People seem to regard MXA as the ''defender of the 2 stroke".
Well, no, they vacillate with the wind / trends of the time.
IF they were serious, they would include 250 2ts in the Full, 250 MX Shoot Outs. Tell the manufacturers, if they object to that comparison, to pull their heads in. That is, if they have the balls to do that.
Show full rev range dyno charts, not refer to the KTM250SX as having 19HP more than the 250F at 8K, and calling that the midrange for the 2502t - when it's basically at / near it's top end. It has 49.77HP at 8500, the F has 42.88 at 13500. The 4ts will be soon at the door of a 2t, in HP - I'd be surprised if the factory KTMs are not approaching those levels, now. And Moto 3, is going to bring a lot more development to the 4ts. Pricey Engines, though.
They then describe the 250SX as having no low end whatsoever. What a load of crap.
I never pay much attention to the 'common' dyno chart - they mean little in real life.
MXA needs to take a leaf out of their own book - recently, on their site, with testing of a few mods on a bike, they did dyno runs at various throttle openings / revs, then compared the increases / or loss at those throttle setting / revs, then showed How much of a percentage increase / decrease that mod made at those various points. Showing that a 2 / 5 / 10 / "whatever" HP increase at certain throttle / rev settings, Can be a Big difference. Costly to do, yes, but the way it should be done, by the ''worlds best / biggest, MX Magazine".
And, they Should take the very few minutes, to try different PV Springs and pre-load effects. It makes a heck of a difference, so much so that the 250 2t will be damn near as good as hooking up on hard / slippery ground as a 250F - whilst Still having much more power, much earlier.
So, while they still do not include 'like' displacement bikes in Full shootouts, and they don't cut the crap and show various engines operating rev ranges as they are, they continue to reinforce / create BS.
