To Stroke or not to Stroke?

I once took a single cylinder motorcycle engine apart cux it quit running. When the head came off I saw why; the piston had somehow flipped sideways in there. It was a mighty short piston!, made shorter by the flip which kindof wrecked the skirts.I still can see the carnage in my head. IIRC that was a Honda factory hi-performance Quad engine. Part of their advertising mentioned the short-skirt, short-crown, hi-revving ability of their 4valve engine. Ima thinking it shouldda come with a rev-limiter!That's all I remember about that job, so please don't ask for more details.lol