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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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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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And, as it works out, the MXA test is one of only a tiny handful of in depth 2025 Suzuki RM-Z450 tests
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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.
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If you love ruts, this is the one Supercross to attend, it is not that the other tracks aren't rutty, it's just that they haven't been rutty 50 times
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Yes, the added $2900 is steep, but the coated suspension components, remapped ECU, Hinson clutch basket, Yoshimura exhaust and polished ports pay for themselves
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Yes, the 2025 KX450SR is much better than the 2025 Kawasaki KX450, but it’s not as exciting for us as the 2022 and 2023 KX450SRs were
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With the 2025 World Two-Stroke Championship only a month away (on April 19, 2025), we thought we'd look back a decade to what happened ten years ago at the 2015 event
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Suzuki resurrected itself from the ashes of the rather mediocre 1998 engine in 1999. The ‘99 powerband was a KX250 clone
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Glen Helen was jam-packed with motocross races—including the Old Timer's International on the National track, the Over-The Hill Gang piggy-backing on the Arroyo track — plus the "Saturday at the Glen" rain make-up race
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Tom Vialle finally dethroned Max Anstie from 250 East points lead, but only by one point
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You will agree with every one of them—unless you are married to one of them
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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 was smooth down low, rolled on with authority and was the best all-around race engine of 2014.
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It's the best all-around motocross bike for a Vet rider, 250 rider wishing to make the move to 450-style power or a short rider who can’t touch the ground on all the other skyscraper tall options
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The GP season starts with a bang, but don't place your bets yet—there are 19 rounds left to go
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Roczen finally wins Daytona, Webb pads his 450 points, Sexton survives his big mistake, Plessinger get his mojo back & Anstie keeps his points lead...barely
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Giant photo gallery of smokers at speed at the Glen
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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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Built in the tight confines between Daytona's front straight and the pit lane, Daytona doesn't have the conventional layout of a football or baseball stadium. Plus, it is build on a sand base, which means that it can get incredibly…
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Why Carson didn't use an KX250F aluminum frame or a 144cc kit, but did use Showa air forks and an Lectron carb
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We’ve often joked that the KX bar mounts will bend if you look at them wrong. That might be a little harsh, but the KX front end gets twisted even in the smallest crashes. Luxon MX has a four-post solution.
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What was wrong with the 2000 KTM 250SX engine? Just about everything
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Summer is back in SoCal, but that only means that winter is just around the corner, but every Glen Helen racer would rather be hot than cold
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A step-by-step blueprint of how Jeremy Wilkey left the farm and built his know-how, brand and reputation as the rocket scientist of forks and shocks
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What it was like to race Supercross in Dallas ten years ago (before they started calling it Arlington). Yes, there were red flags back then, too
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