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First Ride on my Vincent After Two Years Away From It
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<blockquote data-quote="MarBl" data-source="post: 145625" data-attributes="member: 4437"><p>I should have mentioned that I refer to the the Boxer engine, which is the standard reference, when it comes to BMW smoothness. Amongst them, the early 500cc and 600cc roller bearing engines are practically vibration free and not matched by anything I now of. The /5 and later ones do vibrate a bit. My Rapide at its 70mph sweet spot really isn't much different from my 1981 R100CS (now 1070cc). I would even go as far as to compare the characeristics of the Rapides engine with that of a R80ST, which I owned for a while - similar power and lots of torque at low revs. Of course even at the sweet spot the Rapide does vibrate a bit more than the 800cc boxer, but really not that much and certainly not in an annoying way.</p><p>By the way, here in Teutonia the K100 is called "The Brick". Never had one of those nor anything with more than two cylinders.</p><p>I find synchronization to be an important issue even with modern bikes. I did it myself with the MT-07 I had for a while, as the service did it according to their books, whilst I wanted the sweet spot matching my cruising speed, it made quite a difference. As said before, I now think, that many complaints about vibrating two cylinder engines are related to non optimal synchronization.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarBl, post: 145625, member: 4437"] I should have mentioned that I refer to the the Boxer engine, which is the standard reference, when it comes to BMW smoothness. Amongst them, the early 500cc and 600cc roller bearing engines are practically vibration free and not matched by anything I now of. The /5 and later ones do vibrate a bit. My Rapide at its 70mph sweet spot really isn't much different from my 1981 R100CS (now 1070cc). I would even go as far as to compare the characeristics of the Rapides engine with that of a R80ST, which I owned for a while - similar power and lots of torque at low revs. Of course even at the sweet spot the Rapide does vibrate a bit more than the 800cc boxer, but really not that much and certainly not in an annoying way. By the way, here in Teutonia the K100 is called "The Brick". Never had one of those nor anything with more than two cylinders. I find synchronization to be an important issue even with modern bikes. I did it myself with the MT-07 I had for a while, as the service did it according to their books, whilst I wanted the sweet spot matching my cruising speed, it made quite a difference. As said before, I now think, that many complaints about vibrating two cylinder engines are related to non optimal synchronization. [/QUOTE]
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