Mick Doohan won 5 500cc World Championships not 54. This video just another pathetic effort to make money by spewing out garbage info. One more rip off on the Internet. Zzzzzzz
I still remember my dad borrowed a Kawasaki 150rr from his office for job reasons. Just every single day, 10 minute warm up, me having breakfast and listening to that loudness that is the 2 strokes with smokes coming out of it. After that, my dad drop me by the school with the Kawasaki. Coolest shit i've ever experienced
And when you ride a racing 2 stroke you get the best feeling in the world, adrenaline like no other, after years of riding bikes I still hop on my 80cc 100 pound scooter with 30hp, and I scream from adrenaline, turbo kicks in on high revs, yes turbo bcause 2strokes are similar to a turbo system
@@PinotNoir_ I also have a Honda NSR 125cc 2 stroke, stock delivers 19hp and weights 120kg I think, I put in the a Malossi 180cc cylinder, jollymoto racing exhaust and a 44mm keihin, I haven't dyno tested but it probably gives 40hp, 300cc 4 strokes have no chance near, me trust me.
@@Eddie-g8j damn, that was fast... I use stock 2012 CBR 150r and it only give 16 or 17hp 🤣... Wanna upgrade the ecu and bore up to 180cc, but I'm too scare lol 🤣🤣
Its sad that most people these days don't even know what a two stroke is. I ride a 74 Kawi H2 750 and always get people asking me why my bike smokes and when I explain that its a two stroke they get confused or look at the pipes and then tell me its a 3 cylinder not a two cylinder...
LOL, I had a '74 Suzuki 750 Water Buffalo, Before that, I had 380 Suzuki ram air triple.. The look on some People's faces was hysterical when they heard the Water Buffalo.. Both were strange sounding , but I was in Love.. It was hard to get off either one of them, except for fueling up..
Its crazy to think what advances we've made in like 75-100 years, i remember reading that a lot of early 1900's Harley single cylinder engines were around 350-500cc and only output 3-4hp on average (not to say there werent more powerful engines developed) but the power per displacement is just amazing nowadays
My dad and i (then 17 years) bought a Honda nsr 250, we had such a blast with it. Everytime my dad started it and was tuning it and tested the throttle response...man if closed my eyes in my imagination i was in the paddock with doohan, schwantz, rainy. Good memories. I cherish them with my heart
I raced both two strokes and four strokes. I won six championships, and two national championships on two strokes. The two strokes had no engine braking, and in the back of your mind you always expected it to seize.. two strokes were much cheaper to maintain, and easier to work on. My TZ 250 require new pistons every 200 miles, and a new crankshaft every 600 miles..I like the two strokes
My dad had a tz250 that was once raced by Colin Edwards. We are from Texas, about 3 hours from Conroe where Colin is from. How he acquired it I forget. I was really little but damn do I remember the noise. the smell, And the chatter of that dry clutch.
@@TheSydguy30 Do you mean you can beat Schwantz , Dohaan, Rossi ... ? You can imagine it or you ride since 8 years old and could have been professional. It is talent, sacrifice of their parents ,chance and work , work, work before beiing champion. Of course they had this too, I don't say they are god's childs. There is a world between you and Lawson not only talent.
@j G bull shit,gp bikes are not hard to ride (its hard work to be fast on one, but compared to the machines from the 90, they are super tame. you got electronic stability controll, electronic suspennsion, abs, tiers from this era, fuel injection and well made protective gear... 80 and 90 street bikes were scarier than new gp bikes, 100+hp, on shit tyers, with bad brakes, questionable suspension and bearings... thats sketchy. the new gp bikes are quite tame...have good brakes, good tyers and so he is a bit mad
One of the most amazing things about the 2 strokes for me, besides the thrill of the ride with that narrow powerband is that, at high revs both the single cylinder and multicylinder bikes sound very similar unlike, the 4 strokes.
(00:45) Suzuki RG500 Made up until 1989, I have one of the last of the 6,276 made, RG500 CH number 873 RG500 Pepsi-Suzuki "Kevin Schwantz" GP Race Replica. It goes 'berserk' at over 7000 rpm when everything, timing, carburetion and disc valves really set to work. Best bike I have ever owned and ridden, and that's a long list.
Watched racing and rode bikes for 40 years, raced for 3 years. Still nothing like a 2 stroke wheelie in my opinion. No warning, just up and off it goes.
Back in good old 77 i rode S2 350 kawasaki, an RD 250 and my very first bike was a yammy DT 175, i loved them all. Now there is an original Suzuki 1100 Katana 83 model in the garage, i miss going out for a blast.
There's nothing more orgasmic than when a 2stroke with well tuned expansion chamber exhaust comes into it's power band. It's like that THX demo you hear at the movies when all the sound frequencies come into alignment to make the perfect chord. At about 6K rpm a 2stroke does the same thing and launches you inot hyperspace. SOOOOO damn fun.
As an ex 400 cc production racer in So. Calif in the early 80s I eventually became a proud owner of a TZR-250 later in 1992. Living in LA I had the title of being the top rider from the rock store to the view point at Mulholland Drive in my ex RD-400 cc Yamaha. A decade later I recaptured my title on my tiny TZR-250. This TZR was like riding a 17 lb bicycle with 100 horse power, even though my TZ R was putting out 65 hp. This thing was crazy fast going into,and out of turns. I used to laugh so loud inside my helmet as I used to leave everyone in the dust on the way to the view point finish, even though they had stripped down Suzuki 750s specifically for this Mulholland ride with well over 100 hp.
It’s not only the power but how light the whole package was when compared with the 4 strokes . Put a huge smile on your face every time you fired it up. Castrol R heaven.
Great video! The huge jumps in power with early to later models of most of these bikes is due to the introduction of power valve systems (e.g. Yamaha's YPVS, Kawasaki's KIPS, etc.) - Yamaha's YPVS was the first to be successfully used in racing and gave Kenny Roberts his first World Championship.
It´s cumbersome, but a variable-length exaust-pipe before the resonance-chamber does the same, just better and cheaper (instead of varying the exhaust-port-timing with the powervalve, it matches the exhaust-pipe-length ot the transient load- and rpm-situation). But I guess, variable-exhaust-length is something for single-cylinders, where there´s enough room in the engine bay left.
2 strokes are still the dominant layout for mountain snowmobiles, recently Skidoo and Polaris adding factory turbos to them. Lightweight and powerful:)
Joseph Freeman Actually around the era that those were produced Kawasaki was also making a 500 cc two stroke, the kx500 and it was a well known thing among dirt riders that the kx500 was actually faster.
Well the KX didn't come around til 88. The difference in a drag race would be more about driver's skill and weight rather than engine output because they certainly ran close. BTW I've been riding a kx500 for the past 6 years.
Loved my Honda CR250 MX bike, vicious power! Had a Maico 400 too, that was even better, so much torque! Only stroker's I have now are my BSA Bantam D7 and Mobylette 50! Both are so much fun! Watching the 500 GP bikes in the 80's and 90's was incredible, on the edge of control constantly!
I rode a maico 450 or 470 and oh boy it was like riding a very angry horse, but there's no saddle and you're holding onto its ears 🤣 You could dig trenches with this thing and a new set of knobblies, 80-some horsepower coming out of one wheel, and a engine that felt like it was kicking you in the arse several thousand times per minute if you sat on it, it was definitely a standing bike if you wanted any baws left at the end of the day 😬
Love all the bikes I've owned (currently have a CBR 1100 Blackbird), but back in my yoof I had a Kawasaki KR-1 and Suzuki RGV250P and loved them both. Power bands just have to be experienced...then you'll understand the attraction.
I had an RG500 in the nineties. I used to call it the 'tea trolley' because of its handling characteristics.. The engine was supreme though - square four with disk valve induction. ❤️
Unless you actually try to ride a full-spec GP bike with less-than-expert skillz. Then it's 2-stroke for death. That said, I'll always remember waking up the morning of the '93 US GP at Laguna Seca with the smell of 2-stroke exhaust in the air. Smelled like,...victory!
Man I remember my 74 RD350 that Dennis Latimer built a custom set of expansion chambers for it. Installed a Barnett Clutch and a set of Wiseco Pistons. It had a hard time keeping the front tire on the ground. It wanted to ride on one wheel every gear. I blew away 750's and 1000cc bikes in the first 200 feet all day long. It was so quick. I could keep up with the Yamaha XS1100 specials and the Z1R's. Crazy Larry did some mods before I wrecked it and I have to say.. it was one of the most fun bikes I've ever ridden.
2 stroke is incredible,less part,lightweight,big power(compared with same cubic with 4stroke) but hard to control,i remember riding 125cc 2 stroke,hard to control the power....high wear part,like piston,crank,cyl block....hi cost of part(high wear+precision part) & maintenance....... but 2 stroke get a special place in my heart..... my 2 stroke bike is YAMAHA RX125 twin...
tek hmmmm not really....last time my 2 stroke get engine damage,some part is highly cost,because some of part its not a common part,i must search the specific part, but if my 4stroke get engine damage,i can easily change the part from other bike,like Piston example,my 4 stroke just buy some piston,make the crown,valve dish,skirt model same as before......aanddd my bike running smoothly..... but the 2 stroke need more specific part,because the piston have so many specification,like skirt for intake/exhaust port,some bike get a code like A,B,C,D cyl block,its the code for clearance.....daammnnn if that bike doesn't have so many stories & memories,i'll bury it for sure
Yes ... i fully agree , even tho i have a Honda cbr 125 which is 4 stroke... compared , mine weights 137kg dry and has 11kw , and those 2 stroke monsters weight the same , but have almost 200 HP , which is ridiculous... Have ridden a few 2 strokes ... my dream is to get one when i have bugdet for that as i am still only 17y
Cig4ras imagine you must control 200hp with very lightweight and minimum technologies to control or distribute the engine power hahaha my 2 stroke just make around 20hp(tuned) its really hard to control,i must listen the exhaust sound,its the best way to know "where am i" hahaha
I’m so lucky that I got to ride it’s even dreamier younger brother when it arrived….the RGV 250! And specifically the RGV250M with the wonderful curved swing arm and upswept pipes!! 😍
Great video with some beautiful bikes Love 2strokes they are a disease. I've had it for over 50 years since I was a kid. I've had them all. Rzs kawi triple nsr rgv rz 500 and tzr...love em all
From 1982 to 1985 Fast Freddy Spencer won 27 grand prix races while riding Honda's NS500, NSR500 and NSR250. During the 1985 season, Freddy was the only rider in history to have won both the 250cc and 500cc championships in the same Grand Prix season. As Freddy was already racing abroad in Europe, when my racing career began here in the AMA, 1984 was the only time I would share the track with Freddy and Kenny Roberts when both had entered the AMA National event at Laguna Seca. Freddy crashed hard under braking while entering the Cork Screw, ending his weekend. Kenny won leg one of the F1 race while Randy Mamola won the second leg and the overall F1 win. Fred Merkle won the superbike race w/ Wes Cooley finishing 2nd.
I would have loved one of those for the track. DIY port job, a pair of 36mm mikuni carbs and some proper expansion chambers. I miss racing but not the broken bones.
Was fortunate enough to see Freddie Spencer race at Daytona in 1985. He won the 250 and 500 championship that year. The 500 was the Honda triple. Awesome bikes back then.
I've only had two 2 stokes, both Suzuki. First was a GT380 followed by a GT 750. Both of them hit their powerband and attempted to stretch my arms and tear my face off! Great days.
2strokes is the reason I started ridding. That beautiful scream and the power band omg and the smell. Really amazing bikes. I miss those days. Rgt and nsr and rz to mention but a few. wow I will never forget the thrill of winding the motor.
brother, yet another bad ass 2 Stroke video and street bikes none the less!! you nailed it.. Next do a race quad &/or motocross 2 stroke vid.. English is getting better and keep up the good work bro.. keep um coming!!!+
Mick Doohan, Joey Dunlop, Barry Sheene, Mick Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini, Jarno Saarinen, Valentino Rossi...the greatest riders (and characters) of all time. BRING BACK THE 2-STROKES!!!
@@ermagerd101 problem is we both could add many more, but must agree those guys who could handle the 2 strokes were very talented. 200 hp 2 stroke would kill most riders lol
fidel catsro No they dont. Cc to cc 2 strokes have much better power, even at lower rpms. If you compare, for example, a 250 2 stroke and a 250 4 stroke motocross bike, the 2 stroke has so much more power and torque, at all rpms.
I think those are torque conversion effects from good high ratio gearing..ridden 2 strokes since I was a kitten in 1987..and 4 strokes...but I agree 2 strokes are much more fun to ride and rev hard!!!! if you ride a 2 stroke and don't rev it hard there something wrong
The 2-stroke is not more efficient than a 4-stroke engine! Yes, it has a higher specific power output, but it also has a higher specific fuel consumption.
The 2 stroke is more efficient because it burns fuel and makes use of the power more efficiently than a four stroke thus making it a more efficient engine. However the 4 stroke gets better gas mileage making it a more MPG efficient engine. When people think of engine efficiencies, they instantly think of gas mileage which isnt the same thing.
Retroman theoretically more efficient. Practically speaking the two stroke does not extract as much power per given power stroke because the fuel isn't completely burned. The compensatory factor is that 2 strokes have more (but weaker) power strokes.
No. Instead I'll rely on years of research (not all my own) and experience. How do you define efficiency? Engineers define efficiency as the ratio of work extracted relative to energy invested. In that respect the 2-stroke is always less efficient than a 4-stroke.
Living with these beasts brought back many memories . I could almost smell the castor oil ,so old am I our stingers had no silencers . What a howl these engines made . 2 strokes made me a wheele lover .
These smokers are truely racing engine, more powerful than 4 stroke, I still keep my tiny Kawasaki ZX-150rr and never failed to give smoke to my 500cc 4 strokes rivals :D
Two stroke sound ridiculous. Really thats about the silliest thing I’ve heard in a while. My Yamaha rd350lc with tz pipes on it gets compliments all the time on how good it sounds.
I have an RZ500 Yamaha. Before this, I rode a 500 Gamma Suzuki and it was shocking, its high rate of acceleration. At the time my main ride was a Suzuki GSXR-750 that had been modified by removing all the smog equipment (this was in California), and re-jetting the carbs, and installation of a better-breathing Yoshimura exhaust system. The RG-500 Gamma just blew away the GSXR. Later I owned a 'stage II tuned' Yamaha RD400 Daytona. That little bike would pull your arms out of the socket. You needed to be holding on to the handlebars very securely or the dang thing would accelerate out from under you. Two strokes are amazing.
1991 and a couple years after kenny Roberts loaned rich oliver a yzr500 to race in the Formula USA series . The rules were that could race any size bikes w any .modifications 😂 so anyway rich oliver won it 3 years in a row. Craziest rclass of racing ever. Dudes on 250s, 1300cc gsxrs etc etc
Driven all the well known manufactured bikes on this list and have to say my heart is with the RG500, but the YZR was a stunner but the RD350LC was such a cool ride I would own one now.
Your statement does makes some sense at least at high states of tune, but please note that for a long time (decades) 90% of dirt riders were on TWO strokes. The demise of 2 strokes was almost entirely EPA fuled if you ask me ....the newer requirements EPA specs and popular sensibilities toward the environment ...manufactures did not want to have to make all those extra parts that go into the four strokes that replaced the two strokes but they HAD TO ....in the dirt 4 stroke was actually easier to ride fast so they all got on the bandwagon when 4 bangers started winning like hell ....but in F1 grand prix racing? Pros riding 2 stroke bikes could STILL dominate via more power same weight
I went to the Dutch 500 GP at Assen in 1988, and will never forget the experience. I was pillion on my friend’s Honda NS400R as my RD350 YPVS was broken at the time. We rode from the UK to Assen, via a ferry at Dover. The GP scrambled my brain. Crossing over the track on a gantry literally blew my mind. We stopped and watched Schwantz et al fly beneath us, with the most beautiful cacophony of sound and aroma of two-stroke haze. The hairs on the back of my neck have never been the same since. By contrast, every form of live motor racing I’ve been to since (with the exception of Top Fuel) has been at let down. Later in life I was able to fulfill my teenage dreams and actually own a road version RG500 and a RD500. Fun bikes indeed, if a little flawed. Ah, two-strokes ❤️
King Kenny supposedly took the 750 Yamaha over 200 mph on Daytona and the bike responded reversely!! In other words he leaned right and the bike went left. He reportedly took the bike to 235 MPH. Sick!!!
The short answer is those bikes were made for racing and there was never a 1000cc class. As I recall, there had been a 750 class, but at some point they decided it was too dangerous, so after that, 500cc was the biggest class. There's only so much power you can use, and 2 stroke power isn't as easy to manage as 4 stroke power. They wanted an exciting competition, not a bloodbath.
My friend has Yamaha rx-135, man the way it pulls is just bonkers, it still gives competition to 200- 300cc bikes, it feels like it will never stop. So how powerful will be these 500cc ones, I can only dream of 🤤🤯🤯🤯
5:07 For a couple of seconds I was in complete awe thinking that the windshield of the Bimota was equipped with heads-up digital display back in 2005. A minute later, I said to myself that those digits reflections in the windscreen looked like the countdown of the digital clock on the Predator's arm in the 90's movie with Arny. This weed is too strong I guess !
got my yamaha 73 rd350 sitting in my garage, all cafed out and sitting at 203 pounds, ported out and 34 carbs putting down around 60-70 horses. fuck it im taking it out
i loved the daytona special rd 400 when they came out. i had a 74 rd 350 that stuck me in a barbed wire fence. rode it home with the forks twisted changed them out and rode the hell out of it. gotta love em or ya hate em
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you know you linked this video at the end of this video right? I'm not sure if that was intentional or not.
VisioRacer You love Subaru BRZ
hahaha you're right
Mick Doohan won 5 500cc World Championships not 54. This video just another pathetic effort to make money by spewing out garbage info. One more rip off on the Internet. Zzzzzzz
I never do clickbaits. What is on the thumbnai is in the video.
Two strokes the sound and the smell of them still makes me feel like the excited kid who learned to ride on one.
The racing fuel with the synthetic oil smells like heaven
I still remember my dad borrowed a Kawasaki 150rr from his office for job reasons. Just every single day, 10 minute warm up, me having breakfast and listening to that loudness that is the 2 strokes with smokes coming out of it. After that, my dad drop me by the school with the Kawasaki. Coolest shit i've ever experienced
I FIRST LEARNT DRIVING IN ONE WHEN I WAS IN THIRD GRADE
Me too bro
I loved them. Sweet oil smell....pure heaven!
408hp/ Liter N/A is still unmatched to this day . simply amazing. gotta bring 2 strokes back if you with me hit like.
500cc Honda GP 2 stroke was making 200hp in its final year. That was about 20 years ago. I miss 2 strokes
@@travel5456 I miss them too
Man never even thought about it that way.... holy shit
Paulo Correia yes sur and particularly the Honda NSR500
i've read an article that says that f1 is interested in developing 2 strokes
Had an 87 Yamaha RZ350. It near killed me a few times. I killed it... twice. We loved each other.
Homebrew Subaru had RDs and RZs.....
In Brazil we called her "The Black Widow"
Then you two must have been some revenge for each other then... Hahaha XD
It was a match made in heaven! The divorce wasn't easy, I was left alone and she found someone else to spend money on her! haha
Homebrew Subaru love, hate, homicidal relationship. I love it
two strokes will always have a special place in my heart
@WoW - theEngineer it’s a proven fact that 2 strokes are faster than 4 stroke, cope harder you old wrinkly fuck
Why six strokes?
2 strokes for ever !!!
4 stroke : purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
2 stroke: PAM PAM PAM RUTUTUTUTUR TUTUTUTU PAAAMMM PAMPAM
Meanwhile in asia..
4 stroke: bum bum
2 stroke: weng weng
It's more like,,dang dang dang dang dang dang, yeeeee dang gang dang dang
@@TheLouisamite old.comment
Bing bing bing bing bing binnngggg bing bing bing bing
@@875hp tengg tengggg teng teng tenggggg tengggg
The sound of a big two-stroke revving out at max r.p.m. is the best and baddest sound in the world.
And when you ride a racing 2 stroke you get the best feeling in the world, adrenaline like no other, after years of riding bikes I still hop on my 80cc 100 pound scooter with 30hp, and I scream from adrenaline, turbo kicks in on high revs, yes turbo bcause 2strokes are similar to a turbo system
@@Eddie-g8j damn, 30hp?... My 150cc 4stroke bike only get 16 or 17hp 🤣
@@PinotNoir_ I also have a Honda NSR 125cc 2 stroke, stock delivers 19hp and weights 120kg I think, I put in the a Malossi 180cc cylinder, jollymoto racing exhaust and a 44mm keihin, I haven't dyno tested but it probably gives 40hp, 300cc 4 strokes have no chance near, me trust me.
@@Eddie-g8j damn, that was fast... I use stock 2012 CBR 150r and it only give 16 or 17hp 🤣... Wanna upgrade the ecu and bore up to 180cc, but I'm too scare lol 🤣🤣
@@Eddie-g8j and you have to rebuild the engine after 10k kms
Its sad that most people these days don't even know what a two stroke is. I ride a 74 Kawi H2 750 and always get people asking me why my bike smokes and when I explain that its a two stroke they get confused or look at the pipes and then tell me its a 3 cylinder not a two cylinder...
Retroman what the flying fuck
The Kawasaki H2 750 is a 3 cylinder 2 stroke (2 cycle). I think people confuse 3 cylinder and 2 cycle.
morons cant distinguish between 2 cylinders and 2 stroke...if i were you I'd tell them to go and adopt a cat instead
LOL, I had a '74 Suzuki 750 Water Buffalo, Before that, I had 380 Suzuki ram air triple.. The look on some People's faces was hysterical when they heard the Water Buffalo.. Both were strange sounding , but I was in Love.. It was hard to get off either one of them, except for fueling up..
Retroman can I please ride that bike sir?
Its crazy to think what advances we've made in like 75-100 years, i remember reading that a lot of early 1900's Harley single cylinder engines were around 350-500cc and only output 3-4hp on average (not to say there werent more powerful engines developed) but the power per displacement is just amazing nowadays
My dad and i (then 17 years) bought a Honda nsr 250, we had such a blast with it. Everytime my dad started it and was tuning it and tested the throttle response...man if closed my eyes in my imagination i was in the paddock with doohan, schwantz, rainy. Good memories. I cherish them with my heart
Bring the two strokes back! Pure racing beasts! Love it
Yes, it's comeback in dirtbike now, hope the road version sooner.
I raced both two strokes and four strokes. I won six championships, and two national championships on two strokes. The two strokes had no engine braking, and in the back of your mind you always expected it to seize.. two strokes were much cheaper to maintain, and easier to work on. My TZ 250 require new pistons every 200 miles, and a new crankshaft every 600 miles..I like the two strokes
My dad had a tz250 that was once raced by Colin Edwards. We are from Texas, about 3 hours from Conroe where Colin is from.
How he acquired it I forget. I was really little but damn do I remember the noise. the smell,
And the chatter of that dry clutch.
I was fortunate to see Kenny and his OW 69 at Laguna Seca back at 84… That bike literally dusted everything on the track
Were you putting round or square pistons in ?!?!
i have 9 RGV 250s i collect them.....i m keeping the dream alive for all of u - or at 8 of u anyweay
195HP with 127kg... i love that
@@abinadvd Only for those that don't know how to ride.
@@TheSydguy30 Do you mean you can beat Schwantz , Dohaan, Rossi ... ?
You can imagine it or you ride since 8 years old and could have been professional.
It is talent, sacrifice of their parents ,chance and work , work, work before beiing champion.
Of course they had this too, I don't say they are god's childs.
There is a world between you and Lawson not only talent.
@@abinadvd I think he meant that Electronic controls are for those Who doesnt know how to ride....
@@TheSydguy30 true
@j G bull shit,gp bikes are not hard to ride (its hard work to be fast on one, but compared to the machines from the 90, they are super tame. you got electronic stability controll, electronic suspennsion, abs, tiers from this era, fuel injection and well made protective gear... 80 and 90 street bikes were scarier than new gp bikes, 100+hp, on shit tyers, with bad brakes, questionable suspension and bearings... thats sketchy. the new gp bikes are quite tame...have good brakes, good tyers and so he is a bit mad
One of the most amazing things about the 2 strokes for me, besides the thrill of the ride with that narrow powerband is that, at high revs both the single cylinder and multicylinder bikes sound very similar unlike, the 4 strokes.
(00:45) Suzuki RG500 Made up until 1989, I have one of the last of the 6,276 made, RG500 CH number 873 RG500 Pepsi-Suzuki "Kevin Schwantz" GP Race Replica. It goes 'berserk' at over 7000 rpm when everything, timing, carburetion and disc valves really set to work. Best bike I have ever owned and ridden, and that's a long list.
Watched racing and rode bikes for 40 years, raced for 3 years. Still nothing like a 2 stroke wheelie in my opinion. No warning, just up and off it goes.
Back in good old 77 i rode S2 350 kawasaki, an RD 250 and my very first bike was a yammy DT 175, i loved them all. Now there is an original Suzuki 1100 Katana 83 model in the garage, i miss going out for a blast.
There's nothing more orgasmic than when a 2stroke with well tuned expansion chamber exhaust comes into it's power band. It's like that THX demo you hear at the movies when all the sound frequencies come into alignment to make the perfect chord. At about 6K rpm a 2stroke does the same thing and launches you inot hyperspace. SOOOOO damn fun.
As an ex 400 cc production racer in So. Calif in the early 80s I eventually became a proud owner of a TZR-250 later in 1992. Living in LA I had the title of being the top rider from the rock store to the view point at Mulholland Drive in my ex RD-400 cc Yamaha. A decade later I recaptured my title on my tiny TZR-250. This TZR was like riding a 17 lb bicycle with 100 horse power, even though my TZ R was putting out 65 hp. This thing was crazy fast going into,and out of turns. I used to laugh so loud inside my helmet as I used to leave everyone in the dust on the way to the view point finish, even though they had stripped down Suzuki 750s specifically for this Mulholland ride with well over 100 hp.
It’s not only the power but how light the whole package was when compared with the 4 strokes . Put a huge smile on your face every time you fired it up. Castrol R heaven.
Great video! The huge jumps in power with early to later models of most of these bikes is due to the introduction of power valve systems (e.g. Yamaha's YPVS, Kawasaki's KIPS, etc.) - Yamaha's YPVS was the first to be successfully used in racing and gave Kenny Roberts his first World Championship.
It´s cumbersome, but a variable-length exaust-pipe before the resonance-chamber does the same, just better and cheaper (instead of varying the exhaust-port-timing with the powervalve, it matches the exhaust-pipe-length ot the transient load- and rpm-situation). But I guess, variable-exhaust-length is something for single-cylinders, where there´s enough room in the engine bay left.
Thank you for crediting us with the NSR500V videos.
We'll be running some of our NSR500Vs again next Friday (14th July) at Donington. :-)
hmm, car guys branching out bit by bit into the bike world😈.. Nice!
can't you be both?
Most of us couldn't care less about motorcycles, only interested in the awesome motors some of them have.
it's like there are dog people and cat people. that's how I like to see it.. but sometimes there are both cat and dog people..
you rayciss... thats like saying you dont care about black people but only interested in the big butts some of their women have!!!
ima a car guy and io teach my motorcycle friends about them and they teach me about bikes so we like both cars and bikes
2 strokes are still the dominant layout for mountain snowmobiles, recently Skidoo and Polaris adding factory turbos to them. Lightweight and powerful:)
The turbo was awesome for high altitude!
Subbed to channel because loved all facts about car based stuff. But as a biker these kind of videos warm up my heart. Keep 'em coming.
I love your videos. You get straight to the point, no nonsense. Thank you, and please keep your videos just like this.
Nothing beats the old Honda CR500 2 strokes. Mad power to weight ratio and the gearing is 1st to hooolly sheeeet.
The maico 700 beats the cr. 1st gear is already suicide
rice
Joseph Freeman Actually around the era that those were produced Kawasaki was also making a 500 cc two stroke, the kx500 and it was a well known thing among dirt riders that the kx500 was actually faster.
Well known among who? I am one of those dirt racers back in that day and my 86 CR 500 absolutely smoked any KX, or any other dirtbike that came along.
Well the KX didn't come around til 88. The difference in a drag race would be more about driver's skill and weight rather than engine output because they certainly ran close.
BTW I've been riding a kx500 for the past 6 years.
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME little doc piece man! Great history , footage and
audio on these legendary bikes. You did your homework ! Nice job.
Like that you're including the bikes man!
I am becoming a biker soon, and I fell in love with them. Besides, there is so much interesting stuff in this business!
VisioRacer go for it! I started last year and now own a cbr600
VisioRacer what bike are you getting
Loved my Honda CR250 MX bike, vicious power! Had a Maico 400 too, that was even better, so much torque! Only stroker's I have now are my BSA Bantam D7 and Mobylette 50! Both are so much fun! Watching the 500 GP bikes in the 80's and 90's was incredible, on the edge of control constantly!
I rode a maico 450 or 470 and oh boy it was like riding a very angry horse, but there's no saddle and you're holding onto its ears 🤣
You could dig trenches with this thing and a new set of knobblies, 80-some horsepower coming out of one wheel, and a engine that felt like it was kicking you in the arse several thousand times per minute if you sat on it, it was definitely a standing bike if you wanted any baws left at the end of the day 😬
Sooooo no one gonna talk about the smell of the exhaust fume?
Its like a perfume
it totally depends on the brand of two-cycle oil you are pre-mixing
The state of my jeans was something to behold with leaky power valve seals on my RD350...😀
Vp 110/klotz supertechniplate
It depends on 2T oil~ if you bought it from your local crappy gas station it may have smell like 💩
Live the smell of Napalm in the morning!
I had a KR250 years ago .. PURE BEAUTY i love two strokes .. pure blood racing .. cheers
Love all the bikes I've owned (currently have a CBR 1100 Blackbird), but back in my yoof I had a Kawasaki KR-1 and Suzuki RGV250P and loved them both. Power bands just have to be experienced...then you'll understand the attraction.
I had an RG500 in the nineties. I used to call it the 'tea trolley' because of its handling characteristics.. The engine was supreme though - square four with disk valve induction. ❤️
Had a Suzuki RG500 Gamma back in the day. They are fast and have been proven to be bullet proof. Very reliable.
I will always love the ring a ding of 2 strokes on a good set of pipes. I also miss my 2001 Yamaha Banshee 350 with Toomey T-5 pipes.
very recently, KTM has developed an EFI 2 stroke unit. We could see the 2 stroke making a comeback..
Armadilyo Husqvarna built earlier EFI than KTM..
Husqvarna and KTM are the same, aren't they?
Armadilyo no, they aren't.. KTM didn't make chainsaws either.. 😂
How about a 2 stroke hybrid car engine?
Armadilyo yes ktm bought husqvarna in 2013
Loved the RZ500 🤪
just for 2 stroke=like
Unless you actually try to ride a full-spec GP bike with less-than-expert skillz. Then it's 2-stroke for death.
That said, I'll always remember waking up the morning of the '93 US GP at Laguna Seca with the smell of 2-stroke exhaust in the air. Smelled like,...victory!
@@CorePathway excellent! 👍
@@_T_R_E_V_O_R_ Your momma !
Man I remember my 74 RD350 that Dennis Latimer built a custom set of expansion chambers for it. Installed a Barnett Clutch and a set of Wiseco Pistons. It had a hard time keeping the front tire on the ground. It wanted to ride on one wheel every gear. I blew away 750's and 1000cc bikes in the first 200 feet all day long. It was so quick. I could keep up with the Yamaha XS1100 specials and the Z1R's. Crazy Larry did some mods before I wrecked it and I have to say.. it was one of the most fun bikes I've ever ridden.
2 stroke is incredible,less part,lightweight,big power(compared with same cubic with 4stroke)
but hard to control,i remember riding 125cc 2 stroke,hard to control the power....high wear part,like piston,crank,cyl block....hi cost of part(high wear+precision part) & maintenance.......
but 2 stroke get a special place in my heart.....
my 2 stroke bike is YAMAHA RX125 twin...
tek No they actually arent, if you look at dirtbikes it could be right. but not street bikes m8
tek hmmmm not really....last time my 2 stroke get engine damage,some part is highly cost,because some of part its not a common part,i must search the specific part,
but if my 4stroke get engine damage,i can easily change the part from other bike,like Piston example,my 4 stroke just buy some piston,make the crown,valve dish,skirt model same as before......aanddd my bike running smoothly.....
but the 2 stroke need more specific part,because the piston have so many specification,like skirt for intake/exhaust port,some bike get a code like A,B,C,D cyl block,its the code for clearance.....daammnnn if that bike doesn't have so many stories & memories,i'll bury it for sure
Yes ... i fully agree , even tho i have a Honda cbr 125 which is 4 stroke... compared , mine weights 137kg dry and has 11kw , and those 2 stroke monsters weight the same , but have almost 200 HP , which is ridiculous... Have ridden a few 2 strokes ... my dream is to get one when i have bugdet for that as i am still only 17y
Cig4ras imagine you must control 200hp with very lightweight and minimum technologies to control or distribute the engine power hahaha
my 2 stroke just make around 20hp(tuned) its really hard to control,i must listen the exhaust sound,its the best way to know "where am i" hahaha
2 strokes are not hard to maintain mate !
My childhood dream bike RG250 Gamma
I’m so lucky that I got to ride it’s even dreamier younger brother when it arrived….the RGV 250!
And specifically the RGV250M with the wonderful curved swing arm and upswept pipes!! 😍
Can u please do 10 most powerful dirt bikes video
The most powerful must be the aprilia rxv 550 for sure
joel lundin maico 700 2 stroke.
your content is great and well explained, subscribed
Great video with some beautiful bikes
Love 2strokes they are a disease. I've had it for over 50 years since I was a kid. I've had them all. Rzs kawi triple nsr rgv rz 500 and tzr...love em all
1984 RZ500L. Absolute ball-tearer. Loved that bike.
6:57 cant hide my smile when i hear this bike
From 1982 to 1985 Fast Freddy Spencer won 27 grand prix races while riding Honda's NS500, NSR500 and NSR250. During the 1985 season, Freddy was the only rider in history to have won both the 250cc and 500cc championships in the same Grand Prix season.
As Freddy was already racing abroad in Europe, when my racing career began here in the AMA, 1984 was the only time I would share the track with Freddy and Kenny Roberts when both had entered the AMA National event at Laguna Seca. Freddy crashed hard under braking while entering the Cork Screw, ending his weekend. Kenny won leg one of the F1 race while Randy Mamola won the second leg and the overall F1 win. Fred Merkle won the superbike race w/ Wes Cooley finishing 2nd.
Awesome seeing more great sounding two-stroke machines!! WOOT WOOT!!
The first bike I ever really road was an air-cooled RD400 - loved it! This is a good video.
Rode, not road.
I would have loved one of those for the track. DIY port job, a pair of 36mm mikuni carbs and some proper expansion chambers. I miss racing but not the broken bones.
Two stroke sounds remind me of when i was a kid! I can taste that smell as they go past
Was fortunate enough to see Freddie Spencer race at Daytona in 1985. He won the 250 and 500 championship that year. The 500 was the Honda triple. Awesome bikes back then.
The exhaust pipe plays an important role in high-performance two stroke engines, good pipes are just like the legs of a track and field athlete.
Long live the 2 Stroke🚲💥☁☁☁☁👽👍
I've only had two 2 stokes, both Suzuki. First was a GT380 followed by a GT 750. Both of them hit their powerband and attempted to stretch my arms and tear my face off! Great days.
2strokes is the reason I started ridding. That beautiful scream and the power band omg and the smell. Really amazing bikes. I miss those days. Rgt and nsr and rz to mention but a few. wow I will never forget the thrill of winding the motor.
I’m glad I owned many two strokes .. screw green peace
jalous""" never drive ,not a 2 stroke 2 wheeler
You can express your love for craftsmanship without being a dick, you know?
@@zach5994 I thought you were replying.to your own comment lmao
@Fuh Q thanks for your highly relevant addition to this thread
2 stroke stuffing needs to be featured on this list!
50cc, 17.6whp, through a cvt. !!! He's not stopping there either.!
Always a quality watch.
Raced the NSR 250 in the 90s. Loved it.
Your videos are great! Bell clicked on so I don't miss one now.
I appreciate it!
brother, yet another bad ass 2 Stroke video and street bikes none the less!! you nailed it..
Next do a race quad &/or motocross 2 stroke vid.. English is getting better and keep up the good work bro.. keep um coming!!!+
I think you meant 54 victorys in 500cc class and 5 championships for Mick Doohan , otherwise cool video.
Quick Mick was the man ... I was super bummed when he retired before Rossi entered the 500 championship.
Doohan was a beast. Miss the good ol 500GP days. Rainey, Schwantz, Gardner, Beattie, Cadalora...
protator he retired because he was involved in an accident in motogp, he broke his hand 😭
Would have been Six if the didn't botch his operation.
Keep these bike videos up i love them, love this channel too with the cars thats always interesting too, learning so many things from these!
Mick Doohan, Joey Dunlop, Barry Sheene, Mick Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini, Jarno Saarinen, Valentino Rossi...the greatest riders (and characters) of all time. BRING BACK THE 2-STROKES!!!
Not to bash but you.missed 2 great 2 stroke racers kenny roberts and freddie spencer. Those and above knew how 2 ride 2 strokes
@@rt2255 Absolutely true! 🏆
@@ermagerd101 problem is we both could add many more, but must agree those guys who could handle the 2 strokes were very talented. 200 hp 2 stroke would kill most riders lol
The 2-stroke engine is a thing of beauty. And incredible power. As for the noise those engines made... Music to the ears!
And now imagine putting three of those last engines together. 1.5 litre V12, 600 hp, 300 Nm.
And throw that into a light sports car :D
My dream locost
The Suter and Norton were incredible around the TT in 2016
In Malaysia, 2 strokes are something normal to see here
yes
I'm aiming to get my hand on a 150cc by December. Wish me luck!
125z :) ✌️ Indonesia
In Finland too. Teenagers ride 50cc supermotos
same here in Philippines. 2 stroke is still common.
Always good to here Ronnie ringding riding around with his allspeeds singing. 👍🇬🇧
Naturally aspirated 400 bhp per liter... Damn
This brings back memories. Fast smoky two stroke bikes reigned the streets in 80s
2 strokes sound amazing, and they have much more hp & torque per cc.
and lighter
at high rpm of course....at low rpm they run like weed cutters trying to cut cat whiskers...
fidel catsro No they dont. Cc to cc 2 strokes have much better power, even at lower rpms. If you compare, for example, a 250 2 stroke and a 250 4 stroke motocross bike, the 2 stroke has so much more power and torque, at all rpms.
I think those are torque conversion effects from good high ratio gearing..ridden 2 strokes since I was a kitten in 1987..and 4 strokes...but I agree 2 strokes are much more fun to ride and rev hard!!!! if you ride a 2 stroke and don't rev it hard there something wrong
fidel catsro You probably have rode a 125, and then you think every 2 stroke is like that.
I love the sound the smell and the kick up the arse when you hit the powerband. Two strokes forever.
You should check into snowmobile two stroke motors with 180+ hp and no gear box
Why didnt the TZ750 use flat slide carbs? Were they not around back then
The 2-stroke is not more efficient than a 4-stroke engine! Yes, it has a higher specific power output, but it also has a higher specific fuel consumption.
...in theory. Use your ears, mate.
justcarcrazy savage
The 2 stroke is more efficient because it burns fuel and makes use of the power more efficiently than a four stroke thus making it a more efficient engine. However the 4 stroke gets better gas mileage making it a more MPG efficient engine. When people think of engine efficiencies, they instantly think of gas mileage which isnt the same thing.
Retroman theoretically more efficient. Practically speaking the two stroke does not extract as much power per given power stroke because the fuel isn't completely burned. The compensatory factor is that 2 strokes have more (but weaker) power strokes.
No. Instead I'll rely on years of research (not all my own) and experience. How do you define efficiency? Engineers define efficiency as the ratio of work extracted relative to energy invested. In that respect the 2-stroke is always less efficient than a 4-stroke.
Living with these beasts brought back many memories . I could almost smell the castor oil ,so old am I our stingers had no silencers . What a howl these engines made . 2 strokes made me a wheele lover .
Yes, those were the days TD3/TR3 250/350 air cooled Yamahas.
These smokers are truely racing engine, more powerful than 4 stroke, I still keep my tiny Kawasaki ZX-150rr and never failed to give smoke to my 500cc 4 strokes rivals :D
I also have bro zx 150rr
One day u will get smoked out.
Beware
Brought back many memories of watching racers in 1970s and 80s on two strokes.
Two stroke sound ridiculous. Really thats about the silliest thing I’ve heard in a while. My Yamaha rd350lc with tz pipes on it gets compliments all the time on how good it sounds.
he ment it in a good way.
I have an RZ500 Yamaha. Before this, I rode a 500 Gamma Suzuki and it was shocking, its high rate of acceleration. At the time my main ride was a Suzuki GSXR-750 that had been modified by removing all the smog equipment (this was in California), and re-jetting the carbs, and installation of a better-breathing Yoshimura exhaust system.
The RG-500 Gamma just blew away the GSXR.
Later I owned a 'stage II tuned' Yamaha RD400 Daytona. That little bike would pull your arms out of the socket. You needed to be holding on to the handlebars very securely or the dang thing would accelerate out from under you.
Two strokes are amazing.
Excellent content! Subbed
1991 and a couple years after kenny Roberts loaned rich oliver a yzr500 to race in the Formula USA series . The rules were that could race any size bikes w any .modifications 😂 so anyway rich oliver won it 3 years in a row. Craziest rclass of racing ever. Dudes on 250s, 1300cc gsxrs etc etc
Thats insane,200hp 500cc lol.............I have a 380hp 2 stroke sled but its 1800cc those little bike motors are technological marvels
Driven all the well known manufactured bikes on this list and have to say my heart is with the RG500, but the YZR was a stunner but the RD350LC was such a cool ride I would own one now.
2 STROKES, only for professionels, not for the chickens..
Your statement does makes some sense at least at high states of tune, but please note that for a long time (decades) 90% of dirt riders were on TWO strokes. The demise of 2 strokes was almost entirely EPA fuled if you ask me ....the newer requirements EPA specs and popular sensibilities toward the environment ...manufactures did not want to have to make all those extra parts that go into the four strokes that replaced the two strokes but they HAD TO ....in the dirt 4 stroke was actually easier to ride fast so they all got on the bandwagon when 4 bangers started winning like hell ....but in F1 grand prix racing? Pros riding 2 stroke bikes could STILL dominate via more power same weight
motomorfo yeah except yamaha 80
th-cam.com/video/rLN_JxjmdP4/w-d-xo.html . my own Nsr Honda :-)
Yeah because 100 hp is for men. 200+hp is for chickens. Are you really that dumb. You Probably are
@Yopel dude banger means cylinder count....... 4 bangers is 4 cyl and 2 bangers is 2 cyl
I went to the Dutch 500 GP at Assen in 1988, and will never forget the experience. I was pillion on my friend’s Honda NS400R as my RD350 YPVS was broken at the time. We rode from the UK to Assen, via a ferry at Dover. The GP scrambled my brain. Crossing over the track on a gantry literally blew my mind. We stopped and watched Schwantz et al fly beneath us, with the most beautiful cacophony of sound and aroma of two-stroke haze. The hairs on the back of my neck have never been the same since. By contrast, every form of live motor racing I’ve been to since (with the exception of Top Fuel) has been at let down. Later in life I was able to fulfill my teenage dreams and actually own a road version RG500 and a RD500. Fun bikes indeed, if a little flawed. Ah, two-strokes ❤️
Can i ask?..if 750cc 2Stroke can go 390km/h how about if people start making 1000cc 2-Stroke??What is the speed?..can anyone tell me please
King Kenny supposedly took the 750 Yamaha over 200 mph on Daytona and the bike responded reversely!! In other words he leaned right and the bike went left. He reportedly took the bike to 235 MPH. Sick!!!
The short answer is those bikes were made for racing and there was never a 1000cc class. As I recall, there had been a 750 class, but at some point they decided it was too dangerous, so after that, 500cc was the biggest class. There's only so much power you can use, and 2 stroke power isn't as easy to manage as 4 stroke power. They wanted an exciting competition, not a bloodbath.
Neon BTD haha i cant stop laughing at this question. Good one 😂
Not to mention imagine kicking over a 1000cc t stroke
you dont kick over a race bike
My friend has Yamaha rx-135, man the way it pulls is just bonkers, it still gives competition to 200- 300cc bikes, it feels like it will never stop.
So how powerful will be these 500cc ones, I can only dream of 🤤🤯🤯🤯
I love 2 stroke engines 💓🔥
Cant beat that high pitched whine from 2strokes
Long live 2-stroke !!!
Love two strokes but only so many times I can watch videos about the same stuff.
500cm3 two stroke = 1000cm3 four stroke
More like 750cc four, since they don't rev as high and usually don't fill the cylinder as much each time
+ general repair of whole engine after 10 000km .
@@nikolakarovic5964 100 km
On the street it is 250cc = 1000cc to 155mph and on a twisty road nothing .
@@d.c7464 Yeah but I would feel like gipsy to drive aprilia 250ccm instead of R1 1000ccm.
5:07
For a couple of seconds I was in complete awe thinking that the windshield of the Bimota was equipped with heads-up digital display back in 2005. A minute later, I said to myself that those digits reflections in the windscreen looked like the countdown of the digital clock on the Predator's arm in the 90's movie with Arny.
This weed is too strong I guess !
got my yamaha 73 rd350 sitting in my garage, all cafed out and sitting at 203 pounds, ported out and 34 carbs putting down around 60-70 horses. fuck it im taking it out
i loved the daytona
special rd 400 when they came out. i had a 74 rd 350 that stuck me in a barbed wire fence. rode it home
with the forks twisted changed them out and rode the hell out of it. gotta love em
or ya hate em
The sound of a yz80 in the early 80s was hypnotic. I could not not enough.
I love sound of 2 stroke engine,and use silencer by Accerbis...that sound crispy
tomy hendra you mean ackropovic? Not the plastic and hard parts company acceribis
Back here in Brazil, the most common 2 stroke are the Yamaha RD 350...
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