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But I guess he doesn't count?
So do you think I could sell a 'stick up" air freshener for the face piece on helmets that smell like "Klotz Racin Castor"?
BTW: Brock is a very talented rider. But if he shows up at a AMA pro national or supercross on that two stroke, he's going to take a beating.
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first local race of the season a couple of weeks ago. second largest class of the day was 125cc. largest class of the day was 250C which had 1/3 of it smokers.
So really don't care who believes or don't believe who is riding what where. Smokers are alive and well in the HS races around here, and well as long as my family can race our smokers it's all good.
we have 2 65's, 2 125's, 250, and 500 smokers we do have one thumper bike my wifes X, and many other thumpers in equipment they belong in. like our quads, tractors, skid loaders, trucks and the rest. They are much quieter and are tolerated when ran. Race turds are to loud. but that's another thread.
I think both bikes have to potential to be really reliable, or money pits. For me, every 4 stroke I have ever owned has cost me alot more in parts than the bike was worth, so I will stick with a 2 stroke. Its more affordable to fix when it does let go.
And that's all good, and my best wishes to you and your family, and having a good time is what this sport should be about.
What it shouldn't be about is trying (not saying that you are but others do) to force pro level racing to ride the same bikes that families like yours ride every weekend.
Then why don't the OEMs want the old 2-stroke technology to be raced equal cc?
WHAT TURNED SUZUKI AROUND??
In 1997, we got Jeremy McGrath. He came to the team very late, and the bike wasn’t very good. It needed some work, but Suzuki fought the changes we needed. We were still running the Showa conventional forks. I told them that we needed the stiffer upside-down forks, but they said that their test riders didn’t think so. I told them that their test riders weren’t hitting the kind of jumps that American Supercross riders were, and that the whole process of testing in Japan wasn’t rigorous enough to build a bike for an AMA Pro. Shockingly, Jeremy could have won the 1997 Championship. He had some issues with Steve Lamson at the Los Angeles Coliseum and a flat tire at Charlotte and, in the end, we only lost the Supercross Championship by seven points.
If left to their own decision making I think the Japanese OEM's, seeing how they don't seem to want to build 2 strokes anyway, would just slap together low end bikes; non-adjustable suspension, lower quality components, etc. Pretty much supply play bikes to the 2st market. Not anything a racer or seasoned rider would really want if given a choice. Hell the Chinese could supply that at a much reduced price point. I think with 2st/4st performance parity in the Pro classes we could see really good 2st designs continually evolve. It may only be from Euro suppliers like KTM and others (with homologation requirement changes) but who wouldn't want to see more machine diversity and teams in the mix.
It's not a big deal, I just had this vision in my head that there was this major 2 stroke revolution going on down south based on the way some people talk on here. So I was expecting to see them all over the place......but I can count on one hand how many I saw in 2 weeks.. That’s all. What I saw down south is about the same ratio as back here in Ontario.
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