50hp, crisp, beautiful noise, light, whooping-cowboy fun and straight gas in the tank. Killer app for us premixers.  

Hmm. Thought I replied - sorry if this shows up twice . Opposite take - 4Ts are the autos of bike world. 2T is way more fun,lighter, makes better sounds and cheap to maintain. In a pinch there’s a (marginal) argument that the weight, extra engineering and open-loop 4T fuelling aint so great for the environment either.
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Fair points but from the opposing side of the fence - the 4T is the auto of bike world. Not as engaging or as much fun. 2T to me is lighter, revvier, better sound and if i’m desperate there’s a teensy environment argument over weight, extra engineering and open-loop fuelling costs.

With you, saw one in the original silver/blue for the first time a few months back - it was one of the reasons I went to a local show and i’m still trying to

With you, saw one in the original silver/blue for the first time a few months back - it was one of the reasons I went to a local show and it looked sort of small and err.. I was whelmed.