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Crystal Baller
Your magazine is awesome! I have learned so much from the articles that I have been reading. I have been riding for 10 years, since I was four and I am on a Yamaha YZ 125 right now. I've been wondering what '09 450 to get when I am 15 or 16 years old and I was reading the '09 Honda 450 impression in your December issue (pg.72), but I am an off-road rider and later in the article it said it dies easy and it is not an off-road bike so I looked in the October issue and the Yamaha sounded a lot better. I don't know, maybe I'm a Yamaha rider but the white one looks cooler than the Honda, too. Oh, and test the YZ125 against the KTM 125SX, please!Justin
Vernal, UTAre you a little psychic moto-Buddha? You're predicting the future of Dirt Rider and you don't even know it! In our February issue, our 2009 450 shootout gives you a quick impression of how these race machines work (or don't work) in off-road-ish conditions. Here in the near future, you'll soon be enjoying a five-way 125cc comparison featuring stock Yamaha and KTM 125s, a stock KTM 150 as well as some modified big-bore 136cc and 144cc Yamaha machines. Now, tell me what else we're going to do. Am I going to ever learn how to scrub a jump? Why do I look a lot slower in video than I feel? Please help. -Jesse