VOL. 54 ISSUE 2 JANUARY 17, 2017 P59
The CRF450RX is not
afraid to get dirty on or
off the track.
OUR FIRST TASTE OF THE BRAND
OFF-ROADER FROM HONDA.
I
mitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so KTM and Yamaha
should be flattered beyond flattered that Honda has released the
2017 CRF450RX, a closed-course off-road version of the all-new
2017 CRF450R. The concept is simple and KTM has been doing
it for years with its XC line, and Yamaha now does it with its FX line:
You take a motocross bike and tweak it a bit for the off-road world—
that's it. For Honda it didn't take too much to turn the CRF450R—the
new one—into a CRF450RX. We recently spent a full day at Cahuilla
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ADAM BOOTH
