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Era of Supercharged medium sized motorcycles coming!
dilligaf:
We enjoyed the hell out of our CX500 Turbo. ;D Only good for a straight line but a lot of fun. :+=copcar :BEER:
Matt
rzimmerman:
Picture of the custom Turbocharged 1981 Yamaha Maxim my 16 year old and I built last year. 16 psi of boost 121 horsepower. It's the engine and driveline out of an 1983 Seca Turbo. Its a pile of parts I had laying around. Sportster Seat. Suzuki Sidecovers and fenders. GPS speedometer. The tank and fenders are powder coated Black Wrinkle and the Wheels and other bits at powder coated Silver Vein.
I like the old Gpz and CX turbo bikes. Made medium displacement bikes a lot more fun.
mgfan:
Just for clarity, the Hondas had fuel injection. My 650T was an absolute blast and very dependable. Merry Christmas! :BEER:
Sasquatch Jim:
More moving parts and more complications. From the old Ludite.
Doppelgaenger:
I have to say that I'm with Yak Fat. The addition of turbos will indeed get us more power from bike engines, but at what cost? The higher stressed the engine, the less it lasts. Sure a crotch rocket will rev to 15k, but if you ride it like it's meant to be ridden revved out on a track for an hour at a time then that engine will only last 25k miles before it needs rebuilt. Add forced induction and now you'll get even less life out of the engines.
And then comes the whole small penis thing. Sport bikes are already too powerful for the average squid that buys them and they end up in pieces on the road. With supercharged liter bikes with 250hp we're just going to end up with more dead bodies if squids get their hands on them.
I do see the point of giving serious power to small, light bikes. But when the engine needs rebuilding more often, it just isn't worth it. This is one of the reasons I go for V-twins, and especially big bore twins: You get the awesome torque that makes the bike fun, but the engine still lasts forever. To each their own I guess.
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