My TTR250

[SteveMember]

Hi Guys, well this is my first post here for some time, so to recap quickly, my first dirt bike for 25 plus years, was going to buy a XR at first but decided after riding a friends DR250 that an electric leg was the go, so swapped to a DRZ250 but after a while decided the extra weight and water cooling wasn’t for me so then finally decided on the TTR, electric leg, air cooled, lighter than the DRZ, dare I say better suspension than the DRZ, so I’ve been told, etc…

So I got a pretty good one for $3750 with 3000k’s on the clock in good condition, a slight oil leak behind the C/Shaft sprocket, so far that’s the only thing I can fault it on, it came with a staintune exhaust, so that was the first thing to go, to noisy for me, also the previous owner didn’t rejet it so it ran a bit crap with less power in the bottom end, now it’s quiet, smooth and better off idle, here’s a few picks of my first ride on some local fire trails

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[MalMember]

Sounds like a good buy Steve. Great bike for learning and getting into the bush on.

Try photobucket to upload your pics to and then link them here.

Here is a step by step to photobucket by Chris72a Simple Photobucket tutorial

Just tried the upload direct version. Didn’t work. I’m not sure how the direct image upload thingy works.

[SteveMember]

Finally uploaded the images to my own homepage, going to try the avatar again

See ya all
BMSteve

[GregMember]

Welcome Steve, nice pictures mate and a nice bike. Don’t see many open face helmets around now days, Damus is the only other I remember seeing. (Boony’s head looks like it has had many an accident in an open face but hasn’t :laugh: )
I had open face helmets as a kid on the farm, I had a fall and skinned a fair bit of my face and Mum bought me a full face helmet, a Shoei it seemed as though it weight 30 kilos compared to the open face :dry: Buggered if I could get use to the lack of vision, low vision the low front area. You have to go from a open to full to get what I am talking about really, that said I couldnt ride with a face scrapper now (open face)

Nice area and like I said the bike looks great, hopefully see you on the trails

TB

[SteveMember]

Hey TB
I was a bit worried about the open face at first but am used to it now also as you say the lack of vision and ventilation in a fullface outweigh the disadvantages I think, modern open face are a lot better than they used to be, the sides come around a lot further and they are thick so keeping your face away from the ground as well, also a mate got it for me for free, they cost brand new $159, got a set of Thor Ally goggles as well for $39 from Torpedo7 last week on weekly special, MCA at Auburn sell them for $109

I’ll have to shoot a PM off to the Sunny corner guys soon for some riding up that way but ATM I am enjoying the local fire trails and the photo ops I can’t usually get to

BMSteve

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