Road motorcycles can be divided into three main categories, namely super sports motorcycles, touring motorcycles and American motorcycles. Since this kind of motorcycle is mainly used on flat paved roads, it is also called urban motorcycle. The concept and scope of road motorcycles are also very vague, and it may actually be better to call them ordinary motorcycles. Structurally, road motorcycles are only suitable for paved roads. Such motorcycles can achieve good performance on paved roads. On the contrary, there will be many difficulties when driving in no-road areas. Correspondingly, off-road motorcycles can also be divided into touring off-road motorcycles and urban off-road motorcycles according to the usage area.
Generally, motorcycles attach great importance to the comfort and ease of operation during driving. The super sports motorcycle is different, it pays more attention to the high-speed driving performance of the motorcycle. When riding this motorcycle, the rider can fully feel the thrill and fun of the engine, tires and road changes. It is different from a racing car in that it pursues youthful dynamism when riding, rather than blindly pursuing high speed like a racing car. Without a certain high-speed performance to guarantee, it is difficult for the rider to experience this kind of pleasure, so the speed of the motorcycle must be increased. But once the pleasure of riding can be generated, there is no need to increase the speed.
Influence of motorcycle general arrangement on its sport performance. The layout of the engine has a great influence on the sports performance of the motorcycle. For example, although the advantages of multi-cylinder machines are many, their disadvantages are that they are not compact in size and heavy in weight. Excessive length of the engine is especially bad, it will greatly affect the steering feel of the motorcycle. When a single-cylinder engine and a transverse V2 engine are used, the weight of the engine can be greatly reduced, its length dimension can be reduced, and the steering force of the motorcycle's steering handle can be reduced. In this way, the speed of the motorcycle can be increased, and the steering of the motorcycle can be made brisk, thereby improving the driving comfort of the motorcycle and increasing the amusement of the motorcycle.
In a word, all motorcycles with sports performance are super sports motorcycles, regardless of whether they are equipped with multi-cylinder machines or single-cylinder machines, and whether the body is an integral fairing or a partial fairing.
Motorcycles are usually two-wheeled, and a few three-wheeled vehicles that use engine power. Taiwan's traffic laws refer to motorcycles as "robots". People and traffic signs are often referred to as locomotives, but they can also be called motorcycles. Mainland China does not call motorcycles locomotives. "Locomotive" refers to a locomotive in mainland China, and it can also be called a "locomotive" in Taiwan. In Hong Kong and Macau, motorcycles are often called "electric bicycles", but they can also be called motorcycles, such as "Hong Kong Motorcycle Chamber of Commerce".
