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Mini choppers use a variety of engines. One of the most popular is a Base 50 engine, a generic term for Imported single cylinder horizontal 50cc to 140cc 4-stroke engines derived from Honda's line of small motorcycle engines. 50cc (actually 49.5cc) engines offer the advantage of being classified as a Moped or Scooter engine, and many ...
The wheels were upgraded from the 6" turbine style to a new 10" chrome wire wheel. The engine size was decreased from the 5 HP Tecumseh H50 to a 4 HP Tecumseh HS40. The engine had a lighting coil and still ran lights front and rear. The Roadster had front and rear drum brakes. Rupp marketed the Roadster as street legal.
Motorcycles with a V-twin engine mounted with its crankshaft mounted in line with the frame, e.g. the Honda CX series, are said to have "transverse" engines, [1] [2] while motorcycles with a V-twin mounted with its crankshaft mounted perpendicular to the frame, e.g. most Harley-Davidsons, are said to have "longitudinal" engines.
A customized Yamaha with a nitrous oxide tank A custom motorcycle in the United Kingdom 1977 Honda CB550 built by Lossa Engineering. A custom motorcycle is a motorcycle with stylistic and/or structural changes to the 'standard' mass-produced machine offered by major manufacturers. Custom motorcycles might be unique, or built in limited quantities.
Cleveland CycleWerks is a privately held motorcycle manufacturer that designs and assembles small displacement retro style café racers and bobbers at its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, relying on offshore manufacturing in China by CPI Motor Company of Taiwan for most components, including frames and the Honda-derived engine used on all models.
By 1979 in the US, Minibikes could not be operated on public roads, they could still operate in areas legal for use of other recreational vehicles, provided they had a specified set of proper equipment utilized at the time of sale, most notably a spark arrestor for the exhaust. [15] In many US states mini bikes can be made street legal.
American IronHorse was an American motorcycle manufacturer based in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area that was founded in 1995 [1] by Tim Edmondson and Bill Rucker. [2] At one time, AIH was the largest factory producer of custom motorcycles in the USA. [3]
Excluded as the record-beating H2R variant is track-only and not street-legal. [36] [better source needed] Lightning LS-218: 2014–present Electric motor: N/A 200 bhp (150 kW) 216 mph (348 km/h) The 216 mph record was set using an LS-218 modified from street-legal form, with "high-speed gearing and fairing".