I’ve seen quite a few videos talking about different motorcycle engine architectures (?) and their pros/cons and comparissons between them.
The general idea I’ve gathered so far is that moving from 1 to more cylinders, you lose low-end torque but gain top speed, and I assume high-end torque as well.
I haven’t come across any video explaining how the cylinders play their part in this. Why wouldn’t more cylinders equate to more torque across the whole range? Is my main premise wrong?
Note, I’m talking mainly about the “typical” engines, without V or any other weird angles, but feel free to educate me about that as well if you think it’s easily digestable.
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The fewer cylinders, the larger the borehole. That means you have a bigger explosion causing more force to cycle the motor.
When you add more cylinders, you have a lot more smaller explosions so the engine cycles quicker at high revolutions as the borehole are smaller/shorter.
Big explosions have higher torque while a lot of smaller explosions will create the same amount of power with a quicker turnover for higher speed.
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