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A straight-twin engine, also known as an inline-twin, vertical-twin, inline-2, or parallel-twin, is a two-cylinder piston engine whose cylinders are arranged in a line along a common crankshaft. Straight-twin engines are primarily used in motorcycles; other uses include automobiles, marine vessels, snowmobiles, jet skis , all-terrain vehicles ...
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.
Inline twins, Japanese inline twins of the 1960s (such as the 1966 Honda “Black Bomber” and the Yamaha TX500) adopted a 180° crank that afforded perfect mechanical primary engine balance, but gave an unequal firing interval; 180 degrees, 540 degrees, 180 degrees, 540 degrees etc - due to one of the two pistons needing to be at top dead ...
1919 Napier Lion II aircraft engine with three cylinder banks. Any design of motor/engine,be it a V or a boxer can be called an "in-line" if it's mounted in-line with the frame/chassis and in-line with the direction of travel of the vehicle.When the motor/engine is across the frame/chassis this is called a TRANSVERSE motor.Cylinder arrangement is not in the description of how the motor/engine ...
The majority of motorcycle engines are configured as singles, parallel twins, triples, fours and sixes; and all these may be inline or transverse. Vee engines include V-twins and V-fours, and horizontally opposed engines include flat-twins, flat-fours and flat-sixes. Wankel engines are either single-rotor or twin-rotor.
MZ 1000S is a 998 cc 180-degree parallel twin motorcycle produced between 2004 and 2007 released in the US in 2005 [2] by the now defunct German company MZ Motorrad.Once the flagship of the range, the 1000S was MZ's largest-ever displacement motorcycle, and their first multi-cylinder bike since 1959.
The gas-powered version of Dodge's latest Charger offers two- and four-door flavors and a 3.0-liter inline-six in both standard-output and high-output tunes. ... of the company's Hurricane twin ...
Carburetion Twin Keihin 40.0 mm butterfly with manual choke; Ignition Triple-wound stator, low speed, high speed, and charging, transistor ignition; Starter Electric only; Honda CB500. Engine Type 499cc liquid-cooled two-cylinder "Parallel-twin" four-stroke; Bore & Stroke 73 mm × 59.5 mm; Compression Ratio 10.5:1