Recently bought the latest issue of UK's Classic Bike and there is an article about a Rotary Engined bike. for a mere 20,000 pounds you can own 1 of 100.
I found it amusing that over the years they have tried and tried again to feed the motorcycle crowd a Rotary Engine.If you want to read about the 20,000 pound re-pop you can pick up an issue of Classic yourself....
Here are a few other Rotary gems from over the years
Norton’s last production run of motorcycles was to make 100 rotary engined "classics" in 1988. They had previously made them for police work in Great Britain. This is serial number 100 – the "last" Norton. It has a very inefficient two-rotor engine, hence all the cooling fans.
Here is the German Hercules, why they named it that is beyond me. It features a single rotor, air cooled, 294cc rotary engine. Horsepower was only 25 or 27 depending on model year.For a 300cc bike to be named Hercules must have been some insider joke between Heinz and his boys...
Here is the Suzuki that was made for only a year. The engine is so damn ugly I'm surprised they didn't burn the proto-type and stone the designer to death
With a track record like this, its no wonder that Rotary engine never caught on....
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