I don't mean standard 2-stroke smoke, we are talking spyhunter smokescreen here. I've had good results from all my Hondas. Like I said, both failures I blame on myself. The NSR failure was actually kind of funny. I had the throttle cranked back and the bike started to hesitate then POP! The engine noise was gone like you flipped a switch and all I heard was the chain rolling across the sprockets as the bike coasted to a stop.
I stood on one peg and with the other foot turned it into a kick scooter for a couple of kilometers to the house and pulled the plug. I shone a flashlight in it to see what I could see. Well the top of the connecting rod looks good. wait, what did I just see?!
Yup, blew a hole clean through the piston crown.



A high comp piston, colder plug and rejet fixed the problem. Oh yeah, I also learned when the bike is acting weird BACK OFF AND CHECK IT OUT!