If I told you, you could have a race bike with a MotoGP spec power-to-weight ratio and you could do a full season on it without stripping the engine, you?d think I was talking out of my bottom, wouldn?t you" Well before today, the 30th October 2021, I would have been. But not anymore. And it?s all thanks to Crighton Motorcycles and Rotron Power Ltd, who have just pulled the covers off their all-new, ultra-exclusive, Crighton CR700W. And it sounds like it?s going to be a right weapon.

If you were about in the 80s, you might remember Brian Crighton. Perhaps you?ll remember him as the three-time British Champion, but many will associate the name with Norton, and their rotary engines. He almost singlehandedly developed the RCW588, a rotary engined Norton that went on to win nearly everything it competed in, including the 1994 British Superbike Championship, until the rules were changed, effectively banning them from competition.
Fifteen years later, (2009) Crighton joined forces with Rotron Power Ltd, to create Crighton Motorcycles, and after twelve years of development, the Crighton CR700W was finally born. And was born, not only out of Crighton?s passion for racing and engineering, but his faith in the rotary engine design. And the result is pretty bloody exciting!

Whopping

The 690cc, twin rotor engine makes a whopping 220bhp at 10,500rpm and 142Nm of torque at 9,500rpm. That?s fairly impressive in itself, but when you take into account the bikes weig...