I love the sound of a two-stroke. I love a 450 thumper. But they are, unfortunately, the past. The last of the dying breed that are gasoline-powered dirt bikes. I know, I know, that may sound like sacrilege coming from the boss at RideApart, but it's the truth.
Gas bikes, like the once-great dinosaurs and plant fauna that power them, are going extinct. Electricity is the dawn of a new era, and that's one to be celebrated.
Again, that sounds off coming from someone who grew up braaping all over town, but electric dirt bikes make far more sense in almost every conceivable way. They're lighter, have less rotating mass which makes them eminently more flickable, produce more power than their gas cousins, and require less maintenance. And, best of all, you can ride them wherever without pissing off your neighbors since they're quiet as hell.
