2021 Honda CR500AF Two Stroke & 1989 CR500 MEGA Build! - Dirt Bike Magazine

#motocross #twostroke #dirtbike We had the opportunity to ride two beautiful two strokes at Glen Helen Raceway for the day with Nik Gubert . One was built to give viewers an idea of what a 2021 CR500 would look like in the modern era. The other was built for good measure and stayed much closer to its original concept in 1989. Editor Ron Lawson walks you through these two mega builds and the parts that were thrown on to make them sing. This is a story and a little bit less of the typical two stroke sound and music videos that you are accustomed to. We hope you find this as entertaining as we did on test day. Some more about the builds. One represented bikes of a bygone era and another was from a time that hasn’t yet come–and probably never will. Nic Gubert of NLAB Studios built them both. First, he teamed up with Italian fabricator Andrea Rapaccioli to create a hybrid with a 1996 Honda 500 motor in a modern aluminum Honda chassis. The bike is a work of fine art, as you might expect when a graphi