On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 07:14:52 +0000 (UTC), jane
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 21:25:33 +0100, Jane Ransom
wrote:

~In article , Simon Avery
writes
~ More expensive though, and I can't think of any advantage it ~gives
you over a 2-stroke, but your point is valid. ~
~2-stroke engines will soon be a thing of the past, won't they?
~Aren't there plans afoot to ban them? EEC and something to do with the
~pollution they cause.

Well they'd have to ban lots of motorbikes, trabis :-) half the garden
machinery there is, and a lot more besides. Sometimes I wonder when
the EC will ban breathing cos humans are a pollutant...

jane, feeling particularly anti-EC at the moment as her bought-in (ie
no idea of variety) cucumbers have powdery mildew and there's nothing
left to cure it...


No, they're just developing cleaner 2-strokes. Which are, BTW, more
efficent and powerful than 4-strokes if you go by weight or cylinder size.
Tim.