2010 Masterclass MX2 test
After the Masterclass MX1 test, we present you the MX2 Masterclass from today. Few motorcycles offer as much potential and user-friendliness as the modern four-stroke 250 cc crossers. The MX2 engines have become incredibly powerful, but they remain extremely easy to use.
The quarter liters as the ideal dirt bike. But what is 'ideal'?
Depends on what you expect of course. Just because the 450s are becoming too strong does not mean that the quarter liters would suddenly be perfect. But with power approaching 40 hp, you can hardly argue that they are not strong enough. And their low weight and great user-friendliness make the 250 cc's real game birds. One day after we put the best MX1 bikes of the moment through their paces, we confronted the 6 leading MX2 dirt bikes at the Espinar circuit in Segovia, Spain.
2008 may have been the year in which the first Japanese dirt bike was equipped with injection, but it took until 2010 before the 250 cc's followed. Honda and Suzuki equip their quarter-liters with electronically controlled gasoline injection and the CRF and the RM-Z can be seen as the innovators in this class for exactly that reason. The Husky can also join that select group, because it has a unique lightweight engine and, with some good will, is the most updated engine in the group. Some people will argue that this is not difficult, knowing what it was like before the new TC 250 came along. Others will say that Husqvarna had the courage to develop a new quarter liter from a blank sheet of paper and attack the established values with innovative technology. Both are right.
Many novelties in the MX2
KTM, Kawasaki and Yamaha also renewed their quarter liters, but did so less noticeably than the aforementioned three. Enough to speak of the best field of participants ever in the MX2 class. Unfortunately, the select group of test drivers did not get an ideal circuit. Even in Spain it can rain heavily. This is done by the tire on the days we are there... We start the Masterclass with a real winner: the Suzuki RM-Z 250, read the impressions here by test drivers Mattias Nilsson and Dietmar Lacher.
You can read the complete MX2 master test, including measurement results, weighings and power graphs in this issue of MotorWereld. In stores now.
Credit photos: Masterclass Motortest & Husqvarna
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