Thumper Club Forum
Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: johnr on June 22, 2008, 08:48:19 PM
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well if its got to be big and single, then how about this, 2000cc of single cylinder beauty. wouldnt like to kickstart it though!!
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn85/pugwash959/NSU-Bison-2000.jpg
http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/nsu-2000-bison-worlds-biggest-cylinder-motorcycle.htm
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EEK! :o A piston the size of a bucket in a rigid frame!!....bye bye teeth fillings!!
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Aye johnr,
If you translate the second german article on the second URL you gave you get this:
"The engine capacity guru, had himself at the company Mahle a lightweight pistons produced with a diameter of 146 mm and weighing only 1,670 kg
The company specialized Thüringische Scheller, broadened the Consul engine block by a total of 6.2 cm, fit the crank drive, frästen opening the cylinder out and fit the huge cylinder in the engine block.
The rod shaft, milled from full special steel and weighs 25 kilos according Franz Langer inertia than sufficient.
The impressive exhaust is made of stainless steel and has consistently a diameter of 75 mm. A silencer, this Riesenhuber not, because the Bison we should not just see and feel, but also listen."
The last paragraph says it all! ;D
Keep boppin' Bill