Kawasaki tests

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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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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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
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Surprise it was a marvelously smooth Glen Helen track—we don't get many of these days
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Sometimes you love a bike in spite of its flaws—that is what defines the 2014 Kawasaki KX250F
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Three uniquely different two-stroke for uniquely different riders— a full-race Kawasaki KX112 for a future star, a well thought out Yamaha YZ250 & a full-on, one-off Kawasaki KX315 big bore
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We list 15 updates to the Kawasaki KX250 for the 2025 model year. It was very fast in 2024 and promises to be even faster in 2025
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We had the two top 500cc two-stroke builders make the wildest CR500 and KX500 known to man—with video of both bikes
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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 iswas smooth down low, rolled on with authority and was the best all-around race engine of 2014.
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If you can feel the issues with the 2024-'25 Kawasaki KX450, here are a few clues and tips to make the most your issues go away
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For 2025, the KX250 ditched the KYB suspenders for Showa and followed many of the footsteps of its big brother (but not all)
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The 2014 winner versus the 2014 loser rematch, but which is which & could you tell the difference
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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What's the 2024 Kawasaki KX450 all about? We reveal the good, the bad and mysterious
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A look back a decade ago to the 2014 KX450F. It had a great powerband, but In order to get our hands on that luscious powerband, we had to make a few compromises in other areas.
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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.
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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
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