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I never knew about the Suzuki RE 5 until today!

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K2-K6:

--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on December 15, 2025, 02:27:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rozabikes Tim on December 15, 2025, 09:20:21 AM ---Mazda are still at it. Twin rotor rotary hybrid + carbon capture.

 Mazda’s done it again: the Vision X-Coupe is a 503bhp rotary-engined concept | Top Gear https://share.google/VXGVingbPbSg7Ew6A

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Nice looking concept Tim. I do like Mazda's and one of the only companies to continue with big block ICE's rather then relying on small 1 litre or less three cylinder engines with a turbo attached to give the same power with a lot less reliability.

Nigel, the sound of that race Mazda, absolute bliss and up there with the V6 Laverda👍

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It would be fantastic if that V6 had got into more of a production run wouldn't it Dave  :)

The rotary of course is a triple fire for each revolution of the trichiod component, geared to the crank though to give that equivalency calculation for its capacity. 

All version and derivatives of the firing 3 just sound so good though, don't they.

That 767b Mazda effectively pulsing as a 24 cylinder four stroke with its 4 rotors at 3 pulses for every rotor revolution (two stroke cycles) to give that unearthly guttural howl  :)

Athame57:

--- Quote from: Johnny4428 on December 15, 2025, 04:40:04 PM ---Interesting about the rotary engines. There was even one found its way to the Orkney isles back in the day, not sure whatever came of it. There was quite a few R0 80’s around here as we had a local dealer.

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Did they have that greeting German owners of NSU Ro 80's had when they encountered each other, where they would should three, four, five or whatever amount fingers to represent how many engines they have got through?  :o

Johnny4428:
Not sure about engines but there was at least 2 that required a bit of panel beating and maybe a few panels when they ended up in fields.😜 Ah, those country dances they were great!😂

AshimotoK0:
Don't know how true this is but my mate is a pretty straightforward no BS chap. In the late 70's he used to have Suzuki's delivered in the crates to his home workshop by Heron Suzuki to assemble for a dealer friend. The delivery guy dropped the crated bikes off for assembly  but said he had a couple of crated RE5's on board that he was instructed to take for disposal. He said to my mate if he wanted to bung him a couple of hundred quid (can't remember the exact figure) he could take one no questions asked. My mate never took him up on it but kind of regretted it afterwards.

I remember a chap at work (not somebody I really knew well ... just saw him in the car park where I parked my 400/4) .... buying an RE5 and it quickly developed serious problems so he was loaned a GT750 Kettle, whilst it was away being fixed. Never saw that RE5 again and the guy always turned up on a GT750 so I guess he never got the RE5 back again, and did a deal on the GT750

Johnny4428:
That’s interesting Ash, I read something about the CBX1000 prototypes too that were supposed to be disposed of, were they?? Can’t remember where I read it, maybe on here even.

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