Editing Straight-three engine (section)

===Four-stroke===
[[Four-stroke]] straight-three engines have been used in road bikes and racing bikes by several companies.<ref name=ride>365 Motorcycles You Must Ride. Dain Gingerelli, Charles Everitt, James Manning Michels. MBI Publishing Company, 10 Jan 2011</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2020}}<ref>The Motorcycle Book, Alan Seeley. MotorBooks International, 2 May 2004</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2020}}<ref>Human Hurricane, Wilson, Steve. Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, April 2005</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2020}} 

From 1985–1995, the [[BMW_K100#K75|BMW K75]] was produced with a straight-three engine (based on the straight-four engine from the BMW K100).

British company [[Triumph Motorcycles Ltd|Triumph]] is particularly renowned for a transversely-mounted straight-three engine. Variants have been used in their [[Triumph Speed Triple|Speed Triple]],<ref>Cycle world, Volume 44 CBS Publications, 2005. "inline triple"</ref> [[Triumph Trident|Trident]], [[Triumph Sprint (disambiguation)|Sprint]], and [[Triumph Tiger|Tiger]] series.
In addition Triumph makes the [[Triumph Rocket III|Rocket III]] model, various variants of which have held the record for motorcycle with the largest engine displacement.<ref>Triumph Motorcycles: Twins & Triples. Timothy Remus. MotorBooks International, 10 Oct 1997</ref> <!-- not sure, but it looks like a longitudinal inline. Therefore split off the sentence. -->

In [[2019 Moto2 season|2019]], the Moto2 class in the [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|MotoGP World Championship]] switched to using Triumph 765 cc (46.7 cu in) triple engines.<ref name="Telegraph 2019">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/triumph-enters-grand-prix-racing-moto2-engine-supplier/ Triumph enters Grand Prix racing as Moto2 engine supplier] ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 18 December 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2019.</ref>