17-05-14, 10:06 AM
We had one of these at the last bike shop I worked at, it was sat for ages, years. When we got it all up and running, the boss took it for a spin up the road - what road?! You couldn't see the foccin road for all the smoke while it burned off years of accumulated shit in the pipes! :lol Literally couldn't see the kerb on the opposite side of the road when he first went off - talk about the fog of memory!
Such a shame that the era of the road-going 2T bike is over. Just think where we'd be at by now if development had continued - the RG500 I had was the last of the looney-tunes. But Yamaha still make 2T engines - for their boats and jet skis. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they do an outboard motor of about 800cc, that with modern development is actually more fuel efficient than the old things. Anyone fancy putting that in a bike chassis? :evil
Such a shame that the era of the road-going 2T bike is over. Just think where we'd be at by now if development had continued - the RG500 I had was the last of the looney-tunes. But Yamaha still make 2T engines - for their boats and jet skis. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they do an outboard motor of about 800cc, that with modern development is actually more fuel efficient than the old things. Anyone fancy putting that in a bike chassis? :evil