Maytag on steroids

[wheelbender6]

Here is a motorcycle with a boxer engine, but the cylinders are front and back, like an old Maytag engine. More info at the link. You don't want to know how much it costs.
http://blog.motorcycle.com/2014/08/...andard/2016-midual-type-1-prototype-revealed/

 

[The_Aleman]

Cool, a $187,066 flat-twin motorcycle.

I wonder how many BMW flat-twins that could buy?

Heck, I wonder how many Honda flat-fours or flat-sixes that could buy?

 

[Mike B]

Wow, that's a serious price.

Nah, if I wanted a 2 cylinder sport bike I'd get a Ducati. A 90 degree config still has a perfect primary balance.

Eventually I'll get a BWM 2 cylinder boxer. I'm getting the lust for an R1200 RT and they're only $18,000 list.

I just love motorcycles -

 

[wheelbender6]

I like the Ducati engine layout too. Ducati's actually look like bargain bikes compared to that Midual. That would buy almost 20 of the 696 Monsters.

 

[Allen_Wrench]

I know something only slightly more affordable. Pur Sang of Argentina builds pretty exact replicas of old Indian 8-valve twins. http://www.pursangweb.com/

It's a matter of taste, I know. But I'd rather have one of those than the twin boxer up there any day.

 

[wheelbender6]

Wow. The PurSangs do look great.
I remember when Bultaco offered models named Pursang.
I believe it was their motocross models.
http://www.pursangweb.com/imagenes/motomel.jpg

 

[Arnold Layne]

Harleys' model W twin was set up like that, as early as 1919?

 

[Ludwig II]

There was an Indian equivalent. My understanding is that they were inspired by the Douglas, but unlike Douglas, they dropped them when the rear cylinders overheated.