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

Fat Leopard · Veteran Member

New member from North Carolina

ttboof · Super Guru

Sounds like a great plan keep us in the loop as you make progress. Some good riding ahead

JOHNYBOY · Super Guru

buy a lowering link this allows the suspension to be lowered makes it easy to get on & off the bike & both feet touch the ground ttr steve may be able to help you he may be along soon very helpfull guy with plenty of information if you get stuck with problems like we all do from time to time

Cubber · Super Guru

Welcome to TTR land, Jason.

Sounds to me like your good lady needs a talking to. How can she NOT like something that you bought for her? confuse

She could wear her high heels to get aboard it and keep upright surely? aww

Never mind, we'll all be entertained when you post details of the bike's gradual transformation.

Martyn

ttr steve · Super Guru

Welcome to the forum matey, that bike needs some loving smile

Fat Leopard · Veteran Member

I definitely will. This forum has caught my attention several times since I got the bike and its community feel plays a part in choosing this particular bike to build. I'll look around a bit more and decide where to stuff a project arc as content develops. I enjoy following along interesting projects and ideas. I have a few of my own to share.

Fat Leopard · Veteran Member

@JOHNYBOY - You're right about the lowering links and I nearly went that route right off the start. I was about to go wide open reconfiguring the bike so that she could ride it when I realized that lowering, etc., is a great solution to the wrong problem. A little background - my wife had never ridden a motorcycle prior to having this one pushed at her. I have no doubt that a TTR250 is a great fit for her after she has some experience but its the wrong machine for a first bike. That was completely my fault. Instead of modifying the bike into a compromise for her, I got her a better fitting bike instead - a TTR125. She loved the TTR125 immediately and smiles every time she sees it. I would encourage anyone in this particular situation to learn from my mistakes - if you want her to ride then let her select a bike that suits her - even if you replace it in a year or so. I think this approach applies to beginners in general.

Fat Leopard · Veteran Member

@ttr steve - Thank you for the welcome and I will do my best to spend too much time and money on this blue bucket.

TTRfan · Super Guru

Welcome to the forum Jason! I am going to watch your progress on the TTR with interest wink

Brian

skyrider · Senior Member

you could always try her on a serow like mine they are nice and low and light smile

Fat Leopard · Veteran Member

@skyrider - Good suggestion, that's exactly the sort of bike she could end up on next. For now she'll be learning on her TTR125 which she adores.

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Fat Leopard · Veteran Member

Um, that last photo wasn't saved inverted. it was like this:

***This would make more sense if the previous post still displayed an inverted photo. Some pictures taken with an Apple device store an ambiguous element in the pic file that will display the picture in an unexpected orientation even if saved as expected. To remedy - open picture in a photo editor (not just a viewer), rotate and/or edit as desired, save as copy with same file name and location to overwrite source photo, post new photo in correct orientation.

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