46,000 RPM in 2010.

[SqiroS22]

@nagasako7 HONDA ..the power of dreams

[johnpetermalcolm]

@nagasako7

In the 1950's a British motor company "Rover", did just that. They produced a gas turbine engine (Rover 1 S60), that did indeed do 46,000 rpm. It was about the same size as a modern motorcycle engine, but it only produced about 60 bhp. Who knows what a further 60 years of research could have given us today if someone had taken it on.

[boo66]

@johnpetermalcolm Lots of further research was done on gas turbines but nobody could get them economical  enough for vehicular use.

[johnpetermalcolm]

@boo66

That depends on how you judge the term "economical". A modern superbike gets about half the mpg of a VW Polo BlueMotion, but nobody thinks of a motorcyclist as being a gas-guzzler. As a turbine runs on kerosene, it would be cheaper than diesel at the pump anyway. When I suggested that the turbine needed more development, I should have made it clear that I meant for motorcycles. Not the large stuff that is fitted into tanks, aircraft, ships etc.

[Jo3yB7]

BEST ALARM CLOCK EVER

[Beemerboy324]

I heard one of these live back in the day and I know why they plug their ears. These things had a hell of a bark. Sort of like riding a Swiss watch. Music on the track, though.

[KillerDreck89]

2 people can't handle a Honda RC166.

[stalker7d7]

want

[bugdog9]

18k revs what a sweet song

[microwavesix]

Why are they plugging their ears?

[Andypan43]

My uncle told me Mike Hailwood loved to race the Honda 6

[Scopio99]

Happy to see so many likers and viewers.

[TheScientist0000000]

Alright who's responsible for leaving America's desire for MORE POWER in Japan after WWII ?

[69roadr]

that is one incredible little 6 shooter! mechanical tach

[69roadr]

that is one incredible little 6 shooter!

[dc521tla]

love the sound of these bikes :)

[patchtueday]

That is the sound of pure evil.

I wish I could get a road bike version of that sound. Jesus.

[lunafairy07]

律っちゃんだ！

[mwktz2]

That's what sold me on a CBX back in 1978!

[theoriginalbensteele]

For me, this is the only Honda I like the sound of

[1100HondaCB]

Two people are obviously envious as they are still riding crappy little mopeds on L plates.

[motosque1]

If you cant feel that in the hairs on the back of your neck you are not alive!

[motabikeboy]

At 1:08 the rev's were pulling up so hard the tacho was even experiencing torque reaction.

[splash2882]

Saw-and heard- one of these at Laguna Seca (Team Obsolete). I swear, brought tears to my eyes and blood to my ears!

[ovalspecial]

this

is

HONDA

music!!



[3L3CTR0static]

wow the sound!



[pace461]

20-22 Yamaha R1 Cross Plane :)

[boo66]

@Scopio99  Naaaaaaaahhhhh.. not really. The CBX is a low-tuned sports road bike. Nothing like the RC166 except for being 6-cylinder and a Honda.

[mikejlp]

The devil raises her voice !

[bigiwork]

Non è moto ma arte. Non è rumore ma musica!

[thenicedudejay]

60 hp from only 250cc is amazing.  todays f1 cars is struggling to get up to those power per litre figures !!!

[Auskwalker]

6 exhaust??? 6cilinder??? WTF,,, superb!!!!

[jezz155]

thumbs up for the bike and for the girl!

[ravenzakr1]

Твою мать нахрен!!!!

[karizmadentist]

す、素晴らしすぎた・・・

甦れ、日本のバイク。

[danthemanpatrick]

All those Japs in that studio should come see some NHRA top fuelers race if they want to hear something really loud.

[supradrifter]

old japanese guy is not amused at 1:15

[91730]

@supradrifter If i'm not wrong, that old japanese guy is Shoichiro Irimajiri who designed the engine of this bike...

[citi0rhythm]

why the fuck would they cover they ears....

[TofuRealName]

That is freakin' awesome! I love the old-school bikes and, what's more, it looks fast, too.

Might violate some noise restrictions, but... damn if the fine wouldn't be worth it to take a ride on one of those.

That it's human engineering (not some computer on wheels) just adds to the appeal.

[glad808]

Beautiful sound!

これぞ日本の技術力！

[gertnood]

@Scopio99 F1 of motorcycles - that's a bloody joke. Yes I've ridden one. I love it when someone brags about a friend's bike instead of something they own and understand. The CBX was a cool bike in its day. Other than that it was a big fat heavy sport touring bike with modest handling and poor aerodynamics. The RC166 was developed about 15 years prior to the CBX and if it had the same relative performance as your mighty F1-like CBX it would have made all of 25 horsepower and lost every time.

[Scopio99]

@purpleGoAhead

haha 60hp, thats a huge amount of power!

[purpleGoAhead]

@Scopio99 ok, i see you're a pretty smart guy -.-

comparing a wardrobe on wheels and an unbelievably nimble old racer was pointless from the very first comment of you mentioning the "mighty" cbx -.-

so i don't leave a comment anymore... too much ignorance...

it's sad that the uploader of a vid from one of the very finest and most ingenious racebikes of all time doesn't appreciate it, really sad...

[huluvuz]

@Scopio99 60 hp from 250cc that means 240 hp from 1000 cc

[Ktmzqw]

@Scopio99 Do you eat shit? Cause i can smell you crappy breath from here

[leveebreaker7]

@Scopio99 Scopio, I absolutely guarantee that you couldn't take the RC166 to its performance limits. 60hp is indeed plenty when the bike weighs so little. Stop acting like a child (if you can).

[2jzgtejza80]

@Scopio99

60hp is lot of power for engine smaller than glass of water developed in 1966.

[Factnotfictionpeople]

@2jzgtejza80 It was (is?) an icon - kids of today, etc, etc.........

[1100HondaCB]

@2jzgtejza80 I read it was 67bhp and the bike could do 145mph.

[2jzgtejza80]

@1100HondaCB

Yes, 67, but also gearbox was 6-spd, with longer 6th speed. Model before RC166 in 350cc and 50cc class was using 7-spd even 8-spd gearboxes. For top speed i'm not sure but 145mph is normal for race bike like this.

[1100HondaCB]

@2jzgtejza80 The 125cc 5 cylinder uses the cylinders from the 50cc 2 cylinder race bike and has 8 speed gearbox. Honda even had a plan for a 50cc 3 cylinder, but it never made production. Just imagine if Honda came up with a V10 250cc race bike, using the 50cc race bike pistons. That would be amazing!

[2jzgtejza80]

@1100HondaCB

Price!!! multy-cylinder engines are expensive as hell. Honda engines was success in many racing categories, from Isle of Man TT, Formula 1, Japan Super GT, Nippon Formula, IRL (Indy car), British Formula, Moto GP, even in technology research. Today, Honda is only supplier to Indy Race League and Formula Nippon. Never failed any engine.

[droceretik]

@1100HondaCB The RC148 did not "use the cylinders from the 50 cc race bike". The RC148, 125 five cylinder has bore and stroke of 33 x 29 mm giving a total capacity of 124 cc and a per cylinder capacity of 24.814 cc.

The RC115 had a bore and stroke of 34 x 27.4 mm, giving a total capacity of 49.75 cc and a per cylinder capacity of 24.875 cc. Yes, almost identical cylinder capacities but arrived at by different bores and strokes. The cylinders are completely different castings.

[boo66]

@2jzgtejza80 The 50cc twin (RC115 and 116) used a 9-speed gearbox..

[2jzgtejza80]

@boo66

Yes, but I'm talking about 166

[Scopio99]

1 guy out of 150 is cant afford a motorbike

[brapboys503]

@Scopio99 Which is sad because bikes are CHEAP.

[tulliokardano]

I don't understand what's the point in comparing a tourism bike and a GP...

[AliFugginB]

the sound of 16000 RPM :'')

[ChickenCurry66]

これ見てました！

何度見ても泣ける程すばらしい！

映ってるタレントさんも根っからのバイク好きばかりだし、素晴ら­しい番組だった・・

またやって欲しいっすね

[nikolaos12a]

Great sound from a great machine

[mrdiscus66]

@Juggernautishere Moto Guzzi made a V8.

[mrdiscus66]

@purpleGoAhead The CBX isn't even a match for a 20 yr old Jap 400. An impressive engine but the bike wasn't particuarly good at anything even when it was new.

[DBD34GS]

This brings tears to my eyes, nostalgia is a strange thing.

[shatterdsky]

かっちょえ～～～～～

[Gypsielectro]

I've seen/heard this bike demonstrated at a Classic bike show in Yokohama; the loudest exhaust I've ever heard; I had to lean on a concrete pillar to steady myself or I couldn't keep standing up....

[mrbillmacneill]

was the old gent at the end mr irimijiri ? a truly great engineer / designer. how about that eh? designs a championship winning race bike and then years later translates that design into a mass-produced six .

that would look good on your resume.

hope i spelled his name right.

[RichBehrle]

I saw this whole video, the two mechanics very meticulously take the whole bike apart and dissect it in front of the group. I think one of the people in the group is the designer, he also designed the engine for the cbx years later, a very similar engine design with 4 separate cams, the gas tank is very very thin aluminum and weighs nearly nothing, most of the engine is made of magnesium, the bike is truly a work of art. MV  made a six but in the 50s.

[theravedaddy]

shit that last bit made me cry-is it normal to get emotional over a motorcycle? better be cos i have a modded prolink

[Neosophist]

@Scopio99 I'm just stating the facts here. The RC166 was the F1 bike of the time, a culmination of 6 cylinder work. The CBX was just a road-going model. I'm not saying that the CBX wasn't nice looking or advanced for its time (which it was, espeically for a road-going model). I've over-hauled a set of '79 CBX carbs and had the chance to ride the bike for several hundred miles. Nice but heavy bike, not F1 machine, this RC166 is totally different league to the CBX1000. Still I wouldn't mind either

[highspeedhamish]

@Scopio99

CBX1100? or CBX1000, the rod breaking (number 3 cylinder) overweight pos. If your referring to the CBR1100XX Blackbird that bike sounds like any other inline four..

[schlusselmensch]

The guy beside toque girl at 50 seconds sure looks like Masi Oka. Is he a bike nut?

[sookster54]

@schlusselmensch Holy shit, I think you're right, I didn't think of that til now, that does look like him.

[bvivers]

What a beautiful bike. It's a pity that modern Japanese bikes have become so refined that they're almost bland.

[dee83h]

sounds good and the girl has the same hat as me / Columbia / :)

[suzukinutt]

Man man the BEST SOUND in the world ;)

[leone7227]

Oh, HELL YEAH!!!!!

[DocPhotop]

awesome, simply awesome

[k0cs1s]

sick

[Scopio99]

@k0cs1s

no its a Honda RC166

[722erodz]

in the beginnig...

[Scopio99]

@722erodz

yeah look at it all the way to the end?

[localdu]

those are some small, powerful engines, no?

[k0cs1s]

@localdu not engines,cylinders...

[localdu]

@k0cs1s engines consist of a series of cylinders. in this case, a v formation of six individual cylinders. but it is an engine in itself. the cylinders are connected and they work in unison, all turning the same crankshaft, as an engine does. so yeah.. im talking about the engine, not the cylinders. thanks though

[droceretik]

@localdu A straight six, not a V6.

[localdu]

@droceretik ohs. and all this time i was mistaken, lol!

i guess that would explain the idle, eh?

[Scopio99]

@k0cs1s

Yes it must have both engine and cylinders to go forward

[phil10733]

truly wonderful !!! apparently they rev ved these machines to well over 20 000 rpm during races ! there are a couple of knackered old exmples doing the rounds at the moment , but this looks and sounds superb ! is it from the honda museum ? where can I get more footage?

[cows416]

Only one guy seemed to have the sense to plug his ears!

[JasonMaximHall]

The pistons are bigger than you might think - assuming bore = 4/3 x stroke the bore would be a little over 41mm and the stroke 31mm. Still a mechanical marvel all the same.

[the4587548]

sounds like an f1 car!

[pace461]

@the4587548 20-22 Yamaha R1 Cross Plane :)

[acush1]

I want one! It would be an amazing piece of engineering if it were made today, never mind back in the mid 1960s.

[cows416]

lol 18k... insane

[FORDboy357]

Haha! Love the old guy right at the end. That slight grin is silently screaming "Yeah. That's bad ass."

[JGMagoo]

I remember reading about this engine in 1966 in a motorcycle magazine. DOHC, 4-stroke, 250cc's and 6-cylinders=41cc's per cylinder. I was just imagining in my mind how tiny the bore and stroke must be and when I read the next sentence that said it had 4-valves per cylinder, I almost fell out of my chair!!

[Scopio99]

@JGMagoo

thats whats so insane with the engine. 4 valves per cyl. insane

[celleke]

@JGMagoo

Bore and stroke of the latest version of the RC166 is 41 bore x 31.5 stroke (mm offcourse) this gives a total of 249.5cc and produces around 60-62hp

[Showmethosevideos]

Haha the dude with the glasses left corner, just one big smile on his face :D

[Scopio99]

@CADtekk yes that is unbeliveable

[1100HondaCB]

I love the way one of the audience put his fingers in his ears in anticipation of the screaming engine. I also love the way the audience jump as the engine screams into life and the guy behind the girl nods his head as if to say "that's more like it". A truely superb motorcycle. I think it had a top speed of about 145mph and 62bhp. Incredible. The RC166 will be remembered by many for years to come.

[1100HondaCB]

In the sixties for an engine to scream at 18000 rpm must have been out of this world. Most of the Triumphs of the day could do about a third of that. The Japanese really did take motorcycles to a new level. I've always had a passion for Honda motorcylces. I like Kawasaki, but my heart is with Honda.

[Scopio99]

@CADtekk

sounds amazing yess

[robsonangra]

Amazing.......verry nice sound as motorcycle.

[sookster54]

These are awesome bikes, I saw the 5 cylinder one in action some years back and it was really loud and had a sweet high pitch squeal at high revs.

I liked the guy nodding behind the girl at 0:51 like he's saying "yeah now that's what I'm talking about". lol

[Scopio99]

@sookster54

haha yes