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first 50 cc engines ?
« on: January 19, 2012, 06:10:20 PM »
further to Stuarts reply , on another topic , i wondered just when the first commercially available 50cc engine became available . surely this must have been a post war two stroke ? what was it ?
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Re: first 50 cc engines ?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2012, 09:03:39 PM »
They were in fact from WWII, not after.

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Re: first 50 cc engines ?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2012, 09:19:35 PM »
been online and come up with WWII cushman paratroop bikes but cannot find the c.c. rating .would that be the one ? hondas from 1952 i think
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Re: first 50 cc engines ?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2012, 09:25:06 PM »
been online and come up with WWII cushman paratroop bikes but cannot find the c.c. rating .would that be the one ? hondas from 1952 i think

Seems to be 50cc by the pics, but hard to tell.
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Re: first 50 cc engines ?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2012, 11:39:43 PM »
There were 50cc and 98cc cyclemotors before ww2, Sach being one.

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Re: first 50 cc engines ?
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 08:01:18 PM »
have only found 98cc ,74cc and 60cc pre-war sachs engines . not being picky but i did just wonder how and why a law was made exempting the need for a 50cc device to not require a speedo - why would they pass such a measure and for which particular machine
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