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The bought-in engine is a BMW 450cc 4-stroke single, detuned from 51hp to 41hp. [10] Originally used in the discontinued BMW GP450X, the 450cc engine is now built by Kymco in Taiwan. The CCM has received very favourable comments on its lightness, the engine's responsiveness, and the excellent handling both on- and off-road.
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.
2005 Gas Gas Wild HP240 Quad. The GasGas sport quads are sold under the Wild HP brand and come in two-stroke and fuel-injected four-stroke models. Before 2007, the Wild HP line of quads was available in a choice of blue or red regardless of displacement. Beginning in 2007 the Wild HP line standardized to black.
Two-stroke motorcycles are a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston during only one crankshaft revolution.
The Gas Gas EC, also known as Enducross, is a series enduro motorcycles manufactured by Gas Gas since 1989. It is currently marketed with two different engines: on the one hand, with the traditional engine of two-stroke in various displacements (from 80 to 300 cc) and the other, with a 250 cc four-stroke engine (in which case the bike is called EC FSE, or EC F).
[2] In 1983, the Bombardier Corporation licensed the brand and outsourced development and production of the Can-Am motorcycles to Armstrong-CCM, who produced Can-Ams until closure in 1987, [2] when Armstrong sold the military motorcycle business to Harley Davidson and CCM back to Clews, who continue to produce motorcycles as of 2010. [3]
[3] [4] On 31 December 1879, German inventor Karl Benz produced a two-stroke gas engine, for which he received a patent in 1880 in Germany. The first truly practical two-stroke engine is attributed to Yorkshireman Alfred Angas Scott , who started producing twin-cylinder water-cooled motorcycles in 1908.
The right side of the barn housed the offices for design and engineering, and the left side was used for fabrication. [2] Can-Am's name was the result of a Bombardier employee competition based on the anticipated Canadian vs. American market, though the existence of the Can-Am racing series necessitated the purchase of rights to the name. [2]