Australasian Dirt Bike Magazine FAIL?

i dont think the manufacturers that dont make 2 strokes would let it happen. people have written letters to that mag and other aussie mags and they dont even get published. the manufacturers that pay for the ads and provide the bikes for tests call the shots, if the mag upsets those manufacturers they lose revenue.

mxa got it the closest when they compared the yz250f to the yz and the 250 sx to the 250sx-f. in both tests they said the 2 stroke was the best bike but both had strengths and weaknesses. Do you really think the other manufacturers would allow their bikes to be tested against a bike they dont even make that would most likely "win" a shootout

Saw the mag at the airport the other day, and thought cool, a real "250" shootout seeing that it is capacity, not engine type for 250's in Australia.

Looked a bit closer and saw only 4 strokes and put it back. Not interested. Gutless effort.

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Its funny you should bring this up, I sent them an email yesterday about this very subject. The whoe magazine is a shadow of its former self, check out how bad the website is now. Its difficult to even find an email address for them now. They used to stand up to the manufacturers but now just take the money.

Print media is dying a slow and painfull death buddy... The glory days of Clubby running the show are well over..

MXA usually does some sort of smaller scale test between a two stroke and four of the same brand. Since pretty much everywhere here you can race CC vs CC the mags should incorporate the two two strokes as well.

..it would have been only a riders impression, not a real test. epic fail

you can race a 250cc 2 stroke in the mx2 class in australia.

The glory days where before Clubby..when GE was alive. Clubster was a poor imitation of Geoff.