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Cycle News 2002 04 03

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a.lgn ng Su~ Features • Liquid cooling with doubJe-overllead camshafts and four valves per cylinder, with a short-stroke design for exceptional performance at high rpm • Transmission shafts are behind and below the crankshaft for a compact engine design Two Classics, Too Radical The Intruder 1400 and Intruder 800 are two dassic cruisers with a long, lew prcfiIe, designed to let you make II high-profile statement every time you ride. Beth bikes c6er radical styling that identifies them as incarnations of the dassic American cruiser. Both are designed to be equaUy at heme on the boulevard or the \eng highways stretching across the plains to the wide-open West. The major design elements are aD there in spades: II 45-degree, V-twin engine with blacked-out treatment and pcIished fins, aggressively raked fodeisport racing. They not only won "" astounding sixth consec:Wive championship, they took aB top-10 positions. What's the secret to such incredible 5UCCe5S? It aD begins with iJUgJated design - an approach to R&D pioneered with the deYeIopment d SuzuIa~s RGVr 500cc GP bike. This philosophy stresses that aD axnpcnents need to be developed as part d a coI1abcnltive elbt. In the case d the GSX-R750, the compact pcwerpIanI: allows fIllITOWer, mere ~ bodywork. That in tum allows a mere efIic:ient Suzuki Ram Air Direct in

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