Characteristics of a parallel twin?

[James Deuce]

My RG250 was a parallel twin 2 stroke. Beautiful engine that. Smooth, responsive, and a fantastic sound.

[Pwalo]

My RG250 was a parallel twin 2 stroke. Beautiful engine that. Smooth, responsive, and a fantastic sound.

You should have heard my brother's blue printed RD350(Yamagamma), complete with spannies, running on race gas. Woohoo that was something!

Preferred my old RD400 on the road though.

[grego]

Whoah! That's sweet! Much better than my bike's stupid chain driven counterbalance thing with wheels.

@Grego, is that a Moto Rumi you're talking about? My grandpa had a 200cc two-stroke parallel twin Moto Rumi from the early 60s... wonder if it was related to your bike? By all accounts it was pretty scary, too, lol.

sounds like it. I got a photo somewhere in my computerflies. The frame was virtually unsprung in the back and the bloddy thing was very temperamentfull just like todays Italian bikes can be...........(ducking for cover now)