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250 cc? Check!

Man, you guys overseas get all the good 250's!

Scott58 wrote:Man, you guys overseas get all the good 250's!

Whaddya mean? You're the one overseas! No, wait...what? Who's overseas? From where? Sh*t. Where am I?


Please don't make me look up another 250cc two-stroke. Two-strokes are too-powerful. Don't buy two strokes kids.


Ed

I am new to biking also...I got a Honda Rebel 250, and I love it...i spoke to several of my freinds about what i should get for my first bike and all reccomended the Rebel....its been a great bike to learn on and I would reccomend any new biker learn to ride on it

I just spent 10 minutes wondering why a 2 stroke should be so much more powerful than an equivalent-displacement 4 stroke engine.

I couldn't figure it out. Nothing seemed that different. I was thinking about valving, exhaust, fuel mixtures, etc. I was going nuts. I was about to post here asking, and then I wrote the "4" in 4 stroke and realized what the answer was.

That's my story for the evening. Goodnight

jonnythan wrote:I just spent 10 minutes wondering why a 2 stroke should be so much more powerful than an equivalent-displacement 4 stroke engine.

I couldn't figure it out. Nothing seemed that different. I was thinking about valving, exhaust, fuel mixtures, etc. I was going nuts. I was about to post here asking, and then I wrote the "4" in 4 stroke and realized what the answer was.

That's my story for the evening. Goodnight

Hmm, i still don't know what a stroke is can someone please, in easy terms tell me what is the difference between cc and strokes?

We have posted links to 'encyclopedia' sites, google, pages on specifically two-stroke bikes with attached info on

1. displacement
2. power figures

as well as lists of bikes that are definitley four-stroke powered. What more do you want?

My Game is over. Obviously two-stroke bikes make crappy learner bikes. Why would a learner want a bike best described as a 'track day special' put out 55bhp at 10k RPM only weighing 140kg?

Learn the terms, read some info, and ask an intelligent question.

Wrider wrote:Just the other day in school we were going over two strokes... In 1991, Honda made a 500cc Parallel Twin 2-Stroke race bike. The racers who rode it were actually scared of it. Why? Over 300 HP. Even the Hayabusa, at 1349 ccs (2008 model) makes a claimed 198 HP, because it's a 4-Stroke... That's the difference... lol
Wrider

Liar, that 500 made like 170 some hp. But it was in a narrow band and a scary light chassis.

xornr89 wrote:

jonnythan wrote:I just spent 10 minutes wondering why a 2 stroke should be so much more powerful than an equivalent-displacement 4 stroke engine.

I couldn't figure it out. Nothing seemed that different. I was thinking about valving, exhaust, fuel mixtures, etc. I was going nuts. I was about to post here asking, and then I wrote the "4" in 4 stroke and realized what the answer was.

That's my story for the evening. Goodnight

Hmm, i still don't know what a stroke is can someone please, in easy terms tell me what is the difference between cc and strokes?

The reason is that a 2-stroke engine has a detonation every rotation of the crankshaft. 4-stroke engines have detonations every *other* rotation of the crankshaft. Hence a 2-stroke engine of similar displacement will produce more power.