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Cycle News 1984 12 19

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Can-Am the Lion-Hearted A lot has happened in the thirteen years there have been Can-Am motorcycles, The capture of Bonneville land speed records, The 1-2-3 finish in the 1975 National 250 Motocross Championships, Jimmy Ellis' incredible Supercross sweep in 1976_ Can-Am's enviable collection of ISOEgold, And it goes on! With new ISDE gold from Geoff Ballard, who also happens to be one of three Can-Am mounted National Hare Scrambles champions, With NETRA and THPTRA titles, A 0-37 Overall Desert Racing crown_ Three National Enduro titles in Canada, As well as a Pro Formula 2 road-racing championship, At the heart of all these Can-Am successes you find the same awesome device, A Rotax engine, Rotax has the ability, year after year, to extract amazing power from a given displacement, That's why it's the engine of choice for serious go-kart racers, n riders and Formula 250 road racers around the world, But what is truly amazing is that Rotax achieves this performance while delivering a level of reliability only dreamt of by other manufacturers, This unique combination helps make Can-Am the ideal privateer's bike: a powerplant whose out- put has been carefully shaped to deliver maximum performance for the competition at hand, without the frequent repairs and rebuilds some engines find necessary, Other motorcycle makers look with envy at Rotax, Many would like to own it. Can-Am already does,

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