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Cycle News 1985 01 30

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Can-Am the Lion-Hearted A lot hashappened in the thirteen years there havebeenCan-Am motorcycles. Thecapture of Bonneville landspeed records. The 1·2·3 finish in the 1975 National 250 Motocross Championships. Jimmy Ellis' incrediblesuoercross sweep in 1976. can.Arrrs enviablecollection of ISDEgold. And it goes on! With new 15DE gold from Geoff Ballard. who also happens to be one of three Can-Am mounted National Harescrambleschampions. With NETRA and THPTRA t itles. A 0-37Overall DesertRacing crown. Three National Endurotitles in Canada. Aswell asa Pro Formula 2 road-racingchampionship. At the heart of all theseCan-Am successes you find the same awesome device. A Rotax engine. Rotax hasthe ability, year after year,to extract amazing power from a givendisplacement. That's why it 'sthe engineof choice for seriousgo-kart racers, IT riders and Formula250 roaoracers around the world. But what is tru ly amazing is that Rotaxachieves this performance while delivering a levelof reliability only dreamt of by other manufacturers. This uniquecombination helpsmakeCan-Am the ideal privateer's bike: a oowerptant whose out- put hasbeencarefully shaped to deliver maximum performance for the competition at hand, without the frequent repairsand rebuildssomeengines find necessary. . Other motorcycle makers look with envy at Rotax. Many would like to own it . Can-Am already does.

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