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This 100-horsepower rotary engine motorcycle was a bad idea, and that’s why it’s badass
The Van Veen OCR1000 was a rotary-powered engineering flex and one of the rarest motorcycles ever made. And now, it can be yours. In the grand history of motorcycles, some of the most fascinating ...
The automotive world hasn’t seen a rotary engine in production since the Mazda RX-8 was axed in 2012. However, the Crighton CR700W is bringing it back in spectacular fashion in a machine billed as the ...
The world’s first Wankel-engined motorbike was the air-cooled Hercules W-2000. Fellow German DKW, England’s Norton and Dutch Van Veen also produced rotary motorbikes, yet on the Japanese side, only ...
The extraordinary Crighton CR700W extracts an incredible 220 hp from a 690cc twin-rotor Wankel engine, and weighs just 129.5 kg (285.5 lb) dry for a MotoGP-level power-to-weight ratio. Its maker ...
This concept from French company Furion pairs a twin-rotor, compact 654cc Wankel rotary engine with a 40-kilowatt electric motor to produce a massive 180 hp (134 kW) and a ludicrous 151 lb-ft (205 Nm) ...
The folks behind the SilentHawk ‘stealth’ motorcycle have shared some additional information about their innovative Special Forces machine, which is entering a Phase II trial funded by the Defense ...
The Wankel rotary engine recipe has been tried on motorcycles in the past too, with the Suzuki RE5 being the most known example. As it happened in the car industry, the setup wasn’t efficient enough ...
After the slow-motion trainwreck that was the demise of the British motorcycle industry in the 1970s, only the beleaguered Meriden Co-Op (reduced to practically cottage industry-levels of Triumph ...
The Rotary Club of Branchburg recognized a local motorcycle club, Dawn Patrol, with its "Champions of Cause" award. This award has been created by Rotary Club of Branchburg to honor local people and ...
“Get ready for another awesome day!” said Bob Chittenden, chairman of the Flemington Rotary Club’s seventh annual Ride for Rotary, a motorcycle poker run, picnic and clam bake. Rain or shine, the ...
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