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barra8 · Guru

Any changes on the 2011 Australian TTR250?

TTRfan · Super Guru

Austrailians are lucky as they can still buy new TTRs biggrin

I am 99% sure that the only changes Yamaha have made to the plastic tanked TTRs on sale in Australia over the years has been the tank decals and the frame from metallic blue to black.

Does anyone have a link to an Australian spares microfiche please?

I have been asked if the chain slider and exhaust is the same as all other TTR250s.

Regarding the silencer, we have sold a number of our shorty headers to Australian owners and they fit no problem so that end of the “muffler” is the same. It would seem unlikely that they would change the brackets on the frame but can anyone confirm please?

Brian

colin13846 · Senior Member

Lucky lucky Austrailians still being able to buy a new TTR

Do they sell well?

How do they sell compared to the WR250?

-- Edited by colin13846 on Wednesday 8th of August 2012 07:57:15 PM

brindabella · Senior Member

the australian models certainly seem unchanged.

only an official parts list comparison would tell the story, but I don't think yamaha want to sell parts lists for any kind of affordable price, and we cannot say for sure without doing that check (unless Brian wants to pay the shipping cost from Australia to UK and back for my 2011 model for a physical inspection!).

I'm sure yamaha will continue to build TTR250 bikes in the old "steam powered" corner of their factory until orders die down to single digits. (BTW what others countries still sell them?).

sadly, though, the yamaha bosses are probably not going to tell some junior engineer to read this forum and redesign a few critical parts to make it more reliable - lets face it, the TTR250 is yesterday's bike, no matter how much a few die-hards like us may like it.

you can get some dodgy sales statistics by a web search for motorcycle sales in australia, and you might find a PDF
by the australian "federal chamber of automotive industries" eg http://www.fcai.com.au/help/search/keywords/ttr250.

these 6 months figures for FIRST HALF of 2012 show that the most popular bike sold in oz
is a CBR250R (road) at 1258 units.
the CT110X "postie bike" sells 920 units (declining).
the WR450F enduro/trail sells 798 units.
KTM are nearly as popular in that category, but spread over more models.
the DR650 (another "olde world design") sold 382 units.

the WR250R and WR250F strangely do not make "top 10 lists" in any of the numerous categories.

the XT250 sold 68 units
the TTR230 sold 182 units
the WR250X sold 10 units (only visible in stats because it was in a weird category)

something called a "TT250", strangely in the "enduro" category, sold 174 units.

I suspect this "TT250" is really the road/trail TTR250 we know and love,
as my owners manual calls the bike a "TT250RA".

-- Edited by brindabella on Thursday 9th of August 2012 01:24:15 AM

BM Steve · Guru

Here is a comparison by a TTR rider (5 years or so) that upgraded to a WR250 that I picked up somewhere, Quite interesting

COMPARISON

RIDE REPORT

Just click the links and it should downlaod a couple of PDF's

Cheers

TTRfan · Super Guru

Interesting reads.

The weight comparison is interesting:

WR250R – Wet weight with 8 ltrs fuel – 134 kg

TTR250 – Wet weight with 10 ltrs fuel – 131kg

pedrosan · Senior Member

My Raid wet weight with a big tank full of fuel and enough crud to start a topsoil suppliers feels like it weighs about a ton! I definitely thought my mates wr250r felt a lot lighter, if also a lot less comfortable. I don't think I'd swap with him.