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General Two Stroke Talk / oops.

« on: July 31, 2013, 10:25:09 AM »

Longer silencer will usually give better mid-top, same with Boyesen Rad Valve.

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General Two Stroke Talk / OK EVO,it was your idea........

« on: April 19, 2013, 11:04:30 AM »

TM's electronic powervalve on the 125/144 is an innovation, it works off of RPM but has the capability to also use throttle position, which I'm sure they are doing a lot of testing with. That combined with Lectrons/smartcarbs could have a lot of potential for improvement.

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General Two Stroke Talk / OK EVO,it was your idea........

« on: April 11, 2013, 03:02:43 AM »

Bottom line is no bike is perfect, and 250 2-strokes have been good enough for the past ten years that they are all capable of being great with some minor tweaks. None of them are without weakness. KTM's need suspension work, generally speaking. The Yamaha is down about 3hp to it. You can spend a little or a lot trying to make up for either of these deficiencies.

Myself, I'll take a TM. It's not perfect either but it's as good of a starting point as any of the rest but it has one thing the others don't. It's hand built by some bad ass Italians who are downright passionate about what they do and it's as close to a works bike as you can buy for actually a very competitive price with the others. The biggest problem TM has is I can't decide if I want a 250 or a 300.

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General Two Stroke Talk / OK EVO,it was your idea........

« on: April 10, 2013, 08:45:48 PM »

Take away the SSS suspension and you have a basic bike that is straight from the 90's, especially at 44-46hp which is garbage(99 rm250 had 50hp!). If the 2012/13 250sx had the same suspension, it wouldn't even be a comparison.

No way the 99 RM250 had anywhere close to 50hp, that generation RM250 was a complete turd.