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Bleaugh - strawberries! 2T should smell of 2T, nothing else. There are several flavoured condom jokes waiting to be inserted here, but I won't.
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| I allways thought it was two strokes and you was out anyway! Acctually I did try to take my test on a BSA Bantum which was two stroke and it oiled up on me halfway round thew block from the examiner who just pointed out that I had run out of time for the rest of the test after taking too long trying to mingle the bloody opil in with the petrol the otherside of the block from him! I had borrowed the bike cos me Atlas had yet to be rebuilt. I did however have a go on a RD 250 Yammy. One of the 1st mass Jap bike in the country and legal to ride as a learner for as long as you liked, it was just very buzzy esp. when compared to the Atlas! LOL
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The RD250 (or was it the Suzi X7?) is credited with the ending of the learner 250 law. Once learner bikes could crack the ton, the writing was on the wall. I rode an RD250 once. Utterly bonkers - once you had got it on the pipe, it just begged you to thrash the living daylights out of it (this should go in Mazz's innuendo thread). I had a GT250A, which was the forerunner (or was it afterrunner) of the X7. Very good to ride, but had an appetite for pistons.
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| I prefer a 4 stroke any day. I like to go fast quietly rather than wake the whole neighbourhood up and get every policeman looking my way. C'mon guys, remember the way kids played with their expansion chambers to make the loudest noise possible? And that narrow power band that was worse than a diesel. Let even an RD350 drop out of the power band and it would splutter and fart like a moped. Ahh! give me the sound of a big V twin (or V4 even better) on full throttle any day. I like torque and revs - that's why I drive a VFR750. As for the 2 stroke smell that was probably the Castrol R which we used to mix into the petrol along with the regular 2 stroke oil just to smell good. Nothing to stop you doing that on a 4 stroke as long as you don't overdo it.
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| Going back a couple of posts. The Suzuki X7, the standing joke at the time as I recall being too young to ride at the time was. 'What do you ride?' ...'I've got and X7'...'Oh has it got a front end still?' Crashing and burning was almost rights of passage on an X7 as far as I could work out at the time. I always preferred the look of the KR RD400 with yellow and black speed blocks. One day I'm going to own one.
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| RD400 - yesssssssss. Always wanted one, too. Or the YDS7 350. Or a Kwak triple, of whatever flavour. Or a pre-power valve 250 or 350. Anything that burns 2T and goes like a wasp on acid. (And by the way, the smell is nothing to do with Castrol R - it's the natural smell of 2T. I've never added R to a bike. I followed an ancient 2-stroke trailie the other day, and was very reluctant to overtake, as the aroma was just sooooooooo pleasant.) My hooligan Suzi was the GT250A, which was very quick (I wasn't a learner by then, but it's what I could afford), with - er - interesting handling. I shouldn't say this, but the 125 law had to be a good thing. Anyone who has ridden one of the hot 250s from that era, and then imagined it in the hands of a testosterone-fuelled teenager with L plates and no training, will know that the situation couldn't last. Eventually, we would have run out of teenagers, and then where would we be?
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Owned four KH250's, two in bits and boxes to build one good one in a mates second storey bedroom, it was a bastard getting the rebuilt bike, down the stairs, round the corners and back out the flat. They used to tank slap like billy ho at over about 85. Them were the days!
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| For the first time in decades, the fate of American foreign aid to Egypt, a total of $1.3 billion annually, hovered over the administration’s deliberations. Because of a new Congressional restriction that requires the State Department to certify that Egypt’s government is committed to democracy.
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