We Ride :: Team Crunchies Honda CRF450

September, 2010 :: motocrossactionmag.com

Crunchies Food Company offers a wide assortment of dried fruit and vegetable snacks. What makes them crunchy is their drying process-which takes place in a refrigerated vacuum. Supposedly, this allows the fruit to retain more natural flavor and nutrients, so Crunchies can avoid the use of sugar, preservatives or chemicals. One of the owners of Freeze-Dried Crunchies Natural Snacks in a motocross fan. Through the luck of an enterprising AMA National privateer, MXA test rider Dennis Stapleton...

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We Ride :: TUF Performance Products

July 7th, 2010 :: tufracing.com

With National Arenacross Championship titles in 2007, 2008 and 2009, TUF Racing is synonymous with Arenacross. For those championships, TUF developed their own race bikes. Before the start of the 2010 Arenacross series, the TUF team went to work on building a full-race 2010 Honda CRF250. In charge of research and development at TUF Performance Products are Ron Hamp and Scott Venning, who soon discovered that the new fuelinjected bike, particularly the engine, had a lot of potential. Unfortunately, part of the way

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Transworld Tests Factory Connection RMZ450 Suspension Mods

March 22nd, 2010 :: Transworld Mod Squad

By most accounts the 2010 Suzuki RM-Z450 is a great
handling machine. But for the new year, Suzuki decided
to make a few key updates to both the chassis
and suspension in order to make it just that much
better when compared to the ’09 version. Thanks to
these improvements, the turning of the ’10 bike is improved
along with straight-line stability over rough, chopped-out
straights and huge whoops, begging the question: what else is left to develop? Like almost every bike...

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Between The Moto's: Kevin Windham

October 28th, 2009 :: RacerX Interview/Photos by Steve Cox

Despite rumors to the contrary, which weren’t unfounded, Kevin Windham will be returning to the GEICO Powersports Honda team in 2010. In this lengthy interview for this week’s Between the Motos, we talk to him about his year, his family life, and where he’s going from here. Check it out.

Racer X: You’ve spent a lot of time not at the track this year. Last year as well. What do you think of that? I’m sure there are positives and negatives about both...

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Factory Connection Yamaha WR450F Suspension Revalve

October 2009 :: Dirt Rider Test

Sometimes just one mod can transform a bike, and for the Yamaha WR450, we've found it. In preparation for our 2009 450cc Off-Road Shootout we had Factory Connection revalve the suspension on our otherwise very stock WR.

We told the Factory Connection crew the bike would be going head-to-head with the latest offerings from KTM, Husaberg and Husky along with a stable of competition from Japan. The crew took knowledge gained from...

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The Torture Test - Am-Pro/FMF/Yamaha/Tucker Rocky WR450F

May 2009 :: Dirt Rider Torcher Test

This bike stood out at Dirt Rider's annual Torture Test and was chosen by the editors and test riders of Dirt Rider Magazine to be included in the magazine. You've likely read about how it compared to the other top five contenders in the test in the June issue of DR. This is the singled-out test of one of the best bikes we've tested all year. Enjoy!

The Am-Pro/FMF/Yamaha/Tucker Rocky WR450F is a bike built...

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