Technique: MOTO GUZZI V8 Grand Prix
The V8 was created by a propeller Moto Guzzithanks to the project engineer Giulio Cesare Carcano In 1954.
The project also participated Enrico Cantoni, Umberto Todero, Ken Kavanagh e Fergus Anderson.
Technique: The camshaft
the’camshaft, power units, is a component capable of transmitting the motion to valves rocker or interposed.
It consists of a cylindrical shaft on which are the cam, ie the eccentric keyed to it.
Technique: Poppet Valves
In the internal combustion engine type 4 times entry and expulsion gas (mixture and exhaust) are regulated by their valves which allow the passage-way and “sigillano” the combustion chamber during the outbreak.
These valves can be arranged in two main ways, laterally Or in head.
In the first case, the valves are arranged parallel to the cylinder so that they can avoid going to strike when the piston is at its Top Dead. This solution was widespread until the '50s.
The valves in the head instead, are those currently used and are mounted in the cylinder head, thus ensuring with a more economic and rational of the chamber.
When valves are more than 2 (eg 2 intake and 2 exhaust) can have two types of movement, axial the radial.
The axial movement provides that the slide valves in parallel to the piston while in the radial valves move virtually “star” toward the center of the combustion chamber.
This last type of movement allows for a smoother flow and concentrated toward the center of fresh gas and a faster discharge from the exhaust gases, however, complicating the lives of designers who have to make camshafts with a particular conformation and more complex than that move the valves axial.
Technique: The Band brakes
The band brake is a technology created for the bike but was also applied to many of the century light motorcycles.
This type of brake consists of a tape metal or other flexible material such as leather, covered in friction material that is wrapped around a drum bound to the wheel hub.
Technique: The engine 2 times
The engine 2 times is a type of internal combustion engine invented and patented by Dugald Clerk In 1880.
Its main difference with the engine 4 time is the number of phases profits out of motor shaft revolutions. An engine 4 times, in fact, has a useful step (combustion / expansion) each 2 turns of, while the engine 2 time there is a useful step at every turn.
Technique: The Wankel engine
The shaky is a particular internal combustion engine was born in the late '40s thanks to the intuition of Felix Wankel.
The peculiarity of this engine is the absence of the classic piston-cylinder with a rectilinear reciprocating. Here, the Pistons have a triangular and a rotary motion around an axis.
Technique: The split cylinder
The motor split cylinder is a particular version of the engines two times.
It consists of two rods connected together by a single chamber.
Technique: Drum brake
The drum brake was a solution adopted on motion by the mid- 60.
Its strengths are the ease of manufacture and the resulting cost, but shows its limits due to the mismanagement of the heat of which reduce its effectiveness at high speeds and in any case in all situations of stress.
It is made from 3 main components: drum, jaws, the jaw-plate.
Technique: The fork
Today we are speaking of the front suspension of our beloved bike, the so-called fork.
It allows the bike to steer but also aims to ensure the support of the front wheel to the ground and to copy any roughness.
Technique:Side Valve
A very common on engines 4 time period is represented by Side Valve.
Most of this type of distribution is made 1 the 2 cam shaft located side of the crankshaft and connected to it via a gear(except some cases in which the cams are directly keyed onto the same).These cams extinct then command the movement of the valves.
Compared to modern air valves on the chamber, in this case are arranged on the side of the cylinder parallel it.
