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[QUOTE="Dekester, post: 1206079, member: 74578"] Hey Convert, I am going to make a couple of points on your last post. I am not trying to flame you, nor is my energy of that in my previous post. "So explain to me why you feel that it's unfair to almost double the cc in order to even out the playing field. The fact that a 4 stroke makes power over a broad rpm range is in fact better than the narrow range of a 2 stroke." The 250 2t and 450 4t competing together is NOT a level playing field. Your statement "The fact that a 4 stroke makes power over a broad rpm range is in fact better than the narrow range of a 2 stroke." answers your own question. Peak horsepower is similar, but with dramatically different power curves. Obviously an engine does not always run at peak power. Therefore the one that runs closer to peak power for the majority of the power curve would have an advantage. An interesting and useful number that would really illustrate what I just said would be AVERAGE horsepower or AVERAGE torque over the entire curve. That said, there would be some point where decreased 4 stroke cc's or increased 2 stroke cc's would offset each other fairly. For the 125/250f class, maybe that fair balance would be increasing the 125 to say 144cc. I am just using 144 as a number for illustration. Then, the higher peak horsepower/torque of the 144 would offset the broader but lower peak horsepower/torque of the 250f. I think increasing the 125 is the better move here as traction issues would probably not come into play with the 144. For the 250/450f class, I would think bringing the 450 down to say 350-400 would be ideal. Bringing the 4 stroke down in this class would probably reduce life threatening/changing injuries as well as keep tracks more universal to the smaller class. Additionally, an increase in 2 stroke cc's may make traction problems worse than they already are for the 2 stroke. On another note, I feel you are downplaying the higher repair costs of MODERN 4 strokes. It is one thing to compare regular maintenance. It is completely a different beast when comparing catastrophic failure, which happens to 2 strokes and 4 strokes. The difference is HUGE in this department and can not be debated and should not be downplayed. Replacing a top end on a 4 stroke that failed is huge. There are many more parts to buy and labor is higher as well. Not to mention the average person could do a top end on a 2 stroke. Not so on a modern 4 stroke. It is not very often where a 2 stroke is parted out due to a top end failure. I see it all the time on the 4 strokes. [/QUOTE]
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