Talk:ABC motorcycles

Special Category for British Motorcycles

As part of the Motorcycling WikProject I am working though all the missing articles and stubs for British Bikes. To make things easier to sort out there is a special category for British motorcycles. Please will you add to any British motorcycle pages you find or create. It will also help to keep things organised if you use the Template:Infobox Motorcycle or add it where it is missing. I've linked the Category to the Commons British Motorcycles so you could help with matching pics to articles or adding the missing images to the Commons. Thanks Tony (talk) 17:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed merge

Please see Talk:ABC Motorcycle Thanks Tony (talk) 17:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Longitudinal vs. transverse mounting

...and in 1918, ABC made a 500 cc transverse-mounted flat-twin engine several years before BMW adapted the design.

In that extract there is a link to Transverse engine. When I follow that link, the first sentence in that article says:

A transverse engine is an engine mounted in a vehicle so that the engine's crankshaft axis is perpendicular to the long axis of the vehicle.

If that definition is correct, and almost every automotive reference I have read follows the definition as it is, then the engine in the ABC is not transverse mounted, as its crankshaft is either parallel to or collinear with the long axis of the motorcycle.

With single-cylinder engines, with inline engines of any length, and with flat or V-engines of more than two cylinders, the distinction between longitudinal and transverse installation is very clear. It is only with the flat twin and the V-twin, where the engine is wider than it is long, that the terms become confusing.

Sincerely, SamBlob (talk) 02:23, 5 November 2010 (UTC)