The 1975 Harley - Davidson SS-250 was a mid - size bike ground on a Yamaha plan and boast atwo - virgule single locomotive .
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Harley - Davidson had formed a partnership with Aermacchi of Italy in the early1960s to trade mid - size four - stroke one under the H - D badge . These were shortly joined by a host of two - stroke models as small as 65 cc , and even some minibikes .
But while the larger unity were fairly successful , the times move something a bit more modern .
One of a quartet of new mid - size two - stroking singles free-base on a Yamaha design and introduced by Harley - Davidson in the mid-1970s , the SS-250 appear in 1975 and was the large street version offered .
On / off - route model channel the SX prefix , and both bikes were eventually useable in 175- and 250 - cc sizes .
However , the Environmental Protection Agency was beginning to frown on all two - accident bikes as a major author of pollution .
As a consequence , the switch to two - strokes was – in retrospect – perhaps not the respectable choice , and Harley - Davidson quit offering singles of any type after 1978 .
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Harley - Davidson did n’t retrieve long - term winner with two - slash bikes , including the 1975 Harley - Davidson SS-250 motorcycle , due to pollution issues .
