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It is hard to believe that such small changes would bring about such a sea change in YZ450F steering response. Gone is the wiggle. Gone is the wag. Gone is the looseness on exit. This small fork lug change stiffens up the front wheel to allow it to follow the chosen path without deflection. With that problem fixed, the rest of the Yamaha YZ450F package came into focus.

“As for the demeaning: “Get these awful poor people and their cheap/old cars off the roads and away from my precious children!!!” post. In Ontario we have strict regulations regarding vehicle safety inspections and police officers regularly pull unsafe vehicles off the road. And for a very good reason, if your vehicle is unsafe, it is putting everyone else on the road in danger. Much like driving impaired.”

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“GM is basically just refusing to acknowledge the problem and potential safety problem it poses,” he told me, mentioning how badly it could have gone had he had his head poking out of the window to spot himself on the trail. “[Airbags are] certainly just like an explosion going off next to your head,” he said about his first experience with such a passive restraint

The mechanically similar 2019 GMC Sierra will get the 3.0-liter diesel and the two V8s, but we wouldn’t be surprised if some or all of the other engines offered on the 2019 Silverado found their way under the hood of the Chevy’s sibling truck.

I’m very luck I was able to get control back by throwing it into neutral and gentle steering, but I was very lucky to not end up in a ditch or hitting someone as I was well over into the opposing lane.

1. Clutch. Although the KX450 now has a hydraulic clutch, it doesn’t mean it will stand the test of time. The KX450 clutch is weak. It feels light to the touch, but it burns up if you use it. Plus, it makes a horrendous squealing sound. We got rid of the judder spring, installed stiffer clutch springs, polished the ends of the push rod and switched to an ARC PowerLever (which has six different hydraulic ratios to insure that the clutch is diengaged before the lever hits your fingers on the handlebar).2. Fork springs. Too soft but great if this were an enduro bike.3. Airbox. It’s weird, small and tight, and it takes two different wrenches to get the cover off.4. Seat bolt. When you remove the seat bolts, the threaded plates fall out of the rear fender.5. Rear brake. The 250mm rear rotor is overkill. It locks up in every corner. We cut threads off the master cyllinder push rod and ground the rear brake pads down.6. Shock preload ring. We hate KTM’s nylon preload ring. Guess what? Now we hate Kawasaki’s and Suzuki’s nylon preload rings also.7. Levers. For some unknown reason, the clutch and brake levers are completely different, as though they came off different bikes. When the clutch was pulled in, the lever hit riders’ fingers. We moved the clutch perch over to avoid this, but it was only a modest help. Eventually we switched to ARC levers on both sides.8. Handlebars. The KX450 is the last production 450 with 7/8-inch bars.9. Grips. The hard rubber grips tear up your hands.10. Radiator cap. The engine runs hot and boils over. We run a Twin Air 1.8 radiator cap to keep it cool (this is a mod that all four of the Japanese-built bikes could benefit from).11. Chain roller. The bottom chain roller wears out (well, in truth it disintegrates). We use a 2018-19 KX250F chain roller to fix the issue. 

There are six machines in contention for the “2019 MXA 450 Shootout”: Honda CRF450, Husqvarna FC450, Kawasaki KX450F, KTM 450SXF, Suzuki RM-Z450 and Yamaha YZ450F. Yeah, we know we left the TM MX450-FI off the list, but if you knew how few MX450-Fis are imported to the USA every year, you’d understand. We don’t want to water down the “2019 450 Four-Stroke Shootout” by including a bike that isn’t available in large-enough numbers to supply a barbershop quartet. We also didn’t include the KTM 250SX, Husqvarna TC250, Yamaha YZ250 or KTM 350SXF for the simple reason that this is a “450 Four-Stroke Shootout.” Two-stroke and 350 riders know who they are and thus aren’t in the market for a 450cc four-stroke motocross bike. This shootout is for those who are!

So now I’ve got a clutch pedal that feels very nice, and doesn’t leak poisonous fluid all over my shoes.

“Only the Colorado managed to sucker-punch us in the head by spontaneously deploying the side curtain airbags while driving on a groomed fire road at breakneck speeds ranging from five to seven miles an hour,” the KBB host says in the video, before then opining that this was likely “a freak incident.”

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This is the governor that commands WOT up-shift speeds. It uses weights and springs just like a mechanical advance mechanism in a distributor, but employs two sets of weights for low and high speeds. The governors in TH350, TH400, and 700R4 transmissions are the same. For the record, this photo is of a governor in a TH350.