As most of you know i have a very soft spot for trick four strokes, ride an R7 that makes 160-165bhp at 15,000, wont pull away unless your doing 3k and will fouls plus quicker than any NSR could and say they are easy to ride.
Fontyyy will tell you even trying to get my RC outta my drive isnt easy. A four stroke with some mojo can hit and kick as well as alot of things out there.
Im glad they are keeping 250's as 2 stokes because i think GP should be 2 stoke, or what ever is faster. If it comes to the point where they can get 250 4's going as fast or faster than a 250 stroker then they shoud change.
Remember when the 500's were being killed off, the 750 super bikes were fast enough to get on to the second row of most 500 GP's and they werent double the size, the gap had been closing very fast for a few years.
I dont think that making GP 990 was fair for this very reason, 990 was always going to beat the 500 strokes if the 750's were so close to doing it anyway.
Hell, the NR project might not of been an amazing susscess but even in the late 70' and early 80's it still managed to beat some 500 two stokes and it was the same size!
While everyone is still making scooters we dont have to worry though, they will keep making 2t oil for us
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