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race a Husky 250 2 smoke outdoors but needs some help to make it happen.
See his post from yesterday - https://www.instagram.com/p/BEZ3mP2Gprh/?taken-by=kyle_regal&hl=en
See his post from yesterday - https://www.instagram.com/p/BEZ3mP2Gprh/?taken-by=kyle_regal&hl=en
What track would he do best at y'all think? Sand? Hard Packed?
The Shop
The worst thing about riding a 2 stroke against all the 4 strokes besides the power disadvantage is the line choice. 1 guy making lines specifically for the power delivery of a 2 stroke, against 39 others with a different idea, is just impossible. You have to use lines catered to a 4 stroke.
Pit Row
If you showed up to the Foxboro supercross this week with a KTM250SX with the 300cc cylinder they make, you would not be allowed to race.
The unleaded fuel rule also slaughtered the potential of these things.
The hell? If I wasn't so strapped at the moment, I'd love to help. Seeing Steinke rip the 125 last year was a highlight for me! Hopefully he can make a few and qualify.
Not sure if their homologations are still in place, been extended / 're-upped'.
Kyle's a ' big boy' with a fairly high profile. If he can't get help from at least Husky / KTM in the form of bikes and parts, well, it would be a bit weird. Politically, perhaps ktHusky might be the most logical one.
If he gets the big stuff in place, I'd certainly help - I did so with the 2StrokeMotocross web sites effort a couple of years ago, giving $100 US -a piddly amount, I know, but something, at least.
It's pathetic that even "over-bored by the factory" 150s (yes, I know the 150 KTM prior to 2016 models were stroked as well) and 300s are not allowed - but simply, more so that full equivalency is not allowed. Look to the series around the world where it has been allowed - there's been no wholesale destruction of 4ts, and, there's so much more to come from 4t development - just as there is for 2ts. Well, the 2T engines, in motorcycle terms, have remained in the past, for so very long now.
For those that don't know, 58HP is generally held to be the HP that the fully kitted KTM 250RCs and the Hondas, are said to be putting out in Moto3 this season - and all with very tight controls over the specs. Heck, they have a limit of 13,500RPM in place, and there's no such restriction in MX / Off Road. That alone bodes well for bikes that will be less of a 'time bomb', in the future, I reckon :- having the manufacturers not have the " go for sky high revs " solution available to them, that they've often used when it comes to 4ts.
DC & Co allow equivalency in XC2 in GNCCs - why he / they are so under the thumb of the major manufacturers with your Nationals, is a major disappointment. SX? - well, FELD are the owners of that Circus, and others (Circus's), so really, it will ever be a Circus event - but, hell, if they were to allow equivalency, that really would change things - in terms of major series rules. . I don't think any threats to 'pull out' by manufacturers would be put into action, as The Circus that is SX, is the biggest thing in the US.
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