The sitting position is a little bit awkward as your feet will feel behind you and then the brake pedal and shifter are a little difficult to operate with your feet on the pegs. The ergonomics keep a trials stance, with footpegs back and the handlebar forward, and it works fine when you are standing. It is a trails bike trying to be a trail bike and for that it works perfect. The handling of the Ossa is where it is really a standout and might just be the right package for you, if you are looking at this type of motorcycle.
And it will do an amazing job of allowing you to boost the bike with an abrupt snap as well as carry you seamlessly through second gear turns in fourth gear when needed. The clutch is trials-bike good with control and modulation one would expect from bikes that require so much control here. You could literally walk faster than first with no throttle and sixth will have you rolling at 60 if you feel the need. The transmission ratios, the same as the trials bike, have a very low first through third speeds and then the ratios start jumping to give the bike some legs in the upper ranges. The engine is very compact and houses a six-speed transmission activated through a hydraulic clutch. The unique engine design, with the intake on the front and the exhaust flowing from the rear of the cylinder towards the back of the bike, places the injector nozzle in the reed cage area and a throttle body on top of that. And for a two-stroke without a true expansion chamber nor a powervalve, the power is very long. Power builds very smooth and very linearly, the kind of power build that you want if you want traction.
Otherwise you’d be hard pressed to feel the difference between FI and a carb, or we should say a perfectly jetted carb. The FI is very impressive at allowing the bike to lug down to ridiculously low-low RPM and still continue to turn over even at very large throttle openings and change the throttle position and not have the bike get confused. It has a heavy-flywheel type of pick-up where it isn’t really snappy but it is reluctant to stall. Once running, the bike requires very little warm up time and the throttle response is crisp and clean. But if it doesn’t after a few kicks it is wise to disconnect the wire to the injector and clean the bike out, wide open. Most of the time the bike starts right up. Holding the bike wide open and kicking it does not produce the same results as a carbureted two-stroke. It takes a full, smooth hard kick, and then you have to be careful not to flood it.
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Especially when the full stroke of the kick starter turns the motor over just about one revolution. There is a bit of an art to starting a fuel-injected two-stroke that does not have a starting battery.
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