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Canadian Daves JustKDX
The public's return to 2 strokes
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[QUOTE="Rich Rohrich, post: 1367272, member: 16241"] Many years back when I worked for Vic "Mr Know It All" Krause in his Maico shop I foolishly quoted a spec sheet in an attempt to prop up a wobbly ill-conceived argument. He laughed and said, " don't believe everything you read because [i][b]paper accepts all ink"[/b][/i]. There wasn't an [i]International Horsepower Accuracy Commission[/i] keeping those mooks honest back then, and not much has changed.;) I still have more two-strokes in my personal collection than four-strokes and they are bikes I'll likely keep forever, but you guys are kidding yourselves if you think the two-strokes as we know them today (light, simple, inexpensive) will be anything other than a fading memory in the future. For two-strokes to become viable on a large scale going forward they will likely have to change to the point that we'll barely recognize them. People routinely make grand statements about how they would love a direct injection two-stroke, and they know the technology is there to keep two-strokes clean. What seems to get missed in these chest thumping soap box proclamations becomes clear once the harsh light of reality hits things. You quickly see that to obtain that goal you have to at least initially make the beloved two-stroke heavier, more complicated, and considerably more expensive. While I'd love to have a Direct Injection RZ350 to replace my aging carbureted LC350, I'm not foolish enough to delude myself into thinking it could happen without huge changes to the characteristics that made the bike desirable in the first place. I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for that elusive "free lunch". [/QUOTE]
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