Looking up the stats on the official Triumph website, I noticed that in fact the BA and the SM have 1 ft lb LESS torque than the T100 has, and so Soren, your premise here isn't factual.
The best way I know of to increase torque figures is to increase the stroke of engines.
The advantage that I see in our 270 designed cranks are that they do, as you infer, make a vertical(parallel) twin sound a bit more like a V-Twin, which I believe was the impetus for Triumph designing these bikes this way, as they ARE "cruisers", and V-twins dominate this particular niche of motorcycling.
The other advantage to this 270 crank is that in Flattrack racing especially, and seeing as how the Harley XR750 racers have dominated that sport for years(whatever, unfortunately, is left of that great sport today, anyway)...the theory is that the power pulses of a basically "un-sychronized" firing-order helps "dig-in" the rear tire for more traction during that type of race.(I read this theory put forward by Kevin Cameron, the tech-writer for "Cycle World" a few years ago)
Last edited by Dwight; 06/12/2007 1:44 PM.
