TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: THE ART OF PIPES

Travis Pastrana’s RMZilla FMF pipe from the 2019 Red Bull Straight Rhythm. 

Two-stroke pipes are a work of art. We have put together a gallery full of our favorite two-stroke pipes throughout the years. Everything from cone pipes, nickel-plated pipes, factory pipes and even pancake pipes. Enjoy and make sure not to drool too much.

A custom KX500 pipe. 

Brett Metcalfe’s Yamaha of Troy YZ125 used a factory FMF Fatty pipe.

This Pro Circuit cone pipe off a TM 300MX  is a prototype that is not for sale.

On Ricky Carmichael’s championship winning 2005 Suzuki RM250 a works Pro Circuit pipe was used.

The Pro Circuit pipe of Mike Brown MXDN bike that was never raced. 

Scalvini cone pipe on a KTM 300TPI. 

This is Johnny O’Mara’s 1986 MXDN winning factory Honda CR125. They used an in-house factory built pipe.

Josh Hanson’s Straight Rhythm CR250 with a Bill’s pipe . 

Bud Racing’s HGS pipe on a 2005 Kawasaki KX125.

The Ken Roczen winning Straight Rhythm CR250 pipe. 

Honda Japan factory built cone pipe.

Ricky Carmichael’s factory CR250 pipe. 

MX-Tech’s KTM 150SX with an FMF pipe. 

Tim Ferry’s factory YZ250. 

Bud Racing HGS pipe for a Kawasaki KX85.

The stock 2005 Suzuki RM250 pipe. 

Pro Circuit cone pipe on a 1999 TM 125. 

Well-used wrap-around cone pipe on an ATK 406. 

Jeremy McGrath’s Peak Honda CR125 used a works Pro Circuit pipe waitimg to be bolted down. 

The FMF pipe on Damon Bradshaw’s GasGas. 

The Pro Circuit pipe on Ryan Villopoto’s KX250. 

The Factory Honda pipe of one of Jeremy McGrath’s last CR250’s he raced. 

A KX500 engine stuffed into a KTM chassis with a custom FMF pipe. 

The stock 2004 Kawasaki KX250 pipe .

FMF Factory Fatty on a 2017 KTM 250SX.

Pro Circuit pipe on a 2004 CR250. 

A Bud Racing pipe on a 2003 Honda CR250.

The Doma Racing pipe on Grant Langston’s KTM 250SX.

A Pro Circuit pipe on a 1986 Honda CR250. 

James Stewart’s factory KX250SR with a Pro Circuit pipe. 

The FMF cone pipe of Scott Sheak 1998 CR125.

Scalvini cone pipe on  RM250. 

Scalvini cone pipe on a 2017 Husky TC250.

The FMF Racing pipe of Malcolm Stewart’s RM250. 

Ryan Villopoto’s 2018 YZ125with a Pro Circuit pipe. 

Stock pipe of a 1988 KTM 500 with bash guard. 

FMF Factory Fatty on MXA’s 2016 KTM 150SX project bike.

Pro Circuit pipe on a Service Honda CR500AF. 

Mitch Payton built one-off pipes for the Factory Connection team. These pipes had massive center cones designed to work with the long-rod CR125 engine.

FMF Gnarly pipe on a KX500AF.

Jeremy McGrath’s factory 1995 Honda CR250 had a full in-house works cone pipe.

Two-stroke exhaust on a shifter kart engine. 

MXA’s Twisted Development 2007 YZ250 was built with an FMF Factory Fatty.

Stock pipe on a YZ490 (Note the BASS System on the rear brake pedal.

Travis Pastrana’s FMF pipe off the Suzuki RM250 that he raced at the MXDN. 

We used a Works Pro Circuit pipe on our 2015 Yamaha YZ125 project bike.

We bolted this nickel plated FMF Fatty on our 1994 Honda CR125 project bike.

Ryan Villopoto’s custom Pro Circuit pipe for his YZ125. 

FMF pipe built specifically for the BRC 500 engine in a KTM frame.

2002 KX500 project bike. There is a custom built FMF Gnarly pipe on it. 

Hakan Carlqvist’s 1983 World Championship winning Yamaha YZ490 with the factory designed “pancake pipe” that was used as a scoop air through the cylinder fins.

Mitchell Harrison’s KX125 Ricky Carmichael replica. 

Scalvini pipe on a Yamaha YZ125.

A custom red painted FMF pipe.

The Bud Racing exhaust on Carson Brown’s Red Bull Straight Rhythm winning Husky TC125. 

2001 Honda CR500 stock exhaust. 

FMF two-stroke pipe being made.

Factory-looking cone pipe on a 1989 CR125.