Type 97 motorcycle
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type-97-motorcycle-267-4014343
title:
Type 97 motorcycle
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The Type 97 motorcycle, or Rikuo, was a copy of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle produced with a sidecar from 1935 in Japan under license from Harley-Davidson by the Sankyo Company. Some 18,000 of the machines were used by the Imperial Japanese forces during World War II. A variation was also manufactured without a side car, called the Type 93. In the years after World War I, Harley-Davidson's US sales declined while dozens of US motorcycle brands went under, primarily as a result of the decline in
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description:
Copy of a Harley-Davidson with sidecar produced in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_97_motorcycle
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2024-01-30T21:58:07Z
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