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

TTRfan · Super Guru

Collection of Trail Bike & Enduro Magazine (TBM) / Dirt Junkies mags

TTRfan · Super Guru

So far, sets for 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 have been listed along with some individual duplicate issues.

TTRfan · Super Guru

I have spent much of the day on listing these mags but probably more time re-reading them than anything else disbelief

I could be wrong but there just seemed to be a much wider variety of trail bikes around back in the day.

I have just listed the mags for 2002 and included in these mags were buyers guides for a Honda XR250R, XT225 Serow, KTM200, WR400F, RMX250 and Pampera. Remember those?

Also, good reminders of the old faithfuls such as the KDX220, XT500, DR-Z400S and E, CCM 644DSR, 1150GS, Yam WR250Z (the ultimate enduro weapon back in the day - now a very rare bike), and the venerable CRM250AR.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be eh? biggrin biggrin biggrin

TTRfan · Super Guru

I only had 6 issues for 2000 but, interestingly, the July 2000 mag has a 5-page review of the first "blue" TTR available in the UK.

This TTR happened to be an Australian model but the headlight and kmh speedo are the same as the new "European" TTR I imported back in 2003.

It received a favourable review I am pleased to say! biggrin

I will scan the pages to put on here but, if anyone wants to buy the mag, then its in the bundle on eBay here.

Brian

TTRfan · Super Guru

The January 1999 TBM magazine includes a couple of pages on a comparison of the Honda XR250R and a "white" TTR250. They didn't get much time on the bikes and wouldn't choose between them but concluded that the TTR had better suspension and the XR a "gruntier" engine.

Six 1999 issues including this one are included here.

I was talking to TTR Steve earlier today and, being a relative newcomer to trail riding, he hadn't heard of the TBM magazine and only knew of its digital successor "Rust".

TBM was always a great read and each issue was awaited eagerly as there was nothing much else happening online and no regular publication that was interested in trail riding.

Brian