{"id":4805,"date":"2011-05-30T09:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2011-05-30T09:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T13:09:22","slug":"video-1966-honda-rc166-crazy-engine-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/video-1966-honda-rc166-crazy-engine-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 1966 Honda RC166 crazy engine sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of 10 out of 10 races in the 1966 World Championship series, the RC166 captured the Manufacturers&#8217; and Riders&#8217; Championships in the 250cc class for two consecutive years. In short, this is the 1966 RC166. This bike is the most glamorous racing bike ever built. 250cc isn&#8217;t the type of engine capacity that gets many riders excited but when you start listing some of the RC166&#8217;s specs such as its six cylinder engine, 6\u00a0independent\u00a0carbs, 62-64hp and 7 speed gearbox that is capable of 18,000 RPM, things get a little more interesting. And then of course you hear it running&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/honda\/rc166-250\/1966\/photos\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"23 photos in the gallery\" src=\"http:\/\/p2m.mbike.com\/000\/004\/181\/91223450_d.jpg\" alt=\"23 photos in the gallery\" width=\"496\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">23 photos in the gallery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A dry weight of 112 kg and a top speed of over 240 km\/h made it a lethal track weapon and it&#8217;s outstanding results would have left other manufacturers scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eaRop_ZMwo0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe> <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1966 Honda RC166 Exhaust Engine Sound<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"1966 Honda RC166 250 Specifications and Photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/honda\/rc166-250\/1966\" target=\"_self\">1966 Honda RC166\u00a0250 Specifications and Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Honda, Youtube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner of 10 out of 10 races in the 1966 World Championship series, the RC166 captured the Manufacturers&#8217; and Riders&#8217; Championships in the 250cc class for two consecutive years. In short, this is the 1966 RC166. This bike is the most glamorous racing bike ever built. 250 cc isn&#8217;t the type of engine capacity that gets many riders excited but when you start listing some of the RC166&#8217;s specs such as its six cylinder engine, 6 independent carbs, 62-64hp and 7 speed gearbox that is capable of 18,000 RPM, things get a little more interesting. And then of course you hear it running&#8230;<a style=\"white-space:nowrap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/2011\/05\/video-1966-honda-rc166-crazy-engine-sound\/\">&ensp;Read the full article &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055],"tags":[3246,3252,3253,3247,68,3249,279,275,3250,196,1181,3251,3248,3],"class_list":["post-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorsports","tag-honda-rc166","tag-honda-rc166-photos","tag-honda-rc166-specifications","tag-honda-rc166-video","tag-isle-of-man","tag-mbikebike14004","tag-mbikebrandhonda","tag-mbikecategorysupersport","tag-mbikemodel4062","tag-motogp","tag-race-bike","tag-rc166-spec","tag-straight-six-racer","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mbike.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}