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Offline DJRacing

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The Sounds of Motocross
« on: August 11, 2007, 07:06:49 pm »
To me the sweet sound of a 2 stroke on the pipe sounds as good as the top coming off a beer but there are the sounds of the old 4 strokers and the sound of the modern 4 strokers. Which one does it for ya, or is it all of them???
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2007, 07:29:12 pm »
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2007, 08:10:53 pm »
I know they are too loud, but the sound of a modern 4-stroke barking and driving is superb. As a kid, I loved the sound of the TT500 and later the first couple of XR500 models. Beautiful deep notes, but without the urgency and snap of a modern 4-stroke.

But NOTHING beats a 500cc 2-stroke pulling hard through 3rd and 4th on a big open track...  BRRRAAAAAWWWWWWWRRRRRPPPPPPPPP

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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2007, 08:29:27 pm »
I just posted a cross section of motox bike sounds in Yamaha
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2007, 10:41:27 am »
CCM full noise at Christmas Hills Victoria  Grand National scramble circa 1974.  ;) Next event the sidecars Norton's, Yamaha's , Triumphs, Bsa's Honda754s and Kawasaki Z900s ,various Brit singles  all wonderful ear music!!!!and course Two stroke Suzuki water bottles losing all too the sound of over revving chambers of  Kawasaki 750 triples !!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2007, 08:00:50 pm »
Tell you what used to sound good when I was a kid. A guy down the road had a GT550 with a set of chambers (Bromlech or something like that I believe). He would hammer that thing through the gears and it had this wonderful long smooth ripping sound. Superb!

And yes, a CCM at full noise sounds glorious too...

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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2007, 08:11:40 pm »
Talking old roadies, as a young fella we lived out in the country, and this guy had a z900 with a 4into1 on it and ya could hear that thing coming down the road and throttling off as he had to go round a sweeper about 100m away and then excellerate out of it.
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2007, 09:52:22 pm »
I love the sound of 40 four strokes from when the 5 second board goes up and when the gate drops. Or either bike going through the whoops.

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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2011, 06:11:27 pm »
or is it all of them???

The still the day before VMX-the turbulent action scene of race day-the still after race day !!
Two extreme scales are just amazing !!   8)
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2011, 06:37:45 pm »
I love the sound of the modern motor/x bikes (both 2 and 4 stroke) about 3sec before I drop the gates  :) Darcy
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2011, 07:03:04 pm »
Thats a hard one , for me anything that is tuned right and on the gas sounds good, l guess if l had to pick just one, cant beet the sound of a good big bore 2 stroke, 1-2-3 or 4 cylinders.........mmmm 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2011, 07:11:32 pm »
Pops , the sound of that re- phased ( or what it is called ) chair does it for me.

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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2011, 07:12:59 pm »
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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2011, 07:20:26 pm »
Cant beat the sounds of the old brit bangers for me 8)

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Re: The Sounds of Motocross
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2011, 08:00:13 pm »
Any two stroke especially when you can hear it echoing it through the bush or hear it coming up the road you know it is a two stroke but you are just hanging out to see what sort it is.

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