AP RacingOrr Brake PadsMaybe I’m just different, but I’ve always looked to the brakes as a point of modification to make my bikes even better. Yes, even before I would try to make a bike faster. I’d say I’m smarter, but try arguing that point! One thing I’m pretty sure I won’t get an argument [...]
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Fox RacingAccess GearFor me, Fox gear is usually categorized in the out-of-my-style realm. The company runs high fashion and I run whatever is cleanish. Although I think its stuff looks fine on other guys, I usually find something a little tamer when left to my own ways. But then the new Access gear showed up.I [...]
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From The EditorSafety has always been a popular topic for discussion, but lately it has been getting a little hot inside our industry, and among Internet pundits it’s nearly boiling. What’s coming out of the hot pot is this: You can buy your way to a safe ride.I’m calling BS.Whether it’s neck braces, chest protectors, [...]
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Yamaha fired first, giving us our initial 2009 motocross test bike for the new year, just halfway through 2008. Since the bike only has slight revisions, it makes sense to get this one out early. Dirt Rider met up with the Yamaha guys at Milestone Ranch MX Park to get in a solid day of [...]
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Oh, great, I’m off my rocker. How could I even say that the 2009 KTM 250XC is the best bike ever? With only one day of track riding under my belt? Yes, the headline might just be true. Allow the guy who gets everything motorcycle related for free to explain.I’m relying on nearly 30-years of [...]
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Here it is: The full test of the 2009 Yamaha YZ450F. We’ve dropped 10 hours on our test bike in three ride days and this is what we’ve found out about Yamaha’s newest motocross bike.(Note to dirtrider.com users: This is the first of our web exclusive First Tests. These will go live on www.dirtrider.com as [...]
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Jimmy-RiggedSometimes I just laugh. It happens all the time, mostly when I’m driving my 10-year-old Dodge truck loaded with three brand-new bikes priced in the $7000-$9000 range. Counting the gear, there could be at least $30,000 worth of motorcycle stuff in the bed. Yep, beat Dodge truck; I couldn’t even get $3000 for it-spray-painted rims, [...]
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For $8398 plus a few fees and charges (don’t forget all that tax) you are looking at a very expensive dirt bike, here. Nine grand for 400cc when for a few hundred more you can have a 450 or a 530? With power being everything is this a good idea on your part? Well, if [...]
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2009 Honda CRF450RWeb Riding Impression This Is Huge.Sure it was only last week when we all learned what the real deal was with the 2009 Honda CRF450R, and now we’ve ridden it. And it is just about all you’d expect from such a radically changed motorcycle. No, actually, it’s more.Our first day riding the bike [...]
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After a day of riding on the all-new Kawasaki KX450F here’s the first scoop. It really is an all-new bike. And it is much different. Kawasaki hosted the press introduction of the bike with every U.S. journalist (if you can call us that!) at Muddy Creek Raceway near Blountville, Tennessee, and our bike has been [...]
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Lewis was wondering if he could stay in Tunisia for a few weeks so he could actually ride each sand dune. In reality, this is not a light-weight bike and when you really get going the effects from the girth start to happen before you actually start feeling them. The bike’s good handling is masking [...]
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The pipes are still cooling from test laps and the blisters are still bubbling on our hands from changing hot exhaust systems, but we still managed to type out our comparison of available exhaust systems for the 2009 Honda CRF450R, even if it hurt a little.We spent two days out riding and testing most of [...]
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It’s called magazineeditoritis and it’s a rare disease specifically contracted by magazine editors. It typically isn’t fatal, at least to your life, yet it’s been known to handicap a career. I know about it only because I’ve had it and luckily recovered. Now I can identify it at the sign of its first symptom and [...]
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Now I’m no supercross rider, but I’m just like you in the stands: I wonder what it would be like to be out there on that track. I still wonder what it would be like to ride one of those bikes (I’m lucky, I’ve done that), and I also wonder what the difference is between [...]
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