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Irish John
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seems like the industy is lacking in the middle ground bicycle motor sales
thinking that a motor with some good quality for around 200 - 250 dollars
guaranteed to run for 5,000 miles
There is one such motor already and it's called a HuaSheng - cost about $200 for the engine.
The 2-stroke industry is lacking in the middle and high ground and if that demand is to be satisfied it sure as anything won't come out of China. We'll be looking to Europe, Japan or the US or maybe India (probably unlikely to be india) to meet that demand.
The only company I know of who have designed really powerful small 4-strokes is Honda. Their 50cc twin was used in motorcycle racing in the 1960s and they certainly have the edge on technology to deliver small multi-cylinder engines having made a 125cc 5 cylinder and a 250cc 6 cylinder 40 years ago. Both 4-strokes red lining above 20,000 rpm.
I think the 2-strokes are just too polluting these days to merit the substantial investment needed to make a small bicycle engine. The HuaSheng is only a good motor because it is a copy of Honda. But I've heard some disappointing reports of the HuaSheng recently from my supplier who stopped selling them when he had 4 that failed out of a batch of 40. One of these failures was caused by the owner using a fuel\oil mix that seized the engine but even 3 duds out of 40 is a defective rate of 13% which is totally unacceptable. Are we beginning to see quality fade here?
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