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Supercross (film)
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Supercross is a 2005 American action film directed by Steve Boyum and starring Steve Howey and Mike Vogel. The movie is a mixture of youthful relationships set in the world of professional Supercross. K. C. Carlyle and Trip are brothers who compete in a supercross, K. C. accepts a lucrative deal to race on a factory team and leaves behind his brother to fund his own racing. When an accident disables Trip, K. C. resolves his differences with him, the director of photography for the dramatic segments was William Wages. Talk is that he was asked to re-create a sort of olden times look to the movie, the grainy and at times thin film is in contrast with the deep and clear cycle racing photography. Corporate teamwork created for the some of the best imagery that Clear Channel has to offer. Also, Steve Boyum excelled during his strong points of motorcycle race, modeled sound effects mix it up with an IMAX style combination of extreme close-up and fine focus film footage during most of the actual Motocross and Supercross live action events. The Las Vegas Supercross final events live action filmed using a cable camera. Supercross is the soundtrack to the motocross film Supercross and it has not been released yet but here are the tracks listed in the film
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Motorcycle sport
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Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling. The disciplines are not all races or timed-speed events, as several disciplines test a competitors various riding skills, Motorcycle racing is a motorcycle sport involving racing motorcycles. Motorcycle racing can be divided into two categories, tarmac-based road disciplines and off-road, track racing is a motorcycle sport where teams or individuals race opponents around an oval track. There are differing variants, with each variant racing on a different surface type, a road rally is a navigation event on public roads whereby competitors must visit a number of checkpoints in diverse geographical locations while still obeying road traffic laws. Speedway is a sport in which the motorcycles have one gear. Land speed is where a single rider accelerates over a 1 to 3-mile long straight track and is timed for top speed through a trap at the end of the run. The rider must exceed the top speed record for that class or type of bike for their name to be placed on the record books. The courses are run over thick wooded terrain, sometimes with large obstacles such as logs, ditches. A competition based upon points for acrobatic ability on an MX bike over jumps, known in the US as Observed Trials, it is not racing, but a sport nevertheless. Trials is a test of skill on a motorcycle whereby the rider attempts to traverse an observed section without placing a foot on the ground, the winner is the rider with the least penalty points. Time and observation trials are trials with a time limit, the person who completes the route the quickest sets the standard time and all other competitors must finish within a certain amount of time of the standard time to be counted as a finisher. One of the most famous time and observation trials is the Scott trial held annually in North Yorkshire, indoor trials held in stadiums which by their very nature use man-made artificial sections in contrast to outdoor trials which rely heavily on the natural terrain. Similar to car Autocross, Motorcycle Gymkhana is a time trial sport round cones on a paved area. The winner is the competitor who completes the course in the shortest time, time penalties are incurred by putting a foot down, hitting a cone, or going outside the designated area. Similar to football, but all players are riding motorcycles, Motorcycle Polo first began as an officially-organized sport in the mid-1930s. In France, there are organized competitions, and the sport was included in the inaugural Goodwill Games. In the United States the completions are usually held on off-road courses, in some cases, few riders actually complete the course and results are judged on the distance that they manage to achieve. Of those that do complete the course, the rider to reach the top with the shortest elapsed time wins, the motorcycle of choice in the early decades was the Harley-Davidson 45 cubic inch model due to its high torque at low rpms, similar to farm engines
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Motorcycle racing
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Motorcycle racing is the motorcycle sport of racing motorcycles. Major genres include road racing and off road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing, other categories include hill climbs, drag racing and land speed record trials. The FIM classifies motorcycle racing in the four main categories. Each category has several sub categories, Road racing is the sport of racing motorcycles on hard surfaces resembling roads, usually paved with tarmac. Races can take place either on purpose-built racing circuits or on closed public roads, historically, road racing meant a course on closed public road. This was once commonplace but currently only a few such circuits have survived, races take place on publics roads which have been temporarily closed to the public by legal orders from the local legislature. Two championships exist, the first is the International Road Racing Championship, the latter accounts for the majority of road races that take place each season, with an award for the highest placed rider. Prominent road races include the Isle of Man TT, North West 200, ireland has many road racing circuits still in use. Other countries with road races are the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Grand Prix motorcycle racing refers to the premier category of motorcycle road racing. This class is restricted by rider age, with an upper limit of 25 for newly signed riders and wild card entries. Moto2, Introduced by Dorna Sports, the rights holder of the competition. Prior to that season, the class was 250 cc with two-stroke engines. Moto2 races in the 2010 season allowed both engine types, from 2011 on, only the four-stroke Moto2 machines were allowed, motoGP, is the current term for the highest class of GP racing. The class was contested with prototype machines with varying displacement and engine type over the years, originally contested by large displacement four stroke machines in the early years it eventually switched to 500 cc two strokes. In 2002990 cc four-stroke bikes were allowed to compete alongside the 500 cc two strokes and then replaced them in 2003. 2007 saw a reduction to 800 cc four stroke engines to slow things down a bit before finally settling on 1000 cc four strokes in 2012. Grand prix motorcycles are prototype machines not based on any production motorcycle, superbike racing is the category of motorcycle road racing that employs modified production motorcycles. Superbike racing motorcycles must have four engines of between 800 cc and 1200 cc for twins, and between 750 cc and 1000 cc for four cylinder machines
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Honda
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Honda Motor Co. Ltd. is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and power equipment. Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001, Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world behind General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Toyota, Hyundai Motor Group, Ford, Nissan, and PSA Peugeot Citroën in 2011. Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to release a luxury brand, Acura. Aside from their automobile and motorcycle businesses, Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines, personal watercraft and power generators. Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial intelligence/robotics research and they have also ventured into aerospace with the establishment of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the Honda HA-420 HondaJet, which began production in 2012. Honda has three joint-ventures in China, in 2013, Honda invested about 5. 7% of its revenues in research and development. Also in 2013, Honda became the first Japanese automaker to be a net exporter from the United States, exporting 108,705 Honda and Acura models, throughout his life, Hondas founder, Soichiro Honda had an interest in automobiles. He worked as a mechanic at the Art Shokai garage, where he tuned cars, in 1937, with financing from his acquaintance Kato Shichirō, Honda founded Tōkai Seiki to make piston rings working out of the Art Shokai garage. After initial failures, Tōkai Seiki won a contract to supply piston rings to Toyota, Honda also aided the war effort by assisting other companies in automating the production of military aircraft propellers. The relationships Honda cultivated with personnel at Toyota, Nakajima Aircraft Company, with a staff of 12 men working in a 16 m2 shack, they built and sold improvised motorized bicycles, using a supply of 500 two-stroke 50 cc Tohatsu war surplus radio generator engines. When the engines ran out, Honda began building their own copy of the Tohatsu engine and this was the Honda A-Type, nicknamed the Bata Bata for the sound the engine made. In 1949, the Honda Technical Research Institute was liquidated for ¥1,000,000, or about US$5,000 today, at about the same time Honda hired engineer Kihachiro Kawashima, and Takeo Fujisawa who provided indispensable business and marketing expertise to complement Soichiro Hondas technical bent. The close partnership between Soichiro Honda and Fujisawa lasted until they stepped down together in October 1973, the first complete motorcycle, with both the frame and engine made by Honda, was the 1949 D-Type, the first Honda to go by the name Dream. Honda Motor Company grew in a time to become the worlds largest manufacturer of motorcycles by 1964. The first production automobile from Honda was the T360 mini pick-up truck, powered by a small 356-cc straight-4 gasoline engine, it was classified under the cheaper Kei car tax bracket. The first production car from Honda was the S500 sports car and its chain-driven rear wheels pointed to Hondas motorcycle origins. Over the next few decades, Honda worked to expand its line and expanded operations. In 1986, Honda introduced the successful Acura brand to the American market in an attempt to ground in the luxury vehicle market
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Husqvarna Motorcycles
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Husqvarna Motorcycles GmbH, designs, engineers, manufactures and distributes motocross, enduro, supermoto motorcycles and mopeds. The company began producing motorcycles in 1903 at Huskvarna, Sweden, Husqvarna was founded near the town of the same name in Sweden in 1689. As a maker of muskets, the logo depicts a gun sight viewed from the end of the barrel. As with many manufacturers, Husqvarna first began producing bicycles in the late 19th century. In 1903, they made the jump to motorcycle manufacturing, the first Husky motorcycles used imported engines, and it wasnt until 1918 that Husqvarna began producing machines built entirely in-house. Around that time secured a contract with the Swedish Army and began entering cross-country. Husqvarna competed in Grand Prix road racing in the 350cc and 500cc classes during the 1930s and was Swedens largest motorcycle manufacturer by 1939, all of the racing bikes were based on a 50-degree V-twin prototype built by Folke Mannerstedt in 1931. The company team beat the Norton Works team at the Swedish GP in 1931 with a 1–2 finish by Ragnar Sundqvist and this and the next years success led to a full commitment to the GP tracks with Stanley Woods and Ernie Nott joining the Husqvarna riding team. That year, Nott finished 3rd in the 350cc Junior TT, in 1935 the company withdrew racing support, but new bikes were still produced and raced privately, while the company focused on producing a new 2-stroke, 2-speed commuter bike. That year, Stanley Woods won the Swedish GP on a 500cc Husqvarna motorcycle that weighted 279 pounds, in the 1960s, their lightweight, two-stroke engined off-road bikes helped make the once dominant British four-stroke motorcycles obsolete. In 1987, the Husqvarna motorcycle division was sold to Italian motorcycle manufacturer Cagiva, the motorcycles, widely known as Huskies/ Husky, were then produced in Varese. Gerald Delepine, riding a Husqvarna SMR660, became world champion in 2005. In 2008, Adrien Chareyre took the title, riding an SM530RR, in July 2007, Husqvarna motorcycles was purchased by BMW for a reported 93000000 €. BMW Motorrad planned to continue operating Husqvarna Motorcycles as a separate enterprise, all development, sales and production activities, as well as the workforce, remained at its location in Varese, in Italy. BMW intended to position Husqvarna as the version of what Mini is to the BMWs car division. On 31 January 2013 BMW Group announced that Pierer Industrie AG has bought full stake in Husqvarna AG for an undisclosed amount, the company is headed by Stefan Pierer, current CEO of KTM-Sportmotorcycle AG. On 1 October 2013, Husqvarna AG was renamed to Husqvarna Sportmotorcycle GmbH and it was announced that the company will be based at Mattighofen in Austria where production started on 11 October 2013. Owing to the ownership of Husqvarna and Husaberg by Stefan Pierer, Husaberg will cease to exist as a marque
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Motorcycle & Engine
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Before the 2011 fiscal year it was called Consumer Products & Machinery. Its slogan is Let the good times roll, Kawasakis Aircraft Company began the development of a motorcycle engine in 1949. The development was completed in 1952 and mass production started in 1953, the engine was an air-cooled,148 cc, OHV, four-stroke single cylinder with a maximum power of 4 PS at 4,000 rpm. In 1954, the first complete Kawasaki Motorcycle was produced under the name of Meihatsu, in 1960, Kawasaki completed construction of a factory dedicated exclusively to motorcycle production and bought Meguro Motorcycles. Kawasakis first ATV was the three-wheeled KLT200, which debuted in 1981 and its first four-wheel ATV, the Bayou 185, was introduced in 1985 and in 1989, its first model with four-wheel-drive, the Bayou 300 4x4. Today, Kawasaki’s ATV line-up includes a range of recreational. Kawasakis MULE utility vehicle combines an ATV with a pick-up truck, the first MULE was produced in 1988. Kawasaki now calls their utility vehicles side-by-side vehicles, in 1973, Kawasaki introduced a limited production of stand-up models as designed by the recognized inventor of jet skis, Clayton Jacobsen II. In 1976, Kawasaki then began production of the JS400-A. JS400s came with 400 cc two-stroke engines and hulls based upon the limited release models. It became the harbinger of the success Jet-Skis would see in the market up through the 1990s, in 1986 Kawasaki broadened the world of Jet Skis by introducing a two-person model with lean-in sport style handling and a 650 cc engine, dubbed the Kawasaki X2. Then in 1989, they introduced their first two-passenger sit-down model, in 2003, Kawasaki celebrated the Jet Ski brand by releasing a special 30th anniversary edition of its current stand-up model, the SX-R, which has seen a revival of interest in stand-up jetskiing. The X-2 has also updated, based on the SX-R platform. Kawasaki continues to three models of sit-downs, including many four-stroke models. The four stroke engines have come on since the late 1990s, with the help of superchargers, Jet Ski is the brand name of personal watercraft manufactured by Kawasaki. The name, however, has become a trademark for any type of personal watercraft. Kawasakis traditional racing colour is green, many Kawasaki racing teams are called Team Green. The Monster Energy Kawasaki Team Green™ provides a support program developing amateur motocross racers, Kawasakis first title was with Dave Simmonds in 1969 when they won the 125 cc World Championship
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KTM
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KTM-Sportmotorcycle AG is an Austrian motorcycle manufacturer owned by CROSS Industries AG and Bajaj Auto Limited. KTM was formed in 1981 but traces its foundation as early as in 1934, in 1992 the company was spun off from its parent company KTM when it ran into financial troubles. KTM was split into four companies, all of which shared the same KTM branding, however, KTM-Sportmotorcycle is most commonly associated with the KTM brand, because it still continues the flagship business of its parent company. In 1934 an Austrian engineer Johann Trunkenpolz set up a metal working, in 1937 he started selling DKW motorcycles and Opel cars the following year. His shop was known as Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen, but the name was unregistered, during the Second World War his wife took care of the business which grew mainly of diesel engine repairs. After the war, demand for repair works fell sharply and Trunkenpolz started thinking about producing his own motorcycles, the prototype of first motorcycle, the R100 was produced in 1951. All of the components of the motorcycle were produced in house, in 1953, businessman Ernst Kronreif became a sizable shareholder of the company which was then renamed and registered as Kronreif & Trunkenpolz Mattighofen. KTM started serial production of R100 in 1954, with just 20 employees, motorcycles were built at the rate of three per day. The company’s first title was secured shortly thereafter with the 1954 Austrian 125 national championship, KTM first made an appearance at the International Six Days Trials in 1956 where Egon Dornauer secured a gold medal. Racing continued to be a ground for production technology, but next in line was its first scooter. It started providing a team for the ISDE in ’64. As the company continued to expand, the workforce totaled 400 in 1971, in 1955 Tourist 125cc model was developed. In 1957 KTM built the first sports motorcycle Trophy 125cc, KTMs first moped, called Mecky was launched in 1957, followed by Ponny I in 1960 and Ponny II in 1962. The 1960s saw the beginning of the bicycle production, beside, KTM was also able to produce motorcycles for the racing industry. Two years later in 1982 Hans Trunkenpolz also died of a heart attack and its name was changed back to Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen. At that time, KTM had about 180 employees and a turnover of €3. 5m, in 1988, US subsidiary KTM North America Inc. was founded in Lorain, Ohio. International business then amounted to 72% of the company turnover, in 1990, it was renamed KTM Motorfahrzeugbau AG. Scooter and moped turnover sank rapidly, and production had to be halted in 1982, Erich Trunkenpolz died in 1989 and in 1991 KTM applied for insolvency
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Suzuki
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In 2014, Suzuki was thought to be the ninth biggest automaker by production worldwide. In addition, motorcycle is the third largest in the sales volume, outboard motor. In 1909, Michio Suzuki founded the Suzuki Loom Works in the small seacoast village of Hamamatsu, business boomed as Suzuki built weaving looms for Japans giant silk industry. In 1929, Michio Suzuki invented a new type of weaving machine, the companys first 30 years focused on the development and production of these machines. Despite the success of his looms, Suzuki believed that his company would benefit from diversification, based on consumer demand, he decided that building a small car would be the most practical new venture. The project began in 1937, and within two years Suzuki had completed several compact prototype cars and these first Suzuki motor vehicles were powered by a then-innovative, liquid-cooled, four-stroke, four-cylinder engine. It had a cast aluminum crankcase and gearbox and generated 13 horsepower from a displacement of less than 800cc, with the onset of World War II, production plans for Suzukis new vehicles were halted when the government declared civilian passenger cars a non-essential commodity. At the conclusion of the war, Suzuki went back to producing looms, Loom production was given a boost when the U. S. government approved the shipping of cotton to Japan. Suzukis fortunes brightened as orders began to increase from domestic textile manufacturers, but the joy was short-lived as the cotton market collapsed in 1951. Faced with this challenge, Suzuki returned to the production of motor vehicles. After the war, the Japanese had a great need for affordable, reliable personal transportation, a number of firms began offering clip-on gas-powered engines that could be attached to the typical bicycle. Suzukis first two-wheeled vehicle was a bicycle fitted with a motor called, designed to be inexpensive and simple to build and maintain, the 1952 Power Free had a 36 cc, one horsepower, two-stroke engine. The new double-sprocket gear system enabled the rider to either pedal with the engine assisting, pedal without engine assist, or simply disconnect the pedals, the patent office of the new democratic government granted Suzuki a financial subsidy to continue research in motorcycle engineering. By 1954, Suzuki was producing 6,000 motorcycles per month and had changed its name to Suzuki Motor Co. Ltd. Following the success of its first motorcycles, Suzuki created a more successful automobile. The Suzulight sold with front-wheel drive, four-wheel independent suspension and rack-and-pinion steering, Volkswagen held a 19. 9% non-controlling shareholding in Suzuki between 2009 and 2015. An international arbitration court ordered Volkswagen to sell the back to Suzuki. Suzuki paid $3. 8bn to complete the stock buy-back in September 2015, Michio Suzuki was intent on making better, more user-friendly looms and, for 30 years his focus was on the development of these machines
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Yamaha Motor Company
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Yamaha Motor Company Limited is a Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles, marine products such as boats and outboard motors, and other motorized products. The company was established in 1955 upon separation from Yamaha Corporation, the company conducts development, production and marketing operations through 109 consolidated subsidiaries as of 2012. Led by Genichi Kawakami, the company’s first president, Yamaha Motor began production of its first product, Yamahas initial product was a 125cc two-cycle, single cylinder motorcycle, the YA-1, which was a copy of the German DKW RT125. Yamaha began competing internationally in 1956 when they entered the Catalina Grand Prix, again with the YA-1, the YA-1 was followed by the YA-2 of 1957, another 125cc two stroke, but with significantly improved frame and suspension. The YD-1 of 1957 was a 250cc two-stroke twin cylinder motorcycle, resembling the YA-2, a performance version of this bike, the YDS-1 housed the 250cc two-stroke twin in a double downtube cradle frame and offered the first five-speed transmission in a Japanese motorcycle. This period also saw Yamaha offer its first outboard marine engine, by 1963 Yamahas dedication to both the two-stroke engine and racing paid off with their first victory in international competition, at the Belgium GP, where they won the 250cc class. Success in sales was even more impressive, and Yamaha set up the first of its subsidiaries in this period beginning with Thailand in 1964. 1965 saw the release of a 305cc two-stroke twin, the flagship of the companies lineup and it featured a separate oil supply which directly injected oil into the gasoline prior to combustion. In 1967 a new larger displacement model was added to the range, in 1968 Yamaha launched their first four-stroke motorcycle, the XS-1. Not until 1976 would Yamaha answer the other Japanese brands with a four stroke of their own. The XS-750 a 750cc triple cylinder machine with shaft drive was introduced almost seven years after Hondas breakthrough bike. Yamahas first four-cylinder model, the XS-1100 followed in 1978, again with shaft drive, despite being heavier and more touring oriented than its rivals it produced an impressive string of victories in endurance racing. The 1970s also saw some of the first dedicated off-road bikes for off-road racing, Yamaha was an early innovator in dirt-bike technology, and introduced the first single-shock rear suspension, the trademarked Monoshock of 1973. It appeared in production on the 1974 Yamaha YZ-250, a model which has continued in production, with updates, until 2015, making it Yamahas longest continuous model. Yamaha continued racing throughout the 1960s and 1970s with increasing success in several formats, the decade of the 1970s was capped by the XT500 winning the first Paris-Dakar Rally in 1979. By 1980 the combination of consumer preference and environmental regulation made four strokes increasingly popular, suzuki ended production of their GT two stroke series, including the flagship water-cooled two-stroke 750cc GT-750 in 1977. Kawasaki, who had success throughout the 1970s with their two-stroke triples of 250cc, 350cc, 500cc and 750cc ended production of road-going two strokes in 1980. Yamaha bucked this trend and continued to refine and sell two-strokes for the street into the 1980s and these bikes were performance oriented, water-cooled twin cylinder machines, designed to achieve excellent performance taking advantage of the lower weight of two strokes
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