2008 Kawasaki KLX 450 R reviews

• 2008 Kawasaki KLX450R - First Ride (Motorcycle-usa.com)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2008 Kawasaki KLX 450 R

  I'm getting mixed signals. The bike beneath me is saying "Go, upshift!!" but the surrounding field of cholla cacti cautions to think otherwise. The single-track winds before me like the path of one of the many sinuous jack-rabbits that scamper in front of my wheels. They don't seem to mind the prickly vegetation; should I? I've not even completed my first lap on the smaller of two rocky loops and already I'm in love with this romping beast. So familiar, and yet a whole new sensation - a real off-road Kawasaki.

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• 2008 Kawasaki KLX450R - Bike Test (Motorcycle-usa.com)

  

  Model(s) covered: 2008 Kawasaki KLX 450 R

  Kawasaki stunned us with its 2008 KLX450R at the press introduction back in March. So much in fact that we went right home, typed the First Ride article, and then sent off an email to the proper Kawasaki authority figures to line up another KLX as a MotoUSA test bike. The whole purpose of this follow-up evaluation was to A) get this beast onto our digital scales, dyno and sound equipment, B) test its abilities in tighter terrain, and C) satiate our burning need for a second date.
  It only took one ride at our local stomping grounds to realize that Kawasaki had done a tremendous job of picking the perfect spot for its intro.

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