DifferentStrokes wrote:
Anyone who tells you the reliability of a 2 stroke is anywhere compareable to a four stoke is either a blatent lier, has a 2-stroke they want to sell you, or has a business that Depends on others riding them. PERIOD

OK, I am obviously a liar, as I'm not selling my NSR and I don't have a business dependant on 2-strokes.

I do however live in the real world, and I have owned, and do own reliable 2-strokes. I also know of plenty of destroyed 4-strokes, both car and bike motors. Simple fact is that anything will break if it's abused, even the so-called unburstable V4's, but there is also no reason why a stock 45hp 250 can't also be reliable. It just needs to be looked after. I never broke my MBX125 or my TZR125, despite not having a clue how to look after them when I was 17! All I did know was to put decent oil in. I can't EVER remember buying a spark plug for a 125, EVER cleaning an air filter, or EVER replacing a piston/rings! All I did was ride them and clean them! Funilly enough, they would both probably have been around 20hp... about 1/2 that of an MC28 with 2 cylinders and twice the capacity.

The point about a 240hp 1000 is that it's going to be an extremely highly strung race bike, and liable to extremely intensive maintenance... sound familiar? 2-strokes tend to be unreliable because they are neglected, and also (when making decent power) producing high levels of performance for it's capacity. It's also being asked to do the same things as a "normal" bike but with considerably less power and torque. It's all relative.

A 40hp 250 IS NOT unreliable, but idiots can make it so!
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