I have an addiction,,,,

[GregMember]

Sorry not going to happen this thursday Rod Bloody work, bloody new product release here and as the trainer I am supposed to be up to date and ready to train next Monday :laugh:

Will catch up soon and I need that wheel as well to relace for you

TB

[Rod WalkerMember]

No worries. We’ll get it sorted.

I had a quick ride on the YZ today.

I don’t know what to say. I have never ridden anything like it. My CR250 was a horror compared to this bike,,,,, mind you my CR was a ’91 model

I’m still grinning like an idiot!!!! So light, so powerful, so damn easy to just lift the front wheel flat out in 4th!!! It just comes up and stays there.

When I got into trouble it felt like I could just think about getting it straightened up and it did it.

Damn thing feels so light I swear I could bunny hop it like a BMX

I cannot wait to get this around a motocross track.

[Rod WalkerMember]

Almost forgot, I did my first (kinda) controlled stoppy as well,,,,,, completely by mistake of course

And wheelied the damn thing out of a flat turn!!!!!!!

[Mick DMember]

Good one Rod,

I did a MX school on a 250cc 2 banger a year or two ago,I have never been so busy in my life!!! They certainly are a handfull for an old fart like me.

I was over jumping tabletops, disappearing over the backs of berms and generally having a hard time of it. I did get the rythum section sorted on it though.I couldn’t turn my head for about 3 days after,I was so sore. Go easy on those bloody MX tracks mate. :laugh:

[Rod WalkerMember]

I love what I get to do :laugh:

[GregMember]

Capt. Furious wrote:

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I love what I get to do :laugh:

WOW thats freaky :laugh: , I looked in the paddoacks around Yetholme today when I was getting around the backroads on the Tenere. Found some neat fire trails there before I went through the pine forest to the jail.

Wet and slippery in spots

TB

[Rod WalkerMember]

Yep, it is pretty slippery around here at the moment.
We were down at a mates place in Camden yesterday playing with the bikes.

Mainly on the quads and just a little play on the YZ.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgHRDVYTXj8

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Rod don’t worry about being an old fart on the YZ, I’m 45 and i can’t see me parting with mine EVER, there may be other bikes in the shed, but here it will remain.

What do you reckon about the power delivery, i can’t get over the instant response wether you’re at 200rpm or 6000rpm, Yamaha certain designed this powerplant well IMO.

ever need any tips on the buggers just yell I have found a few things that work well with them….

[Rod WalkerMember]

Hiya Blue, I can’t get over how rideable a modern 2T is. My ’91 CR250 was like a light switch, either sitting there idling or trying to kill me.

The YZ wants to kill me,,,,, it is just better to ride whilst it is doing it

In that little bit of video, the last wheelie I do was in top gear. All I did was wind the throttle a little more and up it comes. I love it. Every gear change the front wheel will lift if you want it to. As you said, doesn’t matter where in the rpms you are, it will do it.

I have also found that it will be (resonably) nice and polite if you want it to as well.

Everyone that has had a ride says it scares them but they love riding it.

I was dicking around yesterday doing little stoppies, then a little wheelie followed by another little stoppie etc etc. It is so light and easy to play with.

Love the 2 strokes

[Bruce CurtisMember]

Yep they’re a great track and paddock bike in stock trim, amazing response, but get in the bush and lose concentration and I’ll quote a young mate of mine with a Husky WR250 and what he said two weeks ago after a grueling erzberg style ride “That is not the bike you want to get whisky throttle on, it will slam you straight up a tree or over a cliff, in an instant”.

And he’s right.. :blush: it has.

So much to my own disgust (with my reaction times as I get old) I’ve had to slow the engine won slightly and bring the torque up at lower mid-range sorta area, but still retaining that “Vert mono off-idle” ability, and the suspension on mine (’03 YZ250wr ADRed, from ’01 all have exact same geo) is a bit shocking in stock form so it’s been played with, and will be some more. The best suspenders are the SSS KYB that are stock on ’06 and later, even the Show/Ohlins boys are envious of it, that’s my ultimate plan to find a good set cheap….

But get out on the flattrack with the boys and the big bikes can’t hold me it turns at high seed under power so effortlessly and just instill so much confidence you hit the zone and everything gets blurry with speed and you’re one with everything.

anyway great choice of bike for anyone, but lets us older blokes revel in a bit of adrenaline every now and then…

Bruce Cee

[Rod WalkerMember]

Hmmm, doing everything you shouldn’t do with a quad

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKvmfmq0iBE[/video]

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