Looks like development work on the baddest YZ250 the world has ever seen is about to see the light of day at Red Budd Michigan in a week or so, where Project Team Two 50 will pit their untra-trick YZ250 Two Stroke against the thundering hords of powerful but fragile 450cc four strokes in direct c...(more)

  Issuing Date: May 27, 2010 33,000 Motorcycles Earmarked For American Market Taekwon Kim, CEO of S&T Motors, and Frank White, President of ATK, signed a multi-year $100 million dollar contract. According to terms of this contract, signed on May 25 "This contract signifies that the world's best...(more)

  Editor’s note: We had a chance to talk with the guys at Project Two 50 this morning, and in the course of the interview, we found out some very interesting facts and statistics that you the reader probably haven’t seen in the main stream dirt bike media. That one-sided view that extol...(more)

  Here's what Bombardier has up its sleeve to keep the two stroke alive and kickin'. An injected two stroke with twice the power, and half the parts. This was sent to us by our mechanic-on-call Stephen Gautreau, who is up to his neck in exploded four strokes. Here's a link to read more on the sto...(more)

Stephen Gautreau owns and operates a motorcycle repair shop in the Phoenix, Arizona (SG CYCLES - 602-705-5876) section of this great land of ours, and has seen first hand the costs in both money and injuries that the new breed of four stroke MX bike has foisted on the sport. Below are his thoughts o...(more)

    RACE GAS RULES IN CALIFORNIA   MORE CRAP REGULATIONS FROM THE GOLDEN (HA!) STATE   BY RICK SIEMAN       Many riders use race gas, or mix a small amount of race gas in with their pump gas.  With the new hyper four strokes, it’s almost mandatory.  The pump gas in California is al...(more)

  Remember Honda? That Motorcycle Company who brought us designs that changed the sport of dirt biking forever? Remember the 1973 Elsinore series? The 1979 Red Rocket? The water-cooled CR500? The XL/XR series? At one time, everything that Honda built in the realm of off-road motorcycles was a super...(more)

Well it looks like things can’t get any worse on the open class four stroke fiasco, did I say open class? Silly me, weren’t these 450’s supposed to race in the 250 class? Or was I just dreaming? One can understand why Honda made the change to a four stroke configuration, and forc...(more)

    WHY ARE TWO STROKES BEING PUSHED OUT? – PART 5 THERE’S MORE TO IT THAN YOU MIGHT THINK BY RICK SIEMAN   I recently placed a phone call  to Steve Stasiefski,  the owner of  Maico Meister,  in search of some Maico parts for my 490. While talking, he related the following to me:  ...(more)

Well, it seems Big Red, Honda; the nicest people you could ever meet, have their tentacles wrapped around every facet of motorcycling. Honda, in concert with the AMA, Federal/State Government regulatory boards (like the AQMD, CARB and the EPA) now make the rules we all love to hate. Take the four st...(more)

Now that we have uncovered the unbelievable high costs that a Japanese 450cc four stroke MX bike costs to maintain, and rebuild, it’s time to take a look at what a 250cc two stroke MX bike costs to rebuild. Our target bikes will be a 1991 CR250R Honda and a 1991 YZ250 Yamaha, since there seems...(more)

I called a Yamaha dealer in Dallas Texas about my son’s 450 Yamaha. I played the part of a crusty old dirt biker, which I guess I am, and tried to get some information  about what a repair bill would cost. The people in the service department were actually quite friendly and very honest. &ldq...(more)

2010 will be the last running of the famed Adelanto Grand Prix. For me it’s like the death of an old friend. No more will I spend weeks in preparation for the race, only to be thwarted by traffic, vehicle break-downs, or a flat tire. For all those who looked forward to the race, and enjoyed e...(more)

Part II finds me sourcing prices on another brand of Japanese MX bike, the Suzuki RMX450. Surely they haven't drank the cool aid too? I got on line and found a Suzuki dealer in Seattle, Washington. I didn’t have a voice-altering device, so I put a clothes pin on my nose. You can’t be t...(more)

SHOCKING!   WHAT IT COSTS TO KEEP YOUR MODERN FOUR-STROKE JAPANESE MX BIKE RUNNING! BY: MATT CUDDY & RICK SIEMAN   As a public service, Superhunky.com brings you a shocking expose’ on how much it costs to rebuild a new four stroke Japanese MX bike. We disguised our voices with hi-tech voi...(more)