performance of a 250 4 stroke

[Voodoo]

Now im looking at getting my bike licence, been riding dirtbikes for awhile and want to hit the road, anyway, sounds like a 250 4 stroke would be the go,
just wondering what kind of performance to expect from the likes of cbr250's zxr? 250's etc , ive heard they can do around 180kph , but what about pickup, 0-100 ,400m etc?

[Zapf]

hello,
havne't ridden a 250 I4, but I have ridden with a few. And I can tell you that the 250 VTwins have a better mid corner speed and better up hill, due to more torque. And its easier to ride on

ask away if u want to know more.

Zapf

[John]

down low the torque is nice, most 250 4's have awsome pickup - its when they get to 150 they loose pull and you need abit of a straight to wind them up, but off the mark you will abliterate all the 'overboosting wastegate dragging along the road types' (in civics, and a majority of modern cars for that matter)...

trust me plenty of pull in a 250 around town :P

[Skunk]

Now im looking at getting my bike licence, been riding dirtbikes for awhile and want to hit the road, anyway, sounds like a 250 4 stroke would be the go,
just wondering what kind of performance to expect from the likes of cbr250's zxr? 250's etc , ive heard they can do around 180kph , but what about pickup, 0-100 ,400m etc?

Good enough to start with... and then you want more. (Had a ZXR250, went to ZXR400 as soon as I could.
Then to a ZX6R later.

[Storm]

I'd back John on that one. I havent got it in me to abuse my clutch as much as some blokes here, but I can usually get away from the light pretty damn smartly, and I can cruise at 100-130 at will. Your questions might prompt me to get off my butt and do a 400m time trial.
Have to say, its quite a cool feeling on my gixxer when the exhaust valve opens up and I can just hold one gear through 40 km upspeed
Also, most importantly, you can really give a 250 heaps without losing your license as easily

[Two Smoker]

CBR's and ZXR's etc should be good for 14 second flat 1/4 mile times.... and 0-100 in about 6 seconds....

Top speed about 180ish...

Plenty of power....

[mikey]

89 cbr250R hurricane VERY LIMITED edition (not many with no fairings an bits of cop car white paint on em!) not sure on how accurate speedo is but mine pulls 200, i have measured out an put a mark on speedo as speedo stops at 180 but needle keeps going up. but does take a while to wind up an thats in 5th i think? will have to ccheck

[Monsterbishi]

but off the mark you will abliterate all the 'overboosting wastegate dragging along the road types'

sport 250's just feel and sound quick, against anything with a turbo that's even been vaguely tweaked, they'll look daft...

My old 1400kg Galant vr4, stock everything with the boost nudged up a few psi, did a sub 5 second 0-100...

[Jonty]

The ZXR's and CBRR's take a bit of winding up. They feel like most 250 twins till about 12K rpm then they will take off (up to 19Krpm). Mine tops out at around 180 -190 and around 6 sec to 100kph.

If you are coming from a dirtbike (like I did) then these will be your best bet other than a 2 smoker. Good bikes to learn on as they are light and you can flick them into corners easy as. I agree that you will very soon want something bigger after one of these, so careful how much you pay

[inlinefour]

I think if a 250cc bike can do the speeds as quoted above then it has to be pretty impressive. My RD250LC (yes two stroke) could only do 183km/h (about).

[John]

sport 250's just feel and sound quick, against anything with a turbo that's even been vaguely tweaked, they'll look daft...

My old 1400kg Galant vr4, stock everything with the boost nudged up a few psi, did a sub 5 second 0-100...

still havent met a car that could bet a pathetic twin off the mark, if It wasnt broken I would come and demonstrate... when I get another one I'd take you up on your offer *happily*

:P

[mikey]

I race evos an wrxs until about 120 then pull back as bike accelerates rather slow from there, they get shat upon!

[k14]

In my experiences some cars (especially 4wd like wrx's and evos) will beat a 250 across an intersection, but as soon as they are about to change into 2nd they are left behind in your dust.

I'll be taking my cbr in the drags on friday night at mere mere so I will be able to tell you the 400m time (although i'm a very major novice).

Also I am selling my cbr soon and will be bringing it down to chch in 2 weeks if you want to check it out.

[Voodoo]

Cheers for the info guys, well 0-100 in 6secs is pretty good, yeah some turbo cars can do that with abit of tweaking , but the likes of standard evo's subbies etc, a 250 sounds like it would give them a scare, plus proberby plenty enough for my first road bike, as ive only got a 125 2 stole mx'r

K14, let me know how ya get on at the drags, and if im looking for one when ya down, i might have to take u up on that offer

[k14]

Yeah sure, I will be give you a PM if you want when I am down.

I dragged a fairly highly modified (from the looks, big bore, bigger intercooler etc) evo 3 a few months back and as I said, he beat me over the intersection but then I was ahead and he didn't gain on me till I started slowing down.

The highest I've had my cbr up to is 170 and that was at ruapuna, at the end of the straight (1300m), so that gives an idea of what it takes to get these things up to 180+. Also I would have been coming onto the straight doing 80ish or so kph.