The 2010 X Games were disasterous for the FOOPERS.... And due to the very large audience that event draws, it is VERY important to the Motocycle Manure-Fart-Surers...
If you remember, in 2010 it was basically the same happeneing as in Supercross 03, 04, 05. There was a mix of 2 and 4 stroke machinery and the 4 strokes looked completely rediculous, farting and sputtering about ineptly like pigletts on a buttered cookie sheet. I remember the guys on real bikes screaming and jetting around nimbly, while the 4 stroke pilots looked like they were flogging a sweaty dung beetle, and all their idles were goosed up to like 4,000 r's to try to keep them from stalling. Super advanced Fuel injected shitturds.... The 2 strokes ran circles around them and just made them look BAD in so many ways.
To avoid someting like that happeneing again, a lot of money was thrown around.... the first place money was thrown was at Taddy Blazuziak. They needed to get him on board a FOOPER for 2011 so he wouldn't make the FOOPERS look stupid. Tempting offers are made so that the visible, "Stars" will ride FOOPERS... and say the right things when they are asked, of course.....
Once again, the factories can see that the ONLY way they are going to be able to make 4 strokes look good is to make sure they are the only ones out there. Because when they have to complete with 2 strokes, they are basically a public relations failure... The only way they can be shown in a positive light, and effectively hyped for the public, is if they are only competing with their own type.