Yankee (motorcycle)

The Yankee motorcycle is a motorcycle which was produced in Schenectady, New York by the Yankee Motor Company in the 1970s. This company was started by John Taylor, a long-time resident of that area.

The motorcycle used an air-cooled two-stroke engine, designed by Eduard Giró that was produced by the Ossa firm in Barcelona, Spain. The engine was a unique combination of two Ossa cylinders, that produced a twin-cylinder engine of near 500 cc capacity. The Yankee frame, designed with help from Dick Mann, and running gear were produced in the US, and the entire motorcycle was assembled in the Yankee plant on Campbell Avenue in Schenectady.

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History of the Yankee Motorcycle

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Yankee

The term "Yankee" and its contracted form "Yank" have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. Its various senses depend on the scope of context. Most broadly:

Outside the United States, "Yank" is used informally to refer to any American, including Southerners.

Within the United States, it usually refers to people from the north, largely those from the northeast, but especially those with New England cultural ties, such as descendants from colonial New England settlers, wherever they live. Its sense is more cultural than literally geographic. The speech dialect of New England is called "Yankee" or "Yankee dialect." Within New England itself, the term "Yankee" refers specifically to old-stock New Englanders of English descent.

Within Southern American English, "Yankee" refers to Northerners, or those from the regions of the Union side of the American Civil War.

The informal British and Irish English "Yank" is especially popular among Britons and Australians and sometimes carries pejorative overtones. The Southern American English "Yankee" is typically uncontracted and at least mildly pejorative, although less vehemently so as time passes from the American Civil War.

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Yankee (yacht)

Yankee was a 1930 yacht of the J Class. It was ordered by John Silsbee Lawrence and designed by Frank Cabot Paine. Yankee was scrapped in 1941.

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Yankee (magazine)

Yankee Magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire, United States. It is a bimonthly magazine devoted to New England travel, home, food and features. With a paid circulation of 317,000 and a total readership of nearly 2 million, it is published by Yankee Publishing Incorporated (YPI), one of the few remaining family-owned and independent magazine publishers in the United States. YPI also owns the oldest continuously produced periodical in the US, the Old Farmer's Almanac, which it purchased in 1939. In 2013, YPI acquired McLean Communications, publisher of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Business Review. It is a member of the City and Regional Magazine Association.