From www.crosstraini... Forged in the dark bowels of Japan from melted down samurai swords comes a beast that few are prepared to ride. The Yamaha TT250 (and it's smaller brother the TTR230) is a lethal weapon. There is a reason you rarely see a TTR250 on the motocross track, and that's because few riders are skilled enough to handle the power. But it takes more than skill. The TTR250 also requires a man who giggles in the face of fear... and not a girly little giggle but one of those very masculine giggles. So read on for our TTR250 review and treat it as the Yamaha TTR230 review as well.
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Tim is one of these men. A prime slice of Tasmanian manhood, it's a wonder he can walk at all with those well filled pants and he has all the characteristics needed to tame the beast that is the Yamaha TT250 in this Yamaha review. And the TTR230 ain't too shabby either.
And Tim has only the best protective gear when engaging the lethal TTR weapon in mortal combat for our TTR250 review.
Like all Japanese dirt bikes, there is a massive research and development budget where teams of highly qualified technicians and designers go through exhaustive testing to further refine the bike with updated graphics and stickers each year for the Yamaha TT230. And this year the TTR250 has more features than you can poke a stick at.
Tim has actually made the TTR250 even more lethal with further modifications. The TTR230 and TTR250 joins a long lineup of lethal weapons from Japan, including the Honda XR200 and CT70. We advise parental guidance as even watching these vids can be dangerous, let alone trying to ride these deadly rice burners. You have been warned.
Excerpts from a more serious TTR250 review (they don't have a Yamaha TTR230 review) on Bike Sales..
Is Yamaha's TTR250 hiding a mean streak under that unpretentious outside? You’re 450F is skipping over the choppy terrain and you’re easing its mammoth amount of power on and off to keep things in check, ever alert for any nasty surprises. Then, someone blows past you on a Yamaha TTR250. The TTR seems to be bucking about like a demented rodeo bull (albeit a very small one), but its rider just keeps the power on and rides off. How would that make you feel? How is this even possible?
Herein lays a secret that many dare not speak about the TTR250. Something so foreboding and paradigm-shifting that it would rock the trailriding fraternity to its very core, lest it ever be released. Today we will open the Pandora’s Box that holds the truths that have, until now, only been whispered in dark corners by folks of questionable mental capacity. We will reveal to you something so unpalatable to some that the rebuttal could well endanger us, but no longer can it remain hidde about the Yamaha TTR250. Turn away now if this unnerves you for the next sentence is not for the weak-hearted.
The $7299 TTR250 can be ridden as fast in some places as a 450F. Just writing those words have caused an eerie hush to befall my otherwise bustling suburb. And if we’ve upset you, well you just better get happy in the pants you got angry in, because it’s going to get worse. We fall in love with bikes all the time here. When we play the game of ‘Which bike would you buy if money was no object?’ it goes on for hours and hours and the list gets longer and more ridiculous. The latest addition to our mechanical love life is Yamaha’s venerable TTR250. Released in 1995, the TTR has become a favourite among those looking for a more ‘civilised’ and comfortable ride. It is in every sense of the word a ‘trailbike’. It’s not in any way a racebike.
The Yamaha TTR250 is proven to be a reliable and dependable machine that’s both given plenty of riders their introduction to the sport and perhaps in equal numbers, everything some riders will ever need in a bike.
To look at, the TTR250 is nothing short of unassuming. Next to a new WR450F, the air-cooled traily looks dumpy and docile. It’s not in any way appealing to riders who spend all their time on 450F fire breathers. It wasn’t all that enticing to me when we took it out on a photo shoot.
We entered the bush via a track that we’ve used for many years and therefore know like the back of our front fenders. It’s an open track that you can hit at a good pace as long as you’re mindful of some ruts that sit at 45 degrees towards the end. As a result of conditioning (ie years of riding that track flat out), I took off on the Yamaha TTR250 and immediately looked to match the speed of the two 450s.
21 авг 2024
