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regarding the 250cc 2 stroke class jumping to a 4 stroke 600cc...

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/07/moriwaki-debuts-first-600gp-pr.html

Tasty bike .... there goes another tradition

robracer wrote:.... there goes another tradition

Isn't this expected? Two smokes are being banned everythere due to emission regs. At the end of this year you will not be able to buy a new 2 stroke motoX bike, and they have been selling and racing four strokes for a while. Am almost surprised it has taken this long for it to take hold in GPs.

actually some moto x racers are actually going back to 2 stroke race bikes now.... looks like honda may have given them the flick too early....

from what we heard from europe it had been the intention that there be 800cc MotoGP, & 400cc & 200cc 4 strokes as the support classes.
thats was at the end of last year.

i cant believe it, as it looks like it is happeneing even though i wanna cry. i grew up on 2 strokes & the thought of no 250's??
perhaps the sweetest of all GP machines will be banished forever.
if i had the dough id buy the last 250 2 stroke that wins the world championship.

honda havnt bothered for ages in the smaller GP classes but we have cbr 150's & mori 250's already racing in our domestic championship.
yammie also have a 450 in a 250 chassis frame (damn i cant find the link to this)

for those of us old enough to remember the golden decade of grand rprix premier class 2 stroke racing

part 1 http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PgBsdXKIH ... re=related

part 2 http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zd6swR0P ... re=related