rotaries

["Greg Cagle" <gregc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Another idea - why doesn't a rotary engine work as a gyroscope in a car?
>I have strong reasons to suspect it does but the effect is dampened by the
>mass of the car.  Probably why nobody ever built a rotary motorcycle.  Left
>turn -> BONK!

1) Mazda rotaries spin in the vertical/horizontal plane, same as the
flywheel
   on a piston car.

2) I saw a rotary motorcycle once in the late 70s; I believe it was a Suzuki
   or a Yamaha.

- - Greg
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Greg Cagle - gregc@domain.elided
Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.

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