This motorcycle made by JRL is just awesome. Powered by a radial engine. I haven’t seen anything like that ever. Notice how fast it revs up. Go here for some faq : www.jrlcycles.com Here is another radial engine powered motorcycle. Its made by Jesse James : thekneeslider.com Though I respect Jesse James’ creations very much, I think the JRL cycle is much more sleek.
Radial engine motorcycle
Written by Tools on April 30th, 2010 in Motorcycle.
Tags: Engine, Motorcycle, Radial
@agav8r802 amen
show its riding
That’s cool.
impresionante esta moto
@jeffandmissymello this bike is way nice than that one
wow.., insane, i saw this in a custom magazine for a couple of months ago, or a year ago, and it looked awesome
throttle response is nasty.
so what fuck practical its awesome
love it.
Yeah nice, but how long can you run a radial engine before heat problems…? Won’t make for a very practical ride.. ;o)
id kill myself on that
@agav8r802
what kind of faillures? obviously not fatal ones, cause you wouldn’t be telling this
Wow the response is insane.
I’ve got approx 7,000 hrs of time with a radial on the nose of a machine. In that 7,000 hrs I have witnessed several catostophic failures of a radial.
Don’t think I’d want one between my legs……LOL,
Sweet Bike though
WHAT! That is the sickest idea for a chopper I’ve ever seen. I love it, awesome!
next to the video click on more info & you’ll see a link to a bike built by Jesse James that is like you describe. I don’t think it’s as nice as this one though
How do you know he doesn’t have any other bikes? I wouldn’t choose this one to ride every day either. It must be heavy, and it’ll suck down the fuel and oil like crazy, and it has a tiny gas tanks. You couldn’t expect him to ride it all the time. It’s for show, a promotion, more or less, for his business.
Umm…a Steerman pilot also kinda wears goggles to keep the 100mph wind out of his eyes. But yes, any radial plane without a cowling on the engine will spit some oil. Hell, radials mileage is listed in both gallons of fuel per hour, and quarts of oil! LOL, not very PC, but still cool. Better than an old Liberty V-12, with it’s old skool open valvetrain. It’s called a “total loss” oiling system, where it’s not designed to keep all the oil inside and recircle it, it just feeds oil from a tank!
Well, a lot of radials look “similar” to each other, unless you know what you’re looking for.
Yeah, but the crankshaft is spinning inside, and you could almost say the pistons are “spinning” as well, since the stroke pattern move radially around the engine. He’s right about the gyroscope thing, only he’s wrong too, since it would be an issue if the engine was mounted 90deg to the frame. Much of it is airfoils and prop weight, but even a regular radial in an airplane tries to pull it to one side or the other. WWI rotaries were vicious for that, and just the crank spinning creates force.
LOL, R-2800 as in 2800cc’s maybe. Usually when someone says “R-2800″ their talking about the Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp radial. That was a whole different animal. The “-2800″ in that name meant “2800 cubic inches displacement”. As in Big Fucking Engine. 2,000 hp enough for ya? Too bad it weighs like 2,300 lbs and is like 4′5″ in diameter! (And it’s twin-rowed, so good luck fitting it between your legs!)
It has seven cylinders. Radials are almost always odd-numbered, or they vibrate (worse than they already do!). You can count the cylinders easy enough; each cylinder has a pair of those silver rods running in front of it, so just count sets of two, or count and then divide by two. Those are the valve pushrods, and there is 14 of them, one intake and one exhaust valve per cylinder.
Radials are almost always air cooled engines. Makes sense, since the cylinders spread away from each other unlike an inline, so air can flow through better.
@toranacar- Yes, “pulled through” is to turn the engine over before starting. You’ll see crew men turning the prop of a radial-engined aiplane before they start it. Like he said, it is important because the oil can collect in the bottom cylinders of a radial when it sits. I believe that it also has something to do with getting the flow through the oil pump started, since it drives off of the crankshaft. That would make sure that oil was flowing to the engine from the moment it starts.
110hp, but at what torque? Radials are torquey as fuck.