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And tell me, boys: what is the most important thing in a motorcycle?
What? Who blundered: "Motor"? You mess, brother, with your mu-u-utor. Even the chick of a journalism faculty will not give out such banality. And you squeaked? "Wheels"? Yes, without fiction the youth went …
The main thing in a motorcycle is the RYK! Such that the asphalt behind rippled, and the alarms of all cars voted for three blocks. So that men get bitter! - the jaws drooped to the sidewalk, and the ladies had a bloom! - Locks on chastity belts by themselves flew off. This I understand - a biker symphony!
The main thing in a motorcycle is the RYK! Such that the asphalt behind rippled, and the alarms of all cars voted for three blocks. So that men get bitter! - the jaws drooped to the sidewalk, and the ladies had a bloom! - Locks on chastity belts by themselves flew off. This I understand - a biker symphony!
But for the proper sound, a tac-oh-oh generator is needed! Did you naively believe that displacement is for power? What for the sake of the dynamics of modern cruisers are the digits of the working volume so a rod up: 1200, 1500, 1800?.. Who is more! No, this is all for sound: it’s known that the bigger the pot, the greater the roar. And again, grandfather Freud correctly said: male pride - so that between the legs hump … And women are more pleasant to watch.
Do not believe? Yes, look at two freshly baked debutants - Kawasaki VN2000 and Triumph Rocket III. Freud is resting! And do not try to convince that the working volumes "two plus" are justified by any practical considerations. I bet: in everyday life, this couple - well, straight Gargantua and Pantagruel on Moscow streets! But I can imagine what their sound is: “Only today! Hurry up to hear! King Kong performs a solo on Big Ben!”
The funny thing is that both cars are the exact opposite of each other! Kawasaki VN2000 is emphasized traditional in every detail. Take a look at the "mutor": the classic V-shaped "deuce" with an "uneven" camber angle of 52 degrees. The valve drive is completely archaic: with rods from two camshafts located below, driven from the crankshaft by a chain, plus hydraulic lifters that eliminate the need for adjustment (no, no, I'm not talking about HD Twin Cam - Kawasaki, his mother's leg). He also has a motor chain drive, and the main one - well, yes, with a belt, of course. Plus the classic duplex frame and rear suspension "under the rigid."
Scared by archaic? Do not be afraid - the Japanese masters create cocktails from traditions and high-tech. And here they dragged on: despite the old-fashioned gas distribution scheme, the cylinder heads are 4-valve, the cylinders themselves are electrochemically coated with mirrors instead of liners. The engine has a state-of-the-art fuel injection system, with double throttle valves, as on the best sportbikes. Two balancing shafts effectively crush annoying vibrations, leaving only the minimum required by the laws of the genre. What about the frame? Take a closer look, because this is a real work of art: a cast steering column assembly, a powerful ridge of square section, a forged pendulum bracket. Brakes - a plague: two front discs of the same sportbike size. And how many “tasty” little things are scattered throughout the car! For example, the speedometer needle is controlled by a stepper motor, completely removing its unpleasant vibrations. After starting the engine, the ignition key can be removed from the lock and removed: the engine will work until you turn it off. The direction indicators turn off after the completion of the maneuver. What about the headlight? Song! Already four lamps in one housing!
There is only one drawback of the super-duper Cava: from a distance you can confuse it with Harley (maybe they did it?) Or Harley-clone (which is already insulting). But Triumph Rocket III can’t be confused with anything! Two headlights soaring above the front wheel evoke associations with the company's best seller - Triumph Speed Triple. Yes there are lights! You look at the power unit - three cylinders in a row, each “pot” is larger than the ZIL-130 (I compare it in terms of rudeness and ignorance, and the refined British cite the example of the Dodge Viper), and in general, the working volume is almost like at the Volga: 2294 SMS. I give a note: in-line motors with a longitudinal arrangement survived the peak of popularity in the 20s (FN, Indian Four, Henderson, Cleveland, etc.), but they dragged along an eternal drawback: the base had to be lengthened beyond measure. And the Triumph Rocket III is shorter than the Harley-Davidson V-Rod! Due to what? Cunning designers placed the gearbox on the side of the engine. Rear-wheel drive - with a propeller shaft, covered in a pendulum (with a longitudinal arrangement of the power unit - God himself ordered!).
And this engine develops sound 140 liters. with. and 200 N.m of torque. How is this "fraught" for a machine weighing 320 kg? When the novelty was first introduced to the press (this event happened not somewhere else, but in the USA, so it’s clear who the main consumer of these mastodons is), they hinted that in acceleration from zero to 100 km / h the English Pantagruel will “drown” any 1000- cube sportbike, and with a jerk up to 50 km / h, it will put the Suzuki Hayabusa itself in the face on the asphalt. Nobody openly disclosed exact numbers, but they confessed to proxies: "a hundred from a place" makes a colossus in 2.8 s, up to 160 km / h in 7.2 s, and a maximum speed of about 240 km / h. At the same time, the car is by no means designed only for the “rolls” of the Schwarzenegger dimensions: the “landing triangle” (saddle - steering wheel - footrests) is almost the same as that of the 800 cc Triumph Bonneville America.
The name - Rocket III - did not arise by chance. 35 years ago, one of the last great British “classics” made its debut - BSA Rocket 3, also with a 3-cylinder engine, however, “only” 750 cc. What does the BSA have to do with it? It's simple: they then entered into one conglomerate with Triumph, and the "troika" was also produced under the Triumph Trident brand. The company would gladly give the new product the name Trident ("Trident"), but it’s bad luck - it was already used in the early 90s, when it was named neoclassic.
