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Kawasaki patents 90° cylinder engine

Kawasaki is still developing the horizontal-cylinder engine, this time filing patents for a 90° cylinder as opposed to the 60° cylinder that we wrote about last year. This revision adds a stacked gearbox, which adds increased swingarm length to the long list of benefits such an arrangement would bring. >Performance advantages of this engine layout include reduced weight and reduced size thanks t...

Kawasaki patents 90° cylinder engine
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