Inside Max Anstie's HEP Motorsports Suzuki RMZ450 - Motocross Action Magazine 

We all got to admit that the rmz450 is a timeless lookin bike! one of the best in the pits with some gold wheels though!

He finished 6th overall at Hangtown on this bike! Excited to see what Travis cooked up for this one

Max Anstie,,,, you rock buddy !!! Love having you in America, GOOD LUCK & KEEP GRINDING BRO. !!! 👍🏻👍🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻🏅

I think HEP Suzuki along with Twisted Tea could get this bike to the front in the next couple of years!! A decent rider with a bike they've been developing could lead to the Yellow machine winning some moto's again!!

if Suzuki just came back and released some 2-strokes they can make some $$$$. Even the old school technology would sell. Who doesn't want a new 2022 RM?

Gonna miss seeing Max out there on the yellow bike, but Brandon Hartranft is learning fast! There is a future for the HEP Twisted Tea Suzuki team

Suzuki could still compete but they have to start spending money, which they probably won’t. Carmichael wouldn’t even stay. Hope they come back and compete 💛

Love that kickstarter, ty mxa/josh for this video! jody’s box taught me back In the eighties how to start a open bike, find the sweet spot, then aim the kickstarter towards china! 🇨🇦🇺🇸

I started reading motocross magazines around 1976 when Super Hunky was the hilarious writer at Dirt Bike, and Suzuki was starting to become the dominant bike for the next 5 years or so. Suzuki was and is by far the smallest of the 4 Japanese brands. They have actually had a lot of success over the last 50 years, considering that fact. But some people don't take that in consideration. Exactly 20 years ago, MXA spent the whole year criticizing the 2001 RM250. It went far beyond just ranking it last in the shootouts. They mocked it and insulted anyone who would buy one all year. Late in the year they did a multi page spread giving it the 'award' of the by-far worst bike made. I have never seen that level of vitrol in any consumer-review mag of any kind. Suzuki pulled advertising for years, and many industry insiders, including spokesmen from other mags and other bike brands, said MXA was wrong to be so savage. They knew they were out of line, so later they tried to temper the burn by saying they just wanted to 'inspire' suzuki to try harder. I think they were trying to bury suzuki just to see if they could. How could Zuki ever improve if they have been tanked for spite? In that era mxa was incredibly arrogant, like they alone knew everything from track design to suspension settings. I was riding a trials bike at the time, but I still followed mx. I was so turned off by the attitude that I didn't touch a MXA for probably 10 years. The next time I did, the review attitude was far different, almost too far toward bland. I suspect they felt a lot more fallout from those arrogant years than they ever admitted.

One of if not thee nicest bike on the planet~!

Beautiful RMZ 😍

It was good to see the Suzie's back in the top ten!

Been waiting for this one!

Absolutely love this bike!!

Best looking bike in the pits by far!

Simple yet gorgeous bike

That is such a beautiful bike.

Best looking bike on the line 👌

I hope twisted tea Suzuki can sign 1 star rider in the 450 class, and the same in the 250 class.. I'll admit the team showed some life the last couple races.. But the last star rider was Ken Roczen, who opened a can of whoop ass on everyone, to winning the #1 plate.. Yet they let him go to Honda?? I miss the days of R.C#4, Ryan Dungey, Reed, Stewart, Westin Peck(sp) Time for Suzuki to get back to being the Best in MotoCross.. Get the Right people in the right place's. They need another Rodger Decoster, The Mechanics that kept Ricky Carmichael, and Dungey, at the top of their game... I'm not giving up on your Suzuki, and I hope you don't give up on Motocross/Supercross and is the Fans.....

That's the bike I'm going to own one day. Mark my words.

I love Suzuki and think they could make a major comeback back there's no more yellow bikes

After taking the time to vapour blast the cam cover nicely they need to get a Cameron Niemela pryme mx coarse cleaning wheel on the ugly casting lines, they are amazing to use, makes taking out seam lines so quick and easy!!!

The only 450 Suzuki I have seen at the Outdoors gate all year? Went from Big Four to 7th in just a few years

What’s crazy is they dropped 1 lb just on Graphics. I raced professionally from 2000-2010, and I didn’t even know about thinner graphics haha I looooove Suzuki

nice bike

THEY ARE DOING A VIDEO ON MY FAVORITE PRO WTF

How do they drop the sub frame high on what part do they cut and shut

Missed the part about the subframe he said shorter?

Sweet

Not huge fan of graphics...Suzuki are one of easier bikes to make look super sick cuz yellow/black......I loved my RMZ 450 and owned all the brands....lil heavy but man the bike handled so well once you got rear end set right.....one of best handling stock bikes few years ago ....its been awhile though

I thought Dave Dye was Max Anstie's mechanic . What happened to Dave ? He was my mechanic but then took off to do the do the professional circuit . 😥😁

Pipe SOUNCHECK!

😍😍😍😍😍

“Yeah”

Wwow

That is a beautiful bike and I would kill a lot of Bothans for it! 🤣 It's interesting to see the difference between a "full factory bike" and this really nice "privateer" one... but it's obviously still competitive (the rider is more than 50% of the equation... Max is really good). I wish Suzuki corporation would put at least a "satellite" style effort the MX/SX/GP. Sooner or later they will fall too far behind in technology, perhaps? This bike just needs a few things to bring it up to the level that the other Japanese bikes... surely they can afford it??? PS: Suzuki has a really rich history in this sport, please don't let it die for good. I'm surprised that past greats, like Roger DeCoster, are not more vocal about this 😥 Thanks for the video 👍

Max Anstie's wife really bashed this bike on Social Media. Sad thing. I am a positive person and always wish the best for people and speak great blessings into their life, so I hope that Team H.E.P Motorsports Suzuki will forgive the bashing that Max Anstie's wife gave this bike and their Team and brings him back for next season. Rides like this are few and far between and I hope that he isn't left out in Privateer Row Sprinter Vanning it because of his Spouse. Here is to growth, maturity and a learning curve to the Anstie household as a unit.

It looks mor factory then most bikes but it also is still onley kick start so…….. Suzuki needs to change the bike a bit it’s been the same since like 2019 most don’t even consider this team a factory team but it’s a good bike but it needs to eveolve with the Rest of the bikes

Those bikes sound soooooo nasty out there. So distinct from all the other bikes

Moto desfasada Suzuki mete el dinero en MotoGP.ni si kiera tiene ekipo el el mundial d MX.espero k Anstie con KTM vuelva a tener el nivel k tenía en Europa🇪🇦saludos

I wonder how many pallets of twisted tea he gets a month

How do you start it? Kick it? Is it 2011? It’s 2021 Suzuki need to make a real progress. It’s the only manufacturer uses a KICKSTART!!!!!

Is this the bike he said was total garbage?

Keep it twisted!