THE REAL DEAL! 2021 MOTOCROSS ACTION 450 SHOOTOUT VIDEO
It’s finally here! MXA’s seven bike, 450 shootout video
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It’s finally here! MXA’s seven bike, 450 shootout video
Motocross racers love shootouts, until the bike they spent $10,000 loses; They think their brand is the fastest bike, until they see a dyno chart; They think that weight doesn’t matter on motocross bikes, but if their girlfriend gains a few pounds they go ballistic
Think sofa. The 5.0 N/mm forks on the KX450 motocross model are already way too soft, so you can easily imagine what the KX450X’s 4.8 N/mm spring rate and softer damping feel like
If you ride the 2021 KX250 like you’re going out for a Sunday stroll, the orange, white and blue competition will blow by you due to the KX250’s lackluster bottom-end power
“The other MXA guys started to refer to my KX125 project bike as the ‘green unicorn.’ I told them that it would be finished soon and then they’d be sorry. I lied!”
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 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
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
Polar opposites on the track, these two relatively unchanged 2021 models, trade pluses and minus—and your intended use makes a difference
Why Carson didn’t use an KX250F aluminum frame or a 144cc kit, but did use Showa air forks and an Lectron carb
Which bike is better for you? We break apart the details in our latest MXA video
The Kawasaki KX250 is all-new for 2021. Watch our video, see detailed photos of the engine parts and use our custom map setting here
The 2021 Kawasaki KX450 has a few updates that could make this bike a contender in MXA’s 2021 450 Shootout
The bike that James Stewart rode to a perfect season in 2008 —perfect means 24 straight moto wins
“I wasn’t looking to transform the 2020 KX450 into a budget-busting, exotic, Pro-level race bike; instead, I wanted to maintain the KX450’s positive characteristics and fix the negative ones”
The age-old struggle of power versus powerband
If you thought that riding Tim Ferry’s 2007 KX450F would be identical to riding James Stewart’s KX450F, think again.
Learn more about the 2021 KTM 450SXF, Kawasaki KX450, Yamaha YZ450F, KTM 350SXF and Husqvarna FC450 BY watching some awesome motocross action
Without music, narration or interviews, just mini star Benjamin Garib making his own kind of music
Areas to focus on when living and loving your 2020 Kawasaki KX450
It was a brilliant concept based on a fairy tale idea. We lined up tests on the three works bikes that would win the 1998 Motocross des Nations. It was a stroke of genius—even though the fairy tale didn’t have a happy ending
The MXA wrecking crew wanted to know what kind of bike a hammerhead like RC really rides. What better way to find out than by riding his race bike?
The KX250 gets updated power and style for 2021
Kawasaki joins the off-road market with two race-ready models
One last chance to see what is sitting on the showroom now, while waiting for the 2021 models to arrive. You might get a good deal now!
The bike that Brownie raced to the 125 AMA Championship 19 years ago—and he’ll be racing at the World Vet this November
80 percent of Ryan Villopoto’s 2007 bike was made, modified or reconfigured in the Pro Circuit race shop. Not even the frame was left alone
The MXA wrecking crew rounded up the five prime contenders and put them through their paces. Here is what we learned about the 2004 tiddlers
We had the two top 500cc two-stroke builders make the the CR500 and KX500 known to man—with video of both bikes
The extreme Kawasaki-powered KTX500e only scared us when we wanted it to—this bike could easily holeshot a 450cc National