Kawasaki tests

Would we want to race Ricky's KX125? Who wouldn’t? But; we’d need a few months to get in shape to be able use it to its fullest potential
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The 2026 Kawasaki KX450 is a clone of the 2025 KX450, which just happened to be a clone of the 2024 KX450F. The big difference was just the MSRP
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The best shootout you'll ever see including dyno charts, plus the good, bad and ugly facts
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Without telling tales out of school, we want to present report cards on the 2025 450s. Why? With the 2026 450 motocross bikes coming out now, last year’s bikes are leftover stock, and because of that, they will be offered at a…
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Mark Chilson is a dreamer with the patience and talent to build one-of-a-kind bikes that are super detailed
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One important caveat in the dream-bike scenario is that the bike cannot have a 450cc four-stroke engine. Why would it? Four-strokes are readily available and thus not dreamy enough.
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MXA has assembled an all-new MXA mini wrecking crew to help us with testing. With these test riders, we have now built enough momentum to conduct MXA's 2025 85cc Shootout, our first mini-cycle shootout since 2014.
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If you thought that riding Tim Ferry’s 2007 KX450F would be identical to riding James Stewart’s KX450F, think again.
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Given that Kawasaki has announced that they have plans for two-strokes in 2026, here is MXA's test of the last Kawasaki KX250 two-stroke. It is from 2007.
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The whys and wherefores of 2015 quarter-liter thumpers. What brand were you racing in 2015?
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It was hard to do an 85cc shootout over the last 10 years because most of the 85cc minicycles were pushing 20 years old. Now, the R&D departments have updated them
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Interested in the 1999 Kawasaki KX125? Don’t know anything about it? Here is everything you needed to know from 26 years ago
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Yes, the 2025 KX450SR is much better than the 2025 Kawasaki KX450, but it’s not as exciting for us as the 2022 and 2023 KX450SRs were
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Back in 2014 the Kawasaki KX450F was a BNG bike that didn't even get BNG, but the KX450F engine was a thing of beauty. It was smooth down low, rolled on with authority and was the best all-around race engine of 2014.
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Why Carson didn't use an KX250F aluminum frame or a 144cc kit, but did use Showa air forks and an Lectron carb
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Let's get together and go comparison shopping for a 250cc, 350cc or 450cc four-stroke motocross bike
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This year, Kawasaki took two steps forward in the chassis department and one step backward in the engine department. On last year’s KX250, the engine was the highlight and our complaints focused on the chassis; now our opinion has…
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You seen all the videos, now is the time to read what they should have told you
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We ride the bike that James Stewart rode to a perfect season in 2008 —perfect means 24 straight moto wins
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We race-test bikes because that’s when the pros and cons of a motorcycle stand out the most. No matter how hard you try in practice, it’ll never replicate the intensity that comes out on race day
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We ride the bike that Ricky raced at the 1999 Motocross des Nations in England
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CRF450 vs. YZ450F vs. KX450F vs. 450SXF vs. FC450 vs. RM-Z450
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It makes 58.01 horsepower, which is a respectable number, but no where near the class leading class-leading 60.1 horsepower of the Husqvarna FC450. The problem wasn’t the actual horsepower number but the fact that the bike felt slow and…
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