ORIGINAL: blw
ORIGINAL: NM2K
[The high-pitched, ringy-dingy sounds of significantly smaller glow two-strokes are not as noticable.
Ed Cregger
Ed, that is a term I haven't heard in a while. Back when two strokes were loosing their rule of the motorcycle world, everyone would say 'ring ding ding ding' to describe them. Those of us who had two stroke pocket rockets laughed at how four strokes just loafed around.
I owned my last ring-ding in the early seventies. It was a 68 Yamaha 350cc two-stroke twin powered bike. It would surely skat and it wasn't a lightweight either. Then my best friend decided to cross a bridge that wasn't there and ended up plowing himself and my bike into a dirt bank on the other side of the stream that he was trying to cross. He lived, the bike did not. All of my motorcycles since then have been four-strokes. I still miss the wheel standing Yamaha 350cc twin.
I like both two and four-stroke model engines. It just depends upon the mood that I am in at the moment.
Ed Cregger