2022 KAWASAKI BUYER’S GUIDE: KX450, KX250, KX112, KX85 AND KX65
What the green team is offering in 2022—including the all-new KX112 SuperMini
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What the green team is offering in 2022—including the all-new KX112 SuperMini
When his factory mechanic friend died suddenly of a heart attack it triggered his desire to build a works KX125 — it only took ten years
Don’t be surprised by the BNG on the 2022 Kawasaki motocross bikes—and the “B” is subdued
In 2004 Kawasaki had just launched its all-new KX250F. The team offered the four-stroke to James, and he tried it during the pre-season. He decided to stay with the KX125 two-stroke instead
The 2022 Kawasaki KX112 Supermini racer bridges the gap to full-size motocross bikes and boasts a powerful 112cc displacement engine
Breaking down the fastest 250 four-strokes — everything you need know, most of it applicable to your actual riding
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
“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!”
You don’t prove your manhood by riding a KX500, you do that by turning it wide open for longer than 3 seconds
“2021 marked Kawasaki’s resurgence back into the off-road scene, and I was excited to build the new KX450X into a cross-country race bike to see how it would perform against a stacked field of 450 Pro riders.”
It’s finally here! We rank all seven 2021 250 models from seventh to first and share our opinion on the best bargain bike, best entry level bike, best working class bike and bike of the year
It’s finally here! MXA’s seven bike, 450 shootout video
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
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