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Cycle News 1985 03 06

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Can-Am the Lion-Hearted A lot has happened in the thirteen years there havebeenCan-Am motorcycles. Thecapture of Bonneville land speed records. The 1·2·3 f inish in the 1975 Nat ional 250 Motocross Championships. Jimmy Ellis' incredible suoercross sweep in 1976. Can-Am'senviablecollection of ISDEgold. And it goes on! With new ISDE gold f rom Geoff Ballard. who also happens to be one of t hree Can-Am mounted Nat ional Hare Scrambleschampions. With NETRA and THPTRA titles. A D·37 Overall Desert Racing crown. Three National Endurotitles in Canada. Aswell as a Pro Formula2 road-racine championship. At t he heart of all thesecar-Am successes you f ind the same awesome device. A Rotax engine. Rotax has th e ability. year after year. to extract arnazing power f rom a given displacement. That's why it's the engine of choicefor seriousgo-kart racers. IT riders and Formula 2S0 roadracersaround the world. But what is t ruly amazing isthat Rotax achievesth is performance while delivering a levelof reliability only dreamt of by other manufacturers. Thisunique combination helps makeCan-Am t he ideal privateer's bike: a ooweroiant whose out- put has been caref ully shaped to deliver maximum performance for th e compet ition at hand.without the frequent repairs and rebuildssomeengines find necessary. Other motorcycle makerslook with envy at Rotax. Many would like to own it . can-Am already does.

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