A forum for owners of Yamaha TTR250 trail and enduro bikes!

snailspacejase · Member

1st day out on a TTR

Cubber · Super Guru

Cracking bike that one - if I was in the market for another I would have been pitching my hat at it.
It ticked all the boxes, mileage, condition, price.

Rumour has it that the bloke who flogged it you may know a little about them

If you enjoy it a mere half of how much I enjoy mine (from the same vendor) then you've won.

Martyn

TTRfan · Super Guru

Nice pics Jason - although a tad unsettling seeing that shiny TTR wallowing in cow muck blankstare

Glad you are enjoying it. A TTR is about as good a trail bike as you can get!

Things have certainly warmed up a bit now so the lanes should be a bit softer tomorrow wink

Brian

snailspacejase · Member

A mere sniff of the jet wash and it was like a new pin smile

Richie Blyth · Veteran Member

looks like you had some fun in the ice, where bouts in devon are you ??

snailspacejase · Member

Buckfastliegh

Cubber · Super Guru

What a super area in which to live, if only for the abundance of lanes.

There are over 20 between Buckfastleigh and Ipplepen, a distance of 6 miles!

Martyn

snailspacejase · Member

Yeah I'm spoilt for choice biggrin

Out today on the TTR

My old Cagiva Elefant

R1100RS and Sprint ST (which has to haul me to work every day).

TS 250 at the bottom of Tally Ho

pedrosan · Senior Member

Loving the Cagiva! Have you got any more pics?

snailspacejase · Member

It's not a TTR but if you squint (alot)

snailspacejase · Member

Out in the mud today

hertsrider · Senior Member

Hi there...how do you get on with those tyres in the thick mud? OK? Are you tempted to put knobblies on for the winter mud??

snailspacejase · Member

Lots of wet rock around my way so a trials tyre is the way to go, knobblies just turn to smoke. Not that bad in mud, just makes me laugh when it starts to struggle. Ain't got stuck yet!

The road bias front is good on the rock too, but it's made my hair stand up a few times on the softer stuff. Getting used to having a rudder on the front instead of a wheel biggrin I'll be getting an enduro tire on there when I've got the cash.

-- Edited by snailspacejase on Friday 24th of February 2012 10:32:35 PM

pedrosan · Senior Member

That is so cool. I like it in the way that I like hotrod chop top Fords, something a bit different and funky

snailspacejase · Member

pedrosan wrote:
That is so cool. I like it in the way that I like hotrod chop top Fords, something a bit different and funky

Take a look at the build if you like.

http://mattblackrat.myfineforum.org/ftopic1439-0-asc-0.php

pedrosan · Senior Member

Just had a look through your build diary. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks for the link, I've sent it to a couple of friends who are into bikes, I'm sure they'll like it too... The rat bike look is easy in my opinion to get wrong and end up like its been thrown together, but yours just works. It looks like a complete bike and everything complements each other. I'd aspire to do a bike like that one day, but the moment I'll carry on tinkering with the ttr, its all experience and if I ever get round to doing something like yours it'll pay off I'm sure. Thanks again and once more; brilliant bike.

snailspacejase · Member

I can't take the all the credit. That Ducati engine in a trail bike frame just looked and sounded mean. It just needed undressing.

It was a skinny bloke in a big jumper though and my 955i would gobble it up and spit it out in small chunks biggrin

Mr_Blonde · Member

The Cagiva looks like something from a "Mad Max" movie!!
But Better ;)