yes there is one that I know of in NZ. only about 300 made
muzz67,
May 4, 4:58pm
Would they still be called 'rings'?or 'ovals'?
whqqsh,
May 5, 7:02am
this was discussed years ago when they first came out, availability & cost of parts. Didn't realise so few were made though
craigs_workshop,
May 5, 2:44pm
around $100,000 nz new IIRC
& it was all the way back in 1992 wasnt it ?
trogedon,
May 5, 3:05pm
The pistons aren't oval or eliptical more like a rectangle with half circles at the ends (whatever that is called),
wellyguynz,
May 5, 5:00pm
Hmm I could be wrong but im pretty sure that's an oval, Then again im no Rocket Scientist
motorboy2011,
May 5, 6:13pm
Oval (well round ends with flat sides), 8 valves per cylinder. Each piston has 2 rods. It was in ashburton, evidently in 1992 it was 60k ish, a house was around 30k there at the time.
myrns,
May 5, 8:50pm
$106,000 NZ, I have the actual advert for one but none were bought in new, $54,000 for a new RC45 back in 1994
dave653,
May 6, 12:54pm
First time I heard about this bike was when it was anounced as a 'V8'. Must be a bugger to hone fresh bores!
richardmayes,
May 6, 1:21pm
According to Wikipedia the race motors had pistons with half round ends and straight middles. The consumer bike motors had oval (i.e. elliptical) pistons.
tigertim20,
May 6, 4:03pm
iirc, they were trying to get v8 performance / characteristics, while still having 4 pistons.
catastrophic failure of a bike - looked nice but it got nicknames as the "Never Ready" since it was so bloody unreliable
ema1,
Feb 11, 7:48pm
Wouldn't worry about the price as there probably won't be anything much available anyway, apparently they were a pig of a thing. Not worth persevering with. would imagine there would be a lot of uncontrollable expansion and stress issues with that naff design.
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