What's behind the fairings? NGC

[Pierre]

The engines in MotoGP are free for conception, not like in F1 where the rules forces the manufacturers to build V8. In MotoGP, only the displacement, the weight and the capacity of the fuel tank are regulated.

So for those who swap an episode or who did not know anything about what makes our favourite bikes move, here is a little rundown about the engines in MotoGP.

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/2boow7

[dlaing]

The engines in MotoGP are free for conception, not like in F1 where the rules forces the manufacturers to build V8. In MotoGP, only the displacement, the weight and the capacity of the fuel tank are regulated.

So for those who swap an episode or who did not know anything about what makes our favourite bikes move, here is a little rundown about the engines in MotoGP.

http://tinyurl.com/2boow7

Fascinating!

 

More reading at the obvious site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducati_Desmosedici

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YZR-M1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_RC212V

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_GSV-R800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_Ninja_ZX-RR

 

One thing about the engines that I would like to know more about is the reverse spinning engines (reverse direction of wheel spin to make the bike feel lighter at high speed (very critical at motogp speeds!!!))

I suspect Yamahas efforts in this design have helped Rossi becoming the living legend that he is, not that he is not still the best today, or even EVER, but I suspect going to Yamaha was not the handicap that it was billed as. In the few videos of him racing that I have seen, nobody had engines that could walk past him, but he could slide past peopl in turns almost incredibly.

Also, FWIW neither Rossi nor Colin Edwards were hindered going from Honda to Yamaha.

Is this proof? Heck, I don't know, but I would love to take some of the character out of my Guzzi with reverse rotational inertia in the right place.

I was thinking if the rear disk was taken off the wheel and hung on a reverse rotational bevel box, just ahead of the swing arm, ala bacon slicer, but rotating at 4 or 5 times the speed of the rear wheel!

Add a propeller blade that changed directional pitch depending on turing right or left, and watch out Rossi, here comes Guaro!!!! (Maybe we'll need a few more cylinders)