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    BLUE EVOLUTION

    Oct 02, 2019 4 minutes
    Story Shane Booth
    Photography
    Marc Jones

    Yamaha has been busy developing a long list of changes for its premier-class MX weapon, the YZ450F. While it’s not claimed to be an all-new bike, the changes are much more than bold new graphics, that’s for sure. We had the chance to spend a day on the bike at Cheyne Boyd’s Park4MX track, just outside Melbourne. The crew from Yamaha Motor Australia laid it on for us; we had technical staff from in-house along with the full CDR team on hand to help us with bike setup, mapping and everything else in between.

    WHAT’S NEW?

    First things first, what is new on this bike? Well, it’s more

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