Bike Tests

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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If the people in power don't understand the technical aspects, they find it in their best interest of ban it — and that is how they killed Lars Larsson's titanium-framed Husqvarna 51 years ago
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Yamaha has combined the best of both moto and offroad into their newest YZ450 model
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Team Suzuki’s 2003 RM250 was one of the best race bike we ever rode‚ without a doubt. How can we make such a bold statement? It was true!
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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
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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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It started life as the brain child of the Vertemati brothers, but the Vertemati/VOR breakup was probably a good thing for buyers—because the 503MX did improve under VOR
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Yamaha was originally called Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha, which translated is “Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company.” It wasn't until the summer of 1955, that the Yamaha Motor Company was spun off from Nippon Gakki.
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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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The GasGas MC450F is not as affordable as it once was, but it is still a sweet bike that captures riders’ hearts with its fun nature.
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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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Our tune has changed... Thank you, Yamaha
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The King of 250 Two-Strokes had no rivals for the throne in 2014
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If you own a 2023 Yamaha YZ450F, then you already own a 2024 YZ450F—except with more hours on it than the new one on the showroom floor.
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There is praise and complaint in every new motorcycle. We’re glad Austria is making an effort to delineate the three different brands, but it seems wrong to leave free power on the table.
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Ooops, "Why I don't love three, let me count the ways."
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Our best advice? Turn right to go left, speed up to slow down and ignore everything you learned by racing motocross
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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
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MXA's Daryl Ecklund takes KTM's RC390 Sport Bike to a road race track to test it and himself
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The MXA wrecking crew matches its motocross skill against the KTM X-Bow
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Honda wouldn't give us Sexton's or Roczen's works bikes for the weekend, but Honda's Johnny Campbell gave us one
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