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You can die on the drive to Walmart buddy. Why don’t you suggest the rest of the field call it quits? Why don’t you quit riding? Be less gay lol😂😂😂😂

Can you guys stop trying to retire the guy? Sometimes you have a little bad luck. It’s not like he’s gotten senile or something and forgot where the brake lever was.

Where else did you want them to mount that electronic power valve? Cylinder heads have been almost identical on every single Japanese/Euro 2 stroke for the last 20 years, both these bikes have entirely different bottom end designs, both have case reeds, the cylinders themselves are different, not to mention Kymco isn’t producing Chinese cylinders for Kawasaki unlike KTM 😂

They’re different, that’s like saying, Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha were copying each others engine designs back when 2 strokes were still at the forefront because they looked similar. The Japanese brands all looked similar but were different. Were you expecting a modern fuel injected Japanese 2 stroke to look like what they were developing 20 years ago? 😂

Of course not, KTM's own ineptitude and unethical business practices did, that is why KTM is BAJAJ now except in name.

Yes you can, but it still lacks. The Fantic is only a 5 speed and no counter balancer.

Let's hope Suzuki does the same

Marchbanks.. whatta dumb ass... He is too stupid to be to be fast... Box of rocks.. yeah let's drill a legand on the first lap of a F'n 39 minute race... he's in such a hurry to place 11th..... just a liability on the track...

I think it's funny that people (incl. people like Matthes) are seriously questioning his fitness. You really think someone can become an MXGP champion beating guys like Herlings, Febvre and Gajser while being unfit? Fading in SX races when you have less than 20 races in your life (none on a 250) is a completely different thing, that was down to lack of experience and wanting to get through the season.

Carb on a 4 stroke? No way. But give me a carb on a 2 stroke, all day.

People demonise the carburettor specifically, but as mentioned above some bikes require constant fiddling, then another bike with the same carb can be mostly set and forget. The entire package matters for good carburation. It's often the manufacturers fault for bad carb experiences, spec'ing incorrect slides, silly rich/lean jets as stock, or letting the bike leave the factory with massive squish numbers or badly set ignition timing etc. Personally I like the old school carb, it used to be a part of the overall package of speed. If you were smart, new your bike well and could tune for temps...

Yz250 is a great bike and has stood the test of time. But it objectively falls short of the modern 2stroke.

Ricky is the great of ALL time not the greatest of HIS time

Sorry, Jett is a beast, but he is no RC. I friend who worked for team Yamaha told me this story. He said after Friday practice(the classes had a combined open practice back then) at GH in 1997, Doug Henry came back to the truck and all he could talk about was that "Carmicheal kid" blowing by him coming down Mt. St. Helen. And how who couldn't believe anyone could send it that hard and no way would he could survive a complete outdoor season etc.. The bottom line, RC had one prime directive- GOAT or death. And he made...

I bought a used CR250 and my friend bought a Beta RX350. If the Kawi was released I would have considered it. Hard to hang out for something not even knowing what it is exactly.

Plus it's not even about checking bolts. To the best of my knowledge, the issue is about the clamps covering the full 360 degrees of the bar. You can't have that, because it will never be tight. The radius of one or both parts extends too far, it needs a gap under the bolt in order to provide clamping force. If that really is the issue, folks could probably fix this themselves by milling a small amount from the clamp face.

Chase stayed at home last summer. That goes against "fulfilling" the contract ones signed that everyone keeps repeating as breaking it. Technically probably both did but also none of them since one was "injured" and the other "did his best". Same with Webb, didnt fulfill what he was contracted for (outdoors).

Dude was concussed, came in hurt, crashed some more, he wasn’t his peak. He missed races and stepped back in you can’t tell me that doesn’t take the edge off him. But sure let’s say he had sextons number. Who else was there? Plessinger? Like come on, this seasons line up is disgusting compared to 23