I thought I knew it all...

I've been Kelley Blue Book for just over 2 months - when I was hired I thought, "Here's where the 4 years of auto shop in high school are going to pay off!" Don't get me wrong, for the most part being a motorhead definately helps when working in the industry.

I myself am a bike enthusiast and I tend to know A LOT about motorcycles. I'm familiar with the Bimota project that was lead by Farrari, the Genesis project that flopped at Yamaha, I know about bikes that really suck at performance but look really hot on the street (total chick magnets - not that it matters because I'm married), I know about bikes that manafacturers have taken right from the race track to make them street legal, and I even know of motorcycle with huge V-8 engines. I thought I knew all...

So I'm reviewing this export file that is sent to several of KBB customers comparing it to the Blue Book Publications - in the motorcycle publication we specify what type of engine the motorcycle has. 99.9% of the time a motorcycle will either have a 4 stroke engine or a 2 stroke engine - not very many engine to choose from... But in the export file I'm looking at possible engine types and one of the options is Rotary. My first thought, "For a bike?! Ya, right." I've heard of the RX7 from Mazda which has a rotary engine but that's the only car to my knowledge - never heard of bike having a rotary. Almost stepping off my seat to point out the obvious I did a quick search on Google and found (my jaw dropped to the ground) Suzuki RE-5 Rotary engine motorcycle!!!

I felt blind sided by the idea of having a rotary engine on a motorcycle and even worse a rotary engine motorcycle that existed way back when I was in kindergarten! Why didn't I know about this?!

That goes to show that the Los Angeles School District TOTALLY SUCKS!!!

I'm still in shock.