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Every motorcycle designer/engineer’s wish to bring a new trend in Industry. Hamamatsu from Japan utilizes his skills and crafted this whacky concept for a new engine layout. It’s because the cylinder here runs near horizontal to the ground. Well, it is nothing new as most of the commuters from Suzuki follows such cylinder orientation. Albeit, the gearbox placement beneath the cylinder is something new as opposed to placing behind the cylinder.
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There are two reasons behind shifting in position. Firstly, It sports in keeping engine unit compact and provides better packaging options for designers for rest components in the engine. Secondly, the swingarm pivot placement away from the rear wheel develops a long swingarm which offers better stability at high speeds.
Though with such engine layout, several areas of the motorcycle need to be reconsidered. Like the fuel tank positioning under the seat with the battery and air-box at the place of the conventional fuel tank. For the liquid-cooled motors, the air-box positioning will be on the side. Other than this, we are aware of the underbelly exhausts already.
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It’s really something new, however, for the multi-cylinder inline motors this configuration would turn out really sophisticated as they would have need of more space on the frame. With such difficulties, it's understood that the concept sketch is in the initial stage and not likely to be seen in practical form anytime soon.
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