Riding a Two-Stroke BANNED from the USA

#motocross #racing #sports #motorcycle
The 2024 Fantic XX125 is only available to the European market and somehow Pasha Afshar and Nick Mairose were able to secretly import this bike from overseas. This two-stroke is built off of the 2024 Yamaha YZ125, only it has a few unique mods. Inside the engine the piston is different, the cylinder head has some mods, and the subframe is different with a completely different airbox that uses an older-style KTM Twin Air filter. It has a different fuel tank and plastics from the Yamaha. It also comes with an Arrow pipe and silencer and a GET ECU with two map options. In this video, MXA's Josh Mosiman compares the XX125 Fantic to the Yamaha YZ125 at Glen Helen Raceway.

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[motofunk]

The three rules of two strokes.

1. Never put music over the sweet sound of a two stroke.
3. The phrase "Two-Stroke Ban" is never to be written except in these rules.

[popeyeseamaster]

125 two stroke, the most fun you can have with your pants on !

[TheMajesticOne]

The sound of a 2 stroke will NEVER get old!!! ❤️❤️

[aduran]

Hi, I’m from Barcelona, and recently I purchased the Fantic XE 125 2023 to ride enduro with my son, and we/he are/is very happy with it, it runs fantastic, has a lot of power all of the power curve, and it feels very light and easy to handle. I think Fantic has done a fantastic job, “endurising” (sorry for the invented word) a YZ 125. Congrats for your fantastic reports. Best regard from Europe. Albert Duran.

[scooterinvegas]

It's refreshing to see someone that KNOWS how to ride a 125! Good job!

[MitchChubey]

At 2:37. When hes reving the 2 smoke. I had auto subtitles on and its comes up <music>
That made my day.

[happyhappyjoyjoy]

if you are going to import a fantic, import the xe300.. that is the most unique of the platform sharing. the enduro guys be droolin over

[ThunderStruckMTB]

The title had me thinking that 2 strokes were banned to be ridden in the USA, which wouldn't have surprised me a bit.

[mxengineer]

As always a fun and insightful review from Josh - good stuff! Now we need Pasha to bring over the e-start Fantic/YZ300 Enduro bike!!!

[mikelyon]

The XE300 2T has no competing Yamaha model and Yamaha could import it as their own!!

[codygoodwin]

"He secretly imported this bike to the US" proceeds to put it on the internet haha; thank you Pasah for your service

[Jharris]

Keep making a riding 2 strokes. They are so much fun

[EmaBixD]

It's funny that in Italy we think the opposite, we prefer the YZ to the Fantic. Fantic usually costs less, the YZ needs to be modified to be able to go legally on the road and people still say that this one has better performances.

[Aretumis]

One industries is making a comeback??! That's awesome

[ascchannel]

Growing up my brother and a couple other guys within our area all had Fantic trial bikes!
It was a foresty mountain area, and everybody was constantly trial riding!
The bikes were super quiet (exhaust backpressure) and consumed near to no fuel!
When they accidentally rolled down a whole mountain, you just bent out the shocks, replaced a handlebar and good.

Theoretically you can always import one yourself.

Best wishes

[ethancumner]

It's really cool to see all these new bikes being built and tested against all the other mainstream big names brands

[chrisvozza]

Hell yea thanks to pasha. I thought i was never gonna be able to see a test on a fantic. Really like these bikes. Wish there was a dealer in the U.S.

[t-bonedoelman]

Man! I miss that sound at the track. On the pipe. Sweet! And the smell of premix. Time to go out and ride my 2000 CR250.😁❤

[Ralf]

fantic is doing some serious 2Stroke R&D for Yamaha here in europe, you should test the xx250, this is a "better" or "newer" version of a YZ250

[gkiss]

So fun i had to get 2 of them no joke lol. 06 yz125 and 02rm 125 completely. Restored. So much fun 😊