Off-Road Motorcycle Reviews: Off-Road Motorcycle Tests and Comparisons

Off-Road motorcycle reviews and comprehensive testing. We take the latest bikes through their paces and evaluate them on the street and on the track.

Off-Road Reviews

Dirtbikes (also trail bikes) are off-road motorcycles that are lightweight and feature rugged suspension and knobby tires to get traction off the pavement. MX stands for motocross, the sport of all-terrain racing on outdoor circuits. Motocross is a contraction of “motorcycle” and “cross country.” The long-travel suspension on MX bikes enables incredible speed over even harsh off-road conditions and massive triple-jumps. Supercross is a variation of motocross that is raced on indoor or stadium circuits. SX got its name from an original event in Los Angeles during the 1970s that was called “the Superbowl of Motocross.”

2009 BMW G450X Review

BMW gets dirty and enters the Enduro fray with its all-new dirt bike

The all new G450X is the latest in a continuing line of completely fresh, clean-sheet machines to emerge from the Munich-based manufacturer in a radical detour that reinforces the notion this isn’t your father’s BMW....

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2008 Yamaha Street Preview

Revised R6 and Supermoto, Too!

Fighting for the Yamaha spotlight with the new Star Motorcycles Raider is a revised YZF-R6 sportbike. But the tuning-fork brand has also unveiled two small-bore streetbikes (a supermoto machine and a similar dual-purpose 250), plus a heavily tweaked...

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Aprilia SXV and RXV New Model Introduction

A bargain for the off-road and competitive user

The odds are good you have never heard of Cuddesbackville, NY. You might be uninterested to know about its namesake, War of 1812 Col. Cuddesback, or its quaint architecture and ye olde antique shoppes. However, Aprilia decided to use the nearby Oaklan...

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Off-Road Reviews

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2009 Kawasaki KX250F Review Team Green's redesigned motocrosser packs plenty of punc...
2004 Kawasaki KX250F Up, up, and away!
2004 Husqvarna SM450R Young at heart
The Evolution of Hatch The cousins Hatch do the 2003 Dirt Rider 24 hour at Glen Hele...
2003 Yamaha YZ450F Four-Stroke Competition Bike for the Masses
2001 KTM Roll-Out Austria's Assault Force Arrives!
2001 Suzuki RM250 Lighter is Better.
2001 Suzuki RM125 Will this help me ride like Travis Pastrana?
2001 Suzuki DR-Z250 Suzuki Introduces the U.S. to a Japanese Favorite
2001 Yamaha WR426F Showing Love for the Bark Buster Set
Year 2001 Yamaha YZ426F ... and Titanium for All!
2001 Yamaha Dirtbikes Oh lord, they've done it again.
First Ride: 2000 Suzuki DR-Z400E It's Not Your Dad's DR
2000 Bultaco Sherco We'll Take Ours "On the Rocks"
Honda EXP-2 The Return of Two Strokes?
1998 Yamaha YZ400F A Hot Start
Quick Take: Honda EXP-2 Successful Experiment in the Mojave Desert
ATV Test: 1998 Yamaha Grizzly 600 Is Yamaha's New Uberquad Big Enough For Ya?
ATV Test: 1998 Arctic Cat 300 2x4 and 4x4 Cats in the Mud and Loving It
First Impression: 1998 Yamaha XT350 A Tale of Two XTs
Silver Country Adventure Yamaha's 1997 ATV Lineup
ATV Test: 1997 Honda Foreman 400 Big Red's King Quad
1997 Yamaha Warrior
Trail Test: KTM 250EXC Testing and tuning on KTM's most popular enduro machine
ATK 1997 A quick look at the '97 model line
Kawasaki's New 1997 Off-Road Models First Ride: KDX220R and KLX300R
ATV Test: 1997 Kawasaki Lakota 300 A Mid-Sized Workhorse With Sporting Intentions
Yamaha Debuts All-New Four-Stroke YZM400F Daily News
First Ride: 1997 Honda CR250R
Living with Honda's XR250R A Decade Gone By
XR400R - Light is Right!
Trail Test -- KTM 400 R/XC Big updates to KTM's mid-sized dual sport
Bike Review: 1996 KTM 300 EXC Small changes and great improvements for '96
Bike Review: KTM 125 E/XC If you like them light and easy to ride, here's a pocketfu...
Bike Test: 1996 Suzuki RMX 250 You can still go mild or wild, now with conventional ...
Bike Review: ATK 260LQ Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde?
Beta Techno Trials Test
Trail Test: 1996 Husqvarna 250 WXC/WXE This could easily be the best 250 of 1996

Off-Road COMPARISONS

2008 Middleweight Sport-Touring Shootout: BMW F800ST vs. Honda VFR800 Interceptor
2008 Oddball Literbikes Comparison: Benelli Tornado Tre 1130 vs. Buell 1125R vs. Ducati 1098S
2008 Supersport Shootout: CBR600RR vs Daytona 675 vs ZX-6R vs R6 vs GSX-R600
2008 Literbike Shootout: ZX-10R vs CBR1000RR vs GSX-R1000 vs YZF-R1
2008 Hayabusa vs. ZX-14R Shootout Japanese hyperbikes American style
Mainstream Choppers Shootout Three for the Strip
2007 Air-Cooled Twins Naked Comparo Airin' It Out!
2007 Liter Bike Shootout Honda CBR 1000RR : Kawasaki ZX-10R : Suzuki GSX-R1000 : Yam...
Three for Five: Budget Bombers Check-out 3 bikes on a $5,000 budget
Godzilla Cruisers Shootout We Must Flee!
Three Naked Euros Aprilia TuonoR :: BMW R1200R :: MVAgusta Brutale 910S
Sport-Tour 2006 BMW K1200GT :: Triumph Sprint ST :: Yamaha FJR1300AE
Smackdown in Chi-Town Milwaukee Iron Comparo
2006 Light-Middleweight Cruiser Comparison HD 883 Custom :: Honda Shadow 750 Aero ::...
2007 Power Cruisers Shootout Mmm...Power
Mongrels to Mecca Exploding tires, closed roads, creative pit-stops and American pri...
Choose Your Weapon: Best of the Best, 2006 2006 Suzuki GSXR-1000 v. 2006 GSXR-750 v....
McQueen v. Knievel Road Test You just have to choose if you want to be McQueen or Kn...
Big, Naked and Beautiful: Open-Class Standards 2006 2007 Buell XB12Ss v. 2006 Honda ...
It Ain't The Tool: Revisited
2006 Rocket Tour - World's Fastest Imbeciles 2006 Kawasaki ZX-14 and the 2006 Suzuki...
2006 Middleweight Supersport Shootout Honda CBR 600RR : Kawasaki ZX-6R : Suzuki GSX-...
2006 Open Superbike Shootout Honda CBR 1000RR : Kawasaki ZX-10R : Suzuki GSX-R1000 :...
2006 Suzuki SV650S v. 2006 Kawasaki Ninja 650R To SV or not SV, that is the question...
Rocket, Roadliner, Road King
2005 Best of the Best: R6 v. GSX-R1000
2005 Sport Touring Comparo BMW R1200RT :: Buell Ulysses :: Honda ST 1300 :: Honda In...
The B-Team: Value Supersport Shootout 2005
2005 V-Rod versus 2006 Street Rod A Harley Family Feud
Hyosung GT650 vs. Suzuki SV650
2005 Adventure Touring Comparo Adventure Touring Single, Twin, Triple
It Ain't The Tool Shootout The Canyon Carving Shootout
State of the Moto Guzzi A Guzzi Twofer: 2005 Moto Guzzi Breva 750 IE :: 2005 Coppa I...
2005 Open Supersport Shootout Honda CBR 1000RR : Kawasaki ZX 10R : Suzuki GSX-R1000 ...
Sit Up or Lay Down? 2005 Yamaha FZ-1 v. YZF-R1
2005 Middleweight Supersport Shootout Honda CBR 600RR :: Suzuki GSX-R 600 :: Kawasak...
Living With Comparo Honda VFR800 Interceptor :: Kawasaki Concours
Streetfighter Shootout Buell XB12S :: MV Agusta Brutale S :: Apilia Tuono 1000 R
2004 MO-ron Sport Tourer Comparo BMW K 1200 GT :: BMW R 1150 RT :: Honda ST1300 ABS ...
Dawn of the Neo-Power-Touring-Cruiser Victory Kingpin Deluxe vs. modified Harley-Dav...
Honda Shadow A.C.E. v. Yamaha V-Star 1100 Middleweight Import Cruiser Shootout
2004 Open Class Shootout Aprilia RSV R; Ducati 999; RC51; CBR 1000RR; ZX 10R; GSXR 1...
2004 Middleweight Standards F 650CS :: Sportster 1200R :: FZ-6 :: Ninja 500R :: Spee...
Classic Tourer Comparo Roadstar Silverado :: Victory V92TC :: Nomad 1500 :: Road Kin...
2003 Funky Twins Comparo BMW R1100S Replika :: Buell XB12R :: Ducati Multistrada
2003 Naked 1000 Shootout The Owl and the Pussycat: Kawasaki Z1000 vs. Suzuki SV1000
2003 Naked Twins Nice Little Bikes, And The Runaway Winner: SV650 :: M800 :: XB9S
2003 Best of the Best Aprilia Mille R :: Kawasaki ZX-6R :: Suzuki GSX-R1000
MO SPORT-TOUR 2003 Exporting Democracy and Goodwill Toward Motorcycles
2003 Six Hundred Shootout Part II: On the Dirty Boulevard Beauty is in the Crotch of...
2003 Harley V-Rod Vs. [modified] Yamaha Warrior
2003 Six Hundred Shootout Part I: Pure Prurient Performance Is 636cc Cheating? Kawas...
Excelsior-Henderson Vs. RoyalStar A Longterm Wrapup
2002 Scooter Smackdown In Which Calvin, Stickie Actually Smack Down
Thrillo at Willow Mille R Ali vs. Smokin' Bruce's RC51
Honda CBR1100XX vs. Kawasaki ZZ-R1200 Break out the Good Silverware
Honda Shadow Spirit 750 vs. H-D 883R Sportster Even two's a crowd.
2002 Naked Bike Shootout We Like to Play the Emperor's New Clothes
What Size Victory? 600? Openbike? Twin? 600? Literbike? Twin? How many horsies can y...
Buell XB9R vs. Ducati 900SS The Italian Campaign and other Amazing Revelations
2002 Open Twins Shootout
2002 Adventure Tourer Comparo When you need to visit Aunt Helga in Holland...
2001 Power Cruiser Comparo In search of enlightenment and two-wheeled bliss.
Aprilia RST Futura vs. Ducati ST4 Two Italian Hearts in the Heart of Gold Country
Two Unlikely Bedfellows Inline-four vs V-four Sport Touring
2001.5 Supersport Comparo The Best of the Rest
2001 Open Class Shootout Four Big Devils in the City of Angels
2001 World Supersport Shootout World SuperSport Shootout, Part I
2001 H-D FXSTD Deuce vs. BMW R1200 C Phoenix Swing low, sweet chariot...
Honda Gold Wing vs. BMW K1200 LT Two ways to get outta town.
2000 Valuebike Shootout Who let the MO out?
Year 2000 Twins Comparo Big Jugs
2000 Openbike Shootout Thank you, may I have another?
Road Star vs. Fat Boy Comparo Japan vs. America
Year 2000 World Supersport Shootout 600(4)+748=Fun
Honda Gold Wing vs. BMW K1200 LT They're Fat with Long Legs and Cruise Control!
Honda Valkyrie Interstate v. Yamaha Venture Clash of The Titans
Y2K 250 Motocross Shootout The Main Event!
Overlooked and Underrated We Are Worthy
1999 Top Speed Shootout Birds of Prey
1999 600cc Supersport Shootout Head-On Collision
The Best of the Best: Part III The Super Bowl
Open Twin Cruisers '98 The Definition of Cruising
1998 Sport Tourers The Truth is Out There
Twin Touring Sportbikes Buell's S3T Thunderbolt v. Ducati's ST2 Sport Turismo
The Best of the Best: Part One
.25 Caliber Shootout Three Japanese Fighters Whip Out Their Little Guns
1997 Open Bikini Shootout Do You Need A Mistress?
1997 Middleweight Cruiser Shootout Cruise Light!
1997 Honda XR400R Vs. 1997 Kawasaki KLX300R Four-Stroke Trail Bikes
Open Superbikes, 1997 Power Trippers!
Sport Twins 1997 Where's the Duck?
Heavyweight Cruisers, 1996 Five Fat Uglies on Five Fat Bikes
Top 600s, 1997 1997 600cc Sportbike Shootout
Power Tourers Soft Saddlebags Required
1997 Adventure Tourers Seeking Adventure
Value 600-Class Sportbikes, 1997 Budget-Value 600s: Yamaha FZR600 Vs. Suzuki GSX-600...
Battle Royal: USA Vs. Japan on the Highways of America
Full-Dress Heavyweight Tourers Three Big-Rigs Place You In The Lap of Luxury
Two for the Real World
Lightweight Tourers Comparison
Matchup of the Heavyweight Contenders
Open Warfare, 1996
Frugal Flyers: A Six-Bike Shoot Out

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