Imagine what Yamaha or Honda could accomplish if they threw their engineering department and half a billion dollars at it! Honda made good two strokes, whether they admit it or not.
The thing is, 1/2 a billion is not needed. Not even 1/2 a million would be needed for development. As I feel it's just sitting there, gathering dust, in quite a few company archives. Of course, you've then got tooling up / manufacture costs, but strict development costs, from right now .....
Yamaha have their DFI sorted in their Outboards - it, as it stands, may, or may not be suitable for bike use. Honda, you can guarrantee, have every damned aspect of 2ts sorted - and probably from a lot longer than decade and a half ago. Just their AR tech, could have been applied to
real performance applications , and not just the Asian (and later, at a tiny scale, Australian ) trail bike / dual sport market. AR, with an electronic carb (EFI) - since it's got so cheap it's now on Postie Bikes (saw the new ones the other day - Wot, they are Green and White, not Racing Red?
It's just not right, I telz Yuz ) - would probably pass "whatever" these bloody Euro 3 specs are, whenever (2017) they bloody well 'have' to be met ...........
No, Honda = All Four Strokes, All The Time. Therefore, Honda, can well and truly, go **** themselves.