2025 MXA 85cc SHOOTOUT YAMAHA VS. HUSQVARNA VS. GASGAS VS. KAWASAKI VS. KTM

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.

BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: 1982 HONDA MOTRA 50

Back in 1982 Honda built a minicycle version of the Rokon Trailbreaker

2015 MXA 250 FOUR-STROKE SHOOTOUT: IF YOU THINK KTM WON, YOU ARE AN IDIOT

The whys and wherefores of 2015 quarter-liter thumpers. What brand were you racing in 2015?

TICK-TOCK: STAPO’S COUNTDOWN TO A RACE-READY 2025 HONDA CRF450

I quickly loaded up the 2025 Honda CRF450 and drove home with a plan to build a top-tier race bike just four weeks before the world Vet Championship. This wasn’t going to be easy; I needed to practice during that same window.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY! 2015 HONDA CRF450 HAD EVERYTHING —EXCEPT THE STUFF THAT EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY HAD

If you are from the school of thought that 450cc motocross bikes are too powerful for mortal man, this is your bike. It is definitely not too powerful for mortal man­­—or woman.

MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2025 HONDA CRF450 WORKS EDITION

Yes, the added $2900 is steep, but the coated suspension components, remapped ECU, Hinson clutch basket, Yoshimura exhaust and polished ports pay for themselves

MXA RETRO TEST: WE RIDE JEREMY McGRATH’S 1992 PEAK HONDA CR125

This was the Porsche Turbo Carrera of the 125 class back in 1992—it revved higher, hit harder and stayed on longer than the stock CR125 and had better bottom to boot

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: THE 2004 CR250 WE BUILT TO KILL THE FOUR-STROKE

A scary fast bike that only the gifted could ride. But was it enough to beat out the four-strokes?

MXA RETRO TEST: WE RIDE TREY CANARD’S 2010 GEICO HONDA CRF250

When we tested Trey Canard’s 2010 Geico Honda he was a dedicated 19-year-old who is a student of racing, a consummate professional, a determined individual and a rider who strives for success.

MINI TESTERS REVIEW: 2025 YAMAHA YZ85 VS. HONDA CRF150

We have some fun with our new mini bike test riders, putting two 2025 models head-to-head

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: COMPLETE TEST OF THE 2001 HONDA CR125

In 2001 Honda took one small step backwards and one giant leap forward with the CR125. This year, Honda is actively trying to return its engine to the glory of the past.

MXA BUYER’S GUIDE: 2025 WIDE WORLD OF FOUR-STROKES

Let’s get together and go comparison shopping for a 250cc, 350cc or 450cc four-stroke motocross bike

MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2025 HONDA CRF250 WORKS EDITION

Even though it wasn’t light years faster, the Works Edition erased the flaws of the stock bike, making it more fun to race, while reminding us just how good the stock CRF250 can be.

2025 MOTOCROSS ACTION 250 SHOOTOUT: SUZUKI, TRIUMPH, KAWASAKI, HONDA, YAMAHA, GASGAS, HUSQVARNA, KTM

You seen all the videos, now is the time to read what they should have told you

TWO-STROKE MEMORIES: FULL TEST OF THE 2003 HONDA CR125

The most modern vintage bike made—with a soon to be final expiration date

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: WORLD’S FIRST CUSTOM-BUILT FREESTYLE BIKE

Do you remember the Aloop XMX Freestyle bike?

MXA VIDEO: 2025 HONDA CRF450 WORKS EDITION FIRST RIDE

If you want to own the best Honda CRF450 on the track today, scrape up $2900 dollars to get to the $12,599 price tag for the 2025 Honda CRF450 Works Edition

MXA VIDEO: WE TEST THE 2025 HONDA CRF250 WORKS EDITION

For the first time, Honda made a CRF250 Works Edition and our testers loved it

WHY BONES BACON LOVES THE HONDA TRAIL 90, OOPS TRAIL 110…NO, THE TRAIL 125

We track Bones down at the Pro Circuit Supercross track to hear his history with Honda’s legendary Trail 125

MXA VIDEO: 2025 MXA 250 SHOOTOUT

Our biggest Shootout ever! We dive into the pros and cons, and then rank all eight of the major 250cc four-strokes

THIS WEEK IN MXA: STOCK OR WORKS EDITION? 2025 CRF250 LAP TIME BATTLE

Josh Mosiman, Josh Fout and Shawn Bushnell go head-to-head with lap time comparisons between the stock 2025 Honda CRF250 and the Works Edition

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY! 2004 HONDA CR250 VERSUS YAMAHA YZ250

Time has a way of blurring the rear-view vision of motocross fans. What’s better a 2004 Honda or 2004 Yamaha? We not surprised that you don’t know the correct answer

2025 MXA 450 FOUR-STROKE SHOOTOUT: SUZUKI, HONDA, GASGAS, KAWASAKI, HUSQVARNA, KTM & YAMAHA

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

MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2025 HONDA CRF250

For the first time in recent memory, Honda updated both the 250 and 450 in the same season. They even added a CRF250 Works Edition to the lineup this year, but that bike won’t be available for a few months

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY! 2015 MXA 450 SHOOTOUT—THE NEEDY & THE DISGRUNTLED

CRF450 vs. YZ450F vs. KX450F vs. 450SXF vs. FC450 vs. RM-Z450

2025 MXA 450 SHOOTOUT VIDEO: HORSEPOWER, WEIGHT, PRICE & RANK

After months of riding, racing and testing, the results are in…

20 YEARS AGO TODAY! UNEARTHING THE EPIC 2004 250 TWO-STROKE SHOOTOUT

You may have owned one of these in your youth because the 2004 CR250, KX250, YZ250, 250SX & RM250 were in their glory 20 years ago

MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2025 HONDA CRF450

How can it be the best Honda CRF450 in 17 years, but not the best 450 of 2025? Read on!

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: THE 2004 CR250 BUILT TO KILL 450 FOUR-STROKES

A scary fast bike that only the gifted could ride. But was it enough to beat out the four-strokes?

WE RIDE MX-TECH’S HONDA RESTO-MOD CR125, CR250 & CR500 TWO-STROKE TIME MACHINES

MX-Tech is a small suspension manufacturer out of Bradley, Illinois, and they specialize in making their own high-end A-kit suspension for all brands of bikes—from modern to vintage…and in our cases, Honda two-strokes.

TEN YEAR AGO TODAY! 2014 HONDA CRF450 —WHERE DID THE MISSING HORSEPOWER GO?

The 2014 Honda CRF450 Is slow. We can’t dance around the elephant in the room. It doesn’t make much horsepower, and it signs off very early. One caveat: don’t try to rev it out. It is most competitive when kept below 8500 rpm.

WE BUILD A 2008 HONDA CRF450 THAT BLOWS NEW BIKES AWAY

Ten year ago the MXA wrecking crew was the first to put the magical 2008 Honda CRF450 up against the newest high-tech Honda CRF450 of the time

MXA VIDEO: 2025 HONDA CRF450: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!

One thing we do know about 2025 Press Intros, they are held on the smoothest possible track imaginable and because of that we have to wait until we get it back to Glen Helen before we can do any serious testing

MXA VIDEO: WE TEST THE 2025 HONDA CRF250

Josh Mosiman, Dennis Stapleton and Justin Lee compare the 2024 Honda CRF250 to the new 2025 model

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: 2001 SERVICE HONDA CR134 THAT WE HATED TO RIDE

This is a classic example of all that can go wrong with a hopped-up bike

FIRST LOOK! 2025 HONDA MOTOCROSS MODELS: CRF250 & CRF450

Plus there will be a Works Edition of both the CR250 and CRF450

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY! 2014 HEAVY-HITTER REMATCH — KX450F VS. CRF450

The 2014 winner versus the 2014 loser rematch, but which is which & could you tell the difference

BIKES YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: THE 2000 ALOOP XMX 250 FREESTYLE

A special kit designed in 2000 to transform a CR250 motocross bike into a freestyle bike. First step, buy a hacksaw

MXA VIDEO: WHAT WE LEARNED ON THE 2024 HONDA CRF450 AFTER 200 HOURS

The Honda CRF450 has some quirks. MXA’s Josh Mosiman and Dennis Stapleton talk about what it’s like to live with this bike

2024 CROSS-COUNTRY BATTLE! HONDA CRF450RX VS. KAWASAKI KX450X

Although MXA is all about motocross, we also race WORCS, SRA, GNCC & NGPC events, for which we need off-road-specific machinery. Thus, the KX450X & Honda CRF450RX shootout

TEN YEAR’S AGO TODAY! 2014 HONDA CRF250 TWIN-PIPER TEST

Honda has confused us with a bike that delivers mixed messages

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: THE BEST & WORST TRAITS OF THE 2007 HONDA CR250

The 2007 Honda was a victim of its own two-stroke success, the Honda engineers thought they were infallible. The 2007 CR250 prove them wrong

MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2024 HONDA CRF450 WORKS EDITION

Potential Works Edition customers can take solace in the fact that the coated suspension components, remapped ECU, Hinson clutch and Yoshimura exhaust more than pay for themselves. Plus, it looks so good, feels perfect and is undeniably well put together.

MXA BUYER’S GUIDE TO THE WIDE WORLD OF 2024 FOUR-STROKES

With the 2025 models just peeking over the horizon, it’s a good chance to catch up on the bikes that are still on the showroom floors—the 2024 250, 350 & 450 four-strokes

TREVOR’S 24 HOURS OF PAIN: TREVOR NELSON’S BIG ADVENTURE

MXA talked our videographer/photographer into racing the 24 Hours of Glen Helen by himself. The smart money was on him not making it through the night. The smart money doesn’t know Trevor very well

MXA BUYER’S GUIDE: 2024 MINICYCLE BUYER’S GUIDE

If you are looking to launch your young one into the motocross world, move him up to a bigger bike or just looking for some backyard fun—look no further

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY! 2014 MXA 250 SHOOTOUT: CRF VS. KX-F VS. SXF VS. RM-Z VS. YZ-F

The MXA wrecking crew tested, documented, inspected, theorized and calculated every conceivable facet of the 250 four-stroke class for 2014. Your future bike now!

MXA RETRO TEST: 2001 SERVICE HONDA CR134 THAT WE HATED TO RIDE

This is a classic example of all that can go wrong with a hopped-up bike—and spending a bundle of money doesn’t always make a bike better

2024 MXA 450 FOUR-STROKE SHOOTOUT: SUZUKI, HONDA, GASGAS, KAWASAKI, HUSQVARNA, KTM & YAMAHA

Even though it is fun to fly to some far-away track to test a bike, it isn’t much of a test. MXA prefers to test bikes on the “dirt dyno.” What is the dirt dyno? It is the tracks that we have done a thousand laps on.

2024 MXA 250 FOUR-STROKE SHOOTOUT: THE WRITTEN WORD ON HOW ALL SEVEN BIKES RANK

We tested each bike in its stock form, and put 20 hours on each bike to, try to make them ultimately comparable to each other and to keep things equal we installed the same tires on each bike

MXA VIDEO: 2024 HONDA CRF450 WORKS EDITION TEST

The Honda CRF450 Works Edition costs $2750 more than a stock CRF450. Is it worth the extra dough?

FLASHBACK! WE RIDE JACK PHINN’S HONDA CRF450 DIRT TRACKER

With some reasonable modifications, a CR450 can be transformed into a desert racer, enduro bike, supermoto bike, dirt tracker, TT racer, sidecar racer or even a road racer

FLASHBACK! MXA’S FILL-IN RIDE ON THE HONDA FACTORY OFF-ROAD TEAM

Honda wouldn’t give us Sexton’s or Roczen’s works bikes for the weekend, but Honda’s Johnny Campbell gave us one

FLASHBACK! JOSH MOSIMAN’S THUNDER VALLEY 2023 HONDA CRF450 WORKS EDITION

Over the last couple seasons, Josh Mosiman has been racing select AMA 450 Nationals on MXA test bikes—in 2023 he raced a Yamaha YZ450F at Pala, a Gas Gas MC450F at Hangtown and for this edition, he raced a Honda CRF450 Works Edition at Thunder Valley

2024 MXA 250 FOUR-STROKE SHOOTOUT VIDEO

You may not like our opinion, but you have to respect it. We ride, race, and test all seven of the 2024 250cc four-strokes to give you the pros and cons of each new bike

MXA RETRO TEST: WE RIDE MIKE LAROCCO’S 1998 JACK-IN-THE-BOX CR250

After an aborted attempt to jump from Team Suzuki to Team Honda in the middle of the 1997 season, Mike finally got his wish for the 1998 season

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: 2004 HONDA CR250 VERSUS YAMAHA YZ250

No offense to Kawasaki, Suzuki and KTM, but their combined motocross bike sales didn’t equal one-half of the numbers put up by Yamaha and Honda in 2004

2023 MOTOCROSS ACTION’S 450 SHOOTOUT VIDEO

This is the one you should read! We compare the CRF450, YZ450F, 450SXF, KX450, FC450, RM-Z450, and MC450F against each other in the most highly anticipated video of the year

MXA RACE TEST: THE REAL TEST OF THE 2024 HONDA CRF450

Not only is this this great engine, but it does the impossible by taming some of the CRF450 frame’s skittishness

TWO-STROKE TUESDAY: WE TEST THE SLOW BUT STEADY 2004 HONDA CR125

The 2004 CR125 engine made four horsepower less than the KTM 125SX and at 10,500 rpm it was more than a seven horsepower adrift