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FIVE-CYLINDER BIKES

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FIVE-CYLINDER engines are, as a whole, something of an oddity. They don’t have the perfect primary balance of an inline four or the ideal primary and secondary balance of an inline six, but they can be relatively smooth-running and as such have appeared on occasion in motorcycles – albeit only racers.

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