Woooo. Tough crowd tonightdern wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:47 pmWhen I was a kid I put massive wheels on the back of a scalextric car and it looked shit, just like that ducati.Yorick wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:30 pm I've seen a new V4S Panigale about lately and looked cool, but rider was pants.
Last night riding home along our road, I saw him set off, wobbling about.
I passed him on the corner. On my GasGas in t-shirt and flip flops
When I pulled up to our gate, he wobbled past looking very sheepish.
All the gear and no idea. Look at them chicken strips.
I took photo just now. Reg plate shows it's almost new.
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interesting bikes found randomly..
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There's a stand at the Excel show with four prototypes:
- V6 powered
- V10 powered
- Double electric motors
And this:
- V6 powered
- V10 powered
- Double electric motors
And this:
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Has a whiff of 'Nemesis' about it, methinks...?
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Dunno, but reading the blurb on the info board you have to wonder why those engines aren't in use all over the place. The thing about torpedo motors is they don't do a lot of mileage and they don't come back for servicing...
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Two of them!
So it's the layout you describe, but with two sets of positions/'cranks' etc. mirrored to make an opposed piston engine.
There's a little video on their page.
Shades of both torpedoes and railway locomotives here
https://innengine.com/our-technology/
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They likes the brown,don't they.
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When you think about it, with banks off opposing pistons it kind of topologically similar to a small foot print Napier Deltic.
A soapy tenner says they disappear without trace once the money runs out.
I would have thought a jet turbine burning pure ethanol, running a generator to power electric motors would be more likely to succeed
A soapy tenner says they disappear without trace once the money runs out.
I would have thought a jet turbine burning pure ethanol, running a generator to power electric motors would be more likely to succeed
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It doesn't even have 'pretty' on it's side.Ian wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:21 am When you think about it, with banks off opposing pistons it kind of topologically similar to a small foot print Napier Deltic.
A soapy tenner says they disappear without trace once the money runs out.
I would have thought a jet turbine burning pure ethanol, running a generator to power electric motors would be more likely to succeed
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Indeed. At first I thought some pervert had given a Hercules rotary the cafe racer treatment.
The engine is technically interesting but they'll have more success selling it to drone makers after the war in Ukraine.
The engine is technically interesting but they'll have more success selling it to drone makers after the war in Ukraine.
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That's what the Jaguar CX-75 was going to have. These guys do them as replacements for "traditional" gen sets too. We used to make the carbon sleeves which allow a generator to run at 100,000rpm directly coupled to the turbine.
https://www.bladonmt.com/
Why better idea, turbines are more efficient, simpler, quieter, smaller, lighter, also don't vibrate etc etc. They can also run on almost any liquid fuel.
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Unless they are ItalianCount Steer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:36 am Dunno, but reading the blurb on the info board you have to wonder why those engines aren't in use all over the place. The thing about torpedo motors is they don't do a lot of mileage and they don't come back for servicing...
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New KTM looks sweet.
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Parked outside my local Halfords...that's all I know of the origin
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