Is your bike better than your truck? This question is going to light some fires, especially here in the office where we partnered up with our sister magazine, and I use the term politely, Off-Road Magazine to dissect the ins
Besides a helmet, a riding boot is the most important piece of battle armor you can wear off-road. There are many tiny bones in your ankles and feet that require protection, and those ratty old boots of yours have been
“Ryan is a third-generation racer. His father was good; he could have been a champion, too. His father won Hangtown, but he was lazy; he didn’t want to practice. He didn’t want to work, so I said, ‘The hell with
For this year’s 24-Hour Torture Test, we wanted to learn as much about the bikes as we usually do and, at the same time, show you the right steps for taking any one of these 250Fs home from the dealer
It’s a mystery to some and well understood by others. Inside that valve cover, above the cylinder head, spinning at half the speed of your crank is the cam (or cams). It’s a shaft, usually riding on bearings, with a
The key to watching the made-for-media Red Bull Last Man Standing extreme off-road race is finding your way to a series of “elements.” These are short but intense obstacles nearly impossible (or at least visually intimidating) to ride but easily
I am not a two-stroke guy. Off-road, yeah, maybe, but a Yamaha YZ250 MXer is still too gnarly for my smooth-power preference. So as I sidled up to Justin Williamson’s GNCC-contending YZ250, I wasn’t exactly confident. Then I started it,
Hello I have loved dirt bikes my whole life but cannot convince my parents to let me have one. So I need your professional input: If I do convince them, I was thinking of a KX250F as a first bike.
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
We all know Harbor Freight Tools. They are those cheap, or inexpensive if they say it, tools that most of us have used or relied on at one time or another. Sure there are plenty of tool snobs who would
Welcome to The Weekly Dirt, the place to go each Wednesday to catch up on the latest happenings in the realm of off-road motorcycling. This week’s Dirt is coming from Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Snowshoe, West Virginia. Snowshoe is a
News Release, Courtesy of Global Motorsport Media KTM Enduro Factory Team rider Taddy Blazusiak has claimed a fifth consecutive Erzberg Rodeo victory, making him the most successful competitor in the history of the event. The toughest running of the race
Video courtesy of Autolite
I have recently started racing the last couple of years. I am a little late to the racing game (I’m 44). Better late than never. I am truly having a blast racing the OT novice class, but my biggest problem
Welcome to The Weekly Dirt, the place to go each Wednesday to catch up on the latest happenings in the realm of off-road motorcycling. This week’s Dirt is coming from the national enduro in Wyoming and rest stops along the
