This little two stroke has a two thousand rpm powerband. From 10,000 rpm to 12,000 rpm. This is highly technical riding as the engine cannot push the bike through the turns, over what the chassis can make it do. There is no excess of power to make up for any early braking or blowing through an apex at a too low or too high a speed. This is very tough to win in this size motorcycle class. You have to drive exactly perfect all the way around. What a great video.
This was onboard with Richard Lambourne riding Stu Jones' 5KE TZ. They fought some gremlins during the week (plus a lot of cancelled sessions due to rain) so had to make some guesses on setup/gearing and jetting. Job well done for pulling it all together and finishing the race with a 105 mph lap!
i saw 145mph at 12krpm at one point, and it goes up to 15k. I used to have a 2 stroke Kawasaki Ar, and an electrician who raced track bikes removed the rev limiter in the cdi, and it went from 12k max to 18k max. imagine if they did such to this tz250!!!
This is only using the GoPro software and their own data overlay. Thus no engine parameters- just GPS-based info. But you have to enable the data display before importing the files to your PC, I think.
When i got my FZ 750 i was dreaming of going to F1 bike an a couple people told me about the TZ 250 factory yamsha...then reality hit when they told me about the rebuilds....10000 grand...bah fungoul
