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scotty72 · Veteran Member

Soon to be a 250TTR owner...

TT-R250M · Super Guru

Hello Scott, welcome to the forum and congratulations on picking a winner

I am not a fan of the Haynes manual myself, I have seen incorrect info and some dumb things written in those manuals. I prefer a genuine Yamaha copy! In exception with a few things, the blue manual will work. I did manage to find the 1995 manual though and it can be downloaded from the YAMAHA website CLICK HERE for free.

If you want to learn more about the TTR250 do some research on here, heaps of useful info!

Enjoy!

Jarrah

yamalama · Veteran Member

Hi Scott,

I live in Guildford, Surrey so easily close enough to meet up. I have a 2005 model. But I am a novice at off (tarred) road riding.

I have joined the South London & Surrey TRF (Trail Riders Fellowship) who meet in Ripley, and found them to be a welcoming group. I have enjoyed a few 'Newbie' rides with them and look forward to more to come I would recommend coming to the next meeting on Tuesday coming. see link:

http://www.surreytrf.org.uk/

I think they have a policy of taking non-members out once (for a fee of £1), but I am happy to pay my annual membership fee to help the fight to keep our green lanes open to motorcycles. Members can also bring OS maps to the meetings to mark up with the legal to ride lanes. Not all of the routes shown on the OS maps as Biways are still open to us, and some routes we can use are not easily spotted. Anyway, I'm not on commision, so I will shut up now.

Hope to meet you soon,

Lama

scotty72 · Veteran Member

Hi Lama,

Thanks for the hello smile I found the TRF (Surrey) site and thought it sounded a great place to get informed and find people to ride with so your glowing recomendation has confirmed to me that I should join (i have already registered for the forum)!

Next Tuesday sounds good as I will hopefully have all my kit by then (sourced from ebay, shops and boots from a friend in Southampton!). I will have a look on the site link for info and message you.

Oh, and while I have you here, whats the best and worst distance that you have got from a tank of fuel (bit paranoid about only having 7-8 ltrs of the stuff!)? Also, re maps, which are the best ones/do you have as that sounds a great idea.

Cheers,

Scott

-- Edited by scotty72 on Thursday 23rd of May 2013 06:18:28 PM

scotty72 · Veteran Member

I have just picked up my 'new' bike and thought you mike like to see a few pictures of her (like you've never seen a '95 TTR before!! biggrin )

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f8muzs5thhr00pt/sAYWEJ9D0X/My%20250TTR%20%2795

She (ok, i seem to have given 'it' a sex... disbelief ) is a 1995 OE model which was imported into the UK in early 2011. She has since belonged to a nice lady who has done around 300 miles a year on her (on road). The seat has been cut down to help with her 'leg length challenge' and unfortunately was re-covered in the wine red/purple seat material you see as the the trimers had no black in stock... The bike was MOT'd today and the only advisory was for the Supertrap can, they state; 'exhaust noisy'..but it still passed. I am looking for a standard can if anyone knows of one where I can keep both my arms and legs? 26,091 Km as of when I picked her up.

Scott

-- Edited by scotty72 on Thursday 23rd of May 2013 08:51:45 PM

yamalama · Veteran Member

Hello again Scotty,

Good to see pictures of your bike. Quite different to my 2005 model, in both style and condition (mine has all the signs of hard off road use from before I bought it)

See http://ttr250.activeboard.com/t52173546/another-new-member-in-surrey-uk/ for a picture of mine.

I now realise that the Surrey TRF link I gave you is for their old site. It still has useful info there including map recommendations in the FAQs

http://www.surreytrf.org.uk/new-members-frequently-asked-questions/

BUT the venue listed there for the club night is out of date. They meet in the British Legion hall in Ripley, see new site for details, or this link to the relevent bit:

http://surreytrf.gigatech.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=154

By the way, its just a meeting (and a drink) in the hall, not a ride out, so no need to wear all your protective gear or even take your bike unless you just fancy the ride, which I expect you will if the weather is OK.

As for tank range, I haven't been far enough to use a tank full of fuel yet. But when green laning the group stopped mid day to re-fuel, so I did too but could only get 3 litres in! I would guess that at least 50 or 60 mpg (UK) is normal so would start looking for fuel after 70 road miles. I expect the 9 litres quoted includes reserve and possibly a little that never comes out, but only guessing. I expect if you ask elsewhere on this forum you wil get a better answer (or a search here may even find it).

Hope to see you Tuesday

Lama

scotty72 · Veteran Member

Hi Jarrah

Thanks for the welcome smile . I will download that pdf as it will help my obsesive need to know more about the bikes if nothing else!

Cheers

TTRfan · Super Guru

Good looking bike Scott biggrin

Unusual combination of blue and white panels but it seems to work! Is that the original frame colour?

Brian

PS Sorry to be pedantic but your rear axle is in the wrong way around wink

scotty72 · Veteran Member

TTRfan wrote:
Good looking bike Scott
Unusual combination of blue and white panels but it seems to work! Is that the original frame colour?
Brian
PS Sorry to be pedantic but your rear axle is in the wrong way around

"Sorry to be pedantic but your rear axle is in the wrong way around"

err, Brian, my mechanical knowledge is really not great..part of the reason for getting a 'simple' bike so that I can learn. Please be as pedantic as you like so that I can learn to tell my arse from elbow (bike speakingly!)...how do your know it's the wrong way round, what do I have to do to get it the right way round and will it kill/damage anything if ridden???! cry

Thanks

TTRfan · Super Guru

Yours is perfectly safe or it wouldn't have passed its MOT!

If you want to correct it, just take the axle out, clean and re-grease it if necessary, and put it in the other way around wink

Like this although the MOT folk like you to put a split pin through the castellated axle nut:

scotty72 · Veteran Member

I get you Brian, thanks.

Having looked at pictures of other bikes from 95, the side/numb boards do appear to be blue as opposed to white. That and the frame colour is something which must of occurred in its native country I guess.

I've been told by a few that I will probably need road legal tyres knobly tyres for off road use. Do you think the ones I have on it at the moment will do me to start with? Also you (and others) recommend some suitable tyres...preferably not top of the range as my budget is a little shot at the moment! Are the Maxxis tyres ok as their road tyres are pretty good these days and they tend to be competitively priced?

Thanks

TTRfan · Super Guru

I have a Maxxis tyre on the rear of one of my bikes and its absolutely fine wink

noeyedear · Senior Member

scotty72 wrote:
I get you Brian, thanks.

Having looked at pictures of other bikes from 95, the side/numb boards do appear to be blue as opposed to white. That and the frame colour is something which must of occurred in its native country I guess.

I've been told by a few that I will probably need road legal tyres knobly tyres for off road use. Do you think the ones I have on it at the moment will do me to start with? Also you (and others) recommend some suitable tyres...preferably not top of the range as my budget is a little shot at the moment! Are the Maxxis tyres ok as their road tyres are pretty good these days and they tend to be competitively priced?

Thanks

HI Scotty, I run ac 10s in the winter and mt 43s in the dryer summer months, and seem to suit my rideing style, slow and lethargic, though some won't see it like that biggrin (Dave) I am also in trf live in Woking and hope you can get to next week club meet, where we can chat ttr and green lanes . Will you be riding there ??? There could be a photo opportunity confuse

TT-R250M · Super Guru

TTRfan wrote:

Brian
PS Sorry to be pedantic but your rear axle is in the wrong way around

If you are right handed, the axle is the right way around. wink

Jarrah

TTRfan · Super Guru

scotty72 wrote:
Hi Jarrah,
This isn't some sort of North/South of the equator thing is it. In the north the nut is on the left and in the south it's on the right??!
And while you're here, which way DOES water circle the sink in OZ...?
Cheers,
Scott

You could be right Scott - the Russian fiche show it North of the equator stylee - see http://www.megazip.ru/ru/bike/yamaha/view/1086/2710/51744#g51771 wink

Thinking about it, it probably doesn't matter a jot which way the axle is fitted biggrin

Brian

scotty72 · Veteran Member

Hi Jarrah,

This isn't some sort of North/South of the equator thing is it. In the north the nut is on the left and in the south it's on the right??! confuse wink

And while you're here, which way DOES water circle the sink in OZ...?

Nice looking bike by the way..I will aspire to one biggrin

Cheers,

Scott

scotty72 · Veteran Member

Hi Noeyedear

I intend to come, would be rude not to biggrin

As to whether I ride or not, it depends if others are as thus a photo oportunity could indeed arise (do I bring a paper bag with holes cut in it or can you provide..?).

I'm kind of concerned that you will hear me coming and put up the shutters and hide as the Supertrapp can on mine is kind of loud and a bit too antisocial even for me (can I get an asbo at 40?!). I am planning on (possibly) riding to work on Tuesday so that I can play with the number of spacer/washer things at the exit end of it in order to quieten it; it's better to do it there than annoy my neighbours biggrin . I downloaded an an app for my phone which meassures DB and on tickover there are 94DB at the moment and I hope tinkering brings that down!

Hope to see you there...oh, do you have another name that you go by when not noeyedear?!

Scott

TT-R250M · Super Guru

scotty72 wrote:
Hi Jarrah,
This isn't some sort of North/South of the equator thing is it. In the north the nut is on the left and in the south it's on the right??!
And while you're here, which way DOES water circle the sink in OZ...?
Nice looking bike by the way..I will aspire to one
Cheers,
Scott

Hey Scott,

Nothing to do with the equator, if I was in the UK it would still be the ''wrong way''. I find it easier to remove the axle with it being the way it is.

The water goes down the sink clockwise here, I'm guessing it's opposite there?

Thanks for your kind remark about my bike, a lot of time and effort went into it so I'm glad it is appreciated.

Cheers

Jarrah