sizes of motorcycle engines?

Question

Lately i have getting into motorcycles but the only thing is i dont know what a big motorcycle engine is i know they go by cc's but whats big and whats small?

Answer 1

Big might be large and underpowered- e.g. Harley Road glide or it may be small, light and powerful- with over a hundred horsepower. Power to weight ratio is what counts in my opinion.

Answer 2

As you are in the USA

Anything under 50 (Fifty) Ci ( Cubic Inches) Approx 800 CC ( Cubic Centimetres) is classed as middle weight

Anything under 25 (Twenty five) Ci ~ 400cc is a light weight

Anything under 5 (Five) Ci ~ 80cc is Small

Anything OVER 80 (Eighty)Cubic inches Approx 1300cc is classed as LARGE.

Anything over 100 ( hundred) Ci ~1,600 CC is classed as HUGE or Heavy Weight



But the Beef of it is. a 1300 cc Harley and a 1300 cc sports tourer are TOTALLY different bikes and should NEVER EVER be Compared Same with a 883 cc Harley and a 750 cc sports bike. I'ts like comparing a MARLIN fish with a STINGRAY BOTH have a chance of killing you a different way and i'm Not even suggesting which is which

Answer 3

Most normal sizes:



50cc moped

70-90cc pitbikes/cross

110-125 Light Motorcycle

200-250 Medium Light Motorcycle

600-750 Heavy Motorcycle (before you're 21)

750-1200 Heavy Motorcycle (after you're 21)



Most sizes are made because of the licenses you need. If you can drive a 250cc maximum, you want to drive a 250cc, not a 125cc.

What you have to learn is what sizef with certain pistons, how to replace piston rings and cranks.



I would say a "big" engnie is 600cc or bigger.

Answer 4

though these arnt world records, generally speaking 4 cylinder bikes 1.3 liters a number of bikes have 1.3 liter engines and yes the zx14 and gtr1400 both have 1348cc engines which APPROPRIATELY rounds down to 1300cc 3 cylinder bikes rocket 3 takes it at over 2.2 liters 2 cylinder bikes can be found up to around 1.6 liters these kinds fo bikes account for 99% of the bikes on the road, then you can go an look at novelty bikes like bosshoss, and the tomahawk bike with massive v8 and v10 engines. If your talking purely about strret bikes, you coudl call the triumph rocket 3 street bike, and it has the largest displacement.

Answer 5

Depends on market and legal definitions, licensing laws. European market has a break at 125cc for legal 'light' class', US market the break is at 150cc- 'Light' cycles not allowed on interstate system if under 150cc, federal 'motor driven cycle 'class' . Middleweight class is defined in some insurance tables as up to 500cc, some states laws regarding insurance requirements have the 500cc break, a few had 500 cc as a graduated license class a few years back but the states with graduate license like California and Illinois are using 150cc break mostly. A older standard was 250cc and 15 horsepower as break for 'small' to 'medium' which went to 660cc to get the most common at the time 650s leaving the 750 to 1300 cc as the 'large/big size that may have had insurance cost increased. These were market, legal, insurance definitions used in United States at various markets. Germany had Insurance class breaks by engine power as well as engine size- get a 100hp 750cc and you'll pay much more for insurance than a just under 50hp engine- Harley 883, BMW 650, Honda 400cc. 'Big and small engine' outside of a legal, trade, insurance, or license plate definition varies by the individual and market-- Australia breaks at medium 660cc, India has 125cc breaks like most European common market countries and US has a 150cc 'light/small' break.

Answer 6

you should go for an aircraft, shouldn't you ?

Answer 7

Boss Hoss , 500 cui big block would be bighttp://www.bosshoss.com/view_bike.asp?x=BHC3LS3SS





A 50 cc pocket bike would be small

http://www.minipocketrockets.com/mini-dirt-bike-rx1/

Answer 8

1800 cc 1500 cc big 50 cc small

Answer 9

General rule of thumb. If it falls over and you need physiotherapy after picking it back up again, it is big LOL.



The smaller scooters go as small as 50cc or so, the larger cruisers don't normally go much larger than 1800cc or so...



Considering the power to weight ratio of a motorcycle, that difference in engine capacity is enormous, think of the small end as riding an overgrown lawnmower...and the other end like riding a car engine strapped to a lightweight frame with a couple of wheels on it and you get the idea :D



Just to make it even more complex, engine power output varies widely, most mid-sized sports bikes are able to keep up with a much larger cruiser, simply because one engine is designed and tuned to have a nice easy life on a freeway, and the other is made to scream around a race track at 280 kph.

Answer 10

3,300cc is reasonably big.

Answer 11

200 cc would be an enduro and those go to 650 generally. sport bikes are typically between 500 and 1000+ then cruisers and the biggest.

Answer 12

Personally I consider anything up to 750cc small, anything 1000cc+ big. anything 2000cc+ is huge!