Weather you’re a professional rider planning to win 2010’s most challenging motocross or supercross closed course competitions or simply a dirt bike rider with plans to go big, the 2010 Honda CRF450R is one of the numerous “tools” for the job. Honda claims they now offer an even more powerful bike with greater handling capabilities, so let’s just see how they achieved that.
The 2010 Honda CRF450R is now improved with a new ECU programming and injection settings for better throttle response and a new auto-decompressor system for easier kick-starting. Furthermore, the Japanese company mentions that the HRC fuel-injection tool and electronics can now be connected without removing the tank, easing adjustments. In what the suspension is concerned, the fork now has revised valving and needs more oil to smoothen out the ride, while the rear shock has a redesigned piston and different compression adjuster.
It is by now clear that Honda plays their safe card with this new CRF450R and they don’t even bother making it look more aggressive or at least different as they know that a year from now, the name of this precise motorcycle will be on everyone’s lips.
Still, Honda won’t be starting quite from scratch as the CRF450R is not a brick. In fact, it features slim bodywork with the least number of plastic parts. Good looks and weight savings were clearly priorities for those designing it and the fact that the 2010 CRF250R now looks just like the 450cc bike shows how satisfied the little fellows at Honda actually are with their work.
For 2010, you get the same red color and unchanged graphics, so you’ll actually have to get close to one and look at the ID plate to confirm it’s the latest model year out there. Not fun. In the end, we’ll have to say that the Honda CRF450R did hav a successful 2009 year and what we’re now looking at is nothing more that a slightly improved (the word upgraded is too much for it) version, but it should do the trick.
MSRP $8,099
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