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'09 CRF450R problem already...
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[QUOTE="Rich Rohrich, post: 1329457, member: 16241"] What a load of crap. Stirring the pot is exactly what you are trying to do. Most people never race their MX bike so what wins on Sunday is of no consequence to most buyers. Four-strokes are no more difficult to maintain then modern two-strokes, but enough people who have never laid hands on one are convinced otherwise. Then you get guys like you parroting the same bad info when it's clear they have no experience to back it up, and the cycle continues. If you maintain a modern two-stroke [b]properly[/b] the costs and work involved is about the same as a four-stroke. The work is a little different and it requires people to buy a service manual, [b]read it[/b] and learn some new procedures, but almost all of it can be done by a guy at home with the same hand tools that we used on two-strokes. The exception being, cutting of valve seats. You can buy simple hand tools from the OEM or aftermarket (Neway) and cut seats at home or you can farm it out. This work isn't done very often so the overall cost increase is minor. What this ultimately boils down to is pretty simple. For a lot of riders, two-strokes give riders more leeway in ignoring maintenance. Riders who want to run their bikes till the parts are totally shagged get off easier when their two-stroke breaks a part or two. We see these same people coming out here to the forums completely baffled by why the skirt broke off their two-stroke piston, or why their crank seized. The current crop of four-strokes has been around for more then 10 years, and none of this is new. What has changed is a large number of these maintenance impaired dolts have purchased four-strokes and are using these same maintenance ideas and it's biting them harder. For a lot of people four-strokes are just more fun to ride, and they work. If they weren't they wouldn't sell as well as they do, and two-strokes wouldn't have been collecting dust on the dealer floor. [/QUOTE]
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