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http://racerxonline.com/2008/09/12/2009-honda-crf450r-first-ride
Sounds pretty identical to every 2017 review I read. New bikes on one of the best tracks in the world with no bumps or ruts. It's going to be awesome no matter what you're on.
Sounds pretty identical to every 2017 review I read. New bikes on one of the best tracks in the world with no bumps or ruts. It's going to be awesome no matter what you're on.
The shoot outs seem to be the more in depth and multi day tests. Or like Ping is doing with Racer X "dialed in" is multiple days on the bike and a good baseline setting to start with.
Preconceived notions seem to matter more than anything.
The Shop
Any credibility out the door right away.
I think all these test and shootouts are plain stupid. Wanna know how good or bad a bike is? Go ride one. That is the only way to know what you as a person think about a bike.
The dialed in series that Ping does is a great concept. He tells what he thinks you should or could do on a stock bike that you own. Although i would like to see more variation of bikes and models.
I mean its pretty easy these days to see which mags are being paid by which manufacturers.
I think the majority of the media groups covered it in our videos that we were at a new track/amazing track and we were looking forward to getting it back to somewhere we spin more laps for comparison.
Pit Row
Look how well KTM has done acquiring talent since they dropped the PDS system and went back to a link like everyone else. They had some pretty good results with the PDS bikes (Alessi, Brayton) but there was certainly a lot of negative talk about them being different. I surely think Yamaha is learning this lesson too with the lackluster results of their "backward" YZ450f design (although the 250 is good). This "too different" thinking may explain some of the lack of interest among teams for "fair" inclusion of the two strokes in the professional ranks.
Maybe I'm just jaded though since today's advancements to me seem pretty bland and slow paced compared to the rapid pace of MX bike evolution witnessed during the late '70's, early '80's with the ultra trick "works" bikes. Bikes actually would be obsolete in a few months back in those days.
If you want future..look to electricity.
I'm so tied in knots about getting this 2017. I have a 2016 Ktm 450sxf and I really don't see how they can make a bike better than that but time will tell.
their is obviously a lot of hype for the new honda and honda spends a lot money to let everyone know about their new bike but so far, all I see is how bad ass that new ktm was 2 years ago. it's not like honda came out with something groundbreaking. they just managed to get on ktm's level as it seems.
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