i like how 6 seconds into he says single cylinder and ignores that bike being a vtwin
@englishgrammar58352 жыл бұрын
It only got worse from there, like the RE single cylinder twin can be showed for the twin cylinder sound because it has two exhausts
@wannabecarguy2 жыл бұрын
Does he cover diesel and rotary?
@shredder_shazza2 жыл бұрын
He said primarily so basically the v twin is two single cylinders.
@pearljaime2 Жыл бұрын
Did you just assume that Bike's identity? What if it doesn't identifies as a Harley?
@jayeshmange2952 Жыл бұрын
The sound of the h2 with turned off super charger was epic
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Checkout Every Engine in a Motorcycle Part 2: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbuAq8p-0b2Ulmw.html
@MrRamkulov2 жыл бұрын
3:50 180degrees between cilinders in not V engine, but an Opposite one
@dADAquaHobby2 жыл бұрын
I love single cylinder 110 cc engine, No racing, riding with my family is so much fun.
@jec_ecart Жыл бұрын
Correct. Family man.
@Nauryto3 ай бұрын
Single cylinders are only good at 450. Maybe 250.
@herksen Жыл бұрын
Great video!! I’m 66 years old now, and I remember almost all of those bikes very well. And the sound were absolutely great. Thanks a lot!!
@daviddowning86092 жыл бұрын
I didn't see any mention of rotary engines, like the Suziki RE-8 had. There was a Hercules rotary too.
@KurtGAndersen2 жыл бұрын
And Norton too. And no mention of twingles, one cylindered engines with 2 pistons…
@sTL-bs3tz2 жыл бұрын
You forget the RE-5
@musicauthority56352 жыл бұрын
Rotary engines don't have cylinders.
@user-jr3uj2hj8p2 ай бұрын
Suzuki Re5 not 8
@jimclarke11082 жыл бұрын
Honda motorcycle department have built every configuration of engine available, on and off the track
@rogercohn2 жыл бұрын
with outrages redlines of over 20,000 rpm
@percytom92522 жыл бұрын
square 4? boxer twin?
@sterlingroberts62402 жыл бұрын
You really need to cover crankshaft designs in any video covering engine configuration, at least when you’re playing engine sounds. 360°, 180°, and 270° crank inline-two cylinder engines all sound quite different.
@RichardASK2 жыл бұрын
And talk about the Yamaha CP4 engine, which I have in my MT10.
@RenanARodrigues2 жыл бұрын
thank you for the video, did u know about the upside-down engines? such as the one used on nembo motociclette 32? awesome video!
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Yes I did, I thought it should be mentioned as a separate video
@ferenccsabatoth48862 жыл бұрын
I had only 2-stroke bikes, my favorit was the CZ 485/2, made in Czehoslovakia, single-cylinder 246 ccm, 18 hp, but it had much more torque than you expected. It was easy to ride, and it was reliable and economical. And, I think, it was beautyful. Twelve years ago, I had a big mistake: I married... you can imagine the consequences... :(
@MalfunctioningAndroid Жыл бұрын
Never too late to come back. :)
@kextrz Жыл бұрын
As far as jokes go, this one belongs in the really, really nasty category!😂😂😂
@cosmic_gate476 Жыл бұрын
Talk about being ungrateful for your blessings
@TheSteveSteele11 ай бұрын
CZs are legendary. Mythical. They practically owned the early 70s.
@Kraken9911 Жыл бұрын
Judging by the characteristics it seems the triple is the best for street riding in terms of performance and sound. The MT-09 is a beast and sounds amazing.
@malcolmabram2957 Жыл бұрын
Boxers give superb low down torque and excellent fuel consumption. One issue is they can be a bugger to start when very cold, as it takes a lot of 'juice' to crank them.
@IntoTheDepths444 Жыл бұрын
the zx25r is best sounding bike ever
@aniruddhagujar411911 ай бұрын
@@IntoTheDepths444no
@theravedaddy10 ай бұрын
MT09 is flat plane so sounds poor considered to a 120 degree triple, a slightly sad fact as ive got 2 MT09s and miss the sound of my street triple on Zards.
@shvy1007 ай бұрын
@@theravedaddytriumph does a T plane on their triple
@andymcneil70852 ай бұрын
I did not know some of those configs. Thank you for the education. I only ever had a 1 cylinder 2 stroke. Kawasaki AE80 but I loved it. Best 6 months of my life, March-October 1985.
@mustangzrx2 жыл бұрын
Nice video. Too bad you skipped the flat, or horizontally opposed, 4 cylinder. Very common engine in 1970’s and 1980’s Honda GL1000, 1100 & 1200.
@HyadumHH2 жыл бұрын
I went from the most common inline-4, through single, twin, boxer, ending up with a triple now. Great mix of everything.
@drspeed20062 жыл бұрын
"V-twin engines have good balance" hmmm I don't think so, my dad's older 99 Harley 1200 shook like a shivering hairless cat
@kkamino2 жыл бұрын
Best sounding motorcycle engines: 1 Cylinder V-Twin Straight 3 Inline 4 Flat Six V8 V10 But overall, I think the Inline 4 sounds the best followed by the Inline six.
@percytom92522 жыл бұрын
bsme: harley shovelhead idling; almost any 6 revving; big bore or two-stroke multis revving.
@zigzag9412 жыл бұрын
I think what you labelled an inline engine is actually called "A parallel twin". I've owned many Triumphs and BSA's , 650 cc parallel twins back in the 60's and 70's. And unlike your diagram for the inline twin, my parallel twins had both pistons rising and falling together, parallel as it were. The valve and ignition timing was different for each cylinder of course. This design was how they could keep the engine so narrow and did away with the need for a center bearing and journal. The parallel twins had only two bearings, one on each side of the crank. At present I have a Can Am Ryker 900 ACE. 3 cylinder inline, 82 hp and that 3 vibrates at idle so bad I can't see anything in the mirrors. Once above idle the vibration is gone.
@snaxgalore57642 жыл бұрын
They’re both called parallel twins they just have a different crankshaft design
@denniskrige49042 жыл бұрын
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a distinction between a boxer and a flat twin. Boxers move in and out in time and in relation to eachother, as you described. A flat twin has one cylinder doing the opposite of the other, ie one goes in while the other goes out.
@englishgrammar58352 жыл бұрын
I've only ever heard of the boxer in any motorcycle applications, or really any other than airplanes. Do you know of any motorcycles using the flat twin?
@dgphi2 жыл бұрын
What would be the point of such a configuration? It would be horribly unbalanced. I doubt that such a configuration would be used anywhere.
@rogercohn2 жыл бұрын
same thing, boxer and flat twin. They have to move in opposite directions (same point in the combustion cycle).
@billwilson36092 жыл бұрын
I own a 1973 BMW R75/5 that's a 745cc flat twin. The engine's pistons move in and out at the same time to balance their rotation. The faster one goes, the smoother the engine becomes. The VW Bug uses a 4 cylinder boxer engine where the two cylinders on each side have a piston at TDC and the other piston at the bottom of the stroke so resembles a boxer punching with a right then a left. Grew up with a neighbor that fell in love with BMW motorcycles and VW's while serving as a tank mechanic with the 3RD Army during WW2. They would find them intact and out of gas so painted them green, added a white star then put them to use. He said they ran exceptionally well and were simple to maintain. They tore down a VW Kubelwagen engine and were shocked to find that the crankshaft had no counterweights and just was a forged bar.
@kextrz Жыл бұрын
@@rogercohn I hope you're kidding. A boxer CAN have two cylinders firing at the same time. A flat twin? It's a physical impossibility.
@nomadenview2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video.... Man the sound from 6 cylinder engine from Honda CBX are just beautiful....
@bennyrobles91942 жыл бұрын
So true.!! Don’t forget the triple three Mach 500cc Kawasaki two stroke. The widow maker. This bike, and the CBX 1100, 6 cylinder Honda were my favourites in the late 70s, and still are.!! I had the Kawa 500. Always wanted the 1100 CBX, but never drove one.
@ThiagoSilva-dj9qz2 жыл бұрын
This channel is absolutely amazing! Congratulations!
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
@RhodesTTU2 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard the term “straight twin” I’ve always heard them called “parallel twins”
@englishgrammar58352 жыл бұрын
In general, a parallel twin is a 360 degree twin (he missed in the video) where one cylinder is on the compression cycle while the other is on exhaust. In contrast, the 90/270 is what's commonly referred to as an in-line twin, with the compression cycle of one cylinder being either the power or intake cycle of the other.
@robertstout47642 жыл бұрын
Lets see... you missed the 4 cylinder boxer motor as used on the early gold wings and the Wankel engines as used by Suzuki and Hercules.. And if you are listing one off configurations such as Allan Millyards' V10, he also did a V12 and Simon Whitlock did a 48 Cylinder motorcycle.
@robertandersson25232 жыл бұрын
And the RG500 square four.
@musicauthority56352 жыл бұрын
Rotary engines don't have cylinders.
@kextrz Жыл бұрын
@@musicauthority5635 It doesn't say anywhere in this very post that rotary engines have cylinders.
@musicauthority56352 жыл бұрын
Jawa produced a single cylinder engine that had two pistons. that shared a special connecting rod. the second piston was for valving. BSA also made single cylinder 500cc engines. Triumph has a different firing order then other inline twins. Suzuki made the Virago that was a V twin. Kawasaki also made inline triple cylinder two stroke engines. and Yamaha made twin cylinder two stroke engines. Honda also made 350cc, 450cc, 550cc, inline four cylinder engines. and Honda also produced the most inline four cylinder engines. and they produced the most reliable fours. Kawasaki also produced inline four cylinder engines. in the KZ 650cc and 900cc and 1000cc bikes.
@billwilson36092 жыл бұрын
NSU made a 250 single that used a second cylinder to push the air/fuel mixture into it. Think they called it a 250 compressor engine.
@denisduquesnay3280 Жыл бұрын
imagine overhauling a V24...
@nightster63782 жыл бұрын
The term thumpers would normally only be attached from 500cc 4 stroke and up single-cylinder engines. You also didn't mention split singles commonly used by Puch. Straight twin engines are known as Parallel Twins unless the US is different. Most common having 360, 180, or 270-degree cranks In your description of V-Twins, you included Ducati and believe you are correct, the L-Twin term is a recent description. Rear cylinder cooling can be a problem with air-cooled bikes. You didn't mention the Square 4 engine used by Ariel. There may be more but hey!
@davidmacgregor51932 жыл бұрын
I have a 2011 H-D XL883N 'Iron' and a 1980 Benelli 900 Sei, as you can imagine they are two very different motorcycles. Although the Harley has a rubber mounted engine it still vibrates as it rumbles. The Benelli on the other hand is silky smooth all through the rev range, it also handles considerably better than the Harley.
@mechguy84592 жыл бұрын
What a great explaination on bike engines ❤️ and that bike sounds make this video more useful to understand the engines 🙌🏻
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Thanks ✌️
@fiskesmak64882 жыл бұрын
"air-cooled engines and water-cooled engines perform equally well." ? no they dont. not even close.
@englishgrammar58352 жыл бұрын
They do, as long as you don't take heat into account lol. I was also not impressed
@elsullo22 жыл бұрын
Wonderful survey! You did miss "dual pin crankshafts" of a few V-Twins that were exceedingly smooth in vibration. A 70 degree head angle could vibrate as little as a 90 degree head angle because there were two different crankshaft pins on one crankshaft that cancelled a lot of piston shake. I had the Honda PC-800 which was amazingly smooth, yet quite light for a "sport touring" full-fairing bike, and relatively inexpensive. My hands never went numb even on day long tours...........................elsullo
@BobBarkerIsOld2 жыл бұрын
I’d pay good money to hear all these engines idling. One of my pet peeves is blipping the throttle. The recoding for the Gold Wing motor has gotta be a carbureted engine. My 2019 starts up and stays running perfectly, doesn’t sound like that at all. That being said, I wish there more videos like this on KZfaq, maybe I’d actually be on here more often. I love the animated pictures of cylinder movement.
@phantomforester93378 ай бұрын
I had a motorcycle that had to have its throttle blipped when stopped to keep it from stalling. I was self-conscious about it, but had to do it.
@abhidhoundiyal2 жыл бұрын
I know more cylinder engine sounds amazing and smooth but i really like Parallel Twins sounds, they sounds awesome
@arpankoley52452 жыл бұрын
I have to appreciate your research my friend. Keep it up and make us we'll informed as well. 😀 All the best 💐
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a ton
@sujalverma80332 жыл бұрын
Great to see that our enfeild is featured here
@waynemrees82402 жыл бұрын
Enfield, ... no show and no go!
@geoffreyswan78662 жыл бұрын
My current bike is a 2001 st 1100 4 cyl vee four . Smooth as silk and great torque good 21 klm per litre and can pack a heap of torque to flatten any hill or highway at high speed without any stress on the bike or rider .Behaves very well though a bit heavy in traffic and low speeds
@no_one_gaming81842 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who thinks in 0:07 he tells about a single cylinder and showed a v twin .
@Thebrajvasigyan2 жыл бұрын
Really too informative 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️
@ronniefranks43512 жыл бұрын
You failed to mention the Suzuki SV-650 as an example of an L-Twin. The SV-650 is a great bike and has achieved almost cult status.
@deadpool-wq7je Жыл бұрын
hmm
@billtracy88652 жыл бұрын
Why no mention of the Ariel Square 4? A four cylinder, square arrangement, Brit bike with a long production history. Overall a great video, really enjoyed viewing it. Thank you!
@tonypate91742 жыл бұрын
Or even drum roll enter stage left ...The Megola must be on the "cat dad" step with the parallel twins behind the Bmw "INLINE" bricks unlike all the Universal TRANSVERSE Japanese Motorcycles ...make one think the "cat dad" voice over dude not a "tire" with a Y dude who thinks across the frame is inline ....Bless
@RichardASK2 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Suzuki's Square four and stepped square four two strokes or Honda's 2 different types of V3 two stroke for the road and Grand Prix racing. Also in the Sammy Millar Museum in England, there is a 3 cylinder radial engined bike or recently the Wonderful Allen Millyard with his 4 and 5 cylinder 2 strokes and many more.
@donaldgoodinson75502 жыл бұрын
No mention of the Ariel Square 4.
@billwilson36092 жыл бұрын
Nor of the original inline fours used in Hendersons and Indians.
@murugeshanswamy39762 жыл бұрын
thats a wonderful piece of knowledge
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching
@optimusprimum Жыл бұрын
Never stop making these. You’re awesome thank you.
@Akifrend2 жыл бұрын
Forgot 4 cilinder boxer in honda GL1000, 1100 and 1200
@bennyrobles91942 жыл бұрын
I didn’t see the bike I had in the late 70. The “widow maker”. It was a triple three, 750cc, two stroke monster from Kawasaki. The sound of that thing when you drove it slow in traffic…..my gosh.!
@billwilson36092 жыл бұрын
Killer Kows
@mw99842 жыл бұрын
I have a 6 cylinder 50 cc double head undershift in w configuration engine. I bought this for my hamster‘s birthday in Disneyland on April 31 2008.
@realiascailt Жыл бұрын
Nothing sounds more beautiful than a 6 cylinder motorcycle
@waissafi93692 жыл бұрын
V4s are the best for motorcycles and best sound as well.
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@Noelleiscute Жыл бұрын
The most I can get is the 4 stroke 4 cylinder 250cc ZX25R. A really nice and fun bike to ride
@mohammedhegdah2 жыл бұрын
I think you were wrong about v-twin engines, they are not well cooled, cause the front engine blocks the rear engine from receiving optimal air.
@englishgrammar58352 жыл бұрын
This depends on the specific types, which they missed in the video. As far as air-cooled goes there's 2 types being the off-set (rear cylinder is offset, so the front cylinder doesn't block the air flow as much) and no-offset. In the latter, cooling can be increased by raising the fuel tank to allow separate air flow over the front cylinder to reach the rear, but there is still an inherent cooling issue with the rear as you mention here.
@neildransfield59662 жыл бұрын
Your talking two engines - Harley style single crank pin and conventional bicycle type twin crank pin. Harley style is a radial.
@kiranjetty2 жыл бұрын
superb explanation. wonderful.
@ajaysingh0938 Жыл бұрын
Before 3 months I have watched this video and again I Love to watch it again and again... 🥰
@emanuelmifsud67542 жыл бұрын
Amazing research done here. I had the Yamaha XS 750E, in 1976, great bike toured around here Australia
@Mohammedalshamsi842 жыл бұрын
wonderful content , i got boxer 2 cylinder on my BMW 1250 and 4 cylinder on my Honda cbx 750 café racer and i got 1 cylinder on my Honda super cup 125 and ktm450 is 2 cylinder and i found that the boxer engine is the most reliable :)
@hellhound13893 ай бұрын
I have several bikes. All were built not bought. I built them myself. A single cylinder off-road big mud tire with a 13 horsepower tractor engine. A twin cylinder Polaris snowmobile engine in a hard tail lightweight springer chopper. A flat 4 Porsche powered cruiser. A 3.8 V6 powered trike. But one they forgot to mention is the rotary engine. I built a reverse trike (2 wheels in front 1 in back for power) using a twin rotor Mazda engine with a Harley transmission
@monteiro53062 жыл бұрын
The Engineers Post : YOU ARE AWESOME. Greetings from a Brazilian subscriiber.
@TheEngineersPost2 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks!
@kaushikvishwas9060 Жыл бұрын
Thankyou. Five star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Fast good video. Second good example. 3rd for hard work. 4th for animation. 5th for me.😊
@Rajesh833932 жыл бұрын
Engine sounds that you added is unique
@jessemattila99332 жыл бұрын
I have skyteam monkey that had originally 49cc engine but I switched it to 107cc one cylinder engine 😁👍
@Rose.Of.Hizaki2 жыл бұрын
*MO POWA* BABEH
@niksusa2 жыл бұрын
212daytona
@alexgrabowiecki9781 Жыл бұрын
I have: - 2001 BMW R1100RL (boxer) - 1937 BMW R20 (single cylinder, 200cc ) - 1925 Wurttembergia (198cc, single cylinder )
@abhibhoir0272 жыл бұрын
The lazareth and the dodge bikes looks like they've been straight out of the Batcave. Imagine batman riding matt black version of one of these bikes, he would look menacing.....
@sportsmancraft12 жыл бұрын
Also the Honda ST1100 & ST1300 V4s
@PaanoMoNasabi2 жыл бұрын
INLINE 4 😍😍 Eargasm..
@INTHEWIND1833 Жыл бұрын
2018 Goldwing 7 speed DCT, best touring bike ever. Surprised you didn't mention the ST1300 V4 Honda, very smooth.
@gerardmelfor7012 жыл бұрын
Good info. I love the Honda CBX sound when in high revs. I do have a Hayabusa 2002 and a Boulevard m109r 2018.
@eenahsenahluc6393 Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention the rotary and turbine engines, 2 of the most exciting motorcycle engines in my opinion
@dalinean2 жыл бұрын
NO square four... ariel.
@andyephrem Жыл бұрын
Beautiful video, but you forgot the Honda CB400 Vtec Super Four…VTEC is well known in Honda automobiles, being the company’s version of variable valve control. What’s less known is that Honda has its own version of VTEC for motorcycles. VTEC stands for Variable Valve Timing & Lift Electronic Control, which is Honda’s variable valve timing system. The result? Cleaner operation and higher fuel efficiency. According to Honda tests, Hyper VTEC engines produced lower emissions and higher output, with fuel efficiency improved by about 6.5 per cent
@ishankaushik2 жыл бұрын
Pls convert the foot/pound and cubic inch into metric values
@masterderekvlog28982 жыл бұрын
Amazing bro
@buran63 Жыл бұрын
Excellent technical explanations. Thank you. 👍
@TheSteveSteele11 ай бұрын
19:05 Imagine going 136MPH in 1907 on that homemade Curtis V8! Especially on those tires and the tracks back then.
@raphaelandrews3617 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this and also for the excellent explanation of what and why these engines are. Very good,
@MOTOTRAV_PH2 жыл бұрын
Thanks this video. .
@malcolmabram2957 Жыл бұрын
With a straight twin, the cylinders go up and down together in a 4 stroke, but are 180 degrees out of phase in a 2-stroke such as in a Scott 650.
@joelfeinberg3766 Жыл бұрын
There is nothing like a BMW boxer,as an engine that can run 150k to 200k between rebuilds .I am speaking about engines made between the 1960s to the early 2000s Triumph and Harleys would only get 35k to 45k between rebuilds
@1978Mrfixit2 жыл бұрын
Great video, I own an Rc51
@Mbartel500 Жыл бұрын
How can a 3 cylinder engine have 4 bores?
@nghongyihclifford18472 жыл бұрын
I'm kind of upset that you referred the latest Yamaha R1 as an inline 4 engine instead of a crossplane engine
@englishgrammar58352 жыл бұрын
Indeed, there is a HUGE difference in power deliver at specific cycle points that make it a unique power plant vs the flat-plane used in every other commercial application today
@waynemrees82402 жыл бұрын
... It's still an inline 4 which ever way you look at it! ??
@OneTwoFive03 ай бұрын
There’s no way a human made this video… he really said for us to listen to the sound of a “single piston engine” and shows a V2 💀
@ache77772 жыл бұрын
Oval Kolben von Honda fehlt noch Die Zündapp 750 ccm hatte eine V - Motor von 175°Winkel ( also kein Boxer , der ja 180° Winkel hat ! )
@munawarazad413 Жыл бұрын
150 cc Honda Aviator scooter , Yamaha RD 350 , 2 cylinder 2 stroke, both in Mumbai and Kawasaki GPX 750, 4 cylinder 4 stroke, 4 carb, 16 valve 2 cam shaft, 750 cc, in Dubai,, for years. Each had their own taste of ride.
@redmille10002 жыл бұрын
Triumph Triple, perfection!
@aslankamalmaz73622 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video I have single cylinder engine on my bike economy easy to repair cheap spare parts it's great
@amgames40702 жыл бұрын
I have a Royal Enfield Interceptor 650 and I love it.
@---l---9 ай бұрын
I hope the crew from This Old House comes by.
@laodumlaojari81222 жыл бұрын
Great ....👍 I have single cylinder Yamaha Fz
@cliffont Жыл бұрын
Great vid! I never knew the V3, W3, V5 and Viper V10 bikes existed, interesting
@LordofKings-Raj6 ай бұрын
Excellent 👌 Very in-depth information provided... thanks 🙏
@allanweseman5433 Жыл бұрын
You missed showing the ST1300 Honda V4 and the VFR 1200 Honda V4 with the two front cylinders being the outside to make the bike narrower in the rear
@truckerallister90802 жыл бұрын
Nice video, Suzi 03, 800cc V2, Intruder Velosia
@waltercelario66862 жыл бұрын
Great video. Love the cbx sound. I have a boss hoss with a 383 cu in motor. Because... you know... why the heck not?
@davescupper57892 жыл бұрын
Guzzi v single?
@Kamilarzyk1 Жыл бұрын
I have a Suzuki Bandit 600N, I love this motorcycle
@vtecspec2 Жыл бұрын
I riding a cb400 revo. Sadly honda had stopped production. Best low cc inline4. Nowadays there are lesser 400 cc inline4. Hope in future honda will be back the 400cc inline 4 again.
@davekendall97492 жыл бұрын
Really interesting video very nicely done like the sounds added too.
@thomasraj72052 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation. I understood a lot on bike engineering.
@EC550EL2 жыл бұрын
Its very excellent video sir tq sir
@ThePeterasd2 жыл бұрын
I had Yezdi 250cc (a Czech Republic bike), Honda Splendor 100cc(Japan), Royal Enfield 350cc(India), Honda shine 125cc (my Father bought, and I used with him).. all are single-cylinder petrol engines. Yezdi had two exhaust pipes.
@adityavijayran2999 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your knowledge
@drock66272 жыл бұрын
What about the square 4 engines used by Suzuki in the two stroke 500cc era?
@kextrz Жыл бұрын
Suzuki wasn't the only one. Your point is no less valid.