2 strokes arent amazing

7/4/2023 2:58pm
2 stroke engines are indeed amazing. 2 strokes to compete the whole process with a pipe shaped like a dong with a stuck bladder stone to...

2 stroke engines are indeed amazing. 2 strokes to compete the whole process with a pipe shaped like a dong with a stuck bladder stone to supercharge the thing. You gotta be smoking crack to dream that one up. 4 stroke are very ho-hum in comparison, very robotic. People ride 4 strokes because they're easier to go fast on and a better race machine. All the 4 stroke guys will switch to electric for the same reasons...but the 2 stroke guys will still be 2 stroke guys because its a unique experience. Some people get it, some dont. And the ones that don't, we call "pussies".

Personally, both conceptually and functionally, they are more comparable to a brass instrument than a dong. Probably why they sound and look good.

Youre probably right, but I see dongs in everything.

Fair.

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Granted, 4-strokes are easier to ride and feel more modern, but there’s a lot of benefits to the 2-stroke mainly in cost snd weight. I predict...

Granted, 4-strokes are easier to ride and feel more modern, but there’s a lot of benefits to the 2-stroke mainly in cost snd weight.

I predict 10 pages

Good call…I thought your prediction of 10 pages was crazy at the time…

Woohoo
 

 

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7/4/2023 5:30pm Edited Date/Time 7/4/2023 5:50pm

You have no fvcking clue..  My 16YO kid over the last 2 years or so on a 2 stroke. He's moving to a 250 2T soon and he will kick your fvcking @ss. Power to weight ratio is off the charts.

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7/4/2023 5:56pm Edited Date/Time 7/4/2023 5:59pm

Youre probably right, but I see dongs in everything.

You're over sharing, dong is slang for penis!

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7/4/2023 6:34pm
You have no fvcking clue..  My 16YO kid over the last 2 years or so on a 2 stroke. He's moving to a 250 2T soon...

You have no fvcking clue..  My 16YO kid over the last 2 years or so on a 2 stroke. He's moving to a 250 2T soon and he will kick your fvcking @ss. Power to weight ratio is off the charts.

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Right on, the boy looks fast too. Keep him on the 125 that where the comp is & the most racers on the gate. Millville & the Midwest the  largest class is 125.  In Wi. Even we hv some kids that run in the top 5 &10 at big am races. It should b a cash paying class.  I,m racing the 125 class for fun & to get my sprint speed  cleaned up. The focus is the vet cash classes .  I,m selling a Very clean 05 cr125 with a ton of extras

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7/4/2023 7:17pm
Right on, the boy looks fast too. Keep him on the 125 that where the comp is & the most racers on the gate. Millville &...

Right on, the boy looks fast too. Keep him on the 125 that where the comp is & the most racers on the gate. Millville & the Midwest the  largest class is 125.  In Wi. Even we hv some kids that run in the top 5 &10 at big am races. It should b a cash paying class.  I,m racing the 125 class for fun & to get my sprint speed  cleaned up. The focus is the vet cash classes .  I,m selling a Very clean 05 cr125 with a ton of extras

Once you have real speed on a 2T, a 4T is pretty easy. He’s ridden 250 and 350 4Ts and prefers his 125. So many of his friends are moving to 2504Ts before they are strong enough, and they are getting hurt. It’s a massive change in mass. 

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7/4/2023 7:21pm
dsc131 wrote:
Good call…I thought your prediction of 10 pages was crazy at the time…    

Good call…I thought your prediction of 10 pages was crazy at the time…

Woohoo
 

 

Lol, I know right? It’s a pretty loaded topic haha

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7/4/2023 10:00pm

Youre probably right, but I see dongs in everything.

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7/5/2023 2:57am

Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations for missing how things were before four stroke revolution.

In mid 90's almost every kid in my neighbourhood had a 80cc or a 125cc two stroke motocross bike and we had full starting gates even in our local club races.  

The tracks wore quite differently and required much less grooming when everyone was on two strokes. Corners had smoothly flowing berms instead of deep ruts carved by 450 fours strokes that we have today caused by "point and shoot" riding style associated to them. Nobody talked about "lugging" the around whole track with using only the 4th gear back then.

The beauty of riding two stroke's that in order to go fast you need to be aggressive shift gears and use clutch. If you are lazy you won't be going nowhere. 125's are the most fun to race in that sense because lighter bikes with less rotating mass in the engine you can do fast riding line changes and use the every inch power that the small engine is producing. With less power it is easy to lose your momentum by a mistake and that creates more opportunities for passes. With a lighter bike it also easier to recover from a mistake just by manhandling the bike bad crashes with serious injuries happen more seldom.

I admit that the current crop of state of the art four stroke's are faster than two strokes but riding them is lot less fun for me. I'm not that fast anyways so I prefer to ride bikes that I have most fun with and that's why I have 125, 150 and 250 two stroke bikes in my garage at the moment       

           

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7/5/2023 5:55am
JMX82 wrote:
Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations...

Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations for missing how things were before four stroke revolution.

In mid 90's almost every kid in my neighbourhood had a 80cc or a 125cc two stroke motocross bike and we had full starting gates even in our local club races.  

The tracks wore quite differently and required much less grooming when everyone was on two strokes. Corners had smoothly flowing berms instead of deep ruts carved by 450 fours strokes that we have today caused by "point and shoot" riding style associated to them. Nobody talked about "lugging" the around whole track with using only the 4th gear back then.

The beauty of riding two stroke's that in order to go fast you need to be aggressive shift gears and use clutch. If you are lazy you won't be going nowhere. 125's are the most fun to race in that sense because lighter bikes with less rotating mass in the engine you can do fast riding line changes and use the every inch power that the small engine is producing. With less power it is easy to lose your momentum by a mistake and that creates more opportunities for passes. With a lighter bike it also easier to recover from a mistake just by manhandling the bike bad crashes with serious injuries happen more seldom.

I admit that the current crop of state of the art four stroke's are faster than two strokes but riding them is lot less fun for me. I'm not that fast anyways so I prefer to ride bikes that I have most fun with and that's why I have 125, 150 and 250 two stroke bikes in my garage at the moment       

           

I am kind of in the middle. I was able to see Mcgrath once, then RC and Stew. I have a few memories of Troy, Red Bud, Millville when it was all 2 strokes but I didnt get on big bikes until 2010 so by that time 4 strokes had taken over. EFI was beginning. 

You may be onto something with being younger, because 90% of my moto memories involve 4 strokes. 

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7/5/2023 8:42am
JMX82 wrote:
Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations...

Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations for missing how things were before four stroke revolution.

In mid 90's almost every kid in my neighbourhood had a 80cc or a 125cc two stroke motocross bike and we had full starting gates even in our local club races.  

The tracks wore quite differently and required much less grooming when everyone was on two strokes. Corners had smoothly flowing berms instead of deep ruts carved by 450 fours strokes that we have today caused by "point and shoot" riding style associated to them. Nobody talked about "lugging" the around whole track with using only the 4th gear back then.

The beauty of riding two stroke's that in order to go fast you need to be aggressive shift gears and use clutch. If you are lazy you won't be going nowhere. 125's are the most fun to race in that sense because lighter bikes with less rotating mass in the engine you can do fast riding line changes and use the every inch power that the small engine is producing. With less power it is easy to lose your momentum by a mistake and that creates more opportunities for passes. With a lighter bike it also easier to recover from a mistake just by manhandling the bike bad crashes with serious injuries happen more seldom.

I admit that the current crop of state of the art four stroke's are faster than two strokes but riding them is lot less fun for me. I'm not that fast anyways so I prefer to ride bikes that I have most fun with and that's why I have 125, 150 and 250 two stroke bikes in my garage at the moment       

           

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I am kind of in the middle. I was able to see Mcgrath once, then RC and Stew. I have a few memories of Troy, Red...

I am kind of in the middle. I was able to see Mcgrath once, then RC and Stew. I have a few memories of Troy, Red Bud, Millville when it was all 2 strokes but I didnt get on big bikes until 2010 so by that time 4 strokes had taken over. EFI was beginning. 

You may be onto something with being younger, because 90% of my moto memories involve 4 strokes. 

And it's not just the memories. Big bikes since 2010; I'm assuming you were still gaining talent at that time? For me, it's about the riding style being so different. If you grew up racing 2-strokes, you understand better how to maintain momentum and you rely more on throwing the bike around and finding lines. 4-strokes are more about putting power down in a straight line and then waiting around in the corners until you can line it up for the next straight. 
This is not an insult to 4-stroke riders, but you guys haven't had to learn the same skills as we 2-stroke guys did. (Clearly, there are other skills you did have to learn, because I don't have them and I suck on the 4-strokes!) 

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7/5/2023 8:52am
JMX82 wrote:
Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations...

Sounds like the OP of this thread is probably too young to experience hey day of racing two stroke's. I feel sorry for the younger generations for missing how things were before four stroke revolution.

In mid 90's almost every kid in my neighbourhood had a 80cc or a 125cc two stroke motocross bike and we had full starting gates even in our local club races.  

The tracks wore quite differently and required much less grooming when everyone was on two strokes. Corners had smoothly flowing berms instead of deep ruts carved by 450 fours strokes that we have today caused by "point and shoot" riding style associated to them. Nobody talked about "lugging" the around whole track with using only the 4th gear back then.

The beauty of riding two stroke's that in order to go fast you need to be aggressive shift gears and use clutch. If you are lazy you won't be going nowhere. 125's are the most fun to race in that sense because lighter bikes with less rotating mass in the engine you can do fast riding line changes and use the every inch power that the small engine is producing. With less power it is easy to lose your momentum by a mistake and that creates more opportunities for passes. With a lighter bike it also easier to recover from a mistake just by manhandling the bike bad crashes with serious injuries happen more seldom.

I admit that the current crop of state of the art four stroke's are faster than two strokes but riding them is lot less fun for me. I'm not that fast anyways so I prefer to ride bikes that I have most fun with and that's why I have 125, 150 and 250 two stroke bikes in my garage at the moment       

           

ripper69 wrote:
I am kind of in the middle. I was able to see Mcgrath once, then RC and Stew. I have a few memories of Troy, Red...

I am kind of in the middle. I was able to see Mcgrath once, then RC and Stew. I have a few memories of Troy, Red Bud, Millville when it was all 2 strokes but I didnt get on big bikes until 2010 so by that time 4 strokes had taken over. EFI was beginning. 

You may be onto something with being younger, because 90% of my moto memories involve 4 strokes. 

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And it's not just the memories. Big bikes since 2010; I'm assuming you were still gaining talent at that time? For me, it's about the riding...

And it's not just the memories. Big bikes since 2010; I'm assuming you were still gaining talent at that time? For me, it's about the riding style being so different. If you grew up racing 2-strokes, you understand better how to maintain momentum and you rely more on throwing the bike around and finding lines. 4-strokes are more about putting power down in a straight line and then waiting around in the corners until you can line it up for the next straight. 
This is not an insult to 4-stroke riders, but you guys haven't had to learn the same skills as we 2-stroke guys did. (Clearly, there are other skills you did have to learn, because I don't have them and I suck on the 4-strokes!) 

well said!

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7/5/2023 9:35am

Definitely understand the nostalgic allure of 2 strokes. I grew up on CR500s. I'm faster on the thumper, but nothing beats the thrill of the 2 stroke, even if it's only for 4 laps😅

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7/5/2023 10:56am

Let's put it this way. Which one you prefer to watch? Riders using all the horsepower they can get out of the bike using whole width of the track to keep their momentum or riders tiptoeing around the track using only half throttle and trying to hang on to the bike the whole moto?

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7/7/2023 3:43am

Pick the four stroke:

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7/7/2023 5:20am

I bet that smoke doesn't smell as sweet 😂

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