A superbike is a type of motorcycle used motorcycle competitions in speed, including the World Superbike Championship and the World Motorcycling Championship Resistance. Unlike the motorcycle used in the World Motorcycling Championship, the superbikes should be models derived from the standard. This makes them less expensive to develop and maintain, at which various national championships compete for speed motorcycle racing with them.
For motorcycle brands to use their motorcycles in the championships, they must first be compared and sell some units to the public. According to the championship, you can allow the modification of suspension, brakes and wheels. The high displacement engines are: between 850 and 1200 cc two cylinder engine, and between 750 and 1000 cc for four-cylinders. Until mid 1990, is also allowed two-stroke engines instead of four times, in this case up to 500 cc displacement.
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There are several types of engine:
- Heat engines, when work is derived from heat energy.
~ internal combustion engines are heat engines in which combustion occurs engine fluid, changing its chemical energy into heat energy, from which mechanical energy is obtained. The working fluid before you start burning a mixture of an oxidizer (like fire) and fuels such as oil and gasoline, natural gas or biofuels.
~ external combustion engines are heat engines in which combustion occurs in a fluid other than the working fluid. The working fluid reaches a temperature of greater strength is possible to carry through the transmission of energy through a wall.
- Electric motors, when the work is obtained from an electrical current.
