What’s the most intense modification you can do to your dirt bike? The market is full of nifty electronics, high-tech two-wheel drive systems, slick automatic clutches and potent internal motor upgrades, but can the most radical aftermarket item really be a bolt-on? We have just sampled what might be the baddest aftermarket goody available, and it actually makes your bike worse in the dirt – the 2Moto RadiX snow bike.
Just how sophisticated is this product? Consider that it took a rocket scientist to take the final conversion from a neat, fun concept into a fourth-generation, fully righteous, powder-slaying motorsport. The possibilities presented by a motorcycle chassis in a snow environment create such a different focus from snowmobiling that it really doesn’t suit the same clientele. That’s fine with the crew from Nampa, Idaho. They won’t beg to be included like a playground reject. Instead, this odd man out rallies its small band of misfits and starts its own, better game. 2Moto doesn’t just expand motorcycling, it has created an entirely new sport. … More info
USA TODAY sportswriter and member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Sal Ruibal named Dirt Rag in his Top Ten Cycling Blogs list, which was posted on blogs.com, a site devoted to the best in blogs…. 