Why did honda stop making two strokes?and are 2 strokes illegal now?

Question

Why did honda stop making two strokes?and are 2 strokes illegal now?

Answer 1

u have to premix gas, pain to do over and over

but u never have to change oil

dont they still make racing 2 strokes??

2 strokes are harder to maintain

Answer 2

Honda only dropped the CR125, they still make the 85 and 250. The125 2 strokes are going away because they cannot compete against the 250F, not because of pollution. There are absolutely no laws in place currently that would keep anyone from purchasing a 2 stroke. Uninformed people go on and on about government regulations but that doesn't have anything to do with why every serious racer on the track is racing a 4 stroke. It does have something to do with why 4 stroke race bikes came to market, but racers are still going to ride what gets them around the track the fastest, which is a 4 stroke. Joe B. are you saying Harley's are 2 strokes?? If I'm supposed to be putting oil in my gas then I've been making a big mistake all this time.

Answer 3

ever hear of  "GLOBAL WARMING"?

2 strokes burn oil with gas the same way Harley's do

and that causes pollution

Answer 4

They are ways fun to ride and sound awesome!  The government doesn't want that!  They can't not be fitted with emission stuffs.

Answer 5

While 2-strokes are currently under fire because of their emissions, very little work has been done to clean them up, Honda had a desert racer project the EXP2  in 1995 which was engineered to be more efficient. Fuel injection in 2-strokes hasn't really been commercially examined. The advent of widespread ethanol and methanol fuels are less efficient than petrol and require compression so a 2-stroke would have an advantage over a 4-stroke and the emissions of the fuels are safer.

2-strokes are a lot simpler to build and maintain than a 4-stroke, use less in terms of production and parts, weigh less, so require less power to propel them. Yes, you have to mix lubrication with the fuel but that is really not a hardship, some people just want to ride a bike with no appreciation of how they work and I suppose there is an attraction to that but others, including me, enjoy understanding and appreciating the engineering.

Answer 6

2 strokes burn oil and have worse emissions. They aren't illegal, at least not on weedwhackers or anything. I wouldn't want one though because of the above mentioned drawbacks.

Answer 7

sam as above pollution you have to mix oil and gas, and they are not illegal

Answer 8

Emission standards are getting tougher and tougher (changing again in 2010) and Honda is out ahead of the curve... 2 strokes will almost assuredly NOT pass stricter emission tests. By the by Harley's do not burn oil with the gas...