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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Gas Gas page on 21 September 2019, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Gas Gas is a Spanish motorcycle manufacturer, specialising in off-road motorbikes. Gas Gas are best known for their trials bikes, although they also make successful enduro and quad bikes.
Gas Gas emerged from the financial demise of Bultaco when two agents, Narcìs Casas and Josep Pibernat, found themselves with a shop but no product to sell. So they embarked on a programme to manufacture trials motorbikes for sale in their shop.
Gas Gas have manufactured and sold motorcycles since 1985. A majority of the Gas Gas models are still handbuilt at the Gas Gas factory in Salt (near Girona), in Catalonia.
Gas Gas began manufacturing trials bikes in 1985, enduro and motocross bikes in 1989, and quads in 2002.
In 2014 Gas Gas merged with the motorcycle manufacturer OSSA which is also located in Catalonia.
The name Gas Gas literally means "to gas it" (to accelerate, give it the gas, turn the throttle - to go faster.) The Gas Gas founders have, at times, expressed misgivings about the chosen name inasmuch as that name causes confusion outside Spain. Others have joked that Gas Gas are so good that they had to name them twice. The slogan "Gas Gas = Fast Fast" was used by the US importer, Gas Gas North America, from 1999–2002 to try to help people understand the unique name.
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| 2 August 2003 | AMA Racer KURT MARMOR SIGNS NEW DEAL WITH GAS GAS | Vision Media |