Yamaha YBR250 didn't make sense to buy in 2009

[felix]

This is all very exciting. I can feel your joy. It must be agonising to have it sitting in the garage for another week!

It took them about an hour to [...] charge the battery

Ugh, cowboys! That battery should've been trickle charged for 24 hours...

[soberpete]

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[soberpete]

This is all very exciting. I can feel your joy. It must be agonising to have it sitting in the garage for another week!



Ugh, cowboys! That battery should've been trickle charged for 24 hours...

Yes Felix it is agonising! I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight. I just want to ride it again... didn't even get it into 3rd gear .
I remember ChinaV's post about his YG250-6 and knew that it should be trickled charged but by the time I caught sight of the battery it was already almost full and too late.

[Nuhaus]

At one point, I was in 2nd and meant to put it up into third but, instead, slammed it back down into first by mistake; the rear wheel spun out to the right a little bit as the revs flew up and the tire regained traction... I loved every second of it.

Sorry if this is a dumb question but did they put your shifter on with the action backwards? I've had that a few times with different bikes where the mechanic sets it up so that pushing down cycles the gears up to 5th and pulling up cycles the gears back down to 1st. Or maybe you like it that way? (Race bike style)

If so, it's really easy to fix, if not, please ignore.

[dewsnap]

Awesome bike Pete. Looks great in grey and black.
Ride safe brother.

[ChinaV]

Looks great Pete

Make sure you check the little things like chain tension and tire pressure...dealers usually have them set wrong.

Looking forward to more

Cheers!
ChinaV

[moilami]

Congrats of your new bike.

[soberpete]

Nuhaus. The YBR250 is down into first then up for the rest, the way a motorbike should be... or so I've heard.
My previous bike/piece of crap was the JD150-15 which had a super easy, childlike gear system with a forward peddle and backward peddle. You could push forward to go up from neutral through to fifth then up again to go back into neutral. My mistake on the Yamaha was due to my inexperience.

Thanks guys. I'd better check the chain and tires tomorrow morning then. Thanks for the heads up ChinaV.

I shall say no more on this thread... It's time to get the YBR250 started with it's own thread! Keep an eye out for 'Soberpete's YBR 250'