Triple gets DPed
 

Dual-purposed, that is.

2008 Yamaha WR250R, 52(!) original miles. $3,500. Rode it home from Nashville this afternoon.

Very nice! Just give your license to the authorities now. You won't have it long. LOL

Congrats on the new ride!

Wow - very clean

Envy.

nice score

Sweet ride....cheap price too.

You do go far to save a buck.

you shoulda stopped by...

Sweet ride, great deal and I think you made the best choice from the previous discussion on it! :dthumb:

When I was DS shopping, that bike was on my short list. I like it. I just wasn't sure it would do well on the unavoidable highway miles I'd have to put on it.

Hell of a price.

It's not as bad on the expressway as you might think. It's pretty comfortable at 65mph, with much less vibration than I expected.

A lot to get used to with this bike. I haven't owned a dirtbike since I was a teenager. The height (I can just get the tips of my toes down), the lack of torque (though if you spin it, it can definitely move), and the vague steering (semi-knobbies and the fact that I've been riding taught and planted sportbikes for the last ten years) are all a bit new.

Get the SM wheels too.

I got used to mine pretty quickly. My tires of choice are Pirelli MT21s.

Mine is pretty nice on the highway. I cruise along at 60 mph at 4000 rpm. Redline is around 8000. Riding into a headwind can get pretty brutal, though.

Nashville is only a three-hour ride from me. This was basically a local trip compared to most of my purchases.

More trouble with crosswinds than headwinds. It's like riding a sail.

Speaking of cruising/redline RPM, why no tachometer? Surprised it isn't standard equipment, considering my dad's inferior-tech KLX250S had one.

Would you have bought him dinner?

damn your on to me

or could taken him on some good roads in the area, both on and off road places
:wtfru:

Tach on mine? It has one. Two, actually. The gauge cluster has a ton of different modes. Basically, you get two piece of information displayed on the main face, and a digital bar tach on the right side. For the two pieces on the main face, one is large and the other (underneath it) is small. You can basically pick from any combination of digital information. Tach, Clock, Trip 1, Trip 2, MPH/KPH, and a bunch of other shit I don't use.

Most of the time, I have MPH on the top and the digital tach on the bottom.

Tach-wise, the only thing missing is some kind of visible indicator of where redline is in relation to your current RPMs. You just get a feel for it, or hit the rev limiter.

Example attached.

You can also buy a tach that wraps around your spark plug wire. They're relatively cheap, though not as quick to respond to rev changes as an analog gauge.

You got a new car already?

nope... still on 2 wheels, i cant find a good deal on what i want, im still looking

Congrats!

I've never really missed the tach on mine. I would be nice from time to time, but eh, I just live without it.

If it wouldn't be for my tach, I'd think I've been riding the ass of my Kx450. With the tach, I realize I rarely see half of the rev range. :lol

The WR is a 250, not a 450. With the 250, you just pin it until the rev limiter stops you :lol:

Do you still have your stock fuel tank?

If so, please reinstall and ship your Safari to me ASAP.

My stock tank is in the attic. The Safari isn't going anywhere :lol:

IMS has a couple options that are cheaper than the Safari. If I were to do it over again right now, I'd get the IMS 3.0 gallon. It uses the stock side panels and I have never had to put more than 3 gallons in mine when I fill up anyway. It's usually 2.5-2.75. It doesn't need an auxiliary vacuum fuel pump either.

I thought the 3.0 gallon was the only option from IMS. I heard they were developing something larger than 4 gallons, but I don't think it's made production. I'm hesitant to pay $275 for one gallon over stock. I like the look of the Safari way better than the cheap factory shrouds, but not for $475. Stock range is pretty pathetic, however.

My first two fill-ups yielded almost exactly 70 mpg; tonight's was about 64. Better than what I am used to, but I expected better from a conservatively-ridden 250.

A skid plate and hand guards are on the short list. I don't know if I'll mess with the gearing; I don't want to lose any mileage on-road by going shorter or compromise squirt off-road by going taller, so I'll probably leave it as-is.

A hard-case arrangement is in the works as well, contrary to the better judgement of masses of online off-road riders. No one makes a kit to fit Givi E21 cases, but I've made it my mission to use them. Cheaper and better looking than aluminum, with integrated locks.

I average somewhere around 45 mpg :lol: but I'm harder on the throttle than most.

This might be the most fun I've ever had on a motorcycle, and I don't even know what I'm doing.

This is why I let my ZX-10R go and never looked back. :)

I still haven't bought any accessories. Too busy riding, I suppose.

Considering this skid plate:

SKID PLATE BASH GUARD YAMAHA WR250R/X 2008 to 2011 - $69.99

Hand guards are another story. There are too many to choose from. I want a basic steel or aluminum bar to which I can attach a non-vented plastic or vinyl deflector in cold weather.

That skid plate looks as good as any.

I went with Zeta hand guards with the integrated turn signals. Love 'em.

Installed it over the weekend. It echos all of the mechanical noise of the engine and now it's loud as hell. It also vibrates. Not digging it for permanent use; it's on/off in five minutes, so I may just use it on planned off-road excursions only.

It needs more holes both for sound and to allow water and shit to pass through.

I put rubber strips along the frame rails between the frame and the skidplate on mine and the sound went away.

I put metal spacers between the plate and its mounting points on the frame and the vibration went away. It still echos the sound of the engine; doubt there is any way around that without drilling more/larger holes, and I don't want to compromise the integrity of the plate. I was worried about it trapping engine heat, but the temperature outside has been at or near 100-degrees each afternoon and the cooling fan isn't running any more now than it did before (which was almost never).

I cleaned and re-oiled my air filter for the first time and made almost 79 mpg on my next tank of gas.

I coated the inside of my plate with Bedliner... not sure how it'll work... but just tapping the plate it's a duller sound...