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SIX MOTORCYCLES, ONE WINNER.
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he 2017 450 Cycle News Motocross Shootout
features six motorcycles that are all impressive
machines. Every year the performance gap gets
smaller and smaller in the 450 class, making it hard
to find fault in any of the models and making it difficult
to choose a clear-cut winner. The Yamaha YZ450F
is the defending shootout winner and has been for
the past two years. With big changes from Honda,
KTM and Husqvarna it will be harder for the YZ to
retain the title of 450-class leader, which took on
few changes for 2017. With lots of hours of testing at
different tracks, there has to be a winner, and we did,
indeed, find one.
During our testing we kept the bikes as close to
2017
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