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2017 SUZUKI RM-Z450

Following the launch of the 2017 RM-Z450, Suzuki was nice enough to leave us with one of the bikes for a couple of months and let us get some more seat time away from the official press event. Here’s what we thought.

THE ENGINE

While this bike isn’t going to win any outright horsepower contests on the dyno, what it does have is delivered in a way that goes a long way towards making that

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