#350cc motorcycle

[valheru-rides]

Holy cow! I missed that announcement!

Somehow I totally missed Honda sneaking out the GB350S over in the UK on November the 5th, something I’ve been saying they should do since the original H’ness. Honda for a long time seems not to have cared about the UK market, is this a change for the better? I’m about to jump on my Enfield for an hour, so frankly I have no time to check the social media reactions, which is probably just as well…

[boanerges20]

Renzo Pasolini Benelli 350 Assen, 1968

[bikebound]

Today on BikeBound.com: Two-Stroke V3! The “Tait Triple” designed by the late Bob Tait, an engineer and toolmaker who spent decades on the build. After Bob’s passing, @sammymillermotorcyclemuseum bought the project in boxes and finished it in his honor. “Bob was a great engineer and innovator. He will be remembered by all who knew him as a caring, generous, talented and all-round decent bloke.” —Sammy Miller Whereas the DKW 350cc V3 of the 1950s was 75° and Freddie Spencer’s Honda NS500 112°, the Tait Triple is spaced at little less than 90°. Tait reportedly engineered his own 120° crankshaft, designed and cast his own crankcases, and used modified Villiers heads and cylinders. “The V3 configuration has various advantages over a conventional inline three-cylinder — a slightly lower centre of gravity and, perhaps more importantly, more room for the transfer passages within each cylinder casting.” - @motogpmatoxley Photos: @roga______ at @kickback.custom.bike.show. Full story today on ⚡️BikeBound.com⚡️ ——— #racebike #isleofmantt #custombike #caferacer #2stroke #twostroke #custommotorcycle #moto #motorcycle #vintagemotorcycle #vintagebike #vintagemotorcycleracing #handbuilt #2tak #2t #caferacers #custombike #custombikes #handbuilt #2strokes #2tempos #2tempi #bikebound via Instagram https://instagr.am/p/DAyHj8PuNRg/

[frenchcurious]

Gillet Herstal Sport 350cc motorcycle 1928. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

[christiangeistdorfer]

PATRICK PONS, 1975

Patrick Pons was a French professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He finished third place in the 250cc and the 350cc 1974 world championships. He was the first Frenchman to win an F.I.M. world championship when he won the 1979 Formula 750 title.

[hondabigwing21]

The introduction of All-New CB350 marks yet another significant milestone for our flourishing premium motorcycle business vertical. Ever since their launch, Honda’s middle-weight 350cc motorcycles have delighted customers across various markets.

[curierx]

ENG As a person who watch anime and as well I like motorcycles (Yes, I ride on bike too) I realize that in the new opening of MAPPA, precisely in the anime Jigokuraku (Hell's paradice) it have two bike that I saw and think, "I know that bikes" and for that is this post.

ESP Como una persona que ve anime e igual que le gustan las motocicletas (Sí, igual ando en moto) me di cuenta que en el nuevo intro de MAPPA, recisamente en el anime Jigokuraku (Hell's paradice) hay dos motos que vi que al verlas pense, "Yo las conozco" y por ello este post.

ENG The first bike on screen it is alike to the black sheep Harley Davidson V-Rod 1250cc. ESP La primeta moto que vi en la escena es similar a la oveja negra Harley Davison V-Rod 1250cc

ENG And for the second bike on screen here are a issue because it is a Cafe Racer but if we talking about in the market of motorcycles theirs not a company that fabricate a Cafe Racer with a V-Twin engine, the only bike that I know it have a V-Twin as a product of a company is the Guzzi V7 850cc but here is a thing, the engine of this bike is different despite it is a V-Twin. Maybe the Harley Davison Roadster 1200cc have some style but only for the handle bar and the sit position but I can´t consider a Cafe Racer as a native product of a company, maybe custom the foot rest can help. ESP Y la segunda moto en escena hay un problema ya que es una Cafe Racer pero si hablamos del mercado de motocicletas no hay alguna compañia que fabrique una Cafe Racer con motor V-Twin, la única moto que conozco que tiene un motor así y es fabricada es la Guzzi V7 850cc pero aqui hay algo, a pesar de que usar el mismo tipo de motor es diferente a lo convencional. Quizá la Harley Davison Roadster 1200cc tiene el estilo por el manubrio y la posición del asiento pero no lo concideraria una Cafe Racer como producto nativo de una compañia, quizá customizando los reposapies ayude.

ENGAs you can see the engine is a V-Twin but have a different angle. the most usual bike that use this type of engine have a fit position and the V7 have a peculiar position, it expose more the engine than the usual bikes like Yamaha (Star series), Indian or Harley Davison. ESP Como puedes ver el motor V-Twin tiene un angulo diferente. Lo usual en las motos que usa este tipo de motor esta posicionado más centrado y la V7 tiene una posición peculiar, esta se expone más a diferencia de las motos usuales como las motos de Yamaha (Serie Star), Indian o Harley Davidson

ENG But if we talking about Cafe Racer in the market, here some bikes: ESP Pero si habalamos acerca de las Cafe Racer en el mercado, aqui hay algunas:

Triumph Thruxton 900cc

Royal Enfield Classic 350cc

Royal Enfield Hunter 350cc

ENG Back to the point, the scene of the second bike definitely is a custom Cafe Racer bike.

ESP Regresando al punto, en la escena de la segunda moto definitivamente es una custom Cafe Racer

ENG Here a custom Harley Cafe Racer:

ESP Aquí una Harley Davison customizada como Cafe Racer:

[the-firebird69]

Her son is looking at the lawn mowers it's our son and Hera with him in arguing with him a little bit saying he's supposed to get the the John Deere says it feels cheaper than the club cadet and it is cheaper yeah it's kind of a cheap version but it's the same price so he says if I ever get a house I'll get a zero turn radius and probably have to have a tractor too and probably get a John Deere one reason is 22 horsepower and the one he was driving was about eight horsepower it says and it's true but this is a v twin yeah that's right V TWIN AND IT HAS 22 HORSEPOWER AND YOU COULD USE IT IN A MOTORCYCLE BY ORDERING IT ONLINE AND IT ISN'T TOO CHEAP BUT IT'S NOT MUCH MONEY A REGULAR MOTORCYCLE ENGINE IS THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IF YOU GET A HONDA KAWASAKI SUZUKI HARLEY-DAVIDSON IT'S LIKE 8 GRAND S&S

It's a nice motor it's a John Deere between and 22 horsepower it's made for the s140 and s150 lawn mower tractor rider lawn mower and really it has a lot of power and torque it has more torque than horsepower almost no but it has a lot it's surround 20 foot pounds and Suzuki and Yamaha make a motorcycle it's like a 350cc it has around 17 horsepower and 12 foot pounds of torque and it moves out and goes about 100 this would go about $140 with a 220 lb person 200 mph with a 150 lb person on a sport bike and it'll fit cuz they're made for a bigger motors it has a transmission it's kind of a pain to adapt but people do it and you use a regular clutches not true you have to hand shift it but hey it is kind of worth it has three gears okay you can't use the gears cuz they're in the rear it's true so you have to hook into a transmission and it usually does you'll find a way this thing is awesome if you don't find a way you can use two sprockets the thing flies the two sprockets not missing about me going about 100 miles an hour anybody and it's an automatic more or less manual will be flying along

Thor Freya

We discovered those and we're getting those but this will make a big huge order and people spread it around if these things work great you almost can't get rid of them and now we have to lick them cool them but other than that they work awesome

Tommy a we're outfitting armies with this kind of equipment and we need a lot of it

Olympus

We're heading out and we're bringing the V-Twin with us there's tons of them out there it's huge numbers and we get it

A cork

It's absolutely true we can use every single one of them that can get the regular ones too they work on smaller bikes and we have tons of those

Trump

Now too

Brad and we think our friend is putting it out there on purpose

[batsplat]

What do you think about this fim push to not classify moto2 / moto3 championships towards the overall world title counts? I’m uhhh personally not sure how likely that is to happen / if it would even happen the way people are saying. But I’m seeing a lot of people freak out about it (and find a way to blame one particular rider for it…he really is the busiest man on earth the way he is apparently finding the time to be involved in EVERY bit of drama in current motogp…according to some on here)

icl I'm not well placed to answer this ask because I have zero context for any of this, I haven't seen anything, I didn't know this was a thing. my tried and tested method for following motogp is checking the subreddit like once every few days, having a list of a few journalists on bluesky + listening to podcasts, and having a moan on twitter if something crosses my feed - which means there are swathes of discourse I simply remain unaware of. so idk exactly what's prompted these latest worries and how well-founded they are... I can remember last year when the liberty deal was announced that there was concern about moto2/moto3 being treated as similar in stature to f2/f3, rather than world championships in their own right. obviously we haven't really received much indication on that front one way or the other, so we'll have to see

that being said. in general, ofc the non-premier class categories have gradually declined in significance and prestige anyway, this is a long term trend. angel nieto won.... *sigh* 12+1 championships, which were all in non-premier class categories, and he's widely considered one of the greatest motorcycling racers of all time. back in the day, the lower categories weren't necessarily seen as rungs in the ladder to get you to the premier class, and it was way more acceptable for accomplished riders to remain in a non premier class category. jorge martinez is another obvious example of a renowned rider who never raced in the premier class... biaggi is seen as like,, the master of the 250s - which is also kinda important contextual information for the valentino rivalry, since modern fans will be likely to put too much stock into the 'no premier class titles' thing. even as late as with dani, it really wasn't a foregone conclusion that he'd make the step up to motogp, primarily due to his height; staying in the 250cc class and dominating there was seen as a potentially viable path. that doesn't mean snobbishness about the lower categories hasn't already historically been a thing. doohan didn't think anything but premier class victories counted, as he pointed out when valentino overtook his grand prix win count. casey said in his autobiography that at the end of the day, he was only really interested in the real deal - premier class titles. (a cynic might suggest this stated disinterest did have something to do with losing the 2005 250cc title in rather a painful fashion.) I haven't done a survey but my guess is that there's also a bit of an anglo/non-anglo divide here, probably driven by how american/australian riders were more likely not to have gone through those other classes on their way to the premier class

still, in general, there's been a decline in prestige. there's also been a decline in numbers of classes - fifty years ago, you could compete in 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 1250cc and 50cc. you could also compete in several different classes at the same time, which gave the whole thing a different vibe. do think the professionalisation of the sport probably plays a part in that,, increasing level of competition and more weight placed on the premier class as the be all and end all of achievement in the sport. and the thing is... I mean, this is a battle that was lost a long time ago, but tbh I still think it was a mistake to rebrand the classes to moto2/moto3. having 500cc vs 250cc vs 125cc has a completely different vibe to motogp vs moto2 vs moto3. the former essentially sounds like weight classes comparable in prestige, the latter sounds like you've got a premier class and then feeder series. I like other world championships having weight too! partly because of how it ties into the history of the sport, partly because I like watching all classes and feeling like they really *matter* as more than talent-spotting events. it's ultimately cool to give fans three races on a race day at every single event, as long as you give them good reason to be invested in all three of them. I do get why you needed to rename them to bring it in line with the 500cc -> motogp rebrand (fairly sensible), I don't have any fantastic suggestions for alternatives off the top of my head, but like. I just wish they hadn't gone with That

still, it is kinda inarguable that there's been a pretty steep decline in prestige. nobody rates a biaggi 250cc title in the same way they do the one secured by tito rabat. zarco sticking in moto2 for another year to defend his title was seen as a Big Thing that attracted a big range of opinions. there's an age limit now for moto3... the gradual decline of high level riders who stay in lower categorie - which is a development that dates back to *wiggles hand* maybe around the late nineties - means that the lightweight categories are just inevitably going to be taken less seriously. it's not seen as a career path in and of itself - the goal is always motogp. idk, I personally wish they weren't just feeder series, I think it's fun being invested in several categories with a diverse age profile and competitive spread. kinda torn on this because part of me goes 'well, this is just commercial realities, it's quite likely to continue heading in the same direction, nothing to be done'. but also my main sport has just had one of its traditions butchered in the name of commercial realities and I HATE that and sometimes it's easy to be a cynic for cynicism's sake, so. to be clear. I think this development is Bad. I think the long-term trend is to the sport's detriment, I wish it wouldn't continue. it's probably going to continue, it just reflects how modern sports is set up. we're just trying to chase child prodigies through feeder series now so we can get them as many of the 'best' titles as possible, it's all about relentless maximising of talent and profit and everything else. I'm too much of a romantic about sports for that, I feel like it diminishes the whole sport's soul. so... this is where we're at, but also I don't like it

on the specific point raised in the ask - not referring to overall title counts and just premier class ones, I'm going to assume either in official promotional material or commentary or both. yeah, that sucks, I could imagine that's something that comes from dorna's instructions if it is a thing. apart from anything else, it just feels wrong - valentino is a nine time champion, jorge five etc etc. also, valentino isn't a seven time motogp champion, I suppose you could say he's a seven time premier class champion but that's also not really promoting the motogp brand. it does fall quite neatly into this trend of diminishing the other world championships by use of linguistically re-framing of their prestige/relevance, like with the moto2/moto3 thing, which is pretty interesting from a purely academic perspective. idk if it'll be a thing, I hope it's not a thing, it might be a thing, I could believe it's a thing but also I haven't seen anything suggesting it's a thing. won't radically change anything because it's part of a broader trend, also it'll probably be successful - eventually, enough fans won't care enough to mentally correct in their heads and you'll effectively have redefined what attainment in the sport involves. which is a shame. alas

[crosscountryway]

Recommended Cross Motor Engine Sizes for Performing Acrobatic Stunts

When it comes to performing acrobatic stunts and tricks on cross motorcycles, selecting the right engine size is crucial for ensuring both safety and performance. Cross motorcycles, designed for off-road riding and rough terrains, have different engine sizes, measured in cubic centimeters (cc), which affect their power, agility, and ability to handle extreme maneuvers. Understanding which engine size is best suited for acrobatic movements can help riders make an informed choice to enhance their performance.

Engine Size for Beginners and Intermediate Riders (125cc to 250cc): For those just starting out with acrobatic maneuvers, a cross motorcycle with an engine size between 125cc and 250cc is ideal. These motorcycles offer enough power for basic tricks like wheelies, jumps, and small stunts while being relatively easy to control. A 125cc engine is particularly suited for beginners, offering a lighter bike with manageable speed and handling, which is important for learning balance and control.

A 250cc cross bike, on the other hand, provides slightly more power and speed, making it a good option for intermediate riders who are ready to take on more advanced tricks, such as higher jumps or more challenging terrain. These bikes strike a balance between performance and control, allowing riders to progress their skills while still maintaining manageable power output.

Engine Size for Advanced Riders (350cc to 450cc): For riders who have mastered the basics and are looking to perform more complex acrobatic movements, such as flips or advanced freestyle tricks, a 350cc to 450cc engine is recommended. These bikes offer significantly more power, which is essential for executing higher jumps, larger tricks, and more aggressive stunts.

A 350cc engine provides excellent torque, making it suitable for riders who want to perform long wheelies or land from high jumps smoothly. The 450cc cross motorcycle, being one of the most popular choices among professional stunt riders, delivers high horsepower and faster acceleration, giving riders the confidence and power needed for extreme stunts. While these motorcycles are more powerful, they also require greater skill to control due to their size and speed.

Engine Characteristics for Acrobatic Stunts: The ideal engine size for acrobatic riding not only depends on the cc but also on other key factors such as weight, suspension, and throttle response. Cross motorcycles with lower cc engines tend to be lighter, offering better maneuverability and agility for tricks. A lighter bike is easier to handle when performing stunts like backflips or tight cornering.

Additionally, the throttle response is important. Riders looking to perform precise stunts need an engine with a quick, responsive throttle that allows for smooth control during acrobatic movements. Engine sizes around 250cc to 450cc typically offer the right balance of power and responsiveness for these types of activities.

Professional and Competition-Level Stunt Bikes: For professional riders or those looking to compete in freestyle motocross events, motorcycles with engines between 350cc and 450cc are often the standard. These bikes are built to withstand the intense demands of acrobatic riding, offering the necessary power, suspension quality, and control to execute advanced stunts.

In conclusion, when choosing a cross motorcycle for acrobatic movements, it's important to consider both the rider’s skill level and the type of stunts they wish to perform. For beginners, motorcycles with 125cc to 250cc engines are perfect for learning the fundamentals, while more advanced riders should opt for 350cc to 450cc bikes to handle the power needed for complex tricks. Regardless of the engine size, selecting a motorcycle with the right suspension, weight, and responsiveness is key to achieving success in acrobatic cross riding.

https://crosswording.com/

[valheru-rides]

A post for the mid week.

My Meteor, looking clean for once. So I pulled onto the dual carriageway earlier, the traffic was fairly light, but not to the point that I had both lanes to myself. I wasn’t rushing anywhere and I knew the ongoing roadworks would be lasting until 2027 so I had nothing to prove by overtaking the lumbering SUV in front. We sat at 65mph on the dot (it’s a 70mph limit) on the inside lane, just…

[windburnedeyes]

Check Out the 2025 Royal Enfield Goan Classic 350

Royal Enfield’s latest reveal, the Goan Classic 350, takes its celebrated Classic 350 and dresses it in full bobber regalia. This head-turner embraces nostalgia while blending modern touches, making it one of the most eye-catching 350cc motorcycles around. Design-wise, the Goan Classic 350 retains the bulbous fuel tank, round headlight, and chrome details of its sibling but stands out with an…

[indianflash123]

Royal Enfield Goan Classic 350: A Stylish Twist on a Timeless Ride

Royal Enfield adds another gem to its legendary lineup with the launch of the Goan Classic 350. Starting at ₹2.35 lakh (ex-showroom Chennai), this 350cc motorcycle blends retro aesthetics with contemporary features. Let’s dive into what makes this model a standout choice. The Goan Classic 350 comes in two variants: Single-tone version: ₹2.35 lakh Dual-tone version: ₹2.38 lakh Both models of…

[indianflashnews]

Royal Enfield Goan Classic 350: A Stylish Twist on a Timeless Ride

Royal Enfield adds another gem to its legendary lineup with the launch of the Goan Classic 350. Starting at ₹2.35 lakh (ex-showroom Chennai), this 350cc motorcycle blends retro aesthetics with contemporary features. Let’s dive into what makes this model a standout choice. The Goan Classic 350 comes in two variants: Single-tone version: ₹2.35 lakh Dual-tone version: ₹2.38 lakh Both models of…

[frenchcurious]

HRD 350cc Motorcycle 1926. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.