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I guarantee you that bike is crazy expensive as well. It's big bro, the RSV 1000 runs a lil more than Ducati 999 price.

Im partial to the RSV and the touno myself. the RSV is quite comfy for a sportbike

there has not beeen a 2 stroke streetbike available new in the US since the late 70s, there were a few yamaha RD and RZ bikes in the US during the 80s but they sold poorly and are impossible to find used.

VermilionX wrote:like divide said, 2 stroke engines are not street legal in the US so nope, we won't see it here.

not true at all.

I know in California they can't sell two strokes, but in every other state they can. They dont make two stroke street bikes anymore, but they do make two stroke scooters. One example is a Stella:


http://www.genuinescooters.com/stella.html

These are completely street legal.




As far as two stroke street bike, at least as far as "sport" bikes go, I believe the last one was a RD400, 79 or so.

I'm pretty sure(not positive) that you could buy RD-350LC's('80-'82) in the states as well as the RZ-350 for a few years after that. When the RZ-500's came out, we got them in Canada, but they couldn't in the States.

Scooters fall under a slightly different set of rules so you can still buy them there if they are under a certain displacement..... but that's just me thinkin' again....

so does that mean that bike is legal in the us, i don't even see any of the 250 used for sell anywhere in the us

aside from scooters the last 2 stroke street bike I know of that was sold in the US was the RZ350 in the early 80s. The RZ350s engine still lives in the frame of the Yamaha Banshee ATV, a lot nastier sounding than the typical 2 stroke