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Cycle News 2020 Issue 08 February 25

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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2020 YAMAHA YZ125X REVIEW R I D E R E V I E W P92 O nce again, we applaud Yamaha for not ignoring the two-stroke. Yamaha has never really given up on the premixers despite being the manufacturer having the distinction of starting the beginning of the end of the two- stroke off-road motorcycle when the YZ400F was released in the late 1990s. But you can't blame Yamaha, though. If they hadn't done it, someone else would have. While all of the other Japanese manufacturers eventually gave up on the two-stroke, Yamaha stayed true to the blue smokers, keeping the YZ250 and YZ125 motocrossers in its YZ lineup while keeping yearly updates to a minimum (if at all). Despite the four-stroke revolution, two-strokes remained popular in the off-road, or enduro, world because of their light weight, snappy power and simplicity. After all, off-road- ers are simple people, right? And us off-roaders are proud of that. Yamaha noticed how so many racers were switching back over to two-strokes in the woods and introduced the YZ250X, an off-road version of the YZ250, in 2016. And Yamaha expanded its camless offerings in 2020 with an The Yamaha YZ125X might be a "small-bore," but it packs a big punch of two-stroke fun BY THE CYCLE NEWS STAFF Yamaha expanded its off-road two-stroke line with the YZ125X. TWICE The FUN

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