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Do you remind your early bike? Was it fast, nippy, susceptible and a joy to ride? I'll bet it was a 2 tend.

Castrol R is an oil, past a great deal used in centrifugal racing circles, largely in the exciting 60's and 70's. A two-stroke oil, inactive utilized in such as workaday things as lawnmowers, it was typical by its smell; an intoxicating perfume - onetime smelled, never disregarded.

It was utilized in sport two embrace motor cycles of those days; Kenny Roberts, Barry Sheene, Phil Read and ad infinitum. Two strokes subordinate the world, because they were machines of airy weight (no hefty camshafts or flywheels) and jiffy all-powerfulness - record riders would name 'power bands' that could be likened to flicking a switch on and off: sound over, nothing; throttle open, wham! Closing the throttle was similar to change a pale off - everything fades until that influence fastening was reached over again. Four strokes were at a disadvantage; heavy, without human intervention more complex, and delayed to accomplish that sorcerous quality trimming. In the cut and stab world of racing, weight was the loser; solitary foreign machines, such as the 4-stroke Honda 4's and 6's of Hailwood fame, or the fantastically-prepared and reinforced MV Augustas, were a meeting for the 'strokers' - and this because of the lunar speediness the engines wrong-side-out at - 15,000RPM was the standard for the flyspeck Hondas..

Technology advanced, 4 cuddle machines became grave contenders, power-assisted by athletics rules that killed off the strokers - roar pollution, waste material pollution, all frowned upon. But up to that point, it was a two pat planetary.