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 tetsing Read More...
What's new? Updated rear linkage, new fork and shock settings,a lighter spring rate on rear shock and new delta-shaped piston shims in the fork and revise engine mounts. Read More...
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. Read More...
As proven by the Husqvarna acquisition, the best economy-of-scale decision was to take the frames, engines, suspension, hubs, swingarm, throttle bodies, electronics and subframes from KTM, and wrap them in red plastic. Read More...
Beta has been around since 1905, and has remained family owned the entire time. Beta made two-stroke motocross bikes in the ’70s and ’80s, but since then Beta has focused on trials bikes and off-road bikes—until now. Read More...
KTM’s engineers did a very good job of addressing the bad things about the 2024 production KTM 450SXF and enhancing the good stuff. And, yes this is the 2025 model. Read More...
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 Read More...
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… Read More...
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. Read More...
Much of the credit for the improvements goes to homegrown solutions, the ideas and concepts developed by local racers, hardcore KTM owners and the race teams, that KTM implemented into the 2014 KTM 450SXF. Read More...
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 Read More...
There is a twist to why the 2014 Husqvarna even existed. Part of it has to do with the automobile industry, some of it has to be blamed on lengthy R&D programs—Stefan Pierer found a way to cut down on development time. It's called… Read More...
Beta has built a name for itself by building a broad range of two-stroke and four-stroke off-road bikes. The dabble din the motocross market two years ago with the Beta 300RX smoker, but for 2024 have taken on the daunting task of not just… Read More...
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. Read More...
KTM isn't waiting four years to address rider complaints about the latest bikes, they are going all out to increase chassis flex and comfort for 2025. We shake down next year's '25 KTM 450SXF Read More...
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. Read More...
The off-road-specific version of the Kawasaki KX450 features the KX450 motocross bike's frame, engine, brakes, electronics, airbox, exhaust and bodywork—but with more off-road capability Read More...