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S&S Cycle is an American motorcycle engine and parts engineer and manufacturer. The company was founded in 1958 by George J. Smith and Stanley Stankos in Blue Island, Illinois . [ 1 ] The company started by selling high performance pushrods for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, [ 2 ] and today they still make parts for a variety of V-Twin bikes.
There are many brake-performance-enhancing aftermarket parts available for most motorcycles, including brake pads of varying compounds and steel-braided brake lines. Harley-Davidson replaced drum brakes with disc brakes on Big Twin models starting in 1972, and on Sportster models starting in 1973.
The rest of the engine was the same as the non-desmo mark 3, as were the cycle parts. The 3D produced 31 bhp (23 kW). [3] In 1971 the Mark 3 and the desmo models diverged, the desmo becoming the 450 Desmo with cafe racer styling. [16] The Desmo had clip-on handlebars, a fibreglass tank and a ‘monoposto’ single seat.
Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader was a motorcycle magazine begun in 1978 by motorcycle enthusiasts and swap meet organizers [2] Buzz and Pixie Walneck. [1] The first issues were flyers that listed motorcycle parts for sale; demand for parts and complete motorcycles subsequently resulted in the publication growing into a large, full color magazine that contained over 120 pages during its peak.
[1] [2] [3] The Ducati 450 R/T (road/trail) is a 436 cc (26.6 cu in) single cylinder bevel drive desmodromic SOHC motorcycle produced by the Italian manufacturer Ducati from 1971 to 1974. Initially produced at the request of the American importers Berliner Motor Corporation [ 4 ] as a motocross / enduro motorcycle offered exclusively to the ...
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Final drive was by chain. By the 1921 Motor Cycle show the cyclecar had changed to using a water-cooled M.A.G. V-twin overhead valve engine with 82mm bore and 94mm stoke, giving 995cc. [14] The New Hudson cyclecar took part in a Motor Cycle review in November 1922, and by that time the M.A.G. engine was quoted as 1098cc.
The 450 Scrambler was introduced in 1969, and was the first model to use the 436 cc engine, [9] which was the largest displacement possible that the OHC engine could be stretched to. [10] The frame, the design of which used input from the racing department, [ 7 ] was a strengthened version of that used on the smaller scramblers with gussets ...