Bike Tests

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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The 2025-1/2 KTM 250SXF Factory Edition isn't a totally new KTM, but it does come with an impressive list of upgraded accessories, like an Akrapovic slip-on muffler, Wi-Fi connectivity unit, Power Parts Factory wheels, split triple clamps…
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Today, only Yamaha and the KTM Group still make competitive motocross two-strokes. Honda gave in 2007. Suzuki quit in 2008 & Kawasaki’s final run of 250 two-strokes petered out in 2007,
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How advanced was the 2005 Yamaha YZ125? Who thought the 2005 YZ125 would be basically the same 20 years later?
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Bigger isn't always better, but when it comes to the KTM 350SXF it is!
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It revved to 15 grand, had factory WP suspension and bristled with KTM Power Parts components. The fly in the ointment was that the MXA testers were the last "regular people" to ever get a Factory Services works engine
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Chad Reed got a last-minute deal to ride the 2009 AMA Nationals for Team Suzuki. It was thrown together, but a match made in heaven
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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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Was the KTM 380SX faster than the KX500 and CR500 of their times? Yes and no. Why didn't the unique KTM 380SX mid-size two-stroke catch on? It should have
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And, as it works out, the MXA RM-Z450 test is one of only a tiny handful of in depth 2025 Suzuki RM-Z450 tests
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The Italians are proud of the rideability of the 450RXw and their marketing tagline matches how the engine actually feels—rideable.
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Back in 1982 Honda built a minicycle version of the Rokon Trailbreaker
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The small Italian company is the "little train that could." TM bikes are hand-built in Pesaro, Italy. There are no robots grinding away on the cylinder.They are supra exotic
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Not everyone needs a full-blown pro bike and its $11,599 dollar price tag. Josh l and Josh ll try to decipher what they can and can't live without
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The whys and wherefores of 2015 quarter-liter thumpers. What brand were you racing in 2015?
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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.
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The 2025 Yamaha YZ250FX adopted the same changes that its counterpart, the YZ450FX, received in 2024. This motorcycle may look like a motocross YZ250F on the surface, but hidden inside its frame rails are a lot of essential off-road mods.
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Among the three Austrian 250cc bikes, the Husky stands out the most with its lowered suspension travel and seat height, while the KTM and GasGas share the same suspension, just with slightly different valving. The GasGas offers a softer…
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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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The 2010 Husaberg FX450 was too heavy, too slow and too weird to be taken seriously by motocross racers, but It was like no other machine on the planet
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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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Take your pick! Two are fuel injected, two are carbureted and one is by far the best 125 two-stroke in the 2023 class. Plus, a word of warning about the future.
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