Dual-sports are the mutts of the motorcycle world. They’re neither pure off-road bikes nor true street bikes; they don’t have the outright prowess to tackle a motocross track or crack triple-digit speeds. Yet this mixed lineage isn’t all bad, as they can go places and do things in more comfort than any of the purebreds. [...]
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SmithTop Fuel GoggleSmith released its Fuel line of goggles a few years ago, so if you are a new-product junkie, you might wonder why we are just now doing a test. The reason is Smith updated the face foam on its upper-end goggles (Top Fuel, Fuel TI, Warp Star and Warp TI), and that makes [...]
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You don’t need to be in Hawaii to experience slippery clay and rock downhills. As many an off-road racer has discovered, this combination can be found almost anywhere. For advice on how to tackle this obstacle without ending up on our head, we turned to Team Throttlehead.com Kawasaki racer Steve Hatch. With nearly two decades [...]
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To distort an old saying about trailer parks: You can take the 450R off the motocross track, but you can’t take the motocross out of the 450R. However, Scott Summers has attempted to defy that logic with his extreme CRF450R makeover. His current steed bears little resemblance to the bike he brought to our annual [...]
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Make no mistake about it, Yamaha isn’t one of those companies that develops an off-road bike, gives it a lukewarm update the second year and then forgets about it to concentrate on the motocross side of the house. The tuning-fork engineers do spend a lot of time and energy on perfecting the YZs and YZ-Fs, [...]
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Fortunately, he has a crack crew of about a half dozen to enable him to accomplish this. And every one of them whom I talked to echoed JR’s sentiments: “Being out here [on the track] Monday through Friday is the most peaceful thing. I’m out in the woods, doing what I like to do-cutting trails [...]
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Make no mistake about it, Yamaha isn’t one of those companies that develops an off-road bike, gives it a lukewarm update the second year and then forgets about it to concentrate on the motocross side of the house. The tuning-fork engineers do spend a lot of time and energy on perfecting the YZs and YZ-Fs, [...]
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HILLSDALE, Mich., (Feb. 28, 2013) – Cobra
HILLSDALE, Mich., (Feb. 28, 2013) – Cobra
A video recap of the Pro Taper
Recap video for the 2012 Mini O's
