Flat-four Engine - Motorcycle Use

Motorcycle Use

  • Honda introduced a liquid-cooled shaft drive flat-4 on a production motorcycle in 1975 on the Honda GL1000 Gold Wing.
  • From 1938 to 1939 Zündapp produced the shaft drive K800 opposed four in Germany.
  • In 1955 in Britain Wooler produced a small number of 500 cc flat opposed fours with shaft drive.
  • The BFG-Citroën of 1982 was powered by a flat-4 1,299 cc Citroën automobile engine and shaft drive. About 450 of them were built in 1981 and 1982. One-quarter of them were purchased by the French police.

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