First water (Liquid) cooled motorcycle?

Chi Alfero: My dad has a 1982 Honda Goldwing 1100 and it is liquid cooled. But I know its was a few years before that.

Lia Argall: very informative and this offers me better knowledge on this subject

Bethanie Menden: They were correct aboveâ€"the GT-750 Suzuki was the first mass-produced street-bike in the US with a radiator back in the early 70 s.

Nikki Sypult: I presume you are talking street bike and not dirt bike. Street bike and I believe it was 1969 and a Honda, am thinking 1000 but it could have been a few years later with the wing series.

Annabell Bevier: Humber, Centaur, and others all before 1910.

William Vickerman: i have a nice little 125cc thats water cooled 2002 MZ rt125 made in germany but they went out of business21000 miles in 12 years and i love it great little daily driver dave

Ruby Martis: Velocete le 1948 used by the uk police

Oren Eskelsen: KTM Sportmotorcycle AG out of Austria

Darrel Stele: The TZ7! 50, a gp bike built in the 1970s by Yamaha, was designed to be a streetbike. It was sold as a roadrace bike once emission control regulations made it unviable as a street bike.

Serena Doak: The Holden motorcycle used water-cooling in 1896.All Scott motorcycles and their derivatives produced between 1908 and 1978 used water-cooled 2-stroke twins.Water-cooled motorcycles are nothing new and were certainly not invented by Yamaha. Yamaha did have water-cooled grand-prix bikes in 1965, but they were certainly not the first. In fact, amongst Japanese manufacturers they were the last to introduce a water-cooled street-bike. Among Japanese manufacturers, Suzuki was the first to produce water-cooled street bikes with the 1972 GT750 (known as the "Water Buffalo" in North America and the "Kettle" elsewhere) and the 1975 RE5 Rotary. Honda's first water-cooled bike was the 1975 Gold-Wing. Kawasaki's first was the 1979 KZ1300.Yamaha did not produce a water-cooled street bike until ! the 1980 RD350LC (RZ350 in Canada) and RD250LC....Show more

Alphonso Brake: the british ther is an old saying nothing new under the sun, its just we forget, but the ones we remember like the suzuki gt750 kettle in the 70salso the van veen 1000 was oil cooled in the 70swhat about the velocet le in the 60s wasnt that liquid cooled???scott ??...Show more

Lynn Hollars: Suzuki was the first mass produced Jap bike..closely followed by the Yamaha RD series.. but the race bikes had liquid cooling before that..Liquid cooling. The origins of this are lost in the mists of time. Long-gone British manufacturer, Scott, is said to have introduced it in the mid-1920s, but we’ll never know for sure. But even in the beginning, it became obvious to motorcycle designers and engineers that a liquid-cooled engine is more efficient and durable than an air-cooled one. Suzuki’s GT750, introduced in 1971, is said by many to have been the first mass production bike to utilize liquid cooling, and Austrian manufacturer, KTM, is credited with i! ntroducing the first liquid-cooled four-stroke off-road bike, in the early 1980s. Either way, the only real disadvantages to liquid cooling are aesthetics and maintenance. An air-cooled engine doesn’t really have a cooling system, aside from its oil supply, but liquid-cooling requires a radiator and hoses of some sort, and both will eventually start to leak and deteriorate....Show more

Penelope Armond: Scott Flying Squirrel, 2-stroke, inclined cylinder, water-cooled â€" 1912http://www.scottownersclub.org/scott_machines_in_p...