Engine Configuration Air-cooled Curtiss V8 Horsepower 30 to 40 hp Transmission Clearly, powering a motorcycle with a V8 engine was not new when Moto Guzzi dreamed up their version half a century ...

Curtiss has now opened the electric account with its Zeus prototype motorcycle, a battery-powered ... the inventor of the V-twin engine - the company pledged to make only electric motorcycles.

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