2-strokes in MotoGP?

[steveyb]

Same model as a mates. Golly was it 30 years ago.
Reputed to be so small you could have driven it through the botanical gardens pathways in the small hours. Not that it ever happened of course.

Oh, no, never happened I am quite sure!

Yep, 30 years ago. Seems like yesterday.
Remember doing a couple of rebuilds on the engine after siezures!!!
But small enough to fit down a one lane road with a milk tanker already on the road!!!

Choice!

[roogazza]

Ha ha, yeah, I think there may be a few gens between us.
Grew up in the States following Dad around to bike shows and swap meets and stuff, but it was almost all classic American or European 4-stroke stuff. Never had much if anything to do with 2-strokes, other than cursing chainsaws.

And granted, the 2-stroke era may have been great and all, but I get a bit pissed off when people talk about it as the end all and be all, and their ain't nothing good that has happened since they got rid of the smokers. Different perspectives........

My present bike a gsxr thou is an amazing thing, far better than I am. As I said in another thread," Riding it is like having sex with an Aerobics Instructor " !!!!!

[F5 Dave]

ok at the time but more brain damage than its worth? Not going there again.

[Grumph]

Here ya go....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Fronte

My mates family had a 7S-SS10. Bloody neat it was.


Well, I guess they aren't quite everywhere......

We bought one of those shortly after getting married. $1800 new from manchester fiat in ChCh - and it got thrashed unmercifully....did the small ends once and the diff bearings twice - I could have the donk out in 35min...
At ruapuna testing bike one day and decided to try a few laps....65 seconds flat - but you had to throw it at the sweeper to keep it on the band in 3rd. Couple of weeks later at a combined car/bike day I asked a couple of Lotus Cortina owners what their times were...67 sec...maybe i should have raced it lol....Someone put a full TR750 motor in a fronte coupe for allcomers. It was seen once and disappeared. Reputedly, it kept spinning at the Ruapuna hairpin under brakes, not surprised.
Dave - remind me to show you a pic when you come down for the BoB - the young grumph,homebuilt TR3 and fronte - none of us aged well.

[quickbuck]

So as I drove to work (its ok I had some bike parts in the van) I didn't see any open wheel driver exposed cars revving to 20,000 (or whatever tehy do I care not about car racing).

There may have been one or two on the road that have a Kinetic Energy Recovery System in them though........
No DRS on cars yet, but many have Flappy Paddle Semi Auto Gearboxes....

Na, no F1 Technology ever makes it into cars......

[husaberg]

There may have been one or two on the road that have a Kinetic Energy Recovery System in them though........
No DRS on cars yet, but many have Flappy Paddle Semi Auto Gearboxes....

Na, no F1 Technology ever makes it into cars......

I think the flappy paddle was actually a kart innovation?

[quickbuck]

I think the flappy paddle was actually a kart innovation?

Could have been... but it was Ferrari that developed the 7 Speed Sequential Box for use in cars that the paddles operate.
Of course sequential boxes have been around for years.............. and Kart Gearbox motors typically seem to be Motorcycle engines.

[husaberg]

Could have been... but it was Ferrari that developed the 7 Speed Sequential Box for use in cars that the paddles operate.
Of course sequential boxes have been around for years.............. and Kart Gearbox motors typically seem to be Motorcycle engines.

I see you seen the irony of my last post lol.

This is some stuff i trawled up on the 90's Yams.
From memory the GP's were an hour i think.
I added some Honda and Doohan pics cause i felt like it.

[F5 Dave]

Imagine having to ballast your 4 cyl bike up to 130kg

[Crasherfromwayback]

Imagine having to ballast your 4 cyl bike up to 130kg

Think the limit was 118kg way back in the day wannit? Then maybe to 124...then 130?

[F5 Dave]

I couldn't be bothered researching it, but it was in the era of trying to reduce the speed & expense but yes they kept pushing the limit up. - real racebikes Brucie.


Hmm, quick Wiki: 160 kg now. Bloody buses.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I couldn't be bothered researching it, but it was in the era of trying to reduce the speed & expense but yes they kept pushing the limit up. - real racebikes Brucie.


Hmm, quick Wiki: 160 kg now. Bloody buses.

Yeah fucking lard buckets! Fast but.

[F5 Dave]

So's a Tokyo train.

[steveyb]

So's a Tokyo train.

Shinkansen