There are many systems for classifying motorbike types , explaining how motorcycles are used, or the intent of the designer, or some combination of the two. Six major categories are widely recognized: cruiser, sport, touring, standard, dual-purpose, and dirt bike. Sometimes touring sport bikes are recognized as the seventh category. Strong lines are sometimes drawn between motorcycles and smaller cousins, mopeds, scooters, and underbones, but other classification schemes include this as a type of motorcycle.
There is no universal system to classify all types of motorcycles. There is a strict classification system imposed by bodies that impose competitive motor sport sanctions, or legal definitions of motorcycles established by certain legal jurisdictions for motorcycle registration, emissions, road traffic safety regulations or motorcycle licensing. There are also informal classifications or nicknames used by manufacturers, motorists, and motorcycle media. Some experts do not recognize sub-types, such as bare bikes, which are "meant to be classified" outside of six plain classes, because they fit in one of the main types and can only be recognized by cosmetic changes.
Video Types of motorcycles
Road
Street motorcycles are motorcycles designed to drive on paved roads. They have fine tires with light tread patterns and the engine is generally at 125Ã, cc (7.6Ã, cuÃ, in) and over reach. Most are capable of speeds up to 100 mph (160 km/h), and many speeds are over 125 mph (201 km/h).
Standard
Standard, also called bare bikes or roadster , versatile, general purpose motorcycles. They are acknowledged primarily by their upright positions, amidst the posture of the rider lying from cruisers and sport bikes leaning forward. Footpegs are under the rider and the handlebars are high enough to not force the rider to reach too far ahead, placing the shoulders above the hips in a natural position. Due to its flexibility, lower cost, and moderate engine output, the standard is perfect for motorcycle beginners.
Standards usually do not come with fairing or window glass, or if they have them, they are relatively small. The standard is often a synonym for bare bikes, a term that became popular in the 1990s in response to the proliferation of sport bikes that were fully faired. Standards seem to have disappeared, sparking nostalgia for the return of the Universal Motorcycle Japan, which is admired for their simplicity, quality, and versatility.
Muscle bike is the nickname for this type of motorcycle, derived from a standard motor design or sport, which places a disproportionate high priority on engine power. Roadster is equivalent to standard or naked.
Cruiser
The cruisers were styled after American machines from the 1930s to the early 1960s, such as those made by Harley-Davidson, India, and Excelsior-Henderson. Harley-Davidsons largely define cruiser categories, and large-displacement V-twin engines are the norm, although other engine configurations and small to medium displacements also exist. Their engines are tuned for low-end torque, making them less demanding to ride as it does not need to shift as often to speed or maintain control.
The driving position puts the foot forward and hands up relatively high, so the vertebra is erect or leaned slightly. At low to moderate speeds, cruisers are more comfortable than other styles, but long-term vehicle rides at highway speeds can cause fatigue to pull back on the handlebars to withstand wind power against the rider's chest. Cruisers have limited cornering ability due to lack of ground clearance.
Choppers are a type of cruiser, so named because they are a "chopped" or "cut-down" version of the production cruisers. Helicopters are usually special projects that produce bikes that are modified to suit the owner's ideals, and, as such, are a source of pride and achievement. Stereotypically, helicopters may have been issued forks, small fuel tanks and high handlebars. The helicopters were popularized in the movie Peter Fonda Easy Rider . Designed specifically for visual effects, helicopters will not normally be the most efficient engine rider.
Power cruiser is the name used to distinguish a bike in a cruiser class that has a much higher power level. They often come with improved brakes and suspension, better ground clearance, and premium surface finishing, as well as more exotic or non-traditional styles.
Sport bike
Sport bikes emphasize top speed, acceleration, braking, handling, and grip on paved roads, usually at the expense of comfort and fuel savings compared to less specialized bikes. Therefore, there are certain design elements that most of these types of motorcycles will share. Motor sport has a high-performance engine that rests in a lightweight frame. Four inline engines dominate the category of motor sport, with V-twin having a significant presence, and almost every other engine configuration appears in small amounts at one time or another. The combination of these elements helps maintain structural integrity and chassis stiffness. The braking system incorporates higher performance brake pads and multi-piston calipers that clamp into the oversized ventilated rotor. Advanced suspension system in terms of adjustments and materials to improve stability and durability. Most sport bikes have fairings, often covering the engine completely, and window glasses that effectively bend air at very high speeds, or at least reduce the overall obstacles.
Sport bikes have high footpegs that position the feet closer to the body to improve ground clearance during cornering, and long range to hand control, which puts the body and center of gravity forward, above the fuel tank. The rider bends forward to the wind, a force that can comfortably support the weight of the rider at speeds close to 100 mph (160 km/h), but at lower speeds leaving too much weight on the arms and wrists, causing fatigue.
Streetfighters come from sports bikes, originally sport bikes tailored to fairings removed and higher handlebars to replace low clip-on handlebar. Since the 1990s, the factory streetfighters have been produced. Like a bare bike and a muscle bike (bottom), the streetfighter name is used to help clarify the middle ground which is occupied by a design that blends elements of both motor sport and standard.
Tour
Although any motorcycle can be equipped and used for touring, touring motorcycles are specially designed to excel in covering remotely. They have large, fairing and screen engines that offer excellent weather and wind protection, large capacity fuel tanks for long range between charging, and a relaxed and upright sitting position. Excellent passenger accommodation and spacious luggage space is the norm for this class. The bike can have a wet weight of 850-900 pounds (390-410 kg) and over 1,300-1,400 pounds (590-640 kg) filled with riders, passengers and teeth.
Bagger , full dresser , full dress tourer , or dresser are various names for touring motorcycles, sometimes used for dismissive or jocularly, and initially refers to Harley-Davidson or other cruisers with the full set of saddlebags. This can now refer to touring motorcycles.
Sports tour
Motorcycle sport touring combines the attributes of sport bikes and touring motorcycles. The rider's posture is less extreme than a sport bike, providing greater long-distance comfort. Accommodation for passengers is superior to motor sport as well, along with increased baggage capacity. Being lighter, weighing 550-720 pounds (250-330 kg), compared to pure touring bikes and often have more racially engine, suspension, and brakes, better and more aggressive home tour angles at home are aggressively ridden at curved canyon roads. The difference between touring and touring sports is not always clear as some manufacturers will list the same bike in both categories in different markets. Honda ST1300 Pan-Europe, for example, is listed by Honda as a motor sport tour in the United States and Australia, but as a motor touring in Europe.
Dual-sport
Double sports, sometimes called dual-purpose or on/off-road motorbikes, are street legal machines that are also designed to enter off-road situations. Usually based on trailing motorcycle chassis, they have added lights, mirrors, signals, and instruments that allow them to be licensed for public roads. They are taller than other street bikes, with high center of gravity and high seat height, allowing good suspension travel to rough ground.
Motorcycle adventure is a motorcycle with the ability touring on paved and paved roads. As a dual-sport they have significant on-pavement bias and perform well on the sidewalk at higher speeds unlike most of the dual sports. The size, weight and sometimes their tires, however, limit their off-road capabilities. Most adventure motorcycles work well on dirt roads and pebbles but are less ideal on more difficult off-pavement terrains.
Supermarket motorcycles are designed to compete in a single lane that alternates between three motorcycle racing genres: street racing, track racing, and motocross. This increasingly popular type of motorcycle is often a double sport that has been installed by the manufacturer with smaller tires and road tires. Supermoto quickly gained popularity as street bikes due to their combination of lightness, durability, relatively low cost, and sporty handling.
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Scooters, underbones and mopeds
The size of the scooter machine is smaller than the motorcycle, 50-850Ã, cc (3,1-51,9Ã,  ± cuÃ, in), and has an all-encompassing bodywork that makes them cleaner and quieter than a motorcycle, and has more storage space built-in. Automatic coupling and continuously variable transmission (CVT) make them easier to learn and drive. Scooters usually have smaller wheels than motorcycles. Scooters usually have engines as part of a swingarm, so the engine goes up and down with suspension.
Underbones is a small-displacement motorcycle with a step-through frame, the original breed of Honda Super Cub. They are distinguished from scooters with larger wheels and use of their feet instead of floor boards. They often have a gear shifter with automatic clutch.
Mopeds are used to be hybrids of bicycles and motorcycles, equipped with small engines (usually small two-stroke engines up to 50 cc, but sometimes electric motors) and bicycle drivetrain, and motive forces can be supplied by engines, riders, or both. There is also a Sport moped - a moped that resembles a sport bike.
In many places, mopeds are subject to less rigorous licensing than bicycles with larger and popular engines as very cheap motorcycles, with the pedals seen aside of no use. Mopeds were very popular in the United States during the fuel crisis in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but their popularity has dropped dramatically since the mid-1980s. In response to rising fuel prices in the first decade of the 2000s, US scooters and moped drivers saw a resurgence. Sales of motorcycles and scooters declined 43.2% in 2009, and continued to decline in the first quarter of 2010, with scooter sales performing the worst, down 13.3% compared to a 4.6% decline for all two-wheeled vehicles.
Other types of small motorcycles include bike monkeys, Welbike, and mini bikes.
Off-road
There are different types of off-road motorcycles, also known as dirt bikes, designed specifically for off-road events. The term off-road refers to unconventional driving surfaces conventionally. It is a rough surface, often made naturally, like sand, gravel, river, mud or snow. This type of terrain is sometimes only passable by vehicles designed for off road driving (such as SUVs, ATVs, snowmobiles and mountain bikes) or vehicles that have off-road equipment. Compared to on-road motorcycles, off-road engines are simpler and lighter, have long suspension trips, high ground clearance, and rugged construction with less bodywork and no fairings to reduce damage to the spill. The wheels (usually 21 "front, 18" rear) have a protruding tire, often clipped to the rim with a rim lock.
There are special motorcycles for a variety of off-road motorcycle sports:
- Motocross - Such bikes (formerly called "scramblers") are driven on short and closed off-road tracks with various obstacles. Motorcycles have a small fuel tank for lightening and compactness. The long-travel suspension allows the rider to take a leap at high speed. Motocross engines are usually single-cylinder two-stroke or four-stroke units, which vary in size from 50cc to about 650cc. Motocross sidecar clothes have a larger engine, usually four-stroke and often twin-cylinder. Motocross bikes are also used in freestyle motocross.
- Enduro - Motocross motors are modified and street-legal, with additional horns, lights, effective landing, and license plates. Enduro drivers compete on longer trips (which may include roads); and enduro events can take place between one day and six days (such as International Six Days Enduro). Some enduro events (known as "multi-lappers") are held in a rather short circuit, unlike the scrambling tracks. "Multilappers" are very popular among novice riders.
- Rally raids, or "rallies" - A special type of enduro bike with a much larger fuel tank for long-range racing, usually through deserts (eg Paris-Dakar meeting). Engine capacity tends to be larger, usually between 450Ã, Â cc and 750Ã, cc.
- Trails - The trail bike is a double purpose bike, made for off-road driving and off-street recreation. A trail motor may resemble an enduro bike, but since the trail bike is not intended to be used for competition, it may be less rugged, and equipped with versatile tires and with more street legal equipment, such as indicators, mirrors and auxiliary instruments.
- Trials - Experimental trials are a special form of off-road competition that balances skills and precision over speed. For a test bike, low weight and sharp throttle response are priorities, so the test bikes tend to have small engines (125Ã, cc to 300Ã, cc), with two common strokes. During the trial, the rider stood on the footpegs, so the test bike will only have a vestigial seat, or no seats at all. The fuel tank is very small, providing a very limited range.
- Track racing - High-speed oval racing, usually without brakes, or rear suspension. The engine, triggered by methanol, is a four-stroke single-length single, like JAP and Java. They have at most two gears. Some types, such as speedway, and grass-track bikes, are designed to just turn left.
Attached and forward foot
Closed motors include motor cabin and motorcycle streamliner.
Motorcycle front legs include 1911 Wilkinson TMC and 1918 Ner-A-Car. Contemporary examples include Quasar, and Peraves range.
Utilities
Some motorcycles are specifically adapted for specific job functions, such as those used by ambulances, blood bicycles, fire, and military services, and for special delivery services, such as pizza delivery. Beginning in the 1960s with a special motorcycle Mountain Goats developed for use on farms. The Motocrotte (or cainette ) was used in Paris to collect dog debris with vacuum suction in the 1980s and 1990s, and is still used in other French cities by 2016.
Derny is a motorized bike that is used for motorcycle racing events.
Tricycles
While motorcycles usually have two wheels, some motorized tricycles are classified as three-wheeled motorcycles. Some brands have made various types of three-wheeled vehicles directly from the factory. Most of these vehicles are treated as motorbikes for registration or licensing purposes.
Tilting the tricycle guards all three wheels on the ground as they lean to negotiate the curve. These include the Honda Gyro range, which all have a lean front wheel and a pair of rear wheels that do not, and Piaggio MP3, which has two front wheels and a single rear wheel, all of which are sleek.
See also
- Motorcycling
- Outline of motorcycles and motorcycles
- Motorcycle wheel list
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