English 9 Essay Seth
Ever since the motorcycle has been invented, people from all over the
globe have been riding. There are motorcycles everywhere, they and are
extremely fun, yet small, fast, and able to travel long distances
without using very much gasoline.
Motorcycles can pretty much ride in the majority of weather conditions.
They can ride in the cool wet spring (as long as it’s not too cold),
the hot summer sun, and the dry fall. They are fun to ride in all these
conditions, but the main season that is pretty much impossible is during
the winter. They are rear-wheel driven, and there are only two wheels,
so it is really easy to spin out, and also easy to have the wheels slip
out from underneath you.
Motorcycles are generally very fast. Most of the street-legal
motorcycles have at least a 125cc engine. There are two types of engines
that there are in motorcycles, two stroke or four stroke engine. The
two strokes have twice the power than four strokes, and I could explain
why and how, but it would take way too long. Two stroke engines have
more power, but need to have the engine rebuilt more often than a four
stroke engine.
There are many types of motorcycles. There are streetbikes, dirtbikes,
enduro bikes, dual sport bikes, supermoto bikes, and leisure bikes like a
Harley. Streetbikes are extremely fast and light and can take corners
with ease, but you are very vulnerable because an average streetbike can
go over 140 miles per hour. Some can go around 185 to over 200 miles
per hour! Some streetbikes have over 180 horsepower, with such little
weight they can accelerate incredibly fast. I say dirtbikes are one of
the most fun type of motorcycle (partly because I have one) because they
can go about anywhere. There are all different sizes of engines you can
get with dirtbikes, two stroke and four stroke engines too. The two
stroke engines in dirtbikes range from 50cc youth bikes to 500cc
monsters. In the four stroke categories they range from 50cc youth bikes
to 450cc Bikes. They don’t really make two stroke motorcycles anymore,
especially 500cc two strokes, because they were so fast and dangerous,
so now one of the biggest two stroke dirtbike is a 250cc, which has
about the same as a 450cc professional motocross racer uses. I have a
150cc dirtbike and it is plenty fast, and hits the rev limiter at around
55-60mph in 5th gear., which keeps the engine from running at too high
of an RPM and keeps it from blowing up. Now imagine a high performance
450cc dirtbike and how fast it goes, now think about how fast a 1000cc
streetbike is. They are making motorcycles faster and faster as time
goes on! Usually older people ride leisure bikes like Harleys, which are
big heavy motorcycles with a decent sized four stroke v-twin engine,
which is an engine with two cylinders in a V shape. They are faster than
the average car, but are slow compared to a sports car like a Corvette,
or an average streetbike. A supermoto bike
is
pretty much a dirtbike with street tires on it, so there's not much to
talk about with them. An enduro bike and a dual-sport bike are pretty
much the same, and both can go on-road and off-road with ease, but
enduro bikes are usually made more for off-road use, while dual-sport
bikes are more for on-road usage.
If you are looking for a vehicle that can get you to point a to point b
with ease without spending tons of money for the vehicle itself or lots
of money for gasoline, a motorcycle would be a great summer vehicle.
No comments:
Post a Comment