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A Beta 300RR built by Mike Webb and Slavens Racing is the main focus on this week's 2-Stroke Tuesday. Webb tells us all about the building and initial testing of his personal machine in his own words below. If you want to see more Beta…
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On this week's Two-Stroke Tuesday we give the first studio pictorial look at our KTM 300 off-road project with the crew at Motosport Roanoke. Brian Thompson and his crew worked with a lot of industry leading companies on this build like…
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Can a 300cc two-stroke compete with 450cc four-strokes in off-road racing at the factory level? Dante Oliveira proved that not only can they compete but they can win! Oliveira took the KTM 300SX originally raced by Ivan Ramirez at this…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, we know KTM stopped producing the 200cc off-road 2-stroke machines a few years back but that doesn’t mean the demand for them stopped. As a matter of fact the KTM 200 might be more popular now than when KTM was mass producing them,…
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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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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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Dirt Bike Magazine tested this sweet 2006 Honda CR500 two-stroke that Mark Samuels from SLR Honda built to race at Mammoth Motocross. You've already seen the detailed video explaining all the ins and outs of this bike. This time around we…
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Who remembers the 1989 Suzuki RM125? Michael Fischer is a moto-head and always searching different buy-sell-trade sites trying to find a deal, he came across this 1989 Suzuki RM 125 on Facebook Marketplace. Fischer could tell from the…
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A clean and simple David Bailey tribute Honda CR250R build appropriately named “The Legend” from Justin Myerson and the crew at Motowhips is our main focus on this week’s Two-Stroke Tuesday brought to you by Decal Works. This build throws…
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Jeremy McGrath is headed to Italy for the FIM Vintage World Cup held at the famed Maggiora MX Park on September 10 and 11. McGrath has again team up with bike builder Tim Sharp (Sharp Prepped Bike Building Services) on this 2005 Kawasaki…
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We have 10 Travis Fant produced 125cc two-stroke videos on this week's 2-Stroke Tuesday that you don't want to miss! Test rider Carson Brown rings out our stock 2022 Yamaha YZ125 and then we hit you with exclusive project bike videos of our…
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The 2023 Yamaha YZ125X reinforces the fact that Yamaha continues to be the only Japanese motorcycle manufacture investing in two-stroke technology . The Blue Crew has revamped their entire line of premix burning machines in the last few…
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This Kawasaki KX500 project has tons of sentimental meaning behind it. 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,…
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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 2000. Unfortunately Honda never mass produced this unit and there are only a handful of them…
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