RIDING THE 2024 YAMAHA YZ125X & YZ250X: TWO-STROKE TUESDAY

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Mark Tilley

by: Mark Tilley



Some motorcycles owe their entire existence to passion. For Yamaha, that’s the real reason behind the YZ250X and YZ125X. There’s very little profit motive here; Yamaha already owns the market for Japanese two-strokes. For every X-model they sell, there’s probably one less MX model sold. It doesn’t matter. Yamaha is run by people, and luckily for us, there’s enough passion and enthusiasm in the hearts of those people to keep Yamaha in the two-stroke off-road game. When we went to Union, South Carolina, to test the brand-new YZ450FX four-stroke, we also got to ride the not-so-new two-s ...

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