Suzuki RMZ 2026

Bold!

I guess we finally need to accept the fact that these bikes will never change.

And it shows in the amount of Zooks I see at the track. Which it basically none

How much longer can they continue to build them?

I love my 2025 250. 

Suzuki has officially found a new acronym for the industry. NG vs.BNG.

Still looks great. 

good looking bike

I'm cool with it, just fix stock spring rates and drop the price.

Bike of the decade. No need to change. 😉

Probably until the original casting patterns wear out. When they are forced to pay for new tooling, they'll either redesign or quit.

Well...at least Suzuki is still producing MX bikes. They must be making a small fortune on these bikes. No real updates for what....15 years? I did ride a completely stock '24 450 a while ago just to troddle around my buddies track and it was actually a really nice bike. But, 450's still scare me.

It's still a fantastic looking bike lol. 

Surprisingly, I’ve seen more in the  last 6 months or so than I have in the last 5 years. And I’ve always ridden Suzuki so I am always on the look out for my yellow brethren.

I bleed blue but I love how the Suzuki looks. I raced a 2015 RMZ years ago and that bike was a tank. Indestructible. I crashed in a muddy NEPG and ripped the air boot off of the throttle body. I raced for like 20 miles longer with the throttle body sucking in the breeze. Fixed the boot and rode it 30 more hours without issue. 

The RMZ serves a great purpose as long as the price stays lower than the rest. It's 90-95% just as good of a bike. 

So can you buy an RMZ and with the money you save compared to the others then buy an exhaust and suspension work and be better off ahead??

That is assuming it costs less to buy an RMZ.

Not a lot of Yellow bikes get sold if I had to guess.  I sure as heck don’t see many at the tracks in my neck of the woods, Houston area.  If I see one it’s a few years old.  Most of the yellow bikes I see are on Facebook Marketplace.   Some guy asking more money for a 2023 RMZ than a guy can go buy a new green bike off the show room floor.

I’ll say one thing, RMZ’s still look good, dated or not.  

I haven’t seen any rmz 250’s in pro motocross.. not sure if there is any in the mxgp series.

With such a good looking bike and apparently pretty reliable...I wonder how many sales they are not getting by simply not making this bike e-start and not doing one other thing to it. Just add the e -start for cripes sake. Suzuki has the engineering to easily make it an e-start at any time. Suzuki chooses not to and by doing this they are really hurting their brand. It gives the appearance they simply don't care at this point and that the bike is dated...which is a darn shame.

Needs the big red S!!!

Haven't looked into purchasing a zook in a while....... do they even discount prior year left-over models any more? 

Suzuki had some political road blocks in the way of R&D of their competition motorcycles. I am optimistic that the RMZ line will get updated in the not too distant future from some information I have heard.  I knew a couple weeks ago that there would not be any changes for 2026. To be honest, I am surprised they even changed graphics and plastic for 2026. I know its a joke around here but I do believe something is finally in the works for the motocross line. Unfortunately, I think those bikes have taken a back seat to some other models that recently got updated (DRZ4S, GSX 8T)

They hinted on Facebook something new would drop. Ended up being the gsx 8t got my hopes up for an updated rmz lol. You think eventually they will be forced to update to meet sound requirements.

Awesome bike for a great price. Get one, throw a KYB shock on it and it’s one of the best 450s.

This is an outlier I’m sure but the other day there were more Suzukis than anything else. It was weird. 2014 showed up😂

I don't think you were the only one hoping for an updated RMZ. You do have a good point about the sound requirements and that could be what pushes updated MX models forward. I believe they are focusing their R&D right now to update the on-road models because they have to meet new emissions requirements. 

I heard around the pits at GH that suzuki was approved for a new bike. I inquired how long that would take & it takes roughly 2-3 years to go to market depending how far along in the process they are.