Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With the prospect of an 11-bike 450 motocross shootout next month, we’ve been spending a fair amount of time wrestling with the obvious question: How the heck are we going to do that? So, we’ve been looking at mega shootouts from past years. The one that really stands out was the 12-bike shootout from 2022. But there have been others. In the June, 2000 print issue of Dirt Bike, we had a nine-bike off-road shootout. In truth, it was a seven-bike 400 four-stroke shootout with two versions of the Suzuki DR-Z400 (kickstart and E-start). Then we had the ultimate showdown between the best four-stroke and the best two-stroke, which was the KTM 250EXC. Here’s how we rated them.




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