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SnakeBreak · 01-27-2013, 02:55 PM

So I watch as much of Dakar as I could and the top riders are riding KTM 450's. Why not 2-smokes? Why 300exc is way simpler to fix and has less to go wrong? In the USA I would say it is rules against 2-strokes on the road, but down there?

01-27-2013, 02:55 PM	#1
SnakeBreak ^OP Adventurer Joined: Apr 2012 Location: Pullman Washington Oddometer: 28	Dakar: KTM great but why not 2-strokes? So I watch as much of Dakar as I could and the top riders are riding KTM 450's. Why not 2-smokes? Why 300exc is way simpler to fix and has less to go wrong? In the USA I would say it is rules against 2-strokes on the road, but down there?