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Aussies aren’t big on 250Fs. With the exception of Yamaha’s WR, the quarter-litre heroes don’t fare well in the sales race. Aussies like machines with big engines that we can’t quite handle but think we can. It’s not a misogynistic, egotistical thing at all … I promise. We just have big, open spaces with lots of room to stretch the throttle cable, right?

Wrong. Most blokes I know choose not to ride quarter-litre machines because they want to tell their mates they ride a 300cc two-stroke or 500cc four-stroke and that their kahunas are bigger than Robbie Maddison’s because