05 drz250?

**secondfield** · 21st October 2009, 20:07

The guy who took out first place in the akatarawa enduro this year (rookies) was riding an old tin tank drz250. out of 17 starters only 3 of us finished. he was the only one who didnt hour out! Lol. Its not the bike its the rider.... but as far as fun factor goes ... well ...

**carver** · 21st October 2009, 20:17

Originally Posted by secondfield

The guy who took out first place in the akatarawa enduro this year (rookies) was riding an old tin tank drz250. out of 17 starters only 3 of us finished. he was the only one who didnt hour out! Lol. Its not the bike its the rider.... but as far as fun factor goes ... well ...

I will get a DNS then!

**FzerozeroT** · 21st October 2009, 21:54

Bit too much power for you young fulla, have a look at a DS80

behave yourself and I might let you have a spin on my new toy

**IIIRII** · 22nd October 2009, 08:30

I rode one back to back with a CRF250X, and loved the X and hated the DRZ...

Havnt you already answered the question yourself ?
DRZ isnt even in the same league as the crfx

**carver** · 22nd October 2009, 18:10

Originally Posted by FzerozeroT

Bit too much power for you young fulla, have a look at a DS80

behave yourself and I might let you have a spin on my new toy

WR250 footy?

Originally Posted by IIIRII

Havnt you already answered the question yourself ?
DRZ isnt even in the same league as the crfx

i like the X

its more what i had in mind

**FzerozeroT** · 22nd October 2009, 19:43

450, traction is overrated

**carver** · 22nd October 2009, 20:02

Originally Posted by FzerozeroT

450, traction is overrated

haha, what made ya get that?

road legal?

**warewolf** · 22nd October 2009, 20:41

Sounds like the DR-Z250 is not the bike for carver, but here's some thoughts from an ex-owner.

I had an '01 model. As far as I could find, they are the same bike back to around '94, although I found a review the other day from '97 claiming them to be "completely revised and dramatically better." Photos of '94 models looks the same... Regardless, she's not a modern bike by any stretch of the imagination but has won it's class in the Finke or Aussie safari or similar in nearly stock form, so isn't (or wasn't) a complete dog.

The rear shock in mine was revalved by Craig Brown @ Colemans, man what a difference!! Didn't change the front except raised oil height in a couple of stages, it was enough improvement on a cheap bike (I'm at/under the design weight so springs were acceptable). The Aussies say the forks are crap but respond very well to racetech improvements, and the shock is fine

The carb is a Mikuni TM28SS flat slide. Mine had a horrible bog/lag that was lean stumble, as far as I could find. A couple of different shops tried to fix it, so did I: we never did. Lots of ppl online complain about it. Fiddled with the (sticking) accelerator pump improved it marginally, tried to get it to give more fuel sooner. Then I started reading on thumpertalk about AP timing (for WRs IIRC) and I decided to trade up

In woodhill/riverhead I'd get passed by the bigger bikes on the open stuff, then get held up/repass through the single track...that's riders of somewhat similar ability. On wet days, I'd do better, relative to everyone else. Rider was definitely the limiting factor when I did the GNCC.

I never bothered to even doing basic uncorking to mine, engine was all stock stock stock (but de-restricted of course). Staintune & rejet lift rwhp by 2hp or 10-ish%; too busy riding to muck around with stuff like that.

Main reason to trade up was for less weight (picking it up on steep muddy hills 6 times in a row trying to get going again really knackers you - they have big-arse hills down this way), better power to weight, and better suspension. Definitely a value-for-money bike that performed reasonably well as an all-rounder - it was also a commuter, tourer and sports road thrashmobile with a second set of wheels - but I outgrew it.

**FzerozeroT** · 22nd October 2009, 22:19

Originally Posted by carver

haha, what made ya get that?

road legal?

I wanna do a wheelie over a certain bridge

na, the roads for pussies :P

**carver** · 23rd October 2009, 05:44

Originally Posted by warewolf

Sounds like the DR-Z250 is not the bike for carver, but here's some thoughts from an ex-owner.

I had an '01 model. As far as I could find, they are the same bike back to around '94, although I found a review the other day from '97 claiming them to be "completely revised and dramatically better." Photos of '94 models looks the same... Regardless, she's not a modern bike by any stretch of the imagination but has won it's class in the Finke or Aussie safari or similar in nearly stock form, so isn't (or wasn't) a complete dog.

The rear shock in mine was revalved by Craig Brown @ Colemans, man what a difference!! Didn't change the front except raised oil height in a couple of stages, it was enough improvement on a cheap bike (I'm at/under the design weight so springs were acceptable). The Aussies say the forks are crap but respond very well to racetech improvements, and the shock is fine

The carb is a Mikuni TM28SS flat slide. Mine had a horrible bog/lag that was lean stumble, as far as I could find. A couple of different shops tried to fix it, so did I: we never did. Lots of ppl online complain about it. Fiddled with the (sticking) accelerator pump improved it marginally, tried to get it to give more fuel sooner. Then I started reading on thumpertalk about AP timing (for WRs IIRC) and I decided to trade up

In woodhill/riverhead I'd get passed by the bigger bikes on the open stuff, then get held up/repass through the single track...that's riders of somewhat similar ability. On wet days, I'd do better, relative to everyone else. Rider was definitely the limiting factor when I did the GNCC.

I never bothered to even doing basic uncorking to mine, engine was all stock stock stock (but de-restricted of course). Staintune & rejet lift rwhp by 2hp or 10-ish%; too busy riding to muck around with stuff like that.

Main reason to trade up was for less weight (picking it up on steep muddy hills 6 times in a row trying to get going again really knackers you - they have big-arse hills down this way), better power to weight, and better suspension. Definitely a value-for-money bike that performed reasonably well as an all-rounder - it was also a commuter, tourer and sports road thrashmobile with a second set of wheels - but I outgrew it.

thatnks for that man

Originally Posted by FzerozeroT

I wanna do a wheelie over a certain bridge

na, the roads for pussies :P

just like ambulances when you fall off...

I ran to the hospital