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Hero MotoCorp has developed their first indigenously built 110cc motorcycle engine and they have come up with an updated Splendor iSmart 110. The new iSmart is based on the popular Splendor platform and carries the same i3S (Idle Start Stop System) technology. However, Hero has updated the older version of Splendor iSmart not only with the brand new engine but also with other added features; let’s have an overview of the newly launched iSmart 110.
Honking is a menace in India but for motorcyclists to register their presence on the road flooded with traffic consisting of four wheelers, pedestrians and even cattle becomes life saving sometimes. An efficient horn could come pretty handy for bikers while emergency situation provided it is used prudently and with full sense of civic morality.
The final drive on a motorcycle is the connection between the output shaft of the gearbox and the rear wheel. In scooters the engine is located at the rear, so that a simple gear train is used to put the power onto the rear wheels. In case of motorcycles, the distance between the output shaft and rear wheel is considerably higher. So it becomes necessary to adopt an appropriate drive which can transmit power and torque without much loss. The following are some types of final drives commonly used on motorcycles.
Motorcycle Hill Climb Racing or Hill Climbing is one of the oldest forms of motor sports in the world. It dates back to the year 1897. There are two types of Motorcycle Hill Climbing, one is the off road one while the second is done on tarmac. Both of them involve a single rider going up against the clock.
A GP motorcycle is an optimized machine to get the desired acceleration, top speed, braking and stability. Every effort put on these bikes are just to increase and maintain those parameters, on the expense of comfort and fuel economy. Engineers do many alterations and hours of explorations in their designing, manufacturing and assembling, which is proved right or wrong by endless amount of testing on the race tracks. What follows are the insights of technology that goes through each and every part of a MotoGP bike.
An engine is either Oversquare or Undersquare or simply Square and it is going to be classified only based on the "Bore and Stroke" of that particular engine. The Oversquare engines are the ones that have a larger cylinder diameter and a shorter stroke, they are also commonly called a "Short Stroke Engines".
Sometimes riding the bike to the destination may not be an option, but when it comes to getting it there so you can enjoy riding locally once you arrive, you may want to consider the various ways that you can have moved to the new location safely and in a timely manner so you will be able to ride during your stay or once you move to a new home.
A Boxer type engine (also known as flat twin engine) typically has horizontally opposed pistons. The cylinders are present on two banks on the opposite sides connected to a common crankshaft. It is called as a Boxer engine because the movement of the engine's pistons resemble the movement of a boxer's fists while fighting.
The Lazareth LM 847 is a tilting quad motorcycle designed and developed by the French custom bike creator- Ludovic Lazareth. The radical design of the LM 847 is based around the ferocious 4.7 liter Maserati V8 engine, making it capable to achieve 470 Horse Power. The inspiration behind building such a gigantic and extreme machine is equally interesting as the creation of this French man is.
Normally it is seen that the Piston and the Connecting rod are the first to get affected by the scarcity of engine oil. The gap between Piston and the Cylinder remains very low, in fact in brand new engines the gap is fixed in such a manner that even after Piston expansion there should be enough space left for the movement.