Bicycle motor with a cat?

Especially the EPA engine, great for mounting to anything you want! Have many good spare parts left over to build time machine with!

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BTW, 2 stroke engines of any variety DO pollute a lot.
2-stroke gasoline engines, which take in fuel and emit exhaust in the same stroke, still dump from 25-30% of their fuel unburned directly into our environment.
According to U.S. EPA comparisons of 4-stroke and 2-stroke recreational vehicles, a 2-stroke engine emits 30 times more hydrocarbons (benzene, butadiene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and 40 times the particulate matter as does the more efficient 4-stroke engine

Yeah, but these bicycle motor kits will still pass EPA regs, so they must be "clean" by the EPA's own standards.

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As to the pollution problem...ever think about how much pollution a single trip cross country in a 727 makes?

How about the fact that most trains leak more oil in an hour than a two stroke bicycle motor will use in it's entire service life.

Or all those idling police cars?

Ever follow a garbage truck? City bus? Big Dodge Ram diesel?

Or what about all that smoke that comes out of the top of a Bogus King restaurant?

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When did the EPA do it's comparison? 10-15-20 years ago? 2-stroke oil has improved alot in the past few years.

Two strock oil has definitly improved, I had some cheap oil from a Autozone store in bind. The china did smoke more. As for the cat existing, theres just no way it would cost more for a kit. The rare metal thats in them. No way, good observation! I've got got some blinker bearings for turn signals I'll sell, anyone?

They are starting to make a CAT muffler for our little 2 strokes it is not BS, now weather the BGF pipe actually has a CAT I don't know but I know dax is starting to market them. This is what it looks like inside.

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Now that looks like a cat to me...thats exactly what you would see in a automotive cat...almost like a honey comb

I wonder how they can keep the cost down. Platinum is a precious metal and putting it in a china fire engine and still keeping the cost down sounds like a Oxy-Moron. If it will keep the engine around longer, I'm all for it. I wonder if it requires the modification of the fuel mix to a higher fuel ratio. It would be difficult to lean out the oil ratio with the loose tolerance and poor quality of the bearings used. I would like to see and smell less of the two smoke. Have fun, Dave

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Since these engines have been shown to easily pass EPA regs in Arizona, I think they are putting a piece of corrogated metal in the exhaust and calling it a cat.....

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