2020 HONDA CRF250RX
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hree laps. That was a long-ass
time during the morning race at the
Ironman GNCC in Crawfordsville,
Indiana. Three laps took me two hours, 42
minutes and 39.820 seconds. I felt every
tick of the clock in oft-cramping hip flex-
ors. But, people spend a lot of money to
sit in mud for nearly three hours. So, what
am I complaining about?
At the end of the morning race, we were
soggy tired messes. Unrecognizable, re-
ally. And the brand-new Honda CRF250RX
I was testing looked like an archeological
artifact yet to be extracted. But we made
it to the finish where my respect for the
GNCC world, Honda's CRF250RX and rid-
ing in the mud, was taken to a new level.
Oh, how my little motorcycle friend and
I bonded. This was my first GNCC on a
Honda, and it was certainly memorable.
The Honda CRF250RX is one of my
favorite CRF models. It's fun and feisty
without all that 450RX nonsense of try-
ing to smash me about (not the Honda's
fault, really, but the fault of all that 450
power). For 2020, Honda updated com-
ponents and systems on the open-course
GNCC
The author, Jesse
Ziegler, and his ride
for the Ironman
GNCC. Neither
Jesse, nor the Honda
CRF250RX, would
look this pretty a few
hours later…
Treatment
The
We race test Honda's latest
CRF250RX and revisit the fun and
challenges of GNCC racing
BY JESSE ZIEGLER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KEN HILL, ZIEGLER AND PHOENIX RACING HONDA
