10 Most Powerful 2-Stroke Sportbikes Ever Made 

generally people still talk about the 2 stroke era, including me, i so want these monster back , the smell and viscous power band as well !!

Two strokes are just way cooler than today’s MotoGP bikes. How sick would it be to have a two stroke class (with no anti-anything) racing on the same day as the current MotoGP bikes? I think the two strokes would get way more attention.

What’s even more amazing is that with digital direct injection, it burns cleaner than a four-stroke. We need to allow two-strokes to compete in Moto GP today! And turbo’s, superchargers etc. we need to allow ‘imagination’ and clever engineering to come back to the top tier of motorcycle racing.

That Bimota sounds mint! 👌

That Suter's a glorious looking beast.

Tz750 at 4:00 does some nasty wheelies passing some 4 strokes, awesome clip..

I had an KH 500 and even though it didn't have those HP numbers it was still massively fun miss it greatly

that Yamaha 750 smoker reeling and walking past was cool to see. Amazing bikes

.. oh how I miss the smell of 2 stroke 😶‍🌫️

That Kawasaki with the brushed aluminum tank… what a beauty

Strokers are awesome.

My friend had a 1979 Suzuki gt 750 3 cylinder that was water cooled and had Bazanti pipes, it was so fast!

My TV needed smell-o-vision for this video ☀️

Honda nsr 500 one of the best looking best sounding best handling bikes ever to race, even more impressive with mick doohan ringing its neck.

Sports bike NOT race bikes!!!!!!!! Where was the widow maker H2750 Mach IV??? That was the quickest bike of it's time and started the Japanese revolution of high powered sports bikes.

Yahaha TZR 125, a DeltaBox framed rocket when it was (easily) de-restricted. I so miss the 90s 😢

Had the RD 350 ypvs and i must say bring back 2stroke power 💥

I went to AMI in Daytona in the early 70’s and a classmate had lived in Japan for a while and obtained a Suzuki ‘Water Buffalo’ that had been ported for racing. Man were those swamp drug races great!

This 500 NSR is a magnificent replica made by Petku garage with VTR chassis and 500 RD/RZ engine.with license plate He will be proud of the confusion 👍

Konig 500 was a weapon for the time ,it was powered with a German outboard racing engine a flat 4 boxer it was designed & raced by Kiwi Kim Newcombe 85 h.p @10,000 rpm it was beating everything in 1974 but Kim was killed racing it & the project to manufacture them stopped .There is a couple of them here in NZ & maybe about 5-6 bikes all up exist very very rare & very cool .

Although not a production sports bike, Rima motors have designed their own 587vc V twin two stroke engine housed in an Aprilia RSV Mile chassis. Currently, it puts out over 140hp

I had a 350 lc, an rg250 gamma and a Tzr250, the instant power band of a 2 stroke would shock most modern day riders.

Number two is crazy smoking in the video

My 94 CR 500 has 67HP.. I thought these would have been a bit higher than what they are. Nice video tyvm.

You missed Kenny Robert's two stroke Flat Track Yamaha.

Massive ! Love this video, thx

In North america, wr have snowmobiles with 1000cc twins and tripples 2 strokes. . .Theses engines would make fast bikes no ? ?🤣

It was worked out that 99% of top rider spent less than 2% of the race at full throttle.. no joke.

What about the Cagiva GP500?

back in the day i got my first bike in 86, KR250. man, for half a 500, it was a weapon. never rode a 500 2stroke, but my mind did every moto gp race day watching gardner, schwanz, rainey, freddy, and the gang scream those things around the tracks. i was offered a RZ500 not running a few years back. i still kick my own ass for not jumping on that deal.

Moto GP Riders can’t ride these bikes? These were also Moto GP bikes. Valentino Rossi was Champion on a 2 stroke bike.

Bimota is sweeeet ❤

Nicely done! ⭐

Thanks

The Aprilia RS250 should have been on the list. It was the pinnacle of small displacement 2stroke design and technology at the time. The limited edition road legal race replicas, like the Loris Reggiani replica, had 80bhp out of the box, and with a few performance parts and some tuning could achieve similar bhp as an older RD/RG500. My Reggiani rep' was making 98bhp at the crank. Crazy power, gorgeous styling, and amazing handling, the RS250 had it all.

The gotta bring 2 stroke back :(

I bought up a RD350 project in the late 90's. Think I paid $500. Went to pick it up and ended with 2 full bikes (1 with title and tags), 3 mostly complete motors in crates, and lots of parts. When I got around to going through the pile I found 1 was a rd400 motor, and receipts indicated that the tagged bike was tuned by Moto Carrera in CA to their Stage 3 level (IIRC). I forget the specs but it was significantly more powerful than stock, with a narrower powerband. I rode that thing all over Baltimore, in the city it was so fun. I'd never ridden 2-strokes and always fought to keep it on the boil; but when it was right... it was crazy. I've ridden a lot of bikes and very few felt anything like the brutal acceleration that little smoker had. Ended up selling everything when I had to move; one of those decisions a person later regrets. The guy who bought it roda his RD350 about 70 miles to look at it, was nice to see it go to a guy who was into them. A few years later I missed a gray market 500 that a friend had gotten into WA from Canada.... thinking I'd see plenty of deals in the future. That was the good old days when old Japanese bikes were cheap and abundant. $1/cc was the joke, if it ran. Now I see CB350s for $3k... while I used to get 2-3 for free at a time from peoples garages and yards. Hindsight.....

You forget the Cagiva C593 and C594 and also Aprila RSW-2 500

Nice video! Maybe you could put the year at graphics too…but I like!

4:13 bro them power wheelies past 1st place is just showing off

On the RG 500 all the special tools for the RGB racer fit the street bike too !

Wonderful 🥰

did you know a warm well tuned 2 stroke doesn't smoke very much, unless deliberately tuned rich to cool/and lubricate a race engine. did you miss the Kenny Roberts Yamaha yz-750 about 185/200 hp. Kenny said after racing once in 1974 on a mile dirt track and winning they don't pay me enough to ride that motorcycle again.

BZM and Polini produce 50cc pocketbike racers that produce 17 hp which is impressive when you scale it up to 500cc.

Zabel 700ccm 80 HP 1 Zylinder. For Moto Cross SideCars

When driving? It’s a motorcycle, not a car. You ride motorbikes.

I just want to try one. I kinda liking the rg500r but damn 20k

I can smell the video

For me it is the Bimota ❤

❤Sutter❤ Swiss Power 💪

What about Suzuki GT 750 or race version TR 750?

I guess age has to have some benefit. Being an old fart, i've had the pleasure of riding a Yamaha RZ 500, owning a Suzuki RG500, a TZ 250, and riding a Honda NSR250. These things were commonplace, back in the 80's and 90's. You need to have deep pockets to own one, now. Christ...back then, my KTM was white, from the factory!!!! Unheard of.

Whats the cylinder look like on that soter

Ah the RG 500... What a bike... Rode my mates one back in 86"...

Pure best bike Nevers créate ✌️

Freddie Spencer single handedly put Honda on the # 1 position in the 2 stroke race. Has anyone done what he did in 1985?

Cada vez que veo levantarse el eje delantero...❤

Langen. Show us a dyno run!!!! My guess is that on a real good day it would make 65hp. What are your service intervals?

Stuck a 120Hp Kawasaki H2 in a tiny little KH 500 frame " 10 secound bike , Scary times back then ""

Am in love

Could doohans' bike be ridden "new style" shoulders and elbows down? What a beautiful machine.

I rode a Honda ns400, and it was the most gutless hunk of crap I have ever ridden!!! Was not impressed with it at all!

You missed to mention the YZR500 and the RGV500 Racebikes competing with the NSR 500 series of GP-bikes

Gotta say the front end of the NSR500 shown here might look a little familiar to us Aprilia RSV 1000 RR owners.

Which one has the cheapest price

The Kawsaki racer was in many respects a homage to Eric Offenstadt

Have You forgetten my Aprilia Red Rose 125 water cooled and Rotax consumtions.

Bayangkan kita generai X kembali ke era moto gp yang menggunakan mesin 2 lejang.. Rindu dengan bunyinya setiap kali pelumba melalui laluan lurus.. Jangan lupa Valentino rossi dengan aprillia 125 2 lejang

Raced the rg500 in the eighties, before all of this new teq, spent many of weeks in the hospital I've broke 37 Bones on the rg and still have one, getting older now and the bones rattle but we still get out there, don't they consider the rotary a two stroke? That Norton is the one i want to mount,

Yamaha RX king/ RD135

🐝🏁Great video 👍 thanks for sharing 👌 new subscriber

NSR500......Reason I started watching moto gp

The last one the Honda NSX thats it!

nice.. what about the kawasaki h2's though?

Two Stroke Yamaha inline 4! :)

I wont every 1 of them so bad ass i would never haft to put front tires on them !!

Kumpulan motor 2 stroke yg boros gasoline, akan tetapi sangat cepat lajunya ..🏍️🏍️🏍️💨💨💨

This posting is wrong they Forgot the Yamaha YZR 500! GP bike that Wayne Rainey won 3. world Championships on it and Eddie Lawson won 4 World Championships TZ. 5000. King Kenny won 3 world Championships on it. How come. You guys showed only the street version RZ 500 Yamaha and the Street version. RG 500. Gamma . But you did not mention the anemic NSR 400. V -3. Street version Honda you only showed the Honda moto GP bike which of course have much more HP the the street version Yamaha and Suzuki. You made big mistakes on this video as the final Version of the Yamaha. YZR 600 was close to. 225 HP and and not more than 345 pounds ????

Pass me the Castrol-R please.

❤ ✌🏻 stroke

What's the speed of nsr 500 in every gear?

….smells fast 💥

why do they rev it like that when its idling

I had an RZ250. Fast but spaghetti forks and frame.

NSR 500 was unbeatable

The Suzuki RG500 was made from 1985-1987

You didn't know that all 500cc two strokes in RR buts 240bhp+ ?? Depends on the track

Most of these are not sportbikes but are pure race bikes...

Impressive! But not one of these riders would punch my Kawasaki 750 widow maker through the gears! They would crap their pants!

EY! where's the kreidler van veen at!?!?!??

Not Kirk B. Kork B. KR-500

There's no way that Langen makes 76hp not without rebuilding it every 1000 miles. Total rubbish. A stock RG500 made 78hp also. You missed off the Cagiva 595. RGV500 and the YZR500 what a crap video full of bollocks and the NSR500 shown was a replica.

Added a turbo, huge waste environmentally friendly lubes about catastrophe could be awesome no smog

I should have bought one of those bikes instead of my CYBERBEAST! Although I will probably live longer to drive the’Beast.

Love the bimota and Honda 200hp

I tried to buy the bimota but found they had withdrawn them due to fueling problems and bad press. Spoke to a reluctant owner up Chelsea Bridge one night and he obviously only bought it for the pose and hadn't taken it past 60mph. What a waste, i was drooling at the prospect of canning it to the max.

It is possible to make a 1000cc 2stroke sportbike💀💀💀

You don’t drive a bike, it doesn’t have a steering wheel. Like a horse, you throw your leg over it, you ride it.

As much as I love 2-strokes engine they do have one problem they're uncharacteristic power band if you're not prepared for it they can get you in a lot of trouble really quick anyone that is on the original triple 750cc will know this

Holy crap nsr500 wow. I want that. Sob sob