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- From: davet@loowit.wr.tek.com (Dave Tharp CDS)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: CBX and other 6 cyl's
- Message-ID: <10904@wrgate.wr.tek.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:45:01 GMT
- References: <1452@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
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- In article <1452@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> labrg@emory.edu (Ryan Montieth Gill) writes:
- >
- > While in a Honda Dealership I came across a CBX 6 cylinder MC.
- >What other inline 6's are out there...flying V-6's???
- >
- The first one that comes to mind is the Benelli Sei 750cc 6, a beauty.
- The second one is the KZ1300 Kawasaki touring barge, an _ugly_.
- The only V-6 that I know of is the Laverda inline, prototyped in the late
- 70's and race once or twice in the European endurance series. I
- understand that it is to be produced in very limited quantities as a
- street bike.
- Honda, of course built the 6-cylinder transverse 250 GP bike, as raced
- by Hailwood.
- Several Indian and Henderson 4's have had two extra cylinders added to
- make inline vertical 6's. These were _really_ long bikes to start
- with.
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