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Can-Am claims its 650 V-Twin EFI engine puts out more power than any machine in the 650-class, and even more than any machine in the 700-class category.
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Among the system's features are a permanent connection to natural gas or propane as an alternative to gasoline; a commercial Vanguard V-Twin engine with a premium alternator; an enclosure claimed to keep rated load-bearing operation to 65 decibels; and a system-status panel that reports results of weekly diagnostics.
Product Preview: Briggs & Stratton Symphony II power-management system 2010
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You won't see a robot in the Ducati factory, and nobody can get that kind of performance out of a V-Twin, not for this price.
Ducati Streetfighter and Streetfighter S get 155bhp 1098 engine - Hell For Leather 2008
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Among the system's features are a permanent connection to natural gas or propane as an alternative to gasoline; a commercial Vanguard V-Twin engine with a premium alternator; an enclosure claimed to keep rated load-bearing operation to 65 decibels; and a system-status panel that reports results of weekly diagnostics.
Product Preview: Briggs & Stratton Symphony II power-management system 2010
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Hopefully we can get back to maligning Landis, now that Cancellara has confessed to the use of a biological V-Twin.
Hairy Situations: Embracing Patterns BikeSnobNYC 2010
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In fact, Porsche engineered and styled the powerplant for the 2001 Harley-Davidson VRSC (V-Twin Racing Street Custom) V-Rod bike, the two-wheeler which brought the Milwaukee company into the 21st century as far as engine design, horsepower and dependability.
Steve Parker: Huff Post Exclusive! 2010 Porsche Panamera sedans take on Southern California freeways 2009
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Then again my bike is rockin' an obnoxious V-Twin.
Cycling Customs: Flashing the Biological Passport BikeSnobNYC 2009
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With only my high-revving, liquid-cooled V-Twin and half a box of high fiber cereal.
"You're spending a large part of your life whoring after the affections of 12 people!" — says Mickey Kaus to Robert Wright... Ann Althouse 2008
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Several vitrines document women's early involvement with Harleys: For example, Amy and Effie Hotchkiss, a mother-daughter team, became the first women to cross the U.S. on a motorcycle in 1915 (it was a three-speed V-Twin with sidecar), and Vivian Bales rode solo in 1929 from Georgia to Milwaukee at the tender age of 20 (12% of Harley riders today are women).
Head Out on the Highway Ann Landi 2008
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Big enough to get respect, with a 45-degree V-Twin engine with air/oil cooling, the S83 is also light enough to shimmy in and out of parking spaces and squeeze through jammed intersections.
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