The CRF250L Owners thread

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About air induction, after having corcked it and disconnected the O2 sensor, following BDSB suggestions here http://bestdualsportbikes.com/dual-sport-bikes/2013-honda-crf250l/ and installed a dBkiller of my own, i had many stalling problems. That was cured by re-plugging the secondary air system and setting the first EJK parameter to 0, what got me rid of backfires too. Replugged also the O2 sensor, as i was there.

Doesn't seems logical, since i probably leaned at idle, but that's what experimentation concluded in my case.

Whatever .. i will try to experiment more with teh EJK setting (which you can emulate here http://www.electronicjetkit.com/demos/HPcurve.swf press mode, then + or -)

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They just illustrate both AI and O2 sensor in this picture ...

What is shown with the little arrows

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Derp.

New member, as I was recently granted permission to join from a fellow owner Finally purchased a CRF after about 7,000 kms riding on rented machines in Thailand. Mine has 330 kms on it now. Going to get a new exhaust on tomorrow and new aluminum bar. Got other goodies coming over the next month or two.

Look forward to reading about all the mods coming out for the bike.

Here's a video I made in Thailand - footage from 2012. Stock CRF riding down doi suthep with a modified KLX

enjoy
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Welcome and congrats for the video. I can feel the pleasure of driving

13/42 and you won't have to mess with your chain.

This will help make it a quicker bike? Is this a hard process to do?

Thanks man, is this easy to do?

An impart driver helps to get the rear sprocket bolts out. The kind you hit with a hammer.



Otherwise it's pretty easy.

No ...






check this whole page http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=823409&page=166

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Great thread, took me a while to get through it all. I just picked up a 250L a couple weeks ago and love it.

Hey Krono are you sure you didn't mean this link??? http://www.advrider.com/forums/logi...1603-72de6ed564ca88a57ffc17a336a645a34e296c8a

Good try !

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Wait, it will get someone...

Yes it will add a little off the line .... break loose the nuts first is what I have read ... my sprockets are in the mail and its fricken cold outside

Very interesting developments....making parameter #1 = 0 Helps the stalling...can't imagine why...but it's progress....

TO: KRONO and Everyone else

I just nuked all my stupid comments about two O2 sensors.....I won't even stoop so low as to blame Honda for poorly captioning and labeling the picture. Soooo stupid of me!

Seeing as my Husaberg wasn't available, I recently rode back to Death Valley and then explored mostly off tarmac having a great time on the stock LRP, no Nancy this time.
It did great and took many miles of very rough riding in stride, surprising me how much you can push this bike without breaking something. From interstate travels to gnarly rock gardens I found the engine to be just fine with plenty of power to have fun, matter of fact it's very obvious the motor has finally loosened up and is making much more power than when it was new. On a side note for people feeling like they need to go spend a bunch of cash trying to make their bike "faster" I suggest you go put some miles on it first, it does improve with no money spent with miles.

The main limiting factor on this bike for me to go faster was only the suspension.
For the most part I had no problem keeping up with good riders on very fast bikes, but when pushing the bike's limits trying to haul ass on very rough terrain while loaded with lots of extra fuel and camping gear it was easy to bottom it out, especially in whoops, sudden washouts, and big rock gardens. This is to be expected with the budget OEM suspension that's probably designed more for milder DS use and not for fast desert riding.
With that said I'm not sure I'll be spending much money beyond a damper since Nancy won't be pushing the performance limits of the bike and riding more along the lines of it's intended design and for that it's just fine how it is IMO. I surely wouldn't buy any of the current suspension upgrades that are available at this time.
In the end I had a great time on the LRP regardless of it's softer feel and think this is one great bike capable of long distance touring, or going any place off road that just about any dirt bike can.

With a 13T sprocket I averaged 38 MPG for the trip and had the capacity to carry about 7 gallons of fuel total, making the 250 miles between gas on 350+ mile dirt rides possible. Top speed was with a backwind going downhill at 89mph, on the highway cruising 67MPH was average, 60 going uphill in 5th gear, 75 going downhill. Pretty much wide open throttle most of the time on the highway, especially with strong head winds. I hope they make that IMS tank pretty big, while the advertised numbers are good for MPG, in the real world it doesn't get very good milage unless you're just poking along a country road @50 mph, at least for us. A little over 1000 miles in 3 days of pure riding heaven on the Little Red Piggy (that can and did!)


Go LRP!


-Finn



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good to see that lil bike take a pounding and liking it

great vid thanks

LOST RIDER: Yup....some rough stuff, and it looks like the "Econo-suspension" really was unphased by it. BUT...it brings up the shock mod question. Way back on my Suzuki DRZ400s (street model) with the stock shock (no rebound damping adjust) I was doing a long downhill with some serious waterbars going across the downhill slope....there was SOOOO much rebound damping, I damn near did a handstand off the bars. After that experience I found a DRZ400 shock from an E model with rebound damping adjust, and the rear suspension instantly became wonderful...no more near-death experiences. So...in your experiences on the LRP....if the shock were rebuildable/tuneable (Honda sez no....my local shock guru says PROBABLY), does the rebound damping need to be toned down?....someone here upped his rear spring rate to 600 from about 525.....would that have been a benefit on this ride?