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.......and lets not forget that Jody was one of the guys slobbering all over the new 4 strokes 13 years ago.
....................and that is old article........and all the decades old pictures tell me Jody is just tring to relive the past.....
...........he needs to tell the doc he needs some meds, a beer, or a time machine.
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Then a 19 year old that has to pay for their own racing can at least race on a local level.
Instead we have 39 classes including schoolboy 1 and schoolboy 2.
If a 15 year old has a 250 then let hem race in a displacement class (250C, 250B etc).
I guess this is all the AMA's fault and the wicked witches of California had nothing to do with this. At all?
But Team Green knows nothing about the Bay Area Politics and those who promote it?
I am kind of amused at what a great fisherman Jody is though.
He writes that same sort of column every 8 months or so and this place blows up.
As I said before it is ironic that this is the magazine that is loaded with ads for aftermarket 4 stroke parts and routinely recommends the "best new factory bike"....four stroke of course.
Yet the guy somehow comes across as the voice of the common two-stroke man railing against the system that he helped sell to everyone.
Genius......lol.
1)Is it really asking too fucking much for them to make a couple two stroke motocross bikes alongside the four strokers?
2)Is it really asking too much to put some realistic displacement rules in place for pro racing?
Doing a top end on a two stroke doesn't automatically qualify you to do a top end on a 4-stroke.
Not all of us who ride can afford a $60,000 toy hauler, so it's quite possible the price delta makes a difference.
And, last, 2-strokes aren't sold in near the quantity that the 4-strokes are. If they were, their price would likely go down.
- For a small handful of the millions of American dirt bike riders motocross is a business—and winning is the mantra.
- And I’m here to tell you that if you have a brain larger than Neanderthal man (or Jason Lawrence) you would own a two-stroke.
- Maybe it’s just me, but a four-stroke feels like you are piloting a Cadillac Coupe DeVille down the track.. There is no romance in steering an ocean liner into a harbor nor a 450cc thumper around a race track.
- Imagine that I told you that a motorcycle manufacturer was working on a revolutionary engine design for 2013 that was eight pounds lighter, revved quicker, produced ten more horsepower (per quarter liter), had one-tenth the moving parts, was cheap to produce, cost less to maintain and could be rebuilt for a quarter of the price of your four-stroke? Would you be interested?
- I’m a believer in the ticking time bomb theory of four-stroke ownership—because I’ve had more than a few go off under me. Guess what? A two-stroke is also a ticking time bomb...it just packs less explosives and does less damage when it detonates.
- On a two-stroke you throw in a new piston and get back into action for less that $300 (counting labor). Not so with a four-stroke. If it blows up at the end of its service cycle, which is approximately three years, it will ding your wallet to the tune of $1000 to $3000.
I do like 2 strokes, but, if you want to race, you want to win. Whether it's an extra twenty to show in the a class or a trophy in the c class, you want to win. Right now, the 4 strokes are much better race equipment.
The current 450 is the most amazing race bike ever. Obviously the am rule changes have not influenced development. Why? The best racers are sponsored on the bikes that are built.
The lynch pin will be 125cc. Can't build a competitive 4 stroke at that size. If there is a series at that size, the 2s will rule and we will see them again.
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The 250 class is a totally different animal though. The OEMs either need to sleeve the 250f down, or the two strokes should be allowed to run a larger displacement.
Yes, Jody was amazed at the YZ400, as was everyone, but no one planned on the sport going in the direction it has gone. We all see the cost and technology of the sport increasing and morphing into some sort of Nascar-like Formula 1 media show.
http://twostrokemotocross.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/service_honda_…
Like I said, AFs are fantastic bikes, and in my personal opinion, the 450 class should be a true open class and bikes like the AF should be allowed to race.
If you disagree with this please make sure and contact your district's AMA congressperson and let them know.
IMO this would do the same thing to the 85 classes that the 250F has done to the "125" class.
"Four-strokes are not more powerful than two-strokes. Their horsepower and torque come from a common parlor trick called “cubic centimeters.” Four-stroke are only competitive with two-strokes because they are larger. Under AMA rules, four-stroke engines are allowed to be as much as 100 percent larger than two-strokes." AKA Handicap
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