| Author | Message | ||
     Ingemar |
Maybe I'll make an ••• of myself, but I'm really puzzled by this. The term 'v-rod' means forked rods sharing the same big end, so that the jugs can be positioned inline, the front perfectly in front of the other. Now that HD has a bike called V-ROD, I was puzzled because this "V-ROD" has its cylinders NOT aligned, they are an inch or so shifted. I'm used to seeing this with metric cruisers, but not with Harleys. If the V-ROD means what I think it means, why are cylinders not inline? | ||
| Anonymous |
Simple: V(Twin)-(Hot)Rod Yer thinkin' 2 much. | ||
| Wardog3187 |
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| Ingemar |
If I'm not mistaken hotrod was a term for cars used in dragracing back in the '60s. I understood the allusion HD was making, but are you trying to say that the term "VROD" came into existence with the VRSCR? I know I talked about v-rods long before HD named one of their models like that and it has always stood for a forked rod connected to the same big end. Am I the only one who believed that VROD stood for forked rods? | ||
| M1combat |
Forked connecting rods like you describe are called "Knife and Fork connecting rods". You most likely know that. I would bet that marketing types came up with the term V-Rod as it applies to that sled as opposed to engineers dreaming it up. | ||
| Bomber |
short discussion taking place during the Making of the V-Rod special on cable a few years ago Announcer, intoning in hush, reverential tones "Now that the engine was complete, styling worked thorugh many sleepless night to design a look for the frame, and then sent it off to engineering." Then 17 year old daughter, who has clearly been paying more attention to her ol man's ramblings than is entirely healthy: "Hey Dad, isn't that backwards? Styling, THEN eningeering?" Old silverback sitting in the comfy chair: "I'm so proud!" | ||
| M1combat |
Yeah... That's what I thought was funny about that show. The engineers kept telling the styling department "That's not such a good idea, maybe we should approach it this way..." and the styling department would say "You see that pretty drawing we made? Make it like that... NOW!" I do have to say that the Vrod frame is indeed pretty... I just wish it was more versatile. I'd like to see a Shovel or a Pan stuffed into a Vrod frame and done up all purdy like  . Maybe with a couple slight mods to the frame but I'd have to do a test fit to see exactly what. | ||
| Kevyn |
How about we just apply the hydro-forming technology to a new Buell 'tuber' and let it go at that... | ||
| Kaese |
How about a VRod stuffed into a Tuber? | ||
| Anonymous |
Here we go again... | ||
| Ingemar |
How about staying on-topic?  | ||
| Panic |
What a brilliant concept: the rake angle is chosen for cosmetic reasons, then the trail and stem offset selected to correct the horrible results... I wonder if anyone in engineering ever contradicted Willie G. and kept his job? |
