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2009 Husqvarna TC 250 – First Impression – Dirt Rider Magazine

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2009 Kawasaki KX450F, First Test – Dirt Rider Magazine

Life is all about timing, and unfortunately Kawasaki missed the timing when it released this 2009 KX450F a week after Honda released its ’09 CRF450R. Instead of surfing a wave of buzz, the Kawi is left knee-boarding in the foam.

Mod Motor Madness – Honda CRF250R Modifications – Dirt Rider Magazine

Four Ways To Find Power:CompressionBoreStrokeAll of the aboveBolting on performance parts comes at the cost of the parts, some elbow grease and typically the difficulty in instantly feeling what improvements have been made. Most of the time you don’t have

Fun Machines, Small-Bore Two-Stroke Comparison – Dirt Rider Magazine

A lot of you might be overlooking some of the best bikes out there. Sure sales figures and what your buddies brag about may contradict what your friends here at Dirt Rider Magazine are going to tell you, but remember,

Kawasaki KX 125 – First Test & Review – Dirt Rider

Kawasaki’s KX125 and KX250 have had a reputation for less than stellar performance in the past couple of model years. The bikes had no huge faults, but they didn’t stand above the pack in any category: performance, ergonomics, suspension, perceived

Suzuki RM 250 – First Test & Review – Dirt Rider

Stealth technology makes warplanes all but invisible to the enemy. They’re smooshed before they know the airplanes are in the neighborhood. Suzuki is practicing its brand of stealth technology with the 2003 RM250. It’s sort of hide-in-plain-sight stealth. The ’03

Honda CRF 450R – First Test & Review – Dirt Rider

Imagine what it was like for Honda to sit back and watch Yamaha soak up all the glory for five years as it dominated the newly created four-stroke motocross market. For a company known to be a technological leader, it

Yamaha YZ 250 – Test Ride & Review – Dirt Rider

Having won last year’s Dirt Rider shootout, it would make sense that Yamaha would already have an excellent base for the 2003 model. So we weren’t really shocked the research and development team didn’t fully redesign the machine, especially when

Tests: 2003 KTM 125SX

In 2000, KTM bombarded the American motocross race scene with a full assault on the Outdoor and Supercross series with its factory 125 efforts. Although many fans thought this was a rebirth of KTM, it was merely a case of

Tests: 2003 YZ250F

In 1998, when Yamaha began paving the four-stroke future with its YZ400F, motorcycle consumers were forced to weigh the option of buying a thumper. Other manufacturers were left in a cloud of blue smoke scrambling to catch these four-stroke gurus.

2003 KTM 450SX And 525SX – No More Mr. Nice Guy

Four years KTM has left no doubt that its four-strokes are competitive. And with the United States and Europe allowing 450cc four-strokes in the 250cc classes for 2003, the Austrian company shifted its moto focus to its friendly but not

2003 Yamaha YZ450F – Dirt Rider Magazine

Bikes are bikes–right? Not even close. For example, take the ’03 YZ450F. Deposits ran like water into dealers’ cash registers when the general public got wind Yamaha’s new 450 valve-pusher matched the “Six Million Dollar Man’s” tag line: “Better, stronger,

Suzuki DR-Z400 – Dirt Rider Magazine

Suzuki makes this thumper in an electric-start, kickstart or electric-start dual-sport version. Of the off-road competition sales, most are E-start editions. The kickstart version starts very easily and consistently, costs less, is lighter and runs better. All those attributes, plus

Independent Race Suspension: CRF450R

As I stood on the sidelines watching the Open Pro race in Mammoth Mountain California, I watched the riders pound the curb-like breaking bumps on the high-speed downhill. Just the thought of hitting those breaking bumps on my stock CRF450