What motorcycles are considered rice burners?

"Rice rocket" is a derogatory term that is used to describe any sportbike made in (or at least a company based in) Asia, hence "rice." A "rice burner" is any car or motorcycle (cruiser, standard, sportbike, scooter, whatever) out of Asia.

The only major American companies today are Harley-Davidson and Buell (a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson). Indian (an American company) finally went under decades ago, got started again in the early 00's as a new company, then went under again. Many major companies (outside of America) are based in Italy - Ducati, Agusta, Aprilia and Moto Guzzi come to mind. These are some pretty desirable scoots by those in the know. Then there's BMW. And England's got Triumph.

England and Germany, for what it's worth, are home to an amazing custom culture. Their one-off "Streetfighters" are some beautiful bikes.

Ironically, Harley only assembles its bikes in America (and then, not even in Milwaulkee; that's just their corporate headquarters). Many would be surprised to find that all H-D parts are manufactured by the same companies producing "rice" bikes!

Anyway, the big three "ricers" are Honda, Yamaha, and Suzuki. (Hyosung is Korean, and doesn't have a big market in the US).

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Rice Burners

Depends on how red the considerer's neck happens to be. To some yokels anything not Harley would be put in this category, geography be damned. Those slightly more edjumucated might even visit a real town someday and notice somebody on a running motorcycle getting the hell out of there: that there is likely a rice burner, I reckon.

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Fahims pretty much got it but hank doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not any easier to route 2 pipes, it's easier to shove it all on one side (that's why not every car rolling off the lot has duals usually...and the fact that there's two of everything to build). Duals are good because they provides more space for the escaping gas, thus faster flowing, thus less pressure on left in the cylinders and more room for the air and gas to get in...basically, it MAY increase horse power if the single exhaust was the limiting factor on the power before. The other way it increases power is that when it's true duel exhaust, the pipes come straight back from the headers on each bank and straight out the back (after stopping for the catalytic converters and mufflers of course) with minimal curves or bends in between. The fewer the bends and curves, the easier the air flows through and the quicker it get's out, thus possibly increasing power in the manner I described above. With a single exhaust for a V engine (2 banks at about 60 degrees) at least one of the bank's exhaust has to curve over to the other side with a Y-pipe. That's more curves and bends. Also, unless the pipe is big enough to compensate, there will be more back pressure on the system. Basically, in MOST cases, duals are a better system. Now, on to the ricers. The "fart cannons," as us American muscle guys like to refer to them as, are just pipes with massive resonators and tips on the end of them that make them sound idiotic. Some of them will add a minuscule amount of power, but most of them add some bark to the dogs with no bite. That's not to say no Japanese performance cars are fierce, because there are some well created beasts out there that more than hold their own against American muscle, but there's a whole lot more sentra's and civic's that sound like dying lawnmowers. And Fahim nailed it mostly, motorcycles just don't have the length of exhaust to quiet the internal combustion down. Crotch rockets tend to have really high RPM's too (some as high as 18,000 or more!) which makes for loud exhaust. Also, there's a lot of dampening materials in cars that can absorb the sound but not much in a motorcycle. Motorcycle enthusiasts also don't mind loud exhaust as it provides some safety incase a car hears you but doesn't see you (and manufacturers are mindful of this). Hope this answers your questions!

A Harley and Victory is a US rice burner, definitely not rice "rockets". We get nearly 90% of our rice from ourselves (the other 10% is the Asian rice sold in Asian grocery stores). In the industry rice is more associated with US agriculture than it is with any Asian country since we have been cultivating rice longer than we've been a country, 300 years.

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Anything that needs rice to run! If it sounds RICY then it is! Ya Honda is #1 Rice Burner!

basically if you want a real motorcycle dont buy american made!

any bike produced in Japan, or China

Kawasaki/Yamaha etc. any bike from oriental makers!!! Get it?~:()=