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Kawasaki invited us out to the 2012 KX450F intro at RedBud yesterday where we had our test rider, Shane Durham give the new bike a rundown. Take a look.

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The Conversation

elemen0hpee wrote: 4:43pm June 8, 2011

That slow motion manual was sick

smc916 wrote: 4:46pm June 8, 2011

Damn! Those Durham brothers have some style on a dirt bike!

Hardwon 41 wrote: 4:56pm June 8, 2011

You know what...That bike is worth $8500. It sucks that the economy is in bad shape because I wanna buy one RIGHT NOW! That bike is worth the $$$$$

yzf125 wrote: 5:46pm June 8, 2011

That guy looks like Paul Tracy lol

Mxracer317 wrote: 5:50pm June 8, 2011

Cool bike. Horrible video edit. Shaky filming and choppy transitions.

Randy wrote: 5:57pm June 8, 2011

Video quality is insane!

mx_phreek wrote: 6:13pm June 8, 2011

Mint video quality but I thought we were going to hear a actual riding impression of the bike.

timi wrote: 6:24pm June 8, 2011

nice wheelie shane - now lose the chad reed look

only $ 8400 - let me go count my spare change - nope

Bill wrote: 6:33pm June 8, 2011

Tapered exhaust +5 points.. not easy to make
3 maps and 3 plugs + 5 points

That exhaust definitely had something in it... Baffle or resonator. sounded crazy.

Ant wrote: 8:09pm June 8, 2011

Thanks for the cool vid guys but where's Shane's "rundown"? The only info was from a Kawasaki PR dude... I'd really like to hear some considered comparisons to last year's bike and whether the changes made any real-world difference..

Ant wrote: 8:11pm June 8, 2011

Whoops! Scratch that comment - This was the first link I clicked on and I didn't see the write up! Cheers Racer X

sec114 wrote: 8:29pm June 8, 2011

y was the 3 adjustable features of the bike not shown (bars, mapping plugs, footpegs). i think it is great to have those adjustability features, but y not show them?

eastcoast880 wrote: 12:04am June 9, 2011

SICK style thru the whoops with that slow mo wheelie-

the durham brothers both have great speed & style

good point"sec114"
they should let him race that thing this weekend @ high point and put it to the real test- such as mapping and launch device on a track as it changes throughout the day- but that's not gonna happen

simo8 wrote: 3:14am June 9, 2011

I find it interesting the comments about the price. What we wouldn't give to have a 450 for that price, down here they are about 11 to 12 grand, which kinda pisses us off considering our dollar is near the same and Australia is closer to Japan, admittedly by bugger all though. Unless I don't understand enough about global finances or whatever I feel we are getting ripped off at the moment.

Sir Robs wrote: 2:15pm June 9, 2011

It looks like you shot the entire video in 60p. If that's the case you can use a tool like Cinema Tools to convert the shots you want in slow motion to 24p. The results would be a lot cleaner looking slow motion shots.

Thanks for the vid!