Forget the V4 - New Crighton CR700W

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Just saw this - CR700W, and only $116,000.
Hot Damn!

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Crighton CR700W motorcycle brings the rotary engine back into production

The automotive world hasn't seen a rotary engine in production since the Mazda RX-8 was axed in 2012. In fact, the engine claims to have one of the highest specific power outputs of any naturally aspirated engine in the world. There are many advantages to a rotary engine.
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Brian is getting pretty old now. I hope his bikes actually make it to market . That thing sounds awesome , a real racing machine !
 
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The most interesting part of this is that the engine appears to be available off-the-shelf from Rotron. Might even fit in a featherbed.:D

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It's listed on their datasheet as the RT700CR, as shown on the attched .pdf file.

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I wonder how they intend to build a street-legal version with the restrictive Euro-5 regs?
 
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BritTwit said:
I wonder how they intend to build a street-legal version with the restrictive Euro-5 regs?
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I don't think they will . It will be sold as a racing bike and it said they will only produce 25 of them. I don't think you can race a rotary in the official IOM TT ? This could have been in the Norton portfolio !
 
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I don't think they will . It will be sold as a racing bike and it said they will only produce 25 of them. I don't think you can race a rotary in the official IOM TT ? This could have been in the Norton portfolio !
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But the article says you it will come in either race or street legal version.
The Senior TT is for 1000cc Production machines, no?
A 700cc bike should be ok.
 
Yes , Back to old swept volume excuse. It would be great to see it race , they made an exception in the past didn't they at the IOM ? Or was that British Super bike ? And if the platform does dominate then they can ban it ! :)
 
Hard to tell what the race organizations will allow. The Norton rotary that won the Senior TT in 1992 was rated at 588 cc, not all that far from 700 cc. Also, recall that the FIM allowed the 588 cc Norton to run in the 500 cc GP class back in 1990.

Ken
 
The mighty Ron Haslam , nobodies mug and he bred another top racer.... Leon.
 
OHHH ............ OOHHHHHH , be still my beating heart . Having owned a rotary in the past the thought of a special in a featherbed frame or even slotting it into my 961 sport so I could use the old engine as a table ornament has got me all excited. If you have never ridden a rotary belive me they really are something special in terms of smoothness, torque and smiles , can you imagine a 961 with better acceleration, total smoothness , and reliability. I used to have a party trick while it was on the centre stand of balancing a fifty pence piece on top of the tank and redlining it and the coin just sat there and never moved or fell over .o_O
 
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OHHH ............ OOHHHHHH , be still my beating heart . Having owned a rotary in the past the thought of a special in a featherbed frame or even slotting it into my 961 sport so I could use the old engine as a table ornament has got me all excited. If you have never ridden a rotary belive me they really are something special in terms of smoothness, torque and smiles , can you imagine a 961 with better acceleration, total smoothness , and reliability. I used to have a party trick while it was on the centre stand of balancing a fifty pence piece on top of the tank and redlining it and the coin just sat there and never moved or fell over .o_O
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I don't think it would be that difficult either. Final drive is on the wrong side, but that is not insurmountable.
 
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