Their cylinders are made in aluminium with Scanimet interior coating - an extremely hard, durable and heat resistant, high performance nickel-silicon carbide (carborundum) proprietary technology.Īirsal’s new off-road cylinders (including for KTM 250cc engines as seen here) feature their proprietary Scanimet internal coating – a high performance, durable and heat reistant nickel-silicon carbide (carborundum) technology The cylinders are traditionally hand castįounded in 1986, Airsal manufacture some 15,000 to 16,000 cylinders a month at the 3,000 sqm Centelles, Barcelona facility they moved to in 1999, and export to more than 30 countries worldwide. The cast cylinders and CNC precision machined Second was Honda (2,867/+0.49 percent) Yamaha third (2,499/+6.57 percent) BMW fourth (1,711 units/+7.41 percent) and Aprilia fifth (1,566 units/+1.89 percent).Īirsal to launch new advanced-tech off-road cylinder programmeĮarly 2017 will see Spanish small cc motorcycle, scooter and moped engine, cylinder, piston and engine heads manufacturer Airsal launch a new range of off-road cylinders for leading brands such as KTM, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Gas Gas. Not surprisingly, KTM is Austrian market leader (in its home market), having sold 3,308 motorcycles in the first nine months of 2016 (+4.78 percent). In total powered two-wheeler terms, registrations were up by +7.55 percent for the second quarter of the year in Austria, at 17,260 units, and are +5.20 percent (37,652 units) for the first nine months of the year. The latest data released by the motorcycle trade association in Austria (arge2Rad) shows registrations of new motorcycles of over 125cc up by 15.94 percent in the third quarter of 2016 at 3,266 units, and up by +5.59 percent for the first nine months of the year at 12,176 units – continuing the start of market recovery in Austria that was first seen in the final quarter of 2015.
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Austrian motorcycle registrations +5.59 percent for first nine months of 2016