Big, Bad and Blue – Yamaha’s Revamped WR450F
The chance to ride Yamaha’s WR450F after a morning on the WR250F was exciting and a bit intimidating to someone who’s never raced off-road. After all, the big WR is a hardcore open-class enduro weapon, closely related to Yamaha’s YZ450F motocrosser.
From the moment I climbed aboard, however, the WR450F felt remarkably like its smaller-capacity sibling. Physically almost identical in size, it
