While reading the march 05 issue of sport rider.. I was readin a article about a turbo diesel sport bike.. and in the article there was a mention about the Van Veen OCR 1000 bike... so thats another to add to our list of rotarys.. here is one link..



google the name for more i guess..



Van Veen OCR 1000

 

That's uncanny, my group of friends and I were just discussing if there ever were (or ever will be) a rotary powered motorcycle of some sort. One friend wondered "How the hell would they cool it?" I responded "Open air motor." I noticed this thing is liquid cooled though, I'd like to see how exactly that system works in such a small package. (I have no real knowledge of motorbikes, so I wouldn't know if liquid cooling is common.)

 

norton motorcycles in the uk built rotary engined race bikes, they made a few homologation models for the road as well, they were built in the late eighties and early nineties



http://www.nortonmotors.co.uk/Rotary%20Racing3.htm

 

The Suzuki re-5 also pops up here on a regular basis.



Mark