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Why would an MXA test rider want a 2014 Yamaha YZ250 when he could just race MXA's 2024 YZ250? Read on
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Round three of the 11-round 2024 AMA National Motocross Championship is held at high altitude, where the bike lose power and the riders run short of breath.
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Plus, Doug Dubach will be awarded the Edison Dye Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's World Vet Motocross Championship in November — where he will try to win it for the 29th time
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This isn't the economy model — this is the full pop version of YZ250F National-ready machinery
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"My feeling was that my time was over. I just stopped. If I couldn’t win, I didn’t care. The money was not my motivation."
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We test Brett Metcalfe's 2005 Yamaha of Troy YZ125 when it was the only smoker left on the track
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With the 2025 models just peeking over the horizon, it's a good chance to catch up on the bikes that are still on the showroom floors—the 2024 250, 350 & 450 four-strokes
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Do you know Hooke's Law? It's not a crime drama on CBS. It's something you need to know about your bike
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Yamaha spent millions of dollars on the development of the most advanced two-stroke motocross bike in motocross history at the exact moment when two-stroke sales hit the dumpster
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The MXA wrecking crew tested, documented, inspected, theorized and calculated every conceivable facet of the 250 four-stroke class for 2014. Your future bike now!
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Chad Reed, who turns 42 today, has proved to be one of the most durable racers in the sport since the late great Adolf Weil
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Yamaha has combined the best of both moto and offroad into their newest YZ450 model
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Our tune has changed... Thank you, Yamaha
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Rick turned Pro at 13 years old, got his AMA Pro License at 16 and retired at 26
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If you own a 2023 Yamaha YZ450F, then you already own a 2024 YZ450F—except with more hours on it than the new one on the showroom floor.
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Doug raced his first National in 1981 joined Team Yamaha in 1989 and, with teammate Damon Bradshaw, won the San Jose Supercross in 1991 became the face of Yamaha in the mid ’90s
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Kevin is the greatest rider not to have won an AMA National Championship—was it bad luck or stiff competition?
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Think of this oddly-shaped exhaust pipe as the 1983 version of a radiator wing—only without the water
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With some reasonable modifications, a CR450 can be transformed into a desert racer, enduro bike, supermoto bike, dirt tracker, TT racer, sidecar racer or even a road racer
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For a few years now; the YZ250 Yamaha has falling behind KTM, Husqvarna, GasGas and Kawasaki on horsepower numbers, but the YZ250 makes up the difference if you stay in the meat of the powerband.
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No offense to Kawasaki, Suzuki and KTM, but their combined motocross bike sales didn't equal one-half of the numbers put up by Yamaha and Honda in 2004
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It is rare for a rider to come out of no where and make a name for himself by racing inferior equipment, but "Rokon Don" was that special kind of man
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There is no time limit on the love between a man and his first two-stroke—and when a two-stroke has been in production since 1974, like the YZ125/YZ250, it has a devoted congregation hoping to pay homage to the past with their own Yamaha…
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Reverse cylinder engines are not rare, but they are still oddities
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