2 Stroke at Hangtown

[Charles Owens]

From Vital MX via Twitter.
"Chris Gosselaar says if he can get some help findin a two-stroke 125, he'll race it at Hangtown"

[Coop]

Awesome, lets hope he gets some help and runs the 125  .

[burn1986]

I'm sure he can find a 2-stroke 125. How do we start?

[ktm150rippa]

too bad they dont allow 150's I have an extra motor and would let him ride it. A 125 at Hangtown would be tough with all those hills and kind of hard packed dirt.

[motoman356]

actually for race day there will be a lot of loam added to the track. dirt diggers have been increasing the amount put there each year. but hard pack would help the 125 as would the shorter straights unlike a unadilla or red bud or washougal. but you are right the hills would be killer plus turns are tight. remember 04 125s with stewart and hughes up front at hangtown but then again this is goose not the ryno

[Shawn36]

The only 125 that currently qualifies for the AMA rules is a Yamaha made in the last 2 years.  And while Lil Goose is fast, I'm not sure he could make the gate. 

[ACMX]

The RM doesn't qualify? I can understand that since they haven't been importing to the US since 2007. But I thought 2007 machines were still legal. And what about KTM? What was their last 125 they imported to the US? I'm sure that's legal. It's probably got a beast of a motor too.

[JE97]

It should be legal.. If I remember correctly, last year somone attempted to qualify for a supercross event on a 2011 KTM 150sx. Bone stock motor with a pipe and came very close. It may have been Seattle or SLC.. Hmm.. So I dont see why a KTM or even a Suzuki shouldn't be legal to race.

[Charles Owens]

I'm pretty sure he could run up to 5 model years back. Any Jap or KTM 125cc only.

[SwapperMX]

This would be a perfect opportunity for two stroke motocross to have a project bike out there at the top level. It would be worth it just to get his dad Goose to do the motor and suspension. Someone needs to make this happen !!

[motoman356]

first there was a rider (i dont recall his name) but in 07-08 a guy got help from ktm and DID qualify on a ktm125 at seattle? for any bike to ridden in the pros it has to be no older than five years in fact someone asked in MXA if they could race a 05 yzf and were told no. an rm yz ktm or cr for that matter would still qualify. why dont pros race older bikes? simple: factory contingency only pays for the current year and the previous 2010-2011 and next year only for 2011-2012

[VintageBlueSmoke]

Somewhere on TSM there was a link to the AMA's definitive list of eligible machines. I wasn't paying attention to the lights class so much but I seem to remember only 1 year CR125, all the Yamaha YZ's, a KTM, and maybe last year's Husky - not this years. No TM. But then again, I could be thinking Premier class.

[Shawn36]

It isn't merely about what should be legal. The bike must have been submitted by the factory and proved to be homologated.  Very few, including KTM, care to bother with this.  That's why you never see the occasional Euro bike like a TM or Gas Gas out there. 

[ACMX]

Well GasGas and TM simply arent legal in pro AMA. Thats different.

[VintageBlueSmoke]

Somewhere on TSM there was a link to the AMA's definitive list of eligible machines. I wasn't paying attention to the lights class so much but I seem to remember only 1 year CR125, all the Yamaha YZ's, a KTM, and maybe last year's Husky - not this years. No TM. But then again, I could be thinking Premier class.

Sorry to open a dead thread but I finally found the link again. Follow here for future reference:

http://www.amaproracing.com//assets/AMAProApprovedMX.pdf