# Four Banger: How the inline-four was inevitable for motorcycles.

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Podcast: [Cycle World Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cycle-world-podcast-6850183)
Published: 2026-02-18T17:10:18+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3471

## Resource

The inline-four has many qualities that made it the performance engine format of choice for decades. Ride with Kevin and Mark as they talk about the origins of the inline-four and how we have explored many other engine formats and firing orders/timings, and possibly a few side stories about other things!

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