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Bud’s two-stroke project bike started life as a Kawasaki KX250F four-stroke. It is equipped with Ohlins suspension, 270mm Braking front rotor, Bud Racing wheels, rear holeshot device, triple clamps and graphics. It weighs 208 pounds.
This bike could be raced in the EMX 125 Two-Stroke Championship reports MXA.
Bud Racing fields one of the largest motocross teams in Europe and are well known in America for bringing French riders to America and Americans to Europe—including Daniel Sanayei who was second in EMX250 this past season. For 2017 Bud Racing will support former Geico Honda rider Tristan Charboneau. Bud has a U.S. race shop in Elsinore, California, but their base of operations is in France.
Check this link for more Info: bud-racings-radical-aluminum-framed-125-two-stroke
Bud Racing’s goal was to build a bike that would allow a KX85 rider to transition from a minicycle to a big bike without having to struggled with the weight of a four-stroke. Plus, since every KX85 rider is a proficient two-stroke rider, the only change in riding style would be for the more powerful 125cc two-stroke engine.
Bud Racing built this special 125cc two-stroke-powered KX250F. However, there were issues. As an official Kawasaki team, Bud could not find a sufficient supply of Kawasaki KX125 engines, since that model had been discontinued years ago. To make the project work they needed a solid 125cc two-stroke engine for which a large base of hop-up info and a good supply of part was available. The answer? A Yamaha YZ125 engine in a Kawasaki KX250F frame. The YZ125 engine is still in production and technical information abounds.
Is it 1992?
The Shop
Yes Bobpa there are non EFI 2 strokes available that have not been updated in years. And with all the 4 stroke Kool Aid drinkers riding bikes with EFI, who will remember how to jet a 2 stroke ? Is that your issue with EFI ? That in the future nobody will know what jetting was ?
My 'Agenda' is that $9k for a 4 stroke dirt bike is a lot of money for a toy. I am not the one who built, or let the cat out of the bag about the new EFI KTM 2 strokes, but I hope to see the Japanese follow suit and update their 2 stroke lines.
I live in Colorado and would love to have a 400cc EFI 2 stroke I could ride from my house into the mountains. That's my Agenda :-)
And if EFI 2 strokes won't save Moto, what will ? The Above referenced BUD Racing 125 would be uber trick with EFI.
Jim Pomeroy heads to the line at the Escape Country National, on a 2 Stroke
Lastly, your 400cc EFI Two-stroke will probably have to be built yourself as the chances of KTM making that cc size are fairly slim going forward.
As a Kawasaki supported team they built a bike with a Yamaha engine. Huh?
They took a bike with an aluminum frame and the best stock suspension, pulled the engine and put it in an aluminum frame designed for a different engine. Added, tens of thousands of dollars in suspension and titanium to make a bike that weighs 208lbs, 16 lbs less than a KX250f. The same weight as the stock bike they took the engine out of ? Radical?????????
Thanks to the OP for putting the info up.
Pit Row
New KTM's are lighter at stock trim.
Yaaaawwwwn. Ah well, it is the off season.
I love the old 2 strokes as much as anybody - my sole ride is a mint '98 CR125. But I'm under no delusions that the good old days are coming back.
Everyone knows the Kawsuki's were piles.
...and don't tell anyone about my Zundap/Carrabela creation.
Something tells me a yz125 would be just as competitive...and save dozens of hours of labor.
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