Ken from Okinawa, you're page entitled "two strokes are better heres why" is spot on! The after-market is making a killing on these expensive LOUD 4-bangers!
I have to say, when Yamaha started racing the YZ400f with Doug Henry, I knew things were going to go down hill after that! It just started snow-balling! Next was the YZ426f & then Honda jumped on the bandwagon with their CRF450. Yamaha answered with their own 450f! And I just knew the manufacturers were in the process of phasing out our beloved ring-dingers.
Now the reason I blame Yamaha for this mess knowing there has been quite a few European some-what high performance bikes out since the early 80's, is because Yamaha started racing their 4-strokes "with a great racer" in the U.S. moto-x & then super-x with some success. And the AMA allowed them to increase the cc to 450 which I think was unfair for the 250 2-strokes! After that Honda and the rest jumped aboard & seemed to forget about the 2-stroke!
Jun 07, 2008 Rating
Thanks by: Hayden
Thanks Ken. I appreciate your comments.
I agree with you on many points, however I have modified the page to make it clearer as to what I meant about the 'power to weight ratio' as I was not writing it with the AMA and their classes in mind.
There is a dominating voice coming through this 2 stroke vs 4 stroke topic, and it's people who are strongly against what is happening in the dirt bike/motocross industry right now.
If this is how the masses feel then I can't see how the bike manufacturers will wipe out the two-strokes completely. After all the market demand is almost always what determines what suppliers sell.
