This all came about due to his Alligator motorcycle that he designed years ago. I was following that project from its' first press releases, pretty cool to see it evolve years later to this engine design. It will be fun to see what applications a motor of this design may find it's way into.
This all came about due to his Alligator motorcycle that he designed years ago. I was following that project from its' first press releases, pretty cool to see it evolve years later to this engine design. It will be fun to see what applications a motor of this design may find it's way into.
I've got an Alligator AAR shirt at home. Neat, unusual bike!
I may be wrong but I believe in this case it is using the opposite rotation of the crankshafts and inertia created from them to cancel each other out. Same way that equal and opposite sound waves cancel each other out.
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Erik
69 Camaro
Several other things with wheels and engines
What’s “moment-canceling?” One of the things that strongly affects a motorcycle’s resistance to roll maneuvers (“flickability”) is flywheel gyroscopic moment. Just as the gyro moments of Yamaha’s twin-crank YZR500s canceled each other, so do those of Gurney’s new big twin.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
First Hemi 'Cuda Convertible Ever Built
Short clips: Goodguys Pleasanton autocross and pit videos
Dan Gurney's new patented engine design
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