For some, the performance of a glove can be measured by its ability to protect one’s digits from errant branches or the glove’s resistance to abrasion in a crash. Other riders could care less about the protection of a glove,
I’m a freelance motorsports photographer and a regular shooter at Dirt Rider and for someone who makes his living on the road – and I’m on the road 40 weekends a year – good luggage is a necessity. It’s no
I would love to sit here and tell how much I have been riding the 2011 RM-Z450-shredding berms, scrubbing jumps and throwing huge whips off kickers. But unfortunately, that’s not how the story goes. Here’s the real deal: Every time
Aftermath I didn’t need a lot of mods to get the RM-Z450 to work great. To me, the finished product is how a bike should be: Exciting to ride and controllable enough not to wear you out in 15 minutes.
Learned So what did we learn from this experiment? Well for starters, the bikes are all so good these days as a starting platform, the biggest thing you can do to any of them is get used to what they
Miscellaneous Mods Pretty much every other mod done to the bike has a function to some degree. Take the KTM PHDS Progressive Handlebar Dampening System (aka, rubber-mounted bar clamps). I have always run some sort of rubber bar mount and
I received the KTM 250 XC for the 2010 Tecate Enduro and have somehow managed to keep it in my grasp for the last few months. Why should I be surprised? Well, this bike does everything… and it does everything
Summer is right around the corner and the weather has been great for riding. I have been riding the 2011 RM-Z250 now for a of couple months and since I last wrote an update on the bike my hour meter
Check this out; I’ve been riding with a pair of Alpinestars Tech 7 boots for a long time. These boots have been ridden for approximately 100+ hours. I’ve ridden them in every condition and every type of terrain you can
All the other DR editors are jealous of my cool 2006 Toyota Tacoma truck, but I have to admit I used to be jealous of their trucks’ tiedown systems. The stock Tacoma’s movable plastic D-rings in rails flex when you
I’ve never searched for anything beyond a standard bike stand. But I see new lift stands or bike supports coming through the DR offices all the time, so I decided to grab the creatively-designed MX HandStand bike stand ($149.95, optional
TCX’s new top-end boot, the Pro 2.1 ($439.99) isn’t as popular as it deserves to be. I spent a lot of happy-feet time (is that measured by the hour or by the foot?) in the previous 2.0, and the 2.1
How do you fix a shootout-winning bike? This was the question I was faced with in the weeks following our 250F motocross comparison (March 2011 issue). I’d ended up with the Kawasaki KX250Fa machine that our picky test riders had
Woo-hoo! 100 hours! Now you’d think that putting time on a motorcycle would be a cinch; just ride, you say. Well, it’s not always that easy. How about when we get snow in Southern California? Half the population doesn’t go
Husky is in a familiar yet all-new place right now. It is starting another chapter of the long-standing brand’s history with a whole ’nother face-lift. It has a tough task ahead, as usual, but there could not be better times
Every winter my family and I take
HILLSDALE, Mich., (Jan. 17, 2011) – Call
Dear Dirt Rider, I just finished the
Morgantown, W.Va. (January 10, 2010) – Swedish
