RE: Suggestions for First bike

**rwh** · 9th October 2006, 17:21

Originally Posted by gamgee

mstrs the old vt250's are in a word 'shit', the oil pumps were prone to fail at random, I wouldn't touch one no matter how cheap it was, your just throwing your money away

Interesting how one hears of 'typical problems' from just one person ...

Someone else has said that cam chains give up - but I've only heard of that one bike, and my mechanic (at Boyle's) hasn't heard of that particular issue at all.

The guy at Boyle's did say that people will too often use some silicone gasket replacement, use too much and the remaining globs end up wandering round the journals till they block something up, causing any kind of failure ... but that could happen on any bike.

Mine has a problem all right, but it's neither of those.

Richard

**MSTRS:Me** · 9th October 2006, 17:29

Originally Posted by gamgee

mstrs the old vt250's are in a word 'shit', the oil pumps were prone to fail at random, I wouldn't touch one no matter how cheap it was, your just throwing your money away

Perhaps, but that one is a Spada