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The jump from Lo206 to 2 stroke
The sticker on a used two stroke is not what gets you, its the top ends and extra bits Lo206 never bills you for. I keep wondering if that money is better spent on used parts and more laps in the four stroke.
People talk like you save by racing whatever is already packed at home instead of towing for Lo206. That only holds if the motor does not eat the travel savings right away. Anyone make the jump without buying a whole support pile first?
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What actually decides this is the grid you can fill without adding travel, plus whether you want two-stroke's extra cost, time, and physical load. It is not a promotion out of 206. 206 stays easy to jump into on a club weekend, and two-stroke does not.
Run two-stroke when that is the full competitive grid at the tracks you already attend. If it is the small field, you keep the rebuild bill and you still travel to find a race, so the money is better spent on 206 parts and track time. Move when the front of 206 is the same drivers every weekend and you want different competition, but only if that class is large enough to supply the new competition. You can arrive without a trailer of spares if you accept parking it for the rest of the weekend when it fails, or you leave the 206 race-ready as backup. If you do neither, you buy the extra rebuild parts anyway, usually at race-weekend prices.
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