Mazda has sold rotary-powered cars since introducing the Cosmo Sport in 1967, while Suzuki briefly sold a rotary-powered motorcycle in the ‘70s and Norton sold some rotary motorcycles in the ‘80s.

But when Norton-Villiers and BSA-Triumph merged in 1973, a BSA rotary-engine prototype came with the deal. Two more prototypes were built with the Sachs motor in a Triumph T-140 frame.

CR700W: Ex-Norton Racing Icon Brian Crighton Revives Rotary Engine Race Power It’s been a month of Ducati’s World Premiere, Buell’s official resurrection of their motorcycle line via the Hammerhead ...

Once you get into the rotary engine life, you'll either want to stay forever or run away as far as you can. But the more you get to drive these engines, the more addictive they become. I still ...

But just like LeMans banned the rotary engine back in 1991, so did the British Road Racing Championship. For the next few decades, the fire-spitting Gods would go silent.

Legendary Norton engineer builds 200bhp, 136kg race bike – and this is just the start. When Norton launched the rotary-engined RCW588 in 1989 it took the racing world by storm. Despite being a ...

How a rotary engine works Norton’s rotary was a development of the German Sachs twin rotor Wankel engine, a licence for which was originally bought by Norton owners BSA- Triumph in 1972.

Furion Motorcycles of France plans to resurrect the Wankel rotary engine for their hybrid M1 motorcycle which also has an electric motor.

Its Wankel engine design began life as the patented work of David Garside, famous for his rotary experience at Norton Motorcycles, and AIE is further developing it for use in automotive, aerospace ...