Two Strokes....and Wet Weather....

[Motu]

What a frustrating day - everytime I saw the sun out,put my boots on and walked to the shed it started to rain....next time the sun came out it was the same thing.On a longer fine break I got all geared up,but that friggen 2 stroke wouldn't start! Finally I get it going and smell the glorious aroma of synthetic 2 stroke at 50:1....it's pissing down,but nothing can stop me now and I head out...


....and mow my lawns.This is a serious attack,full throttle out of the turns with lots of wheelspin and the front wheels pawing the air when it hooks up with traction.At least the weedeater doesn't give any trouble....but I use a whole spool with just a quick run around.Ah....a day with the 2 smokers....

[MattRSK]

Haha Like it. Great race report.

[Flatcap]

Aaah yes - winter lawn mowing.

the worst thing is running over soggy dog turds - I must train the little sod to shit in the same place every time

[jord]

nicely put. nothing beats the sweet smell of a stroker.

[Mr. Peanut]

Where's Ixion?

[ZorsT]

you use synthetic oil in your weed eater?

fair enough

[cheese]

Hahahaha

I was doing the same thing!!! I just got a new weed eater. I ran it at 40:1 though while it's breaking in.

[ZeroIndex]

someone can come mow my lawn for free if they want

[Kickaha]

you use synthetic oil in your weed eater?

fair enough

Mine used to run on Castrol A747 and 100 octane, I've downgraded it to TTS now

[Motu]

I have always run my 2 strokes on 50:1,only because I bought a whole case of oil years ago...at one stage I went through a few bottles using it in my diesels just to get the stock down.

The Victa 550 Professional is a beat up piece of crap,but the motor has always been strong and a first pull starter,keeping the rest of it together has always been the problem,never the motor.Then the Son in Law started borrowing it to keep his 2 over grown sections under control....and he never cleaned it afterwards,never turned the gas of after use,and it became hard to start.It seemed that it would flood very easily,and no matter what you did you couldn't clean it out - I pulled the whole motor down and rebuilt the carb,ran great...but wouldn't start when I pulled it out to mow the lawns.I was getting really pissed off and ready to lay into it with my log splitter when I realised these problems started the same time as I ran out of my 50:1 stock and was using standard oil at 25:1.So I made up a fresh batch with my bike oil at 50:1 and it started first pull! So looks like I had better stick to the synth oil and put up with the smell.The weedeater gets the same fuel as the mower of course.

The Victa 550 is way over kill for my little 800 sq mtr flat section,I got it when I had to keep 1/3 of and acre under control,it was a corner section with road verges as much as what I mow now,let alone the actual section.But when I pulled my old 4 stroke out after not using it for years,it siezed after an oil change - now I have 3 motors in bits ready to make one,but there is a bike to rebuild first.I should buy a new mower - but,but....I don't do things like that!

[NSR-Dan]

hahahaha i did the same thing in one of my NSR's.
I hit the gas, but the bike was on a lean and span round and i dropped it in the mud, nothing broke because the mud was soft where it landed, a real pain to clean afterwards though