Why would you ever need more than a 250?

[Jantar]

Well, I don't know all the entrants, but there is at least one young lady doing it.

[Gremlin]

I suspect that's an easy answer.....how many young fellas are doing it?

define young, old fella?

I'm doing it, and don't have to count past 30 to measure my age.

[bogan]

It beats everything but smokers.

in the same way that bigger bikes beat everything but even bigger bikes, not that you would ever need any bigger than a 250 though right?

[DMNTD:Me]

I'm doing it, and don't have to count past 30 to measure my age.

Yeah but you can't count it if it's with yourself

[Teflon]

Wrong- CBR250RR's rule...

NSR/RGV/KR1 they rule. I miss the smell of TTS

[racefactory]

NSR/RGV/KR1 they rule. I miss the smell of TTS

I agree and stand corrected. Don't forget the TZR

[Gremlin]

Yeah but you can't count it if it's with yourself

Both hands on the keyboard please... we're talking about motorbike riding

[R-Soul]

because a 250cc can pretty much do anything a 1000cc apart from go really really fast.

Nah....

not even close.

A 250cc cannot give me an acceleration buzz, and feel like its trying to rip my arms off from walking speed to 100 km/hr. It feels completely flat and soggy after my bike. That's ANY (road going) 250.

Similarly, a 250cc cannot move into gaps in the same way that my V-twin can - I only have to think about being in a gap, and I am there.

A 250 cc cannot pass cars in fractions of seconds, making sunday rides more enjoyable, and less constricted. Breathing tail fumes for miles while waiting for a suitable passing bay is not my idea of fun.

A 250cc could not have got me out of trouble the other day (when Mary Pajero was crossing lanes while shouting at kids in the back) by passing almost instantaneously around her car without having to change gear or even look for one.

A 250cc cannot give you the sense of complete and utter superiority to pretty much any car on the road, to the extent that you have nothing to prove, and dont even try.

A 250cc cannot give me the hassle free riding that comes with being able tstay in 3rd all day in the twisties, and allow me to concentrate on my lines and body positioning.

Yes, you dont NEED that power. The fact is that cars or bikes in general dont NEED anything more than about 25 hp to get to speed limit speeds (over a loooong time). But I dont see too many of those around. People want more power. And I want THAT power...

A 250 does give you good mileage, not bad performance (if you consider having to contemplate WHETHER a car is faster than you as good performance) and is probably suited best for day to day commuting etc. But I would not swap mine for any 250 in the world.

[onearmedbandit]

Rode down to Timaru on Sunday for the racing at Levels, and with the wind we had there is no way in hell I would've enjoyed that at all on a 250.

[Teflon]

[ducatilover]

Rode down to Timaru on Sunday for the racing at Levels, and with the wind we had there is no way in hell I would've enjoyed that at all on a 250.

Wind + small bikes = fail. The 400 is good in the wind...for a small bike. In other words it sucks. Yet 'tis better than any 250 I have ridden.
I must buy another bigger bike.

Nah....

not even close.

A 250cc cannot give me an acceleration buzz, and feel like its trying to rip my arms off from walking speed to 100 km/hr. It feels completely flat and soggy after my bike. That's ANY (road going) 250.

Similarly, a 250cc cannot move into gaps in the same way that my V-twin can - I only have to think about being in a gap, and I am there.

A 250 cc cannot pass cars in fractions of seconds, making sunday rides more enjoyable, and less constricted. Breathing tail fumes for miles while waiting for a suitable passing bay is not my idea of fun.

A 250cc could not have got me out of trouble the other day (when Mary Pajero was crossing lanes while shouting at kids in the back) by passing almost instantaneously around her car without having to change gear or even look for one.

A 250cc cannot give you the sense of complete and utter superiority to pretty much any car on the road, to the extent that you have nothing to prove, and dont even try.

A 250cc cannot give me the hassle free riding that comes with being able tstay in 3rd all day in the twisties, and allow me to concentrate on my lines and body positioning.

Yes, you dont NEED that power. The fact is that cars or bikes in general dont NEED anything more than about 25 hp to get to speed limit speeds (over a loooong time). But I dont see too many of those around. People want more power. And I want THAT power...

A 250 does give you good mileage, not bad performance (if you consider having to contemplate WHETHER a car is faster than you as good performance) and is probably suited best for day to day commuting etc. But I would not swap mine for any 250 in the world.

You forgot you can listen to the thumping V-twin at low revs, at any legal speed. Which, in my mind, is the best thing ever.
My 250's weren't very good on gas unless it was open road riding, and, sitting at 8000rpm at 100km/h is horrid and gay.

[ttmadness]

What a wicked track and that guy must be having one hell of a time on that NSR!

[gijoe1313]

I still love and ride my lil'ol'hornet - taken him around the clock and winding on some more milage still!

The little chewfiddy is a passel o'fun and brings grins to my face still! (but then I'm not like most other people! )

[Whynot]

I don't wave to 250s

[Jantar]

I don't wave to 250s

Whynot? ...