MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2021 HUSQVARNA FC250
The FC250 does nothing wrong. The lowered chassis and improved suspension bring the handling up to a new level of excellence.
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Get the most honest tests on all the motocross bikes mad over the last 15 years including Honda, Yamaha, KTM, Husqvarna, Kawasaki, Suzuki, and TMs.
The FC250 does nothing wrong. The lowered chassis and improved suspension bring the handling up to a new level of excellence.
What would it take to turn a 2020 Kawasaki KX450 into a 2021 KX450? Oversized handlebars, oversized bar mount and a Rekluse or Hinson clutch
It’s a fun bike to ride. It’s a fun bike to own. If you feel compelled to spend money on your 2021 Yamaha YZ125, spend it on the engine
The air-cooled CRF150F electric-start engine is made for a teenager to cruise around on flat trails—We have to say it, this advanced chassis is begging to have a hot-rod water-cooled engine in it
Come with us on the journey back to 2011 to see what we thought of the first-ever KTM 350SXF … you’ll be surprised!
MXA’s 2021-1/2 KTM 450SXF Factory Edition is here and after two days of testing, we learn the ins and outs of the new Bluetooth mapping unit—we are glad to release our First Ride video
It’s nice, pleasant and fun to race, but maybe Kawasaki should start thinking about better forks, a smaller rear rotor, electronic mapping and more actual horsepower for 2022
We are ambivalent about the 2021 Honda CRF450; they did some things very well and some things very poorly—but mostly they rushed it out the door before it was done
Did the YZ400 have anything to fear from the 2000 KTM 520SX? You bet. This bike had an incredible powerband
“I had a few moments of brilliance — one of them was almost passing my childhood hero, Mike Brown, and having him flip me off after I revved my engine behind him.”
Mike walked away from the World Two-Stroke Championship with a smile on his face and $30,000 in his bank account
If you were blindfolded while on Ryan’s KX250F, you’d swear you were on a KX450F—There is no lightweight buzz coming out of the Pro Circuit exhaust, it rumbles
From the outside, not so different. From the inside, way different
Which one should you buy? We break down the details and give you our opinion on the bikes in this MXA Head-to-Head Shootout video
How to fix the 2020-2021 Yamaha YZ450F with a few common sense moves and crack 60 horsepower with something out-of-the-box
When you give up a ton of horsepower and add a ton of weight, you aren’t going to make it all-better with a couple clicks
The fact that Broc Glover won the 1985 AMA 500 Championship on this bike was testament to his talent
The 2021 CRF250 doesn’t shine in any area of the power curve. It is lethargic off the bottom, needs a wake-up call in the midrange and doesn’t take off until the upper echelons of the powerband.
The MXA wrecking crew matches its motocross skill against the KTM X-bow
“I got on the gas hard coming into the Talladega first corner, and I could hear Josh yelling, “Slow down!” I ignored him and kept the throttle pegged.”
They look so lovely under studio lights, but getting them to that point is fraught with peril and imperiled by fraught
Why the long dreamed of Great American Motocross Hope was a total flop
The wild and wacky story of how Yamaha got into the dirt bike business and the cast of characters that made it a success
RC, DeCoster & Goose tell all about the bike that everyone who was anyone in 2005 remembers
We ride and talk about the new 2021 Husky FC250
Polar opposites on the track, these two relatively unchanged 2021 models, trade pluses and minus—and your intended use makes a difference
What makes the showroom stock Austrian bikes such a force for change and innovation in the motocross world?
If they ever wanted to switch to making motocross bikes, they could build a powerhouse team of French riders
Jamie Ellis, Dean Dickenson & Mitch Payton put our KTM, Husky & Yamaha 125s on remedial speed therapy — with video and something called “words”
Before Josh Mosiman came to work at MXA or Jamie Ellis wrote his “Twisted Logic” column for MXA, they collaborated on a very special “Smart” Husqvarna FC450