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I just skimmed the thread but if you’re still looking at a 250 SuperMoto the Yamaha WR250X is a better deal for the money than the Kawi.

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Congrats dude, I was nearly 400 pounds a couple years ago. It can be done, and damn if it doesn’t make you faster on the track.

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Thank heavens Erik didn’t give up! Now that they aren’t married to Stupid Lameson, I’ll look forward to the day I can own one.

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I haven’t been around for awhile but I’m glad this thread is here. Friend on Youtube just made me aware of the CBR250R (he did so by mislabelling the video CBR250RR… two Rs… which made me briefly believe that my wet dream of having an actual honest to god QUARTERSPORT in the States had come true. Then I saw the video… in which Honda very deftly dances around the fact that this the 250R is 1: a thumper and 2: coming out of their Thailand plant. I am disappointed and unimpressed. It’s something the US market bloody well needs, but it sure as heck is not in any way shape or form what I -want-. Two thumbs and my dog’s tail down. Also take the R out of the name, Honda, this is clearly not a CBR anything. Call it a CB250R if you must sell it. I know CBR will sell more units, but it’s outright dishonest.

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My advice for riding at night is not to fall for the gimmick of those piddly HID lookalike blue bulbs, like the Silverstars and what not. They look like they’d be bright but they have just no reach whatsoever.

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I think that’s why I survived learning to sport ride on a literbike. I was on my FZ-1 (that I still have) and the upright ergonomics make it a lot more natural to handle at low parking lot learning speeds, and make it easier to learn to finesse the controls since your arms are less stressed. Heck I still bobble my R6 at times at low speeds, especially when I’m being constrained by full gear, or worse still forget to turn my steering damper back down

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I would buy it in a heartbeat but I’m a semi-professional mechanic with enough sportbikes and cars in my yard/garage to field a privateer race team if that durn lottery check would ever clear
If you’re not comfortable with diving into it with wrench and sync gauges in hand, I think you should look elsewhere unless you enjoy funding your local mechanic’s child’s college education.

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Here it is. I was feeling depressed and it was cold as the arctic winds so I didn’t go get my followup tag, though.

My follow up was going to be to ride out to this little place I know and grab a hot dog. So since y’all are looking a little peckish, be ballsier than me and go get a hot dog

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NCDMV likes to justify their budget at the end of the warm months by sending out crews to lay down half lane wide patches haphazardly. My group and I hate these crews and their works with a passion since the patches subsequently dictate our lines through the roads they’re on.

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You only wish it was the clutch. Clutch packs take an hour to change, and 40 minutes of that is soaking the new friction plates in oil.
If you are very lucky, your shifter shaft is shot, or, more appropriately, the little bit on the end that engages the star on the end of the shift drum is. That bit usually isn’t serviceable, though, so you end up having to replace the shift shaft. That will give the “empty” non-shifting pedal presses you describe. I’m not intimately familiar with your generation of ZX-6, but the shift shaft on my FZ-1 took about 30 minutes to change; it hides behind the clutch pack. A pro mechanic is going to charge you for the part and a full hour’s labor. If it is the problem, the fix is going to cost you about $150ish. I could usually still ride by finessing the transmission in various ways, double clutching, playing the throttle, all whilst jamming on the pedal until it cooperated. The bad thing is you’re seeing it in particular gears; mine was through all 6 and ONLY acted up on downshifts.
Sooooo chances are your problem is in the shift drum itself, or perhaps the shift forks are shot. If so, you’re going to be splitting the case, and that means a grand minimum for labor only. Cross your fingers, yo.

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Still no forks and I’m training for a new job (MONEY YEEEEAAAHHH) so we’ll see if the weather holds until Friday.

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The only 400 sport we ever officially got was the Yammie FZR400, for a far too short span of two years. And it came at a really poor time, when its aluminum frame and top suspension made it more expensive that the FZR600, and us dumb Americans being dumb, they sold like crap for that reason. Now they’re collector’s gold too, but at least they’re easily titled and tagged collector’s gold, unlike the other 400s and 250s.

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That’s exactly my point, there’s a chance there’s a car in the opposite lane but there’s a chance there’s not… the ditch will always be there. It’s a mental block for me, not a justification for crossing the center line. While I take Nick Ienatsch’s advice to consider each trip over the yellow line a failure, I know there’s more pavement on the other side of it, and, to quote Morpheus, it “frees my mind”!
To state it another way that just occurred to me, the oncoming lane offers a margin of error… admittedly, a margin of error than can be taken away at any given instant. Think of it as binary code. The oncoming lane is a series of ones, with every car, and a given space (the amount you need to maneuver clear) ahead of it as zeroes. The edge of the road is an unbroken line of zeroes.
Then there’s the inconsiderate cagers who cross the double yellow and put the zeroes in your lane…

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They look like something in the YSR50 class, they’re 50cc 2-stroke sportbikes that are WAY smaller than even the tiniest 250 but they’re still big enough to carry an adult. And that video about has me convinced to buy one… I saw one on Craigslist the other night for a mere $1000 asking. They’re even street legal!

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I was referring to AMA SBK, actually, but I checked out those results anyway, and you were right

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