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Honda builds some great bikes. Three bikes were present for duty on the day, two CRF 450 RX’s and the CRF 250 RX. All the bikes have been off-road race prepped. We chatted to Gerhard about race prep. No engine upgrades. For Enduro, guys tend to spend tin on lots of protective gear, but for Off-road, the upgrades are minimal. Standard brush flaps. Zeta foldable levers. Polisport Engine guards. Aftermarket MSD brake levers with a brake snake. The standard chains are replaced with DID O-Ring units and the guys have done a bit of Renthal gearing on the bikes. Fast, Offroad racing is not about rocks, so they have left the standard Honda front brake guard in place, along with standard chain guides. Tyre choice for the team are the Dunlop MX 33’s. “Great all round tyre. Great grip.” An Akrapovic exhaust system is fitted on the 450. Naturally, the standard Showa suspension on both bikes is tweaked and set up for each rider. Ride impressions. Our guys took a lap of the Legends park loop and chopped and changed bikes as we went along. The Honda’s are both, very focused off roaders, light, nimble and very quick. We’ve always appreciated the bikes agility and small feel. The 450RX: A simple handlebar-mounted button lets you dial in engine power delivery character with a push of your thumb. Choose between Standard, Smooth and Aggressive, depending on track conditions. Choose the fastest of the three maps and the 450 can literally be like a hand grenade, point and fire and chances are excellent that you’ll actually be slower in the tight stuff. Why? You tap off sooner to negotiate the corners, this rider spent half the time overtaking the turns trying to look fast. In the tight stuff, it’s quicker and more forgiving in the intermediate setting. So!... save ‘’ mode for desert race stuff, in tighter, twisty stuff stick it in intermediate and you literally have a powerful bike that does it all at the push of a button. Technology is grand. There is nothing wrong with the standard Honda pipe, but the Akrapovic, aside from shaving off some weight seems to make the power delivery just that little bit better without blowing your eardrums to pieces. And besides, they do make pretty pipes. The Hydraulic clutch is among the softest in the business and always a nice touch on a dirt bike. And… Well… It’s a 450, so it’s bloody fast! S1 R 15 4, R3 R R R1 10 4 R 3 R3 Ve G 13 2 R R B Here’s what Tyrone Beverly had to say a couple of laps in on his first ride on the bike. Last year he was on a Husqvarna. This year he is competing on the Kawasaki 450. “The Honda feels quite rigid, but in a good way. The front end is very direct and precise. It’s super good in the corners. The rear end is nice and stable. Good holdup, it doesn’t feel like you are blowing through. It’s got a lot of power and I love the way it’s delivered. Plenty of midrange for short shifting, which ultimately saves you energy. It took exactly five minutes to get comfortable on the bike. I played with two of the power modes. Fast is … FAST! Great for MX and so-on, but I’d choose the mid, smoother, mellower setting for what we do…” The 250RX: Less is more. This has become one of this here magazines favorite 250 four strokes, simply because Honda has really spent time getting it developed and sorted. For the 2022 year model, the Honda 250 really went under the knife and all of the upgrades and improvements made a huge difference to what was already a pretty good machine. The most obvious change was the fact that Honda fitted a single silencer rather than the two that we became used to. Increases of 10% more top end power and 15% torque across the rev-range reduce the gear changes and allows you to hold the same gear for longer with more flexible power. They also played with gear ratios, so where we complained about a lack of torque on the earlier models, they got it sorted with this one. The ratios are also adjusted with first
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