How to keep one's gentleman's* equipment warm

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 11/20/2019 at 17:22 • Filed to: Honda NSR500

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By riding one of these. It’s a Honda NSR500.

You’ll need to see it (or an early manifestation of it) undressed.

Yes, the rider was sitting just behind and on top of the exhaust system. It was originally an upside down design, with fuel on the bottom and exhaust on top, I think to keep the weight lower down. It was, I’m guessing, a warming experience.

In the event it didn’t take Honda long to realise that they’d be better off arranging things much like everyone else so they did this:

Just to understand the above image, it’s a V4 which is canted forward so that one bank is almost vertical and the other almost horizonta l and facing forward.

Honda had to swallow their four stroke pride once it had been discovered by MZ in the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that the secret to extracting power from a two stroke lay in the exhaust and having made the jump to smokiness the NSR dominated racing throughout the 90s. In its latter years it produced about 200 bhp from its 500cc. It was also alleged to go from 50 to 150 bhp in the space of 200 rpm which made for a somewhat interesting riding experience. It was seemingly quite docile at low speeds and could be handled at high speeds once you understood that you had to keep the revs up. It was the transition from no power to all the power that could kill you.

* if thus equipped.

bob and john > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 18:02

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fuck man, id LOVE one of these. the brap. the lightweight . the perchance to kill you for sneezing wrong. I love it./

camarov6rs > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 18:08

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Wait that’s not a Harley.

Honda has always been a fun company to watch with motorcycle racing!

Cé hé sin > bob and john 11/20/2019 at 18:09

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The scary thing was just how fast the engine gained power. Usually if the front wheel starts lifting you can cut the power and return to earth. Not on the NS500. There’s just no time to react.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 18:15

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Don't forget, their followup was an almost as crazy V5!

bob and john > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 18:18

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I know.

I want it.

Though, at that kind of HP jump, you’d just break traction on street rubber . hope you weren’t in the middle of a turn!

Cé hé sin > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/20/2019 at 18:46

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Things were more interesting in the 60s, when Suzuki designed (but never used) a 50 cc V3...

...which would probably have used a 14 speed gearbox

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 18:59

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Honda had a V3 engine they used in Motocross, or something. 

TheJWT > bob and john 11/20/2019 at 19:04

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The 500 2-strokes seem to be the motorcycle equivalent to Group B

TheJWT > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/20/2019 at 19:06

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And while they were making that , they were also putting this in the NR750-

TheJWT > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 19:09

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I’ve seen that picture before and heat issues aside I’m surprised this didn’t catch on

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 19:16

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I keep my gentleman's equipment warm by being fat.

DipodomysDeserti > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 19:35

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And you had Honda’s RC166. 250cc six pot with a seven speed gearbox.

diplodicus forgot his password > TheJWT 11/20/2019 at 19:55

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I doubt Honda let anyone get a peak of that when it was racing. Plus the regulations changed to 4 strokes

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Cé hé sin 11/20/2019 at 21:46

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I love how different powersports Honda is from automotive Honda. They put so much soul and personality into powersports that there isn't any left for automotive.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > TheJWT 11/20/2019 at 22:47

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Im quite familiar with the NR750, too. What a crazy bike!

Censored > Snuze: Needs another Swede 11/21/2019 at 09:30

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RC211V FTMFW.