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Mark Samuels and the SLR Honda Off-Road race team are at it again! This time on 2-Stroke Tuesday we give you a look at their latest project, a Honda CR250 two-stroke tribute to the Baja 1000 7X machine. The rumor mill says that Samuels will…
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Dick Wilk has been building highly evolved racing machines for 30 years. His efforts covered desert racers, motocross, GNCC and National Enduro equipment and rally machines. His foray into the adventure bike segment began in 2014 with his…
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There are factory works bikes that don't have this much attention to detail. Every tiny part is polished to perfection
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The "King Of Supercross" Jeremy McGrath returned to his roots of racing this past weekend at Glen Helen aboard a very trick 2006 Kawasaki KX125 . Dirt Bike managing editor Mark Tilley got the chance to shoot the bike in the studio prior to…
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17 two-stroke exhausts and expansion chambers for modern and vintage dirt bikes
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When building any type of project bike, it’s always smart to start with a budget and stick to that budget; however, we are definitely not smart with our money when motorcycles are involved. We will be the first to admit that almost every…
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Factory Honda CR125 and CR250 race bikes of the late '90s are so iconic that people over two decades later are still paying tribute to them. This 1997 CR125 was built by Tim Sharp and although it's not a replica of Steve Lamson's factory…
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The Husqvarna TE150i is light, nimble and plumbed with crisp, albeit mid-to-top-oriented power. It has etched a cubbyhole in their closet as one of the top machines to just go out and enjoy, and with nearly 100 hours on the 2022 TE150i, our…
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Garry Reynolds rescued this motorcycle in honor of long-time motorsport enthusiast and all-around great guy, Mike Hasson. Unfortunately, we lost Mike to COVID last year. Mike’s creed was always, “#AtATrack.” It didn’t matter what kind of…
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Pete Treadwell and the Western Power Sports crew are at it again! This retro-themed, early-2000s, steel-framed Yamaha YZ125 was part of the Yamaha of Troy race team and still has the initials “JH-1” (for Josh Hansen) engraved into the…
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On this week's Two-Stroke Tuesday we give you a close up look at the Yamaha YZ125 Team Solitaire rider and Dirt Bike Magazine test rider Ryan Surratt raced at this years Glen Helen Two-Stroke Championship. Not only did the team do a retro…
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It’s surprising how quickly the motorcycle world warmed up to the idea of a Husqvarna adventure bike. The Husky Norden 901 has been available for about six months, and already it has secured a prestigious place in the adventure bike…
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Two-Stroke Tuesday has you seeing double this week in the form of two identically built Yamaha YZ85 machines. Jacob Tilley son of our managing editor Mark Tilley really wanted to do the entire Glen Helen Endurance Race Series brought to you…
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A 2006 aluminum-framed Honda CR500 two-stroke would have been a very popular conversation piece at Honda dealerships all around the world the mid 2000s. Unfortunately, Honda never mass-produced this unit, and there are only a handful of…
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It's all about Honda CR250 premix burning machines on this week's Two-Stroke Tuesday brought to you by Decal Works. We start of with a factory Supercross machine from the early '80s piloted by Donnie "Holeshot" Hansen then take a look at…
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Jamie Ellis and his team at Twisted Development build fire-breathing race machines for some of the top athletes and teams in the motocross and off-road industry, so when the shop’s 2005 Yamaha YZ250 needed some TLC, the guys at Twisted went…
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Since hitting up Costa Mesa Speedway a week or so ago all we can think about is this cool one-off machine built by speedway world champion Bruce Penhall for his son Connor Penhall. So that is our main focus on this week's Two-Stroke…
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Today’s crop of 300 two-stroke off-road bikes offer an amazing level of performance. The technical advancements in the motor, chassis and suspension are astonishing. These woods weapons perform so well, they make the average pilot a better…
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Husqvarna has just announced a Heritage line of two-stroke models for 2023 that feature classic styling lines throwing it back to the brands Swedish roots. The Heritage line includes two motocross models, TC125 and TC250 while the off-road…
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