TWO STROKE

For this week's Two-Stroke Tuesday we are in Idaho to give you the first look at our 1996 KX250 2-Stroke that we teamed up with Pete Treadwell from WPS/Fly Racing and Moto One Of Boise to build. We gotta thank the entire staff at Western…
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Once in a while you get a brand-new bike that understands you. Within a few laps of your first ride, you feel like you’ve been on that bike for years; you know exactly what it will do and when. The KTM 300SX is not one of those bikes.…
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The selection of two-stroke motorcycles available in the U.S. market has expanded for 2024. Bikes manufactured by Beta, GasGas, Kawasaki, KTM, Rieju, Sherco, GPX, Husqvarna, Suzuki, Yamaha and Cobra continue to evolve and become more…
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BRC is a Canadian company dedicated to bringing back the age of the 500cc two-stroke. They make their own motor and supply it in a kit for you to finish. In this case, we used a 2023 Yamaha YZ250 as the "donor bike." It has the complete YZ…
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This week's Two-Stroke Tuesday brought to you by Decal Works is all about big-bore 2-stroke projects ! We have a street legal KX500, Honda CR500 powered custom flat tracker and an unreal KTM440 that you don't want to miss! Before Roger…
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Honda officially stopped making two-stroke motorcycles over a decade ago, and we don’t see any signs of that changing in the near future. The Honda two-stroke faithful have started taking matters into their own hands with CR500 250 and 125…
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The KTM 300SX is a monster. In a good way. It's fast, light and incredibly fun to ride. But it isn't a bike that everyone will get along with. Riders who have grown up in an era of four-strokes with wide, smooth powerbands might find it's…
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The Husqvarna TE150 is an all-new bike for 2024. It got the same treatment that the TC125 motocross bike got last year, and that means it has a new frame and a motor with more new technology than anything we have previously seen in the…
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Justin Barcia has always been a blast to watch ride a 2-Stroke, his riding style just fits the engine platform. With the release of his latest video "Still Here" we decided to take a look at some of our favorite Bam Bam two-stroke videos,…
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Sometimes the most radical move is no move at all. Right now, that’s especially true in the world of 300cc off-road bikes. A few short years ago, the Beta 300RR Race Edition was typical of the breed—a two-stroke with a carburetor, a case…
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This is the first year that I’m not spending the majority of my riding time on a two-stroke. The truth is, I got smoked when the new machines got divvied up amongst the Dirt Bike staff. The new TBI machines got sucked up by Ron and Mark,…
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Jamie Ellis and his crew at Twisted Development have their hands in just about every realm of two-wheeled racing when it comes to building high-performance machines that go fast. Test rider Carson Brown can ride just about anything on two…
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Motocross is a rude sport. Last year we were thrilled and enthralled with the new Yamaha YZ125. It was the first major redesign for the YZ motor in almost two decades, and the bike got new bodywork and suspension thrown in. Now, the bike of…
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Frankly, there's no army of high-tech 150cc dirt bikes invading the off-road/enduro domain. This is a unique class of machines, and they target pilots who are…sized right for the job. The 2023 KTM 150 XC-W is a high-end, totally…
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We are releasing photos that have never been seen by the general public of our Kawasaki KX500AF project bike built by Wayne Ransom on this week's Two-Stroke Tuesday brought to you by Boyesen. Four must see project bike videos are featured…
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Wow. The 2023 Rieju MR300 Six Days is a looker. Graphically, it’s brilliant. Physically, she is painted with the same palette as her sister, the MR300 Pro. High-end KYB suspension decorated with a TLC-coated fork, Xtrig ROCS triple clamps,…
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By Nic Garvin You don’t often get a phone call from your boss asking if you want to test a new-model motorcycle at a race, let alone at a GNCC. At the moment, you almost stutter, asking yourself, “Wait, what?” I live on the West Coast, and…
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Taking the CR500R 2-stroke to a level that wasn't possible in 1995
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The 2023 KTM 300XC-W two-stroke is one of our favorite motorcycles. The big news for 2023 is that it's unchanged and still has transfer port fuel injection. The more competition-based KTM 300XC, on the other hand, is a completely new…
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All motorcycles were project bikes at one time or another. Some start in garages and shops at the grass-roots level. Others get their initial spark at the factory level when someone has an inspiration and gets the go-ahead from above.…
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