two-stroke bikes on the road

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Ok,

first, so sorry if this is a question answered somewhere else...

and the googles doesn't wanna help today.

What's the deal with two-stroke bikes?

Can you plate them for road? Insure them?
I'm thinking about older 70's suzuki's in particular.

thanks!
 
Yes as long as they were once registered for the road. If you have a 1970's two stroke that was street legal back then it will be street legal now. Yo just have to have the ownership and get it certified.
 
In general, if it was imported, you can plate it. Had one for a few years..love the 2-strokes..
 
Its an acquired taste, I've had a few. Carrying oil with you if you try to travel too far is a PITA. My yamaha's had a pretty reliable oil injection system.
As a short trip toy they are hard to beat, insurance is probably pretty cheap now they are all 25+ yrs old. Lot of fun for the money.
 
Would that be a Suzuki Titan, In the 70's I had a Yamaha RD350 and a friend of mine had a Kawasaki 500 H2 Triple, we went all over the place with them, they were fast, handled great, ( okay except for the H2 Triple which was known as the flexible flyer ), but was reliable and now I when I hear a chainsaw I get warm and fuzzy........and if you run out of oil, go to any hardware store and pick up some 2 stroke oil and you are off to the races...


, so sorry if this is a question answered somewhere else...

and the googles doesn't wanna help today.

What's the deal with two-stroke bikes?

Can you plate them for road? Insure them?
I'm thinking about older 70's suzuki's in particular.

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these answers are making me happy heheh...

an add on question...
now what if you have a friend, who has a two-stroker, that was obviously once on the road back in the day... but no papers exist...and you're going to try to convince him to sell you the bike :)

i guess what i'm trying to decipher is if they're trying to phase out these bikes by not allowing ownership transfer.

or is it the same as every other bike... clean title and go for it.
 
gwelfmike said:
Would that be a Suzuki Titan, In the 70's I had a Yamaha RD350 and a friend of mine had a Kawasaki 500 H2 Triple, we went all over the place with them, they were fast, handled great, ( okay except for the H2 Triple which was known as the flexible flyer ), but was reliable and now I when I hear a chainsaw I get warm and fuzzy........and if you run out of oil, go to any hardware store and pick up some 2 stroke oil and you are off to the races...
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no, its a suz gt125. totally a chainsaw
 
IF it has a clean title then go for it, there is no such thing as phasing out vehicles here in Ontario

badjoke said:
these answers are making me happy heheh...

an add on question...
now what if you have a friend, who has a two-stroker, that was obviously once on the road back in the day... but no papers exist...and you're going to try to convince him to sell you the bike :)

i guess what i'm trying to decipher is if they're trying to phase out these bikes by not allowing ownership transfer.

or is it the same as every other bike... clean title and go for it.
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Thats the bike I took my bike licence on....chainsaw, more like a weed wacker....

When the guy at the MTO said let it go and stop here, I did, he made me try it again because he did not think I let it go...

badjoke said:
no, its a suz gt125. totally a chainsaw
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gwelfmike said:
Thats the bike I took my bike licence on....chainsaw, more like a weed wacker....

When the guy at the MTO said let it go and stop here, I did, he made me try it again because he did not think I let it go...
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HAHAH!
i have this vision of someone standing on a street and hearing a weedwackrr buzz and then seeing a dude in one piece leathers flying by at 40km/h. lol...i want to be that guy...tucked in and smiling.
 
Well, I couldn t afford leathers, but the smile was there.

A friend of mine has a storage shed with a 1974 Yamaha DT 175 in great condtion, I am trying to get him to give it a loving home...


badjoke said:
HAHAH!
i have this vision of someone standing on a street and hearing a weedwackrr buzz and then seeing a dude in one piece leathers flying by at 40km/h. lol...i want to be that guy...tucked in and smiling.
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Someday dream project for me.
RZ350 with CHeetah 500cc upgrade....and R6 forks, swingarm, and wheels and brakes.
 
I've been offered a complete, but project Suz GT380 for a low low price. I'm tempted, but I might save my time/energy for an RD400 or RD350LC instead.
 
I just sold my last 2stoker two years ago , 1973 RD350. Insane acceleration and hard to keep the front wheel down, those skinny tires made handling a bit tricky and forget riding in the rain.

I should have kept it but my son was making noises about riding it. I like the kid too much to let him loose on that thing.
 
I had a 74 RD, it was easy to keep the front end down and ride in the rain, don t crack open the throttle......the great thing about two strokes, the more you learned how to ride the bike the better it got, never got bored or thought about getting a bigger bike.


crankcall said:
I just sold my last 2stoker two years ago , 1973 RD350. Insane acceleration and hard to keep the front wheel down, those skinny tires made handling a bit tricky and forget riding in the rain.

I should have kept it but my son was making noises about riding it. I like the kid too much to let him loose on that thing.
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I think the two-strokes are just cool.. the way they sound and the fact that they suck at working all the time (although some thread searches yielded people who's bikes ran perfectly). It would be a fun project...although part of me fears being the one that posts a "started a project, now selling boxes of parts" in this endeavor.

What happens if you modify the crap out of it? Does registering/insuring it change?
 
No it does not change registering, but what exactly do you intend to do with it?

My RD ran flawlessly, it seems like the guys who had problems with the bikes ( this goes for any bike ), they do modifications that effect the durablity of the machine or they did not know what they where doing and screwed things up and then blame the bike.


badjoke said:
I think the two-strokes are just cool.. the way they sound and the fact that they suck at working all the time (although some thread searches yielded people who's bikes ran perfectly). It would be a fun project...although part of me fears being the one that posts a "started a project, now selling boxes of parts" in this endeavor.

What happens if you modify the crap out of it? Does registering/insuring it change?
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gwelfmike said:
No it does not change registering, but what exactly do you intend to do with it?

My RD ran flawlessly, it seems like the guys who had problems with the bikes ( this goes for any bike ), they do modifications that effect the durablity of the machine or they did not know what they where doing and screwed things up and then blame the bike.
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Not quite sure yet... off the top of my head..

1. Find out if you can register and ride a two-stroke legally in Ontario. (check!)
2. Get one. (ok...so the checks have already stopped.)
3. Make it run.
4. Upgrade brakes, electrical.
5. Prob do a cafe/industrial style thing.
6. Wouldn't touch the engine, unless it was to make it more reliable. Maybe make custom pipes.

Gotta get to step 2 first. And maybe add step 2.5... learn how to do all this stuff. Which would probably help avoiding they "blame the bike" part of the equation.
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