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I worked off and on this winter to rebuild a neglected but seldom ridden TTR250 into an overlanding bike for the backroads of Montana and Idaho.

The changes:

1 street legal conversion with lights/horn/blinkers/brake lights

2. bigger wider foot pegs

3.rebuilt the forks and shock and lowered the bike 3" front and rear for more appropriate ride height for old man. more compression dampening and ported main valve in shock. I run 8 pounds of air in each fork instead of stiffer fork springs.

4. Koso carb as posted in carb section of forum. 148, 35 pilot, needle all the way down.

5.  pipe has been gutted, so I added a  YZf250 quiet insert, nice and quiet and pulls great with 67 mpg so far on backcountry test rides.

6 built a rack system and had it powder coated, pictures are main rack, but side rack for paniers bolt on when camping is part of the ride.

7 new bearings throughout.

8   Kenda  tires........325x21 front  450x 18 rear

9  barkbusters and giant loop hand guards

10 off with stock odometer...........just using my gps for now, looking for a real speedo and odometer that uses sensors not cable.

11.  smaller led tail light,  ok but not great led head light.........still looking

12. added screened ports for more air flow in air filter box

13   13 / 44 gearing for overlanding.........so far, love it, just right for mountain roads, even nasty mud and paddling through snow, and quiet and smooth on 60 mph runs on pavement.