NR 750 piston kit

[God]

Thought it might be worth putting in here for a wider audience.

These make great ashtrays, if your seriously wealthy.

Where's Spliffyaid?

[demographic]

Thought it might be worth putting in here for a wider audience.

These make great ashtrays, if your seriously wealthy.

Where's Spliffyaid?

The shame with those bikes were that the original ones looked like an RC30, all endurance racer good looks. Then they made the production version that had a lot less power and looked completely chavtastic with its iridium screen and so on.

[God]

The shame with those bikes were that the original ones looked like an RC30, all endurance racer good looks. Then they made the production version that had a lot less power and looked completely chavtastic with its iridium screen and so on.

Yes, but they have oval pistons.

[Tomcat]

A classic example of "just because you can make it, doesn't mean that you should."

[God]

A classic example of "just because you can make it, doesn't mean that you should."

I disagree.

Why shouldn't you?

Because it was expensive, not very quick, not competitive?

It did Honda a lot of good in terms of PR for their engineering expertise.

It proved it could be done. There was a genuine engineering proble solved.

[demographic]

Yes, but they have oval pistons.

Pah, oval pistons? that's nowt.
Spherical's where its at

[God]

Pah, oval pistons? that's nowt.
Spherical's where its at

It's a Wolfhart and it's not really a sphere (or a piston)!

And it's a really silly idea.

[demographic]

It's a Wolfhart and it's not really a sphere (or a piston)!

And it's a really silly idea.

Right on all three counts, its not that much dafter than spam tin shaped pistons and piston rings that have to go round them though

The whole reason for the NR 750 was because they had a severe weight handicap for eight cylinder engines and they wanted the valve area of an eight that was allowed to race at the weight restrictions of a four.
On the road they could have just built an eight cylinder bike that would have been better and had done with it.

In short, I could see the point of the racebike because of the restrictions it had to work within but the roadbike was instantly obsolete.

[God]

Right on all three counts, its not that much dafter than spam tin shaped pistons and piston rings that have to go round them though

The whole reason for the NR 750 was because they had a severe weight handicap for eight cylinder engines and they wanted the valve area of an eight that was allowed to race at the weight restrictions of a four.
On the road they could have just built an eight cylinder bike that would have been better and had done with it.

In short, I could see the point of the racebike because of the restrictions it had to work within but the roadbike was instantly obsolete.

Agreed.

I just love the idea that they built the roadbike so people could own one. Much like the Desmosedici. (although that actually works rather better in practice).

[2ptjoe]

I disagree.

Why shouldn't you?

Because it was expensive, not very quick, not competitive?

It did Honda a lot of good in terms of PR for their engineering expertise.

It proved it could be done. There was a genuine engineering proble solved.

Hang on.
I thought that the racing version actually went like f*** ? It was their endurance bike for a year or so wasn't it ?

[demographic]

Agreed.

I just love the idea that they built the roadbike so people could own one. Much like the Desmosedici. (although that actually works rather better in practice).

The Desmosedici is for me a totally different kettle of fish, one of the very few new bikes that I would love to get my grubby mitts on.

For what its worth I really liked the original NR750, just thought the production version was pretty pointless and that an eight cylinder bike could have done it better.

[Zanx]

Right on all three counts, its not that much dafter than spam tin shaped pistons and piston rings that have to go round them though

The whole reason for the NR 750 was because they had a severe weight handicap for eight cylinder engines and they wanted the valve area of an eight that was allowed to race at the weight restrictions of a four.
On the road they could have just built an eight cylinder bike that would have been better and had done with it.

No, that would have been a very bad idea, mainly because of the amount of bank jobs that I would have done to buy one. Imagine, a modern (ish) jap 8 cylinder bike, maybe revving to 20,000rpm? Just thinking about it makes the hairs on my neck stand up

[twpd]

IIRC the NR750 raced once in an endurance race and it was utterly devastatingly fast...until it broke. And then it was banned by the FIM. It was Honda's attempt to get around the 4-cylinder restriction on bikes in the F1 class of the time and effectively represented a V8

Wayne Gardner described it as the fastest thing he'd ridden at the time - it was capable of 200mph when a 500 stroker was some 20-25mph slower.

[Big Pete]

No, that would have been a very bad idea, mainly because of the amount of bank jobs that I would have done to buy one. Imagine, a modern (ish) jap 8 cylinder bike, maybe revving to 20,000rpm? Just thinking about it makes the hairs on my neck stand up

sir would be interested in this

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perhaps

[RiceBurner]

Or go DIY....


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