Ok this is starting to go around in circles.
To recap.
The reason you see so many orange , Red & White (GG) & blue (Husaberg) in off road races is they are made for that sort of racing. The Japs have droped the ball. (This is where the thread started). Fact.
(Last year Yamaha made Paul Whibley ride a WR450 in the GNCC's and it was such a pig the team had to revert to a YZF mid season). Now most of his competition are on smokers.
The YZ is a great MX machine that can be converted to the woods.
For the last few years the only 250 2/S shootouts that have been done are between the YZ & KTM because that is all the USA gets. As I said some testers have had a love/hate relationship with PDS. Some other countries are lucky that we get a bigger choice.
Now there are not as many 250's around as there was, but there still is quite a few 125's. Since the 125/250's run the same chassis I would love to see a test done between:
TM 125 , SX 125 , YZ 125 , RM 125 , CR 125 ( Husky). If some one has please tell me.
Let the best bike win. At least that will give the punters a fair comparison.
I am glad Yamaha are still selling the YZ but, Stop taking the piss with trying to tell us it is a 2011 model.
At least Suzuki are selling the RM as a 08' and is priced accordingly.
( I read from a reputable source ( His son rides for Yamaha) that the YZ tooling is so worn that the squish can be up to 1mm out, out of the box )
...please make the HONDA rant a new thread. I'm sure it'll make 10+ pages!
That ship has sailed.
There was a good one last year.
I was taking the piss.