If you really are planning on doing some off-roading with a luggage or two up then I will say....forget about YBR250 or buyit and replace the rear shock. Now Im seriously thinking of getting the one prince found on ebay. Pricey but if I was planning to ride around China again Id buy it in an instant. The manual says max load is 155kg, my setup was 125kg and it would bottom out even on a normal road (just slightly.....wavy) off road I needed to ride really slowly and kept coursing that I didnt buy dual sport bike.
In defense tho, recently I took my girl on a few day trip. She is about 45kg, Im heavier now so 80kg + rack and bags (no boxes) 15-20kg and it was much better. I didnt need to slow down to 20km/h to stop it from bottoming out. Actually it only happened few times. I was positively surprised. I reckon it has something to do with the distribution of the weight, maybe my boxes are to far at the back but it doesnt change the fact that suspension on this bike sucks.
Forks are not great either, I asked my dealers mechanic to change the oil twice but they said no need, which makes me wonder that they probably never done that before so dont want to screw anything up. There are no better mechanics in my little town so Im gutted cos I dont have the skills to do this by myself.I know it cant be difficult but Ive never even seen fork oil being changed so Im not very confident here
Quote Originally Posted by zhu View Post
The suspension is a bit shite imo but some preload spacers and oil in the forks would improve it
will google what are these and then will try to taobao

As for the rack, this on looks good cos it has the support at the front


p.s. Doc, this rear shock is a stock one I think