Kawasaki tests

For 2025, the KX250 ditched the KYB suspenders for Showa and followed many of the footsteps of its big brother (but not all)
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The 2014 winner versus the 2014 loser rematch, but which is which & could you tell the difference
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One important caveat in the dream-bike scenario is that the bike cannot have a 450cc four-stroke engine. Why would it? Four-strokes are readily available and thus not dreamy enough.
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In 2004 Kawasaki had just launched its all-new KX250F. The team offered the four-stroke to James, and he tried it during the pre-season. He decided to stay with the KX125 two-stroke instead
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Mark Chilson is a dreamer with the patience and talent to build one-of-a-kind bikes that are super detailed
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Although MXA is all about motocross, we also race WORCS, SRA, GNCC & NGPC events, for which we need off-road-specific machinery. Thus, the KX450X & Honda CRF450RX shootout
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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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If you are looking to launch your young one into the motocross world, move him up to a bigger bike or just looking for some backyard fun—look no further
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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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What's the 2024 Kawasaki KX450 all about? We reveal the good, the bad and mysterious
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A look back a decade ago to the 2014 KX450F. It had a great powerband, but In order to get our hands on that luscious powerband, we had to make a few compromises in other areas.
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Even though it is fun to fly to some far-away track to test a bike, it isn’t much of a test. MXA prefers to test bikes on the “dirt dyno.” What is the dirt dyno? It is the tracks that we have done a thousand laps on.
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We tested each bike in its stock form, and put 20 hours on each bike to, try to make them ultimately comparable to each other and to keep things equal we installed the same tires on each bike
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Why Carson didn't use an KX250F aluminum frame or a 144cc kit, but did use Showa air forks and an Lectron carb
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The 250 class is all about horsepower, and Kawasaki found a ton of it. Unfortunately, you need to ride the KX250 like a 125 two-stroke to get the most out of the high-rpm  powerband
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It's official! Kawasaki has an all-new KX450 coming this fall with an MSRP of $10,399
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Every test rider felt that the KX250 had good traits but delivered them in a discombobulated way
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To drop a 250 two-stroke from the product line is a much bigger hurdle for the marketing men to jump than a dropping A 125
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You can throw lots of money at a bad bike and maybe, just maybe, make it better—or you can just start with a better bike and save money and time
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The Kawasaki KX450 received no updates for the 2023 model year, unless you think adding in-mold radiator shroud graphics is breaking new technological barriers. In truth, it was a four-year-old bike that wasn’t all that different from…
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The 2024 Kawasaki KX250 is available now for $8799
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The price-tag question is a sensitive one — at $12,699, the KX450SR is worth the upcharge, but only if you would have used the parts that Kawasaki upgraded the "Special Racer" to.
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How to turn a really good deal that went sour into a really great 20-year old KX125 two-stroke worth drooling over
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