Friend of mine has some sort of horrid, noisy little motorbike, with a
250cc twin cylinder two stroke.It runs OK at low revs, but at full throttle, one of the pots seems to die, and the thing loses power.
Slightly oddly, when the problem occurrs, the engine will spin at 8000 rpm on one pot, but there is NOTHING (not hot gas, no cold air, no smoke, nothing) coming out of the exhaust pipe on the other side. I would have thought that even if there was no spark, that cylinder should still be working as an air pump and I should be able to feel something.
He has tried new coils, plugs and plug leads.
The reed valves, to a casual inspection, look fine.
There is some sort of "power valve" in the exhaust, which apparently tunes the exhaust ports for different rev ranges.
Thoughts anyone?
David