RX8 motorcycle?
 

Has anyone heard anything about putting the new RX8 rotory engine in a motorcycle? Boss Hoss has successfully put a V8 in their motorcycle. Dodge has the V10 Tomahawk which has the viper engine. Wouldn't that be a great idea.

i havent heard anything, but that would be sweet.

I've always wanted to build a "rotorcycle". It wouldn't be very hard. Just time consuming.

If I recall, a company called NSU once made rotary powered motorcycles.

suzuki had one too
yea it'd be cool on a bike

Here is a link talking about previous motorcycles.

There are more, just do a search for them.

I know there have been rotary engined motorcycles before but I've always wanted to see a 13B adapted to one. Forget those old little wimpy ones. Give me a turbo ported rotary bike! Too bad a 5 gallon fuel tank would barely get you around the block.

Perhaps the rotary's engine heat in such close proximity to the fuel tank wouldn't be a good idea. I think the rider's body in general would suffer from being in such close proximity to a running engine of that type.

Norton had a rotary commander, 600cc, performed quite well and competed in the 750cc superbike series.

Allow me to refer you to this thread,

http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.ph...hreadid=321114

Its on the rotary museum and gives a pictoral walk through.

do these "Rotorcylces" flood?

and do they get 10MPG? :o

no they get 20 to 26 mpg at least the norton does

They are certainly cool bikes. I especially like the Norton. Unfortunately I think you would cook yourself riding one and also get rather bad gas mileage compared to the piston bikes.

RE5 Rotary Bike on E-Bay
 

It may not run, but it looks ok...

The Suzuki RE5 on e-bay is the first rotary bikes I have seen there in a long long time.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6027&item=24831369 57&rd=1

By the way, I'm pretty sure that the rotary runs cooler than a comparable piston engine, so proximity to the fuel tank wouldn't be a problem. Remember that Mazda mentioned that one of the reasons they might not make a turbo RX-8 was because the exhaust gasses didn't run hot enough (although my memory could be decieving me).

here it is Sir....

funny because i was just thinking about this this morning on my way to University of central florida. going into school saw a bike and thought... hmmm.... maybe... it would be light. these engines are already powerful and light and compact. you can fit a rotory on a bike and make it faster and lighter than other bikes... plus think of the sound it would make!!!

edit... by the way.. no heatsoak issues either :ylsuper:

That museum has everything except a rotary weed eater. A lot of those bikes were ancient, no telling what is possible now. I'm for a weed eater though hehee.

This thread was over 2 years old! I saw that at Sevenstock. They had never ridden it at the time of that picture. I'd be very concerned about leg burns.

It doesn't look very practical, does it? :scratchhe

i still like it..