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We take the 2022 Yamaha YZ250 and throw it back to 2002, the year Chad Reed burst onto the AMA scene.
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The year was 2002. A young Aussie by the name of Chad Reed had arrived in the USA, fresh off a second position in the World Motocross Championship. Chad didn't want to be in the lites or 125cc class, he