4 stroke 2008 banshee?
 

I got the new Dirt Wheels today (april 2007). On the cover is a 4 stroke banshee. It looks like Yamaha is testing some 4 stroke 500cc twin cylinder Banshees in Japan. I just skimmed over the artical and there doesn't seem to be much info. on it yet other than Yamaha is testing many different prototypes. Basically they are saying it is 2 YZF250 cylinders or half of an R1 motor. There is actually talk of it coming out with 60-70 hp out of the box, but may even be as high as 85hp (1/2 of the R1). It will be interesting to see what Yamaha actually does with this. I am wondering about the powerband of the twin 4 stroke motor. Will it have more torque/bottom end power, or be higher revving like a sport bike.

I looked on Dirt Wheels website and they don't have the picture of it and I couldn't find one on the net anywhere. They only show a side view of the quad in the magazine, but it looks like the Banshee radiator with Raptor/YFZ450 front fenders and headlights.

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i would wrather have the mudzilla >:D

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i wanna buy a quad for the days I don't feel like foot plant'n. was looking into a new can-am, but now i might have to wait. That Banshee sounds like a Raptor killer.

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I always wanted a Power Wheels 4 wheeler or Jeep version. :'(

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was looking on a banshee forum and those guys seem to think it is a hoax :'(

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I hope so. :3 Next thing you know Chevrolet will be dropping an I4 into Vette chassis' to lower the price and power to make them more affordable and insurable. :3 Why not put smog pumps on and emissions friendly horseshit. Maybe start making an "alternative fuel" Banshee running on propane getting 49mpg while throwing down a staggering 15whp. :1 If Yamaha ruins the Banshee with that 4-stroke pile of ---- motor, Yamaha will lose alot of customers. :3
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I always did too, never got it though :(

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i read somewhere that 500cc banshee is supposed to have 72hp. if that is so that is far more than the 350cc 2 stroke banshees have now.

very big step up...

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Those are just estimates from uneducated people.

And I supposed it "should be" more reliable than the 2 stroke 350 motor, right? ::) It's funny how everybody I know who owns a 4 stroke is having problem after problem and when they first bought it all they could talk about was how reliable and trouble free they are. ::) One of my friends just had his bike serviced after it wouldn't start and was backfiring. $1200 for a "tune-up" and overhaul that shouldn't even be necessary. I've never had an expense over the cost of a new piston/rings and a cylinder hone. 4-strokes suck and putting one in a bike that has been an absolute success as a 2-stroke for so many years in a row would be retarded and pointless. :3
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i fugred the die hard banshee boys would not like it. i could care less either way.

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I just think there are enough 4-strokes out there that the 4 stroke guys can choose from already. No need to ruin something that's already a legend by swapping in a completely opposite setup. That's like swapping a 289 out of a Mustang into a Vette. :1
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well it depends how much power it has.

its kinda like replacing a hi strung i6 turbo motor and putting in a flat v8 making the same power or a little more i guess it could be.

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word. my bud has on 01 raptor, and preached his reliability to me. he would trash me all the time about me hav'n to rebuild every 2 to 4 weeks ($200) of riding weekends with him (I ride fuk'n hard/nickel plated cylinder already). One day mister reliable doesn't start and for the life of me I couldn't help. 2 grand and 6 weeks later ---- head is up and running, made me want a 4 poke fo sho.

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Lol, can't you see its a photochopped banshee and YFZ450 together?


Dirt wheels does an April fools thing like this every year

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nice call... i bet it got a lot of people rilled up.

i wanna see a 4 poke production banshee haha

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It'll never happen becuase the Banshee is still in production:

http://www.yamaha-motor.ca/products/products.php?model=2079&class=78&group=A|&LANG=en


The 2008 model will still be the same motor.

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im turning into a 2 stroke guy pretty fast. at least for everything except hardcore over logs through brush trail riding.

i love my tri-zs. my 80 over one rips hard and i love power sliding that thing around long corners in 5th.

its so easy to start and that is so nice for a change 8)

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I see on the cover thats a April issue..........They always do a April Fool's cover in April. :y

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ya looks pretty foolish. a nigd out looking "mudzilla" , a dog on a atv with a helmet on, and that thing, which looks like it has a sport bike frame pasted on the side, and the word banshee on the seat just looks like somthing yahmaha wouldnt really do i dont know..

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i love my banshee...i traded my cbr 600f2 for it....and when i got it all my buddies that had four strokes started preaching the same thing about reliability....and they said it wouldn't do that good on the trails cause i had no low end power....so i go out there and ride the trials with them and my banshee did just fine, in fact it out performed most of the bikes out riding with us

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Yamaha allready makes a twin 660 and a fuel injected 700 twin 4 stroke for the Raptors. Why would they do that to the Banshee? ??? :3

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you need to ride tighter trails.

wanna come riding with me sometime? im in desperate need of a riding partner

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4 strokes own 2 strokes its been proven many times, yamaha is just doing what is best and they know it, they make millions.

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Thats what I was thinking.

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We've been over this many times. ::) It takes a 4stroke 2x the motor to "own" a 2 stroke. I hardly qualify that as owning anything. :1 Shouldn't you be adjusting your valves or something? I think I hear them ticking.... :P
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He just wants people to pay attention to him.

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if i took a cr500 and a bored out 450 say 480cc, the cr wouldnt even have a chance.

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O RLY? :S

So you're taking a STOCK 2-stroke against a MODIFIED 4 stroke? :1

Why don't we compare a STOCK cr250 to a STOCK CRF250? :8
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yea the modded 4 strokes still whaaaaa ??? 20cc less in size?? come on big 2 smoker big it, a stock 450 vs a cr500 450 still owns, just as much power and half the weight of that pos.

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Half the weight? 4 strokes are heavy ass turds compared to 2 strokes. Where do you get your info? ??? Also, show me where a STOCK cr500 gets owned by a STOCK 450.

20cc is nothing. 200cc is quite a bit.
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hey ----- i said 480cc not 200 more cc idiot, jesus a 450 with a big bore 480 would rape a ------- cr 500, and ------ 4 strokes weight like 4lbs more then a 2 stroke, take a huge ---- and im covered. plus the extra power as i wheely by u ----- 2 smokers is just dandy :y

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Do you have proof of this or are you just making all this retarded ---- up as you go? ::)

My cr250 came stock wqith 864,987whp and it's sooper fast!!! :1

:3
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My Jeep has more HP than a 4cylinder Honda so Jeeps are teh fastest!!!! :1 :1 :1 :1 :1 :1

Next time you compare a STOCK CR500 to a MODIFIED CRF450 you get the dumbfuck of the year award.

:3
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your a complete ------- idiot, yea modded o wow a bigger cylinder, stock along the 450 will eat that pos i was making more comparable but ---- u could bore it out to a 500cc so they are both identical and do it that way, get a life and stop picking a little stupid ---- you dont get, your ride red and red is garbage especially the 2 strokes so lick my balls n go buy some premix or somethin. 450 owns... trick.

stock 450 have 50-55hp stock 250 2 strokes dont even have 50 ----- lips, most have around 45, that pos 500 is old ass technology thats been the same since ------- 1990, its just a big ass turd, all you homos do is ----- ---- anyway so i could see y u weaklings would want 2 strokes but whatever have fun being gay and ass slaping in the astro vans.

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Are you this ------- stupid in person? :3 Jesus, good luck with that whole retarded thing. I hope it works out for you. :-\
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YOU'RE COMPARING A ------- 450 TO A ------- 250 YOU ------- RETARDED PIECE OF UNEDUCATED ----! HELLO?!?!?!?!?! DO YOU UNDER-------STAND THIS NOW????

200 ------- cc is alot of extra motor to only be producing ~5hp more. ::) Real impressive. :1 :3
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wow its just got serious over which is better 2 stroke or 4 stroke..chill out mycrx..just a little too many name callings there :P



pshhhh..JD this is the drama I was talking about...

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its not just 5 its more upwards of 10 idiot, and you were bitching about a 480cc 4 stroke racing a cr500 but whatever youll always be right, knowing that youve never owned a 450cc race bike or anything other then pos 2 strokes, trust me dumbass i used to love 2 strokes up until the day i rode a 450, and jesus christ it was enough to never go back, its not just hp its an entire differnt power band, u have hp in the high revs, i have hp and tq in the low end, mid range, and high end, and i can feel it in every gear, crusing along in 4th and hammer it and its just everywhere pretty much just hold the ---- on, all the 250cc 2 strokes and the 500 ive ridden they didnt even feel like that, its more of a rush, pure acceleration no lag lag lag smoke puff puff lag "make metal clangin sounds" smoke some more then hit a little power. also idiot ive seen 250f's own 250 2 strokes so what the ----?? that 250f has the same hp almost as a 250cc 2 stroke.

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A Honda Civic makes almost the same HP as a Dodge Viper ::)