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On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 00:08:04 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    When American were used to 350 cubic inch engines in their cars,
>    using 'CCs' generated bigger numbers and those tended to impress even
>    though a lot of those engines were of much smaller displacement.
>    Fooled enough of the people enough of the time.

That worked backwards when the displacement was given in liters. 428 ci 
sounds a lot better than 7 L.

They seemed to have died down but for a while the market was flooded with 
cheap Chinese knockoffs of Vespas. One proudly advertised itself as having 
150 cc (of oil in the crankcase). The engine was 49 cc on a good day.

My first bike was a '55 FLH I bought at a police auction. When I called my 
friendly insurance man he asked what the displacement was and I said 74. 
"CCs?" he asked. I should have lied.  The 1200 cc Sportster really is 
1200; 73.35 doesn't roll of the tongue well.