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I know I said before that picking one of these bikes is like picking one of your kids over the others, but here I have to come up with one of the two that is more fun to ride. Remember how your mom or dad told you that there are “girls you date” and then there are “girls that you marry”? That is a little bit how I feel about these two dirt bikes. The Yamaha YZ250X is the bike that I love to “date”, but the KTM 300 XC is the bike that I’m going to marry. Don’t read too much into that little analogy, because I could be totally happy “marrying” the YZ250X!
Getting back to the point here… these two dirt bikes are the most fun dirt bikes I have ever owned but for different reasons. The Yamaha isn’t as refined as the KTM and somehow that doesn’t even bother me! The KTM has 50 more cc’s giving it more low end power, but it also makes the bike rev a bit slower overall. The front forks on the Yamaha are quite possibly the best that have ever been put on a dirt bike, but the new AER fork on the KTM is probably the best air fork ever designed and they are lighter than the SSS forks on the Yami.
None of that really matters though if all you are trying to answer is surrounding which bike is more fun to ride. For me, I give the edge ever so slightly to the Yamaha, mostly because it just feels so light and raw. This 2017 KTM 300 XC is the most fun KTM I have even been around, but the 2017 Yamaha YZ250X tips the “fun” scale about 1 degree more for me.
Notwithstanding the ever so slight fun factor edge the Yamaha has for me over the KTM, I feel the KTM is a more well rounded dirt bike (6 speed, hydro clutch, electric start, 300 cc’s, desert tank, etc), so it’s the one I’m going to keep long term out of the two.
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30 дек 2016
