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The Works Bikes are Red, Too.
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Honda CRs 125, 250, 500 (1983) |
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What do you do for an encore when one year
you build the best 125, 250 and open-class motocrossers, and capture four of
five major titles? Simple. You follow with a gust of new technology and
refinements across the board.
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For a European motorcycle company,
challenging the Japanese at 125 motocross is just about like playing Russian
roulette with a fully-loaded gun: There's no apparent way to win.
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The motocrosser with no built-in mistakes.
You'll make one before it will.
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If spec pages and dyno charts revealed
everything there is to know about a motocrosser, you'd pass right by the
Husqvarna 250 CR. Its anemic horsepower figures and gargantuan chassis
dimensions are—in turn—appalling and astonishing. But Good Numbers alone don't
win races: Every part and design of the CR is complementary, and that's why it's
so easy to ride the Husky so fast.
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Husqvarna 360 Viking (1968) |
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Power potential for the professional.
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Not super-trick, super-fancy or super-pretty,
just super-good—and super expensive.
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Husqvarna 400cc Cross Racer (1970) |
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It's a hellacious machine, capable of going a
lot faster than anyone in this country can ride. Which won't keep people from
buying it.
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you heard the one about the Husqvarna
250CR? Sure you have. Everybody has heard that the Husky 250 doesn't have enough
power to ride through a fog bank. In fact, it was slow. Was is the key word.
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Suddenly sensible in the 80's.
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James Cotswold Starmaker (1965) |
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Old line British cycle works makes it big
with 250cc scrambler.
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Kawasaki 390 Uni-Trak Works Bike (1979) |
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One ride on Dave Thorpe's factory Uni-Trak
and you're left with warp-speed jet lag, extremely white knuckles and a sneak
preview of Kawasaki's 1980 KX420 production MXer.
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A faster track to a full trophy shelf.
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A ricochet racer that can turn you into a
Friday-night pinball wizard.
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High and dry in a pool of waterpumpers.
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Transfusion for the
anemic.
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Many more improvements than just those that
meet the eye.
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The defiant one: It defies you to fault it,
to beat it, and ultimately to pay for it.
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Attention, Honda XR and Can-Am Sonic owners:
There's a new King Thumper on the block. (And you motocrossers—relax.
Two-strokes are still the ticket for racing.)
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Maico 360 X4-A (1968, Cycle Guide) |
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The better mousetrap is here.
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