RacerHead #10 a must read for Two Stroke Fans
If you haven’t seen this you must read it. Here is the whole situation straight from Davey Coombs.
My favorite quotes from the article include,
If you don’t believe that, check out the test Donn from Transworld did with Jason Lawrence at Perris last week, where he was a second and a half faster on the two-stroke than the four-stroke—on a 45-second track. After Jason rode the bike, Donn asked him for the bottom line: “My opinion right now is the 250 two-stroke kills it,” answered Lawrence, who was licking his chops at the prospect of using a smoker this summer.
And this one….
Ricky Carmichael and Jeff Stanton recently told me the same thing: a two-stroke still has it in spades over a four-stroke of equal displacement. Ricky reminded me that in 2005, James Stewart was right there with him on a KX250 in the outdoor nationals, though he did not actually beat him.
Please take the few minutes to read the entire first part of the editorial. It will show you what exactly we are struggling against to get our beloved two strokes back out into the Pro Ranks.
http://www.racerxonline.com/article/racerhead-10.aspx
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Comments
By Mick on March 19th, 2009 at 4:45 am
I’m still saying go cry me a river to the manufacturers scared to compete against two strokes. Privateers atleast should know better than to show up to a starting gate against two strokes on a 250F, so I don’t feel sorry for them either. Nobody asked them to stop production of the lightest, most powerfull and cost effective bikes made. They chose to stop production of them, and offer us heavy, underpowered money sucking machines instead. All I hear these days is the sound of toilets flushing…and money going down in them. If Honda/Kawasaki/Suzuki are scared that the lites class may become a Yamaha/KTM dominated field, maybe they should produce bikes that compete at that level. I don’t know…like a 250 two stroke if they’ve ever heard of such a thing? All I’m reading is a bunch of crying and sniveling from manufacturers because they know they’re pushing sub standard products on us, and our current economic status doesn’t support the garbage they want us to ride.
But a big thank you for all those folks who have and are trying to make this happen. It’s appreciated so much at my level. I thank you for your effort and am behind you 100% in future battles. Never give up.
By The General on March 25th, 2009 at 2:10 am
You know what really interesting about this, a good friend of mine sells used bikes. He can not get enough 125cc motocross bikes to fill the demand!
In fact he was talking to a dealer friend, it turns out that he is selling more 125cc motocross bikes than the dealer is selling of any bikes.
It kind of makes you wonder what’s going on. Could it be that people have finally gotten the fact that racing motocross after spending almost $10,000. on a bike is not in the budget of the working class racers?
Why is my friend selling so many 125s? My guess is that they are light, cheap and not too powerful. No one wants to be afraid of their bike. I believe that’s why 250F sales took off a few years ago, because they are tame in power delivery.
The manufacturers are experiencing all this pain and it may just be self-inflicted.
What do you think?
By Twostrokesrock on March 25th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
The best thing about a 125 for me is it weight..I don’t way vary much and I want to be able to pick up my bike easily.
I don’t have a 125 I have a kdx 200 but I looked up the specs and the XR400 weighs 267 pounds and puts out 35 horsepower, while the KDX 200 weighs 220 pounds and puts out 35 horsepower thats almost 50 punds differance!! not to mention mine sounds cooler