I'll take up defence of the Quasar with some force! If you've never ridden one you'll never understand. I first encountered Malcolm Newell at the London motorcycle show. A lovely cheerful chap who knew his engineering. He kindly demonstrated then with /my/ girlfriend, how comfortable and cosy it was with a passenger, since you lent gently onto the pillion. I later had a chance to try that on one trip and, indeed, both people are comfortable. A few years later my great riding buddy acquired one of the machines which he had for a season in a stable of others. Riding it a few times, I borrowed it for a long weekend on one occasion. I covered a fair few miles including open dual roads, twisty back roads and an unplanned trip right through the centre of London (in the days before traffic restrictions). Much to the reputation it had from anyone who experienced it, it was an exceptionally capable machine in all those places. The restricted view was not an issue and the pillars up front no worse than driving any car and you worked around anything needed. In city traffic it was quite manageable and could lane split as well as any large capacity bike (my regular ride in London was a wider, pannier loaded R100RT). The Reliant car engine on most of the Quasars was not a super performer, but give the lighter nature of the Quasar, propelled it to three figures fairly easily and it would easily cruise up at 80-90mph. Some of the later machines and it's derivatives like the Phaser had some real superbike power engines strapped into them. On a back road it was surprisingly agile and again could cope with most other superbikes wrestling there. It was so able and so taken with it, had I had the funds I would have bought it when he sold it. If you base opinions on looks alone and a few articles from people who covered very limited miles on the Quasar, you do it a great disservice.
I have a '14 CTX 1300. The ST 1300 engine is detuned in HP, but bumped up to locomotive torque. Passing power in top gear is quite satisfying. It's weird, and I've never seen another one on the road. I'm keeping it, because resale value is near zero.
Hey! Nice to hear that your family has ties to Brazil! Lived there with my parents from '75 to '81. The car market was crazy. We had a Fusca, then an imported BMW 320 (as foreigners, we could - by exception - bring in our own car) and after selling that for HUGE profit, my dad bought a Ford Corcel LDO for himself and a Fiat 147 for my mother.
1:04 It's hard to understand quite why the RD350 was so scary, when all the Exorcist vibes went with the Kawasaki triples, but the Yamaha had a fish-hook shaped power curve, brakes that were awful AT BEST & almost absent in the wet....except when they suddenly locked up, all matched to a frame that had a lot more in common with an advanced Yoga class than actually staying rigid.
See my handle,lol Some people handle unpredictability different than others. When you're expecting the worst to happen and it ends up riding semi-normal, that's a win in my book.
The rd350 evolved into the rz350 the rz350 engine is almost identical and has many interchangeable parts with one of the fastest four wheelers ever made the Yamaha Banshee Four wheelers
The GTS was a WONDERFUL bike, I had 2 and put over 150K miles on them. The problems with the bike were the result of Yamaha and James Parker not seeing eye to eye on the program. In Europe they still command a following and you can find great examples for easy money. Show up at a biker bar (Cook's Corner or the Rock Store for example) and it quickly generates a crowd. Yamaha tried to do too many NEW things with the design, obviously the front suspension but also it had a version of ABS WAYYY before everyone. And Fuel Injection. If some builder wanted to make a really cool bike from factory parts, get the driveline from a FJR 1300 shaft drive, and adapt the single sided REAR swing arm from a BMW to that. Original GTS' had 5sp trans and chain final drive. The FJR has fully sorted ABS, cruise control, fuel Injection and 6 gears. Build a tank like KTM's 790/890 getting more fuel down low (GTS barely had 2 gallons) And add some folding mirrors, you cannot get the originals anymore. There is a decent example for sale in Bozeman MT under 5K. Ride one , they are very nice.
Used to have a Maico 250 back in the 80s. Even though I've owned many super bikes over the years , it's still the only bike to scare the hell out of me at any speed!
I like Wilson quasar. The concept is really nice you don't get wet when it's raining add to that all the wind resistance that you get but it only lacks a passenger seat
Without doors and windows you’re still gonna get wet in the rain. Especially with such a small windshield area. Vehicles like that basically end up both being a bad motorcycle and a bad car.
The Quasar is one of the greatest designs ever put forward. Far too ahead of its time, but it lays the foundation for how motorcycles SHOULD be built. You don't ride the cycle, you BECOME the cycle.
1. There are a whole bunch of SR500s in that RD350 clip. 2. Coincidentally I have recently seen one of those ungainly Citroën bikes at a dealership nearby. 3. There's an XJ650 turbo in my basement waiting to be built. 4. Holy shit, an 82hp, 685cc 2-stroke sounds amazingly frightening! So many bikes, so little time (and money😭)
If you pause at the written article at about 10.55 the guy that made the Citroën bike later made a Diesel bike. I guess it was for the discerning tractor driver.
Maybe the RD350 wasn't such a great bike for Brazil and other countries where most bikes are small and most roads aren't as smooth or open as we have in the USA. However, if you have not ridden one I HIGHLY recommend it! It is absolutely one of the most fun bikes I've ever ridden and I would love to own one. They're quick and the power band is super fun to get in and out of on the street, but it doesn't make so much power by todays standards that an experienced rider would get into trouble on one today. I've never ridden, let alone heard of, the Yamaha GTS 1000. But I have ridden many bikes with no front fork. BMW really loves the concept and keeps improving the idea. I think the first bike to have it was the K1200S with it's Duolever setup which is still in use on the K1600 series of bikes with very little changes, and Honda basically ripped off the design with the last update to the Goldwing. I personally love that suspension setup on the road but it is definitely heavy and not great for racing. Also, an interesting bit of knowledge is that BMW's Telelever front suspension (you know, the bikes with a shock and forks up front) is basically a forkless suspension as well. Yes there are forks there, yes there is oil in them, but no they don't really do much aside from steer the front wheel. Virtually all of the suspension characteristics are controlled by that shock and there's no springs, dampers, or any suspension components at all in those forks. Just oil and air sloshing around. And that suspension has been on their bikes from 1993, with the R1100's, all the way to today with all of the R1250 series boxers.
Many moons ago I had an RD350. That bike was great. Easy to work on and fun to ride. The one bad thing was if the oil I was able to get was the cheap kind it smoked a lot. Also if I was in the city on stop and go when I got to highway any oil I had would smoke a lot for the first 2 to 3 miles.
Hey, a car topic I can actually contribute to. Not only were the original VW Beetles huge in Brazil, (I believe they were produced there until the 90s) but VW continues to be the default car brand there. The vast majority of enthusiast and tuned cars are VWs. I guess they produce a lot of them there and the import duties on foreign cars are crazy.
With some improvements and modern tech the Quasar could be a great bike! Cross winds would still get ya though. Oh, having the fuel tank under the seat is brilliant because it puts more weight low in the frame. Examples- Harley’s new liquid cooled engine Sportster/Nightster.
The BFG is super cool, they are still out on the roads in France to this day, parts are not too hard to come by exept ocf for the fairings but there is a big and active owner's club. I don't think it deserves to be named cursed
My dad raced a TL1000R for a season and that bike decided to high side him in such spectacular fashion it ended his racing career. He was pretty messed up and I’ll never forget. This happened on a track during practice. Seeing my pop getting launched 15’ in the air while doing 90 around a corner was kind of surreal as a teenager.
Your next episode of cursed motorcycles should include Hesketh. A weird British bike built by an aristocrat who was nearly bankrupted by the project. It had some charm but rattled badly due to the pistons being installed backwards because the cylinder was designed by a different person to the head and they didn't like each other. Hesketh was reincarnated a few years ago but promptly went bust again after developing one model which actually looked quite nice but was too expensive
I am pretty much with you on most of these... but I will make an exception for the Yamaha GTS... it was not a bad idea... just on the wrong bike... Bimota did it right with the Tesi... but that said, i would be happy to own a GTS... Also I sorta like the Honda V4 CX whatever it was... never actually rode one mind you... but would happily give it a try... I like the look of the beast anyway... but even here in Japan it was just too damned expensive...the ST it was replacing is still much missed...
CTX1300's were known for eating driveshafts at ridiculously low mileages. Honda really missed on that bike. I almost bought one, until I did a internet deepdive on posts from former owners of the CTX. No thanks. Complain about a chain but they are super easy to maintain and replace. But for a shaft drive touring legend, The FJR is a bike that took the CTX's place on my list. I have seen some insane good deals on used FJR's.
I bought a tl1000s -97 when i was 21. It was my second bike, had a sv650 for starter bike one season. Damn the tls was a fun bike, but u hade to "be on guard" when ridning it.
The tl1000 suspension was fixed when they replaced it with the SV1000. Glad they kept that engine tho. Despite a couple mechanical issues, that engine is amazing
Had an SV1000 as my daily ride for years. Brilliant bike. Aside from one little oddity... If you stopped at hte lights in rain, the shape of the fuel tank collected water on top that was then dumped down onto the exhaust. You then got a steam bath which misted up the visor instantly. Still...the noise was worth it!
I love the solutions that companies did back in the 80s. They all had a production meeting and said we need to make engines smaller how do we make more power than. One guy said I know, let’s turbo charge that thing!!
The main issue with the Quasar was it being basically Fugly! That and shoddy build quality. There were unroofed kits you could buy, Phasers. Also ugly as month old roadkill.
I owned an rd 350. Could be scary. It would pop a wheelie out of no where. Six speed so it was screaming fast. The front end would come up again around 80 mph.
The fact at the end... Lol... The person may have apologized but they're still responsible for so many garbage adds popping up that make myself and many others want to chuck an expensive phone accross the room or keyboard into a screen......
The thing is that i love the CTX1300's look, its like if the Goldwing was the stepfather of the ST1300's son and they both try to raise it in the image of them, the CTX700 is meh, but this is their next attempt at something like the DN-01, a pure comfort daily tourer, but i just hate that the v4 engine is just a less powerful version of the ST1300's, if only they can put the bigger maxi scooters like the Forza/ADV series to the us, big shame.
The problem was the bike was released the same year as the GPz900r which handled better and was cheaper to run and cost the same to buy. I can remember a review of the Suzuki which the reviewer said why bother with the turbo just put a bigger engine in the bike and give the owner some turbo stickers . These days the turbo bikes are collectors bikes and go for strong money but it was a fad like anti dive that came and went very quickly.
The rd350 motorcycle engine is close to and evolved into the Yamaha Banshee Four Wheeler engine, the rd350 evolved into the rz350 motorcycle and the rz350 has many interchangeable parts with a Yamaha Banshee fourwheeler engine
BMW made a bike similar to the Quasar called the C1 (apologies if it was mentioned previously) I remember as a kid thinking it was a cool idea but growing up I no longer think that.
You are totally wrong about front fork alternatives being "a solution to a non-existing problem". There is a _huge problem_ with forks and steering geometry being intertwined (ie. The length of a motorcycle dynamically changing and those changes being integral to the actual _steering_ of the vehicle). As riders we just get used to this and accept it. However, many designs have been tried, and many actually work (including the Yamaha GTS and BMW's Telelever, fitted to many of their boxer models). Think Bimota, or the worlds best handling motorcycle ever (per professional riders like Guy Martin, etc.) the Britten V1000. The problem is cost and maintenance. This is the main factor that prevents manufacturers from outright abandoning the telescopic fork. The Yamaha, and to an extent the BMW, systems are _different_ but not _worse._ Being pulled is probably due to low sales (directly because of said difference - think VFR1200F, due to mainly design differences) and emmisions, not due to any _actual danger_ resulting from the design.
80hp from a 1261cc engine is just fine *for Honda*, as they're more concerned about bulletproof reliability. Odd choice though since it's a 750lb bike. Honestly the strangest part is just the fact it's a V4. Who tf uses a V4 for *anything*? Given the design, an inline 4 looks like it would have fit perfectly. Or alternatively use a flat 4 derived from the Goldwing.
RD350s are, and always will be, classic bikes and highly desirable no matter what this kid thinks. The GTS1000 wasn't a bad bike either; just a bit radical for generally conservative bikers. Forkless front ends doesn't seem to have stopped BMW selling thousands of GSs et al.
Because anyone young enough to ride it couldnt afford the ridiculous price they would want and because the people who can afford to pay a ridiculous price os far too old to ride anymore
16:02 "A forkless bike is a solution to solve the problem no one have" Actually not true. No two springs are ever the same and that's why some people experimented with single front suspension, to prevent tank slaps. However, this problem is relative minor* and the answer is expensive so no one solved it. *for most riders and effectively 99% motorcycles in existence
True. But the almost horizontal suspension also prevented the bike from diving forward. And oh, if they had only used a cardan shaft, it would probably be a greater hit. Because the bik was heavy, but drove beautiful. I've had one for about 5-7 years and loved riding it. And there were always people who wanted to see the front up close.
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So your dad is a Brazilian? Have you ever tried out an Amazonas 1600 ?
Love you man. Please ease up on the mad piano music. Please.
I'll take up defence of the Quasar with some force!
If you've never ridden one you'll never understand. I first encountered Malcolm Newell at the London motorcycle show. A lovely cheerful chap who knew his engineering. He kindly demonstrated then with /my/ girlfriend, how comfortable and cosy it was with a passenger, since you lent gently onto the pillion. I later had a chance to try that on one trip and, indeed, both people are comfortable.
A few years later my great riding buddy acquired one of the machines which he had for a season in a stable of others. Riding it a few times, I borrowed it for a long weekend on one occasion. I covered a fair few miles including open dual roads, twisty back roads and an unplanned trip right through the centre of London (in the days before traffic restrictions).
Much to the reputation it had from anyone who experienced it, it was an exceptionally capable machine in all those places. The restricted view was not an issue and the pillars up front no worse than driving any car and you worked around anything needed. In city traffic it was quite manageable and could lane split as well as any large capacity bike (my regular ride in London was a wider, pannier loaded R100RT).
The Reliant car engine on most of the Quasars was not a super performer, but give the lighter nature of the Quasar, propelled it to three figures fairly easily and it would easily cruise up at 80-90mph. Some of the later machines and it's derivatives like the Phaser had some real superbike power engines strapped into them.
On a back road it was surprisingly agile and again could cope with most other superbikes wrestling there.
It was so able and so taken with it, had I had the funds I would have bought it when he sold it.
If you base opinions on looks alone and a few articles from people who covered very limited miles on the Quasar, you do it a great disservice.
I have a '14 CTX 1300. The ST 1300 engine is detuned in HP, but bumped up to locomotive torque. Passing power in top gear is quite satisfying. It's weird, and I've never seen another one on the road. I'm keeping it, because resale value is near zero.
As a moped, it's the most amazing scooter ever. Comparing it to a moto, one would feel it's goofy. I happen to like them.
How much parts are shared with ST1300?
Ctx 1300 engine is incredibly smooth
...and resale value will eventually shoot skyward as time passes (rarity value).
I work at a dealership, and we have a CTX1300 love that V4. I put it next to my 2014 Valkyrie if the big boss lets me ride the CTX
"Moto shifty" is the best name I ever heard😂
The only thing better would be Moto Schwifty.
Hey! Nice to hear that your family has ties to Brazil!
Lived there with my parents from '75 to '81.
The car market was crazy. We had a Fusca, then an imported BMW 320 (as foreigners, we could - by exception - bring in our own car) and after selling that for HUGE profit, my dad bought a Ford Corcel LDO for himself and a Fiat 147 for my mother.
Oh I'm definitely replacing the Ducati logo on my Streetfighter V4S gas tank, with a RAJDOOT logo 😂
Yessss🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Btw Rajdoot in Hindi means 'King's messenger'
The TL1000 is an absolute beast of a bike
The GPZ 750 turbo and the Seca 650 turbo were both awesome looking and riding bikes.
Lag on the turbo made passing an excellent adventure..
Passing, yeah. Cornering, perhaps not so much.
1:04 It's hard to understand quite why the RD350 was so scary, when all the Exorcist vibes went with the Kawasaki triples, but the Yamaha had a fish-hook shaped power curve, brakes that were awful AT BEST & almost absent in the wet....except when they suddenly locked up, all matched to a frame that had a lot more in common with an advanced Yoga class than actually staying rigid.
See my handle,lol
Some people handle unpredictability different than others.
When you're expecting the worst to happen and it ends up riding semi-normal, that's a win in my book.
The rd350 evolved into the rz350 the rz350 engine is almost identical and has many interchangeable parts with one of the fastest four wheelers ever made the Yamaha Banshee Four wheelers
The last part of the last sentence
Man, last time I was this early my wife left me (I’ve never been married)
I have seen a BFG1300 Citroen/bike in Winmalee west of Sydney! It was being ridden around the world by a young Frenchman who didn't seem at all crazy.
I love my helmets transitioning visor. Clear at night. Light smoked on over cast days. Dark smoked on bright sunny days. Best investment so far.
The GTS was a WONDERFUL bike, I had 2 and put over 150K miles on them.
The problems with the bike were the result of Yamaha and James Parker not seeing eye to eye on the program.
In Europe they still command a following and you can find great examples for easy money.
Show up at a biker bar (Cook's Corner or the Rock Store for example) and it quickly generates a crowd.
Yamaha tried to do too many NEW things with the design, obviously the front suspension but also it had a version of ABS WAYYY before everyone.
And Fuel Injection.
If some builder wanted to make a really cool bike from factory parts, get the driveline from a FJR 1300 shaft drive, and adapt the single sided REAR swing arm from a BMW to that.
Original GTS' had 5sp trans and chain final drive.
The FJR has fully sorted ABS, cruise control, fuel Injection and 6 gears.
Build a tank like KTM's 790/890 getting more fuel down low (GTS barely had 2 gallons)
And add some folding mirrors, you cannot get the originals anymore.
There is a decent example for sale in Bozeman MT under 5K.
Ride one , they are very nice.
Used to have a Maico 250 back in the 80s. Even though I've owned many super bikes over the years , it's still the only bike to scare the hell out of me at any speed!
I like Wilson quasar. The concept is really nice you don't get wet when it's raining add to that all the wind resistance that you get but it only lacks a passenger seat
Without doors and windows you’re still gonna get wet in the rain. Especially with such a small windshield area. Vehicles like that basically end up both being a bad motorcycle and a bad car.
The TL engine found new life in the DL1000 Vstrom, remember them?! They have only been produced since 2002.
They made an Sv1000 for a while too. Mine made about 110hp at the wheel.
Maico, use Massive Torque Blast!
Nothing says American free market like the Chicken Tax and Harley's
The Quasar is one of the greatest designs ever put forward. Far too ahead of its time, but it lays the foundation for how motorcycles SHOULD be built. You don't ride the cycle, you BECOME the cycle.
1. There are a whole bunch of SR500s in that RD350 clip.
2. Coincidentally I have recently seen one of those ungainly Citroën bikes at a dealership nearby.
3. There's an XJ650 turbo in my basement waiting to be built.
4. Holy shit, an 82hp, 685cc 2-stroke sounds amazingly frightening!
So many bikes, so little time (and money😭)
If you pause at the written article at about 10.55 the guy that made the Citroën bike later made a Diesel bike. I guess it was for the discerning tractor driver.
Maybe the RD350 wasn't such a great bike for Brazil and other countries where most bikes are small and most roads aren't as smooth or open as we have in the USA. However, if you have not ridden one I HIGHLY recommend it! It is absolutely one of the most fun bikes I've ever ridden and I would love to own one. They're quick and the power band is super fun to get in and out of on the street, but it doesn't make so much power by todays standards that an experienced rider would get into trouble on one today.
I've never ridden, let alone heard of, the Yamaha GTS 1000. But I have ridden many bikes with no front fork. BMW really loves the concept and keeps improving the idea. I think the first bike to have it was the K1200S with it's Duolever setup which is still in use on the K1600 series of bikes with very little changes, and Honda basically ripped off the design with the last update to the Goldwing. I personally love that suspension setup on the road but it is definitely heavy and not great for racing.
Also, an interesting bit of knowledge is that BMW's Telelever front suspension (you know, the bikes with a shock and forks up front) is basically a forkless suspension as well. Yes there are forks there, yes there is oil in them, but no they don't really do much aside from steer the front wheel. Virtually all of the suspension characteristics are controlled by that shock and there's no springs, dampers, or any suspension components at all in those forks. Just oil and air sloshing around. And that suspension has been on their bikes from 1993, with the R1100's, all the way to today with all of the R1250 series boxers.
Would love to own and ride an Amazonas! Used to wrench a lot on my beetles in thr 70s and 80s.
Many moons ago I had an RD350. That bike was great. Easy to work on and fun to ride. The one bad thing was if the oil I was able to get was the cheap kind it smoked a lot. Also if I was in the city on stop and go when I got to highway any oil I had would smoke a lot for the first 2 to 3 miles.
Thank you for enlightening me once again through my workout
Hey, a car topic I can actually contribute to. Not only were the original VW Beetles huge in Brazil, (I believe they were produced there until the 90s) but VW continues to be the default car brand there. The vast majority of enthusiast and tuned cars are VWs. I guess they produce a lot of them there and the import duties on foreign cars are crazy.
The vw type 1 was produced until 2002 in mexico and south america.
With some improvements and modern tech the Quasar could be a great bike! Cross winds would still get ya though.
Oh, having the fuel tank under the seat is brilliant because it puts more weight low in the frame. Examples- Harley’s new liquid cooled engine Sportster/Nightster.
The BFG is super cool, they are still out on the roads in France to this day, parts are not too hard to come by exept ocf for the fairings but there is a big and active owner's club.
I don't think it deserves to be named cursed
The Big Friendly Giant?
I've got a 97' TL1000S. (With the R1 rear shock conversion, power commander 3, etc.)
~ It's a very raw unruly wheelie machine \m/
My dad raced a TL1000R for a season and that bike decided to high side him in such spectacular fashion it ended his racing career. He was pretty messed up and I’ll never forget. This happened on a track during practice. Seeing my pop getting launched 15’ in the air while doing 90 around a corner was kind of surreal as a teenager.
A 750cc 2-stroke isn't cursed, it's just very strong and misunderstood.
That sounds really cool, actually.
5mpg with 30miles engine lifespan.
My friend has a 99 tl1000r and he bought it brand new in 99. Still looks like it rolled off the showroom floor
Your next episode of cursed motorcycles should include Hesketh. A weird British bike built by an aristocrat who was nearly bankrupted by the project. It had some charm but rattled badly due to the pistons being installed backwards because the cylinder was designed by a different person to the head and they didn't like each other. Hesketh was reincarnated a few years ago but promptly went bust again after developing one model which actually looked quite nice but was too expensive
50seconds ago is wild.
yeah thats it youre going on the list lil bro
slide 4
Why you keep showing the Yamaha SR500cc 4 stroke single, when talking about the rd350 knockoff?
I am pretty much with you on most of these... but I will make an exception for the Yamaha GTS... it was not a bad idea... just on the wrong bike... Bimota did it right with the Tesi... but that said, i would be happy to own a GTS... Also I sorta like the Honda V4 CX whatever it was... never actually rode one mind you... but would happily give it a try... I like the look of the beast anyway... but even here in Japan it was just too damned expensive...the ST it was replacing is still much missed...
Darn was kind of interested in the ctx
CTX1300's were known for eating driveshafts at ridiculously low mileages. Honda really missed on that bike. I almost bought one, until I did a internet deepdive on posts from former owners of the CTX. No thanks. Complain about a chain but they are super easy to maintain and replace. But for a shaft drive touring legend, The FJR is a bike that took the CTX's place on my list. I have seen some insane good deals on used FJR's.
I built a near totally enclosed Suzuki 250 , I increased the milage to 85 mpg . with stock sprockets . Mine was soft top fitting around the helmet .
I bought a tl1000s -97 when i was 21. It was my second bike, had a sv650 for starter bike one season.
Damn the tls was a fun bike, but u hade to "be on guard" when ridning it.
last one is not a curse, its a must have
Here are a couple others: Moto Guzzi Quota, handles poorly yet it's very uncomfortable.
And everything Excelsior-Henderson.
The 1960's Munch "Mammoth" was powered by a 1200cc NSU four cylinder car engine.
As soon as I saw the RD350 I knew Brasil would come into picture
Forking crazy idea thought id seen most bike but not some of these.maico still makes a 700 i think.hi from New Zealand 🇳🇿
On the subject of car engines in motorcycles research Münch motorcycles. Magnificent machines.
Check out the Honda nm4 vultus :D
Looks cool though.
You can't portray the Rune as a "once in a decade" flop because it wasn't built with profit in mind. It was a technical exercise.
The tl1000 suspension was fixed when they replaced it with the SV1000. Glad they kept that engine tho. Despite a couple mechanical issues, that engine is amazing
And lives in thousands of vstroms
Had an SV1000 as my daily ride for years. Brilliant bike. Aside from one little oddity... If you stopped at hte lights in rain, the shape of the fuel tank collected water on top that was then dumped down onto the exhaust. You then got a steam bath which misted up the visor instantly. Still...the noise was worth it!
Quasar has to be great in stop and go traffic!
@Yammie Noob: Suggestions for Part 3: Münch Mammut 1200 & 2000, Hercules W-2000, Suzuki RE-5, Peraves MonoRacer, Yamaha Niken, Yamaha WR450F 2-Trac, Royal Enfield Taurus, Ducati ST2/3/4, Aprilia Moto 6.5, Aprilia RST 1000 Futura...
RD 350 was pretty common youth bike back then in India
I’ve got an ST1300 and would LOVE to get a CTX.
I love the solutions that companies did back in the 80s. They all had a production meeting and said we need to make engines smaller how do we make more power than. One guy said I know, let’s turbo charge that thing!!
Can't decide which is worse... "Rajdoot" or "Moto Shifty." Wonder if either one has a "Rock'n'roll Mode."
Strangely I kinda dig the Quasar, it would have work with a 3 wheeled tilt tech.
The main issue with the Quasar was it being basically Fugly! That and shoddy build quality. There were unroofed kits you could buy, Phasers. Also ugly as month old roadkill.
me when jammiedoob posts a video about strange bikes
Quaser would be a type of recommended motorcycle that a politician would promote. I do miss my gpz750turbo.
When he said moto shifty I thought he was making it up and being silly 💀
is voom availble in Canada? my spedo cable 'randomly disconnects' after 20km of riding each month so i don't rack up much miles hehe..
I had a TL1000S. Was all the things said here plus had the worst throttle response. Crazy twitchy
This Video makes me feeling angry, confused and hurt.
BMW C1 is also cursed af
Just because, I don't know for certain. The Maico, has been said May-Ko. Just because I'm a dirt hog!
in thee rd 350 part why are you showing so much sr400 or sr 500?
I can hear that bike screaming Scooby Dooby Doo
I owned an rd 350. Could be scary. It would pop a wheelie out of no where. Six speed so it was screaming fast. The front end would come up again around 80 mph.
I saw a Wilson Quasar on my local interstate once and neither my late-wife nor I could discern just what the hell we were looking at.
wait, if only 21 Quasar's were produced, then the picture at 5:22 is ONE THIRD of ALL of the quasars...
I love the NM4. hope they remake them. i looks like the bike in AKIRA
raj-DOOOOOOOOOOT
Maico -mayco
The fact at the end... Lol... The person may have apologized but they're still responsible for so many garbage adds popping up that make myself and many others want to chuck an expensive phone accross the room or keyboard into a screen......
"Beatle"... 🤨 CALL IT LIKE IT IS IRMÃO, A FUSCA!!
The honda midsize dct bike has half a fit/jazz engine
Will Uncle Yam ever upload a vlog speaking in Brazilian Portuguese here?
The thing is that i love the CTX1300's look, its like if the Goldwing was the stepfather of the ST1300's son and they both try to raise it in the image of them, the CTX700 is meh, but this is their next attempt at something like the DN-01, a pure comfort daily tourer, but i just hate that the v4 engine is just a less powerful version of the ST1300's, if only they can put the bigger maxi scooters like the Forza/ADV series to the us, big shame.
The GPZ750 turbo was actually good though. The other three kinda sucked, but the GPZ was legit
The problem was the bike was released the same year as the GPz900r which handled better and was cheaper to run and cost the same to buy. I can remember a review of the Suzuki which the reviewer said why bother with the turbo just put a bigger engine in the bike and give the owner some turbo stickers . These days the turbo bikes are collectors bikes and go for strong money but it was a fad like anti dive that came and went very quickly.
The rd350 motorcycle engine is close to and evolved into the Yamaha Banshee Four Wheeler engine, the rd350 evolved into the rz350 motorcycle and the rz350 has many interchangeable parts with a Yamaha Banshee fourwheeler engine
the quasar is fucking sick put some god damn respect on it
Bald daddy yams
How does honda manage to make a 1300cc engine in 2014 that has the same power as my 1979 gl1000
BMW made a bike similar to the Quasar called the C1 (apologies if it was mentioned previously) I remember as a kid thinking it was a cool idea but growing up I no longer think that.
I think it was in part one of the series.
What was that BMW from roughly 20 years ago that was partially enclosed? I thought they were cool in period. Probably not.
The C1
@@darkiee69 that's it. The C1, bizzare, but oddly cool.
When video on why yamaha mt 10 (older one) is best bike ever
MOTO shifty,……well, you can’t say they didn’t warn you 😂
You are totally wrong about front fork alternatives being "a solution to a non-existing problem". There is a _huge problem_ with forks and steering geometry being intertwined (ie. The length of a motorcycle dynamically changing and those changes being integral to the actual _steering_ of the vehicle). As riders we just get used to this and accept it. However, many designs have been tried, and many actually work (including the Yamaha GTS and BMW's Telelever, fitted to many of their boxer models). Think Bimota, or the worlds best handling motorcycle ever (per professional riders like Guy Martin, etc.) the Britten V1000.
The problem is cost and maintenance. This is the main factor that prevents manufacturers from outright abandoning the telescopic fork. The Yamaha, and to an extent the BMW, systems are _different_ but not _worse._ Being pulled is probably due to low sales (directly because of said difference - think VFR1200F, due to mainly design differences) and emmisions, not due to any _actual danger_ resulting from the design.
It's Maico, as in May-co....
Hon hon hon, zi French Motorcycle is excellent !
5:20 kamen rider ryuki bike
What, Harley Davidson struggling with innovation? 😂😂😂😂😂
80hp from a 1261cc engine is just fine *for Honda*, as they're more concerned about bulletproof reliability.
Odd choice though since it's a 750lb bike.
Honestly the strangest part is just the fact it's a V4. Who tf uses a V4 for *anything*?
Given the design, an inline 4 looks like it would have fit perfectly. Or alternatively use a flat 4 derived from the Goldwing.
vmax. and i love them.
RD350s are, and always will be, classic bikes and highly desirable no matter what this kid thinks. The GTS1000 wasn't a bad bike either; just a bit radical for generally conservative bikers. Forkless front ends doesn't seem to have stopped BMW selling thousands of GSs et al.
I don’t know what’s stopping them from making the Akira bike for real
Because anyone young enough to ride it couldnt afford the ridiculous price they would want and because the people who can afford to pay a ridiculous price os far too old to ride anymore
A high tech, 2wd, electric recumbent scooter that probably outweighs a goldwing?
@@ItsDaJax Exactly what I was picturing 😎
You forgot any and every bike with the word 'Hondamatic"
By all accounts, Boccardo was a conman
16:02 "A forkless bike is a solution to solve the problem no one have"
Actually not true. No two springs are ever the same and that's why some people experimented with single front suspension, to prevent tank slaps. However, this problem is relative minor* and the answer is expensive so no one solved it.
*for most riders and effectively 99% motorcycles in existence
True. But the almost horizontal suspension also prevented the bike from diving forward. And oh, if they had only used a cardan shaft, it would probably be a greater hit. Because the bik was heavy, but drove beautiful. I've had one for about 5-7 years and loved riding it. And there were always people who wanted to see the front up close.
It's "May co"
Talking about a cost reduced RD350 and showing pictures on an SR500 is really confusing.
Can we please have a europe giveaway, love the channel but cant join any giveaway!! :)
Bergman. 😅