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I don’t know what happened to the Japanese love of off-road but three of the four manufacturers (Yamaha excluded) decided at some point it was something they’d just hand over to the Europeans.

That culling of the gene pool isn’t a great outcome for the rest of us. The bush used to be alive with a sound made in Japan but those days are long gone. It seemed they each held on just a little while after they killed the two-stroke and then gave up. Suzuki has offered up just one four-stroke enduro model, as has Kawasaki, and Honda hasn’t made a new CRF450X since 2009. What happened, guys? Is it something we said? Please come back.

Right now I’m sitting at my computer and directly in front of me in my dungeon is a CRF450RX. So,

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