My new YBR250 that will take me around China

**modron** · 03-25-2013, 01:06 PM

Hi,

As promised Im posting some pics of my new Yamaha YBR250. I bought the bike just over a week ago and till now i have only 430km on the clock. Ive changed oils 3 times already. Before I even rode it I had changed that yamalube stuff that factory puts inside and Ive replaced it with this Motul 3000. Than Ive changed oil at 50km and 250km. Will do one more change at 500km and at 1500km but her ill put some synthetic as it should be broke it by then.

Apart from few things the bike has been great and real fun.
Gears are a bit strange cos they dont change as smoothly as Ive expected (sometimes hard sometimes smooth) but then again, I have nothing to compare so I dunno. Maybe It should be this way. The breaks are also not great (my scooter has better) but they are still new so Ill give them some time before I complain ;)

Ive put some hand guards on the bike. Soon Ill be getting windshield and crash bars, and I will also ask some local steel shop to make a skid board as I might run into some harsh terrain in western China and Mongolia. Ill be putting these tires on before my trip http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=...id=17337658701 and http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=...d=18387559684&
I will post some pics of the bike here with the new stuff.

greetz

**Kennon** · 03-25-2013, 02:52 PM

very nice Yamaha you have there, I would just let the gearbox wear down as it'll still be very fresh in there so needs more km's to get comfortable.

Kennon

**Lao Jia Hou** · 03-26-2013, 02:12 AM

Nice pics! I have the exact same bike (same color) and am very happy with it. Fantastic bike for extended China rides. Enjoy.

**euphonius** · 03-26-2013, 07:56 AM

Beautiful bike, beautiful pix. Good choice on the hand guards. Nice to see your bike's scenery sniffer is working. Moganshan?

More pix always welcome...

cheers

**ZMC888** · 03-26-2013, 12:51 PM

Cool bike, my friends sober Pete has one in the same color. He's not had any problems with his, other than a bit of unwanted corrosion, so keep it dry as much as possible.
You're not wrong with the oil changes, you can never do too many, I don't trust Chinese Yamalube either, the Chinese motorcycle market demands cheap prices, quality be damned. Don't much like the Honda oil either.

**modron** · 03-27-2013, 02:37 AM

Thanks guys. Ill be posting more pics here.
So far Ive been only ride in within Taizhou, all the mountains from pics are about 40km from my district and I never knew that there are so many wee roads there that are just exhilarating to ride on. Im quite happy discovering those parts and also lots of gear changing so its good for running in

**euphonius** · 03-27-2013, 03:30 AM

Originally Posted by modron

Thanks guys. Ill be posting more pics here.
So far Ive been only ride in within Taizhou, all the mountains from pics are about 40km from my district and I never knew that there are so many wee roads there that are just exhilarating to ride on. Im quite happy discovering those parts and also lots of gear changing so its good for running in

It doesn't get much better than this (or this), at least in east China....

You are going to have a great season!

cheers

**modron** · 03-27-2013, 05:14 AM

This reservoir is what ive been riding around. Will get my girl and maybe will go to this hotel felix mentioned.
I like Taizhou a little bit more now ;)

**modron** · 04-08-2013, 01:33 PM

Ive done 1000km and all is going great. Gears and front break are better than before and today i even noticed that it goes faster then before at the same revs ;)

Im riding around Taizhou and its amazing! roads are not always great but views and countryside simply stunning. I was lucky today and it was a day with less smog and air pollution than usually so visibility was a bit better and i managed to snap few pics of the surroundings.

I changed tires for an on-off road ones. The new CST tires are about 10 times better then the ones that come with the bike. I felt more firm on the road.

As you can see on the pic above I mounted cheap PVC windshield (already lost one part that covered screws......)
It wasnt easy to install it as I already had hand guards on. I needed to make it work so its not very straight but at least I can see the speedo clearly.

Some nice moments from todays ride

edit: Dunno why pictures dont show. Im having problems with uploading anything....Unicom internet sucks!

**felix** · 04-08-2013, 03:27 PM

Quality pics dude.

So the CST tires are good then? Good to see more mid-range options coming out of china. I have a fair bit of riding to do to wear out my current soles but i'll give these a shot next.