Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => General Two Stroke Talk => Topic started by: miedosoracing on December 27, 2010, 01:45:57 PM
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Kinda interesting that GuyB posted it. Because it kinda talks about how much more it takes PC even to build them. It also talks about how a 2 stroke loses power, but the 4 lets go.. Watch mainly 3:00 and on and it tells the truth.
http://www.vitalmx.com/videos/features/Meet-Mitch-Payton,989/GuyB,64 (http://www.vitalmx.com/videos/features/Meet-Mitch-Payton,989/GuyB,64)
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It's interesting to note what Mr.Payton isn't saying and I suspect what he isn't saying is that with increased R&D costs and reduced racer numbers due to the greater costs of racing a 4 stk. he's making less money.Not that this is solely what motivates him but that "The writing is on the wall",that the new generation of 4stks are reducing participation in the sport and that it affects everyone involved in the sport.
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Yeah, that's a good thread. My work computer won't pull up the video, but there's also a good quote from him at the first of the thread
" I don't know that I like the 250 four-strokes in the 125 class. It is too much of an advantage. They are double the size of our KX125's. Double! The legal four-strokes in the 250 class aren't double. The legal four strokes in the 80 class aren't double. You need to find a happy medium, and 250 ain't it. They are going to keep getting better, too. Right now, the 125's can run with them with momentum and speed in the corners, but what happens when you get behind them is that they slow down in the corners because they don't corner as well. They squirt the first ten or twenty feet, and then you have to try and run them down. That's hard. They get great starts too because of their traction. They have a big advantage here. You get little kids getting off an 80cc bike and they'll have to go to a 250. It is too big for tham, too heavy and they can't start the things. All the manufacturers are working on them, and unfortunately we'll all be racing them in a few years." â?? Mitch Payton, Pro Circuit
Quoted in MXA, Sept. 2001.
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He knew it from the beginning...