There seems to be a massive fascination currently with "gimmicks", and it seems to sell bikes. Fuel injection, different displacements, and the one that gets me, Yamaha's reverse cylinder, on the current generation four strokes. In 08 and 09, you didnt see many YZ 450's at the track, cos people had jumped on the fuel injected Suzi, then in 09, the KX and CRF. Now with the "AMAZING" reverse cylinder, and even though the new bike is 3kg heavier, you see new Yamaha's everywhere. It really makes me wonder, and most of the time, shake my head.
Just to give some inspiration to everyone here, I smoked a couple of fast guys riding brand new KTM 350s on the weekend. I went and spoke to both of them after one of the sessions, and it was quite a good chat. Both of these guys have spent HUGE amounts of money on their new bikes. Both still have 2010 450's sitting at home for sale, and they cant sell!!!! The amount of money these guys spend makes my head spin. My $5000 08 YZ 250 is the PERFECT bike, cheap to buy, cheap to maintain, so much FUN to ride, and a great RACE weapon !!!! By the way, both those guys said they loved how good my 250 sounded wide open when I passed them !!
Also on the weekend something else brought a smile to my face. I was watching the lites practice, and saw guys coming out of the corner just in front of where i was parked, which was a fairly deep loamy rutted corner. The guys on 250F's were using heaps of clutch and touching the limiter a couple of times clicking gears out of the corner and up the straight. Now, I bet you are wondering why all this brought a smile to my face? Not because I liked how it sounded, I didnt, but these days I am use to it. No, it was because I thought to myself, I never have to worry about maintaining a four stroke that has so many moving parts, uses very expensive oil to keep everything lubricated and working as it should, and requires a bank loan should something fail. What a relief that thought is !!!
Now, I just gotta go out and win this weekend !!!
