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The Honda CR series was a line of two-stroke off-road motorcycles made by Honda from 1973 to 2007. They are racing motorcycles with countless trophies in the 125, 250 and 500 motocross classes. Marty Smith, Jeremy McGrath, Ricky Carmichael and many other motocross legends dominated racing circuits on Honda CR's. CR's continue competing today ...
The CR250 was produced for nearly 37 years, 2007 being the final year of production. [2] In 1997, Honda produced an industry first, an aluminum chassis for a motocross motorcycle. These 'first gen' frames were thick, rigid, and were a big change from the previous steel frames, where flexibility had been seen as a problem in the early years.
The Honda CR250M had a two-stroke 29 horsepower engine, and weighed in at 229 pounds (104 kg). [2] [3] Designed by Soichiro Miyakoshi, the prototype production machine began testing in Japan in 1971, and on California motocross tracks in 1972. [4]
The factory Yamaha team had a troubling start to their racing year with "chatter" problems and tire wear issues. The factory team built a new chassis for the 2006 spec YZR-M1 to combat the aforementioned problems. Rossi took to the new chassis quickly and rode to victory at his home race of Mugello for the fifth consecutive time since 2001 ...
2010 Honda CRF250R at the 2009 Seattle International Motorcycle Show. The Honda CRF series is a line of four-stroke motocross, trail, and dual sport motorcycles manufactured and marketed by Honda. The CRF line was launched in 2000 as a successor to the Honda CR series.
Honda's first production V6 was the C series; it was produced in displacements from 2.0 to 3.5 liters.The C engine was produced in various forms for over 20 years (1985–2005), having first been used in the KA series Legend model, and its British sister car the Rover 800-series (and Sterling).
The concept has taken its share of criticism for a seeding process that disadvantages teams actually ranked higher. For instance, if the playoff was today, No. 12 Clemson and No. 13 Alabama would ...
Kevin Windham (born February 28, 1978), is an American former professional motocross racer. [1] At 17 he received a factory ride from Team Yamaha.Often referred to by the nickname "K-Dub", he achieved back to back AMA 125 West Supercross Championships in 1996 and 1997, the 2005 Motocross des Nations team championship, [2] and was 2nd in points for the 2008 supercross season.