2 stroke aural delight

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2 stroke aural delight

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Another video from Allen Millyard, this one concerning his Kawasaki S2 350 four. It sounds amazing. :mrgreen:
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Re: 2 stroke aural delight

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Meh, his only has four cylinders, nine's where its at.

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Great vid... could do with a bit of work on his cornering lines mind ;)
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Sounding like that, I'd forgive any lines!
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Amazing work. But why? There were bigger 2 strokes available. But genius bods don't always see the easy way.
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They're not even difficult to build, it's just having enough cranks to assemble the parts out of
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Yorick wrote: Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:23 pm Amazing work. But why? There were bigger 2 strokes available. But genius bods don't always see the easy way.
Engineer. And because he can, using mostly hand tools, a wobbly old lathe and a drill press. His six cylinder kawasaki video show the process, and run through the tools he uses, and how very old some of them are.

"Project Binky" have the same sort of thought process as Alan.
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Re: 2 stroke aural delight

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crust wrote: Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:20 pm Meh, his only has four cylinders, nine's where its at.
On that basis, this must be the daddy!