2 Wheel Drive

Woo Hoo, something fairly new for a change
www.yamaha-motor.co.uk/products/motorcycles/competition/WR450F_2trac.jsp
THE FIRST PRODUCTION 2WD FOR MOTORCYCLES
After one hundred years of one wheel drive, Yamaha are to launch the
revolutionary
WR450F 2-Trac rally bike, a limited production competition machine
featuring the world's first production two wheel drive system for
motorcycles.

and only 6.5Kg heavier than the rear wheel drive version

 

They are ok on the dirt track but on the road it will be very dangerous
in the hands of inexperienced hands.

 

Explain ?

 

All those hands are going to take some getting used to, for a start.
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I am now channelling Max Bygraves. Damn.

Ali

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Hog belched forth and ejected the following:

Cool, that's saved me buying MCN next week - Not that I've bought the
piece of shit fucking thing for more than a year anyway.

Wank piece of fucking crap that it is.

IMHO, of course

 

New ? Can't be bothered to check but Yamaha (Öhlins)
have been playing with / teasing the market / producing
this at least five years, maybe ten.

 

I wonder how long it will be before we see a road bike with this?
Presumably the weight gain still outweighs performance improvement for
something like one of the Superbike series? Either that or do specific
rules insist on 1WD?

 

No two wheel drive has been experimented with for decades, mostly
mechanical. This seems to be the first proper commercialised example
though.

 

It's a hydraulic system that adjusts the front torque to compensate
for rear wheel slip, IIRC. As OH- says, they've been testing/demo-ing
it for years and years.

 

I can remember something from the dim distant past that used a cable drive
to the front wheel, dunno if it went into production though.

 

It's a bit like UKTV Gold. If you missed something in Bike ir Performance
Bike, it'll appear in MCN the following week. That makes them about 2 months
behind the rest of the world mind.


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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Beav belched forth and ejected the following:

Aye, and there's no point subscribing to the whole of Sky because you've
seen that "must have" program advertised for another channel because in
six months it'll be on Freeview.

Incidentally, another "world scoop"!:

Freeview's changing. I've already ordered the DVR. Freeview as you know
it will cease to exist after the end of the month!

 

Are you *mad*?

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Anything with more power than an oil dribbling smokey moped is a danger
in your hands, dogger boy.

 

Go on then - spill the beans!

 

ICWBW but was it not being used by one of their works enduro bods a couple
of years back?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Buzby belched forth and ejected the following:

Err, sorry, I meant topup tv, which is sort of Freeview, I suppose but
the FV is going the same way.

http://www.topuptv.com/home.html

http://www.freeview.co.uk/news/view.php?/24

 

I seem to remember seeing either at an exhibition or on one of
Yamahas web sites that they have done testing with a road racing
bike.

For superbike they need to do some sort of series production
to get homologated (sp?).

 

It's been sold as an MX bike for a bit over a year now I think. WiRE
ran one in UK supermoto last year or the year before I think. Dani
Mueller raced it.

Neil