Yamaha WR250R Mega Thread

Right on. I bought my WRR out there, in Victorville. Nice part of the world if you have one of these.

Hi all,

I have a WRX that I've been riding for the last year with knobbies on the stock 17" wheels. I bought a set of 21/18 wheels to do the R conversion and I'm finally getting around to switching over. I'm pretty much used to the big front brake (don't use it on dirt, hardly). Any opinions on whether I should swap the brakes or not?

Thanks! I'm loving this bike.

...leave it, you'll be fine.

... and use it on dirt!

When I was new to dirt I stayed off the front and favoured the rear. I soon learnt I had things the wrong way round. Try bombing down a slippery hill and relying on the back brake and you'll soon start carrying spare undies on your rides

I never use front brake when going down hills??

Please do not post pictures like this. I feel like a slob

Then you're going SLOW or need to find harder hills!

Not too many hills in my area put I don't really understand why you'd want to use front brake... even if you're going fast...

Going down a steep mountain road at a walking pace, you want that stopping/slowing power. In this situation, you can break out the rear wheel very easily, fine starting a hairpin otherwise butt clenching :)

It wasn't natural for me to use the front brake in the gravel at first, but once I had the faith that I could use it without locking up I got comfortable with it. Now I go to the front first 90% of the time.

More traction on that front wheel than you think.................................................

Now that winter is technically over, I better hurry up and get this thing back together! Sending the forks and shock off to Travis at Go Race, and then I need to go over all the bearings and other maintenance items. I did have one nice surprise and found fresh grease in the swingarm bearings. All the others I've pulled apart so far seem ok too, so just a clean and lube job should do the trick.

where i come from no such thing as a riding season and no one winterizes there bikes cause we ride all year even in the snow and rain

Going downhill, more weight is on the front wheel than when on the flat. This allows you to use more front brake as it becomes harder to lock it up. Also the front brake is significantly easier to modulate than the rear and a bike with both wheels rotating is easier to control than one with a locked rear.

Nice.

Funny, though, how he refers to it as the "WR250F" in the opening statement of the video.

got bored yesterday and went stealth camping down by the river i really need to spray paint that tent bad color dont blend in at all

Must be nice.

I know... Just when I thought winter was over I woke up to about a foot of snow and me spinning the tires on my nissan altima all the way to work

Did you encounter this guy?

Livin' in a van

I know, right? And the guy is from KS which I think is just as cold as Southern Ontario in the winter! Obviously tougher than I am.