My new "motorcycle"

[Guth_imp]

Can you imagine riding on those skinny wheels and keeping the bike between 14,000 and 16,000 rpms? Lol

Van Veen was the Dutch Kreidler importer but he built his own bike a 1000cc jobbie using a Citroen car engine. It actually looked pretty good.

I know that on Honda's RC116 (their 50cc GP race bike that could reach 22,500 RPM!) they actually used rim brakes (appropriate for the bicycle sized tires I suppose, lol). It seems so out of place these days to think about 50cc world class race bikes, but when you hear them run you realize that despite their incredibly small displacement, they were truly beasts.

Here's a video covering the RC116 (50cc), RC149 (125cc) and RC166 (250cc).





Here's an extended video of the RC116 (I love the faint voice of the camera man popping in once in a while when the engine dies). Towards the end of the after the engine is more warmed up, you can hear the rider start to get on it a little more coming down the back straight on his last pass. Wicked, just wicked.





I can say that the personality of the S2000 has more in common with these motorcycles than that of the CB1100. This works perfect for me. I realize that is backwards compared to the way many others think, but for whatever the reason I have more fun revving the snot out of an engine in a car than I do in a motorcycle. Thats likely one reason that I've been so incredibly happy with the CB1100 and the S2000 both. In effect, I am just the opposite of a guy that owns a big block muscle car and a crotch rocket, lol.