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| tires = | rake_trail = | wheelbase = | length = | width = | seat_height = | dry_weight = | wet_weight = | fuel_capacity = }} The Suzuki RE5 is a motorcycle with a liquid-cooled single-rotor Wankel engine, manufactured by Suzuki from 1974 to 1976. Apart from its unusual engine, the RE5 is otherwise a conventional roadster. ==Wankel engined motorcycles== Compared to piston engines, rotary engines are smooth, light, compact, and produce high power outputs from relatively small displacements. Although these attributes are highly beneficial to motorcycles, Wankel-engined bikes remain something of a rarity, even though the rotary engine had once been touted as the future of motorcycling Suzuki's RE5 was one of the very few Wankel engined motorcycles ever produced. Other manufacturers whose bikes reached production include; DKW, Norton and Van Veen (who used a derivative of NSU/Audi engines developed for Citroën). All four major Japanese manufacturers had prototypes or plans, but only Suzuki's RE5 went into production. Yamaha showed their twin-rotor RZ-201machine at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1972, while Kawasaki tested a prototype as, allegedly, did Honda〔http://thevintagent.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/short-history-of-wankel-motorcycles.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suzuki RE5」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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