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

Hi Pete - an interesting suggestion but this forum isn't going anywhere unless owners choose to stop using it 

I think that the store of guides and the archive of hints and tips are so big for a single make/model forum that it has reduced the amount of questions that used to generate so many posts in the early days.  With an average of over 4,300 views a day and over 16 posts a day I reckon it is still pretty busy.

I am sure that most owners are members of other forums and Facebook Groups as I am so it is an easy enough job to keep in touch with different goings on. Just use https://ttr250.activeboard.com/p/recent/  and you will get any un-viewed posts showing in bold - quick and easy 

Also a forum like this beats Facebook hands down for following through technical or fun issues IMHO. FB is good for "instant" answers but it doesn't handle longer running threads at all well.

What do other members think?

Brian

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Sad for the 660 that there aren't enough enthusiasts. Quite the opposite for the TTR. Most likely whoever set it up changed bikes and lost interest. It takes a lot of effort to maintain a site, and I applaud Brian for his constant diligence and enthusiasm.

True there are a handful of regular posters, but there are always fresh members coming in as bikes change hands and this resource is invaluable to them. I find even the wr only forums a bit of a garbled mess. Making a forum multibike might get more hits - fine if you're earning from advertising, but makes it much less user friendly. That reminds me I've not made a contribution to Brian since Totallyttrs changed hands...

I have not come across a similar forum for any other bike that answers so many questions rather than just being a pile of threads starting "how do I..." with nothing helpful after.

This is a happy place for me

yes I think it's a good forum to be on I know I don't post too often bit I do view it every day 

I'm with the guys who look at the Forum everyday but might not participate a lot.

My Wife and I are travelling to Europe in May and ending up in the UK in July.

Will be meeting up with Brian and Steve for a few bevvies and a visit to the TTR Shop so that "connection" wouldn't have happened without the Forum.

If any TTR Owners in New Zealand want some Parts bought back to NZ let me know as we might have some room in our luggage. Small Parts obviously.

Cheers

Jeff

 

I have found forums will slow down a few years after a bike is discontinued and things might get real slow for a decade until people start restoring them. Forums on the Yamaha FZR and early YZFs are currently a good example. The EXUP forums have been dead for years but are starting to show a bit of interest now that the price of them have bottomed and people are looking at them for restoration projects.

yes I have found the same with trying to look for a serow forum I was on one a while ago but it seemed to disappear which is a shame because they are a good little bike

The forum came to my rescue one evening last week when i was riding through the city of Cork and i lost all power to everything, lights, engine everything gone. A quick search on here while having a cup of coffee to mull things over identified that the cause could be that the main 15amp fuse could be blown. Checked it out first becasue it was the easiest place to start and sure enough it was blown. Lucky i had a spare fuse in a lead that i had fitted to a lead for a battery tender so i swapped it over. The cause of the problem i later identified to be the tail light wire shorting out on the frame and all was well again in ttr land.  So yes it is a forum that is very useful.

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I never took any notice of that slot for the spare fuse Brian. I must check mine for that although i don't think there is one in it. I have a small headlight bag fitted to the bike now and it has a couple of fuses plus a spare chain link because it was more luck than anything that i had a spare fuse.

fantastic forum plenty of guides usefull information from you no 1 & other members plenty of parts from our ttr steve our bikes would be useless without this keep up the good work all of you i go in the forum every day when i get home from work i try to help out if i can with others very good to offer our options & advise i hope it keeps up forever we all forget about things we knew years ago but they are all our good friends to remind of these things we have forgotton about due to our age me being one of those brian is a god of usefull information been there & done it many times before good information good pictures diagrams torque setting etc we will not find a better forum we are all grown up adults and do not give **** advise or abuse falling out like most forums keep up the good advise banter all my friends on the ttr forum john johnboy

I love this forum,long may it continue.