Call us Old School, but we love long-form content. Something must have happened between the Baby Boomers and Gen-Z, because the content consumed by the current generation is short enough for a goldfish to remember. We are on every social media platform, but we aren’t fans of the current climate of the digital age that requires the endless short-form content that Millennials and Generation Z are into. Yes, we have a YouTube channel, Facebook page, Twitter account, Flipboard page, chat group, MXA video department, and send photographers and editors to cover the Supercross and National series, but all we really want to do is ride, test and report on modern motocross tech. Just as Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow robbed banks, we test bikes. Hardcore testing is rooted deep within MXA’s DNA. That is the benefit of subscribing to the print edition, you see every bike we are testing two months earlier than you see it on the internet. We put all new tests in the print version first-the internet version comes later. If you didn’t see it or don’t remember who won, that is because you didn’t read the paper version of MXA. However, the 2021 MXA 250 Shootout did come out to magazine readers, digital subscribers and print subscribers of Motocross Action two months ago (back in late March). If only for historical reference, we wanted to test all seven bikes, dyno all seven bikes, weigh all seven bikes and compare all seven bikes at the same time. That’s simple, we didn’t want to do a 2021 250 Shootout with only four or five bikes. Since you are reading this shootout on the internet, you probably wondering what took so long. So, once we finally got the last two bikes, we chose to finish the 2021 MXA 250 Shootout with due diligence paid to the two late arriving bikes. But we stuck with our plan, mostly because we had pushed the timetable to the limit already. That seemed like a good idea when we started testing the first batch of bikes, but the Suzuki RM-Z250 and GasGas MC250 kept getting delayed. MXA elected not to complete our 2021 250 four-stroke shootout until we had all seven new bikes.
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