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Cycle News Issue 42 October 24, 2017

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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2018 450 MOTOCROSS SHOOTOUT P78 SHOOTOUT IT WAS A FIGHT TO THE FINISH, BUT AFTER WEEKS OF TESTING, TURNING, JUMPING AND, YES, EVEN SOME CRASHING, WE HAVE A WINNER OF OUR 2018 CYCLE NEWS 450 MX SHOOTOUT H ere we go again. As we always do this time of year, we round up the current crop of big-bore 450cc motocross bikes with the goal of determining which bike is best. Sounds simple, right? It's not. In fact, determining a winner is getting harder and harder each year, and the painful cliché that each one of these bikes is great couldn't ring more true for 2018. There isn't a bad apple in the bunch; instead, each one is a modern technical marvel. But they are indeed different animals on the track, each one having their own distinct personality (even between the Husqvarna and KTM (two motorcycles that roll off LET'S DO IT!

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