dec ided t o giv e th e Ho n d a s e c ond
pla c e. A b it m o re p o w e r and it
m ight 'v e beaten o ut the Yamaha .
And that le av e s a two -wa y tie for
third.
S ince the KX250F an d th e RMZ25 0 a re t h e sam e motorcy cle, it
wou ld be im pos s ible to rate o ne over
the ot her, un le s s we had co m pla ints
a bout boots or knees hanging up on
one of the bike 's radiator shrouds and
not the other. But s inc e that did not
happen, we have a le gitim a te tie for
third . Of course, when it gets down to
it, the Kawasaki and Suzuki are nea rly as good as the Yamaha and Honda
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and should b e co m men de d fo r a n
ou t stand in g fir s t -t irne ] e ffort. Th e
Suzu k i and Ka wa sak i are ex ce llent
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b ik e s but j u s t didn 't feel qu it e a s
refined as e it he r th e 'IYa m a h a o r
Honda. Tha t's about it.
Overall , we can 't stre ss e no u g h
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how s imi la r in performance a ll four of
these bikes are , Th e Y'rJ a ll c los e in
hors e powe r, they 're all etg onomically
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fr iendly , th e y all handl e extreme ly
well , they all fe e l about Ith e sa me in
the we ight departmen t , a n d , most
im po rta ntly, they're all i;'cre diblyfun
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