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I also like newt's idea regarding the Yamaha Royal Star/Venture with it's V-4. That's a bike that I'd consider too, as I've never thought of their V-4s as being Harley-clones, as I have any V-twin that comes from across the Pacific as being exactly that.



Surprizingly enough, it really is. Toward the end of the AMF days, HD teamed up with Porche to develop a V4 long before Japan.inc decided to grab onto the idea. The engine was shelved when the management team bought HD from AMF because they didn't have the funding to run with it. There were plans to use that engine in the Trihawk when Citroen discontinued the one that was being used but they had problems locting a suitable transaxle and dropped the whole idea.

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