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Stage 7 started in wet dirt. That meant the leader would leave a perfect trail to follow and made it a tough day to open the course, which is what Ricky Brabec was assigned to do after his stage 6 victory. The leader, Daniel Sanders, picked…
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Anaheim One started the 2025 Monster Energy supercross season this weekend and, as is often the case, the results defied most predictions. The big winner of the night was Chase Sexton, who steadily pulled away from Ken Roczen throughout…
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The Americans had a good day at Dakar for stage six. Mason Klein held the lead on adjusted time after starting back in the pack, but eventually it was Ricky Brabec who took over, collecting his 11th career stage win in the Dakar Rally.…
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This week Honda presented us with the 2025 450RX and 250RX off-road bikes. These are the cross-country versions of the motocross bikes that were introduced last fall to overwhelming approval. They got all the same updates. The most…
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Ducati pulled the sheets off a preproduction version of the 450 Desmo motocross bike at Anaheim Stadium, one day ahead of the 2025 Monster Energy Supercross opener. Ducati Off-Road GM Paolo Ciabatti revealed the bike and reported that it…
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The second part of the two-day marathon stage tested the riders today following no team assistance at the AlUla bivouac last night. The riders were allowed just 30 minutes to work on their bikes to prepare them for today’s 428km special…
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Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Daniel Sanders claimed his third full stage win of the event and extended his overall lead to 13 minutes. Stage four challenged competitors with a 415-kilometer timed special through the volcanic landscapes and…
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Daniel Sanders' string of wins finally came to an end on stage three of the 2025 Dakar Rally. Lorenzo Santolino earned the win for the day, giving Sherco its sixth stage victory and its first since the rally moved to Saudi Arabia. Sanders…
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Daniel Sanders continued his perfect run in the 2025 Dakar rally after the 48-Hour chrono stage. This is a two-day ride that counts as a single stage, with the riders stopping in place at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, then continuing on Monday on…
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We've been busy producing two stroke, off-road, new bike tests, and more at Dirt Bike Magazine. If you haven't seen some of our latest content, we've boxed it all up and put it in one place for you to check out!
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Dakar’s 48 Hour Chrono stage kicked off today with nearly 1000km of riding facing competitors over two days. Riders had to cover as much of the huge distance as they could before the clock struck 5pm today. The bike class has seen a…
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The Dakar Rally got underway with its first test of the 2025 event in Saudi Arabia.  It was 413 kilometres of racing that began and ended in Bisha. Ricky Brabec led in the early kilometres to just drop a little time towards the finish to…
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The 47th edition of the Dakar Rally got underway today with a timed 29km prologue stage near Bisha in Saudi Arabia. The goal for all the riders was to finish in the top 10 so they could choose their starting positions tomorrow for stage…
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Who is America’s best off-road racer? That is, of course, an impossible question. But, we’ll answer it anyway. Each year we look at the grand picture of off-road racing in the U.S. to establish the national pecking order. This isn’t about…
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This week on Two-Stroke Tuesday we take a quick look at a carbureted KTM 250SX project done by former professional west coast off-road racer Mitch Anderson. He described this project as "The bike I always wanted to build but never had the…
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AJP PR7 2024 model shown AJP is a company out of Portugal, but the bikes are assembled with bits and pieces from all over the world. The PR7 is a rally bike with a 600cc motor made by SWM in Italy. The suspension is Sachs, the…
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At one time, BMW was the Kleenex of the adventure bike world. Starting with the R800GS and moving through subsequent boxer twins of regularly increasing displacement, BMW maintained its status as the archetype all-surface travel bike. For…
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On this week's Two-Stroke Tuesday we take a pictorial look at our studio session with the much anticipated finished T1000 Honda CR250R build with MXRevival. The attention to detail and how clean this machine is mind-blowing. Charles does…
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According to the highly scientific Dirt Bike Reader Survey, you are a freak. You own 3.08 motorcycles, indicating some deeply rooted psychological issues. For just a moment, try to think like a normal person who is limited to just one…
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Last week, we got the opportunity to do a real dual-sport ride in the  foothills outside of Barcelona, Spain. The bike was a pre-production version of the Stark Varg EX, which will be coming to the U.S. in early 2025 as a fully licensable…
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No modern motocross bike generates such diverse reactions as the Yamaha YZ450F. Some love it, others love it a lot. There are some dissenting votes in the mix as well, even among recent teammates on the Monster Energy Star Yamaha racing…
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Earlier this month, the Stark Varg EX broke surface. It’s the first motorcycle of its kind: a true electric hard-core dual-sport bike. This is the electrically powered equivalent of a KTM 500EXC or a  Beta 500RS. It will arrive in the U.S.…
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KTM released this statement today about their plans moving forward and we can appreciate the attitude that seems to be behind it. Check out the entire press release from them below: READY TO RACE is more than a slogan for KTM. It defines…
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GASGAS is fired-up for 2025 and heads into the new year wide-open with two awesome race team replica models – the MC 250F and MC 450F Factory Editions! Thanks to the introduction of the Rockstar Energy GASGAS Factory Racing Team,…
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