Legdragger's woods bike

[Legdragger]

I am pretty happy to own a two wheeler again. Got this for $250 and it runs like a champ. I am going to freshen up the fork, get new rubber, and put a plate on it and call it my dual sport woods bike. It should be really sweet in slimy east coast trails.

 

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no pic for me?

 

[SJ/XPBri]

The pic works for me. That is the cleanest bike I have ever seen for $250.00, I wish I could find something like that around here!
Bri

 

[demolition_x]

is that a dual sport or what ?

thats a deal

 

[Wolf Child]

That's some hos for two-fiddy! :bigok:

 

[Speedfreak]

I will give alot more than that if I could find one around here. I have been looking for about 2 months and the going rate for a worn out bike is 700 to 1500

 

[Legdragger]

The street legal version of this bike honda made was the XL 250. There isn't much difference really.The street bike had a metal tank, directionals and terrible street tires. I think I can get this pretty close to legal with a new headlight and tailight with a brake light in it. It already has the switch at the pedal for the brake light. Not sure if I will try to get directionals for it or not. They will get wasted off road.

 

[wydopen]

The street legal version of this bike honda made was the XL 250. There isn't much difference really.The street bike had a metal tank, directionals and terrible street tires. I think I can get this pretty close to legal with a new headlight and tailight with a brake light in it. It already has the switch at the pedal for the brake light. Not sure if I will try to get directionals for it or not. They will get wasted off road.

different gear ratios as well on the xl

 

[Big Kahuna]

suspension was not as good either...........

 

[Mouthfulloflake]

same here! its pissing me off.

I saw a late 90s dual sport 650 the other day, dude wanted $4000 for it!

I will give alot more than that if I could find one around here. I have been looking for about 2 months and the going rate for a worn out bike is 700 to 1500

 

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pic works now wow man nice bike thats a really good deal

 

[Legdragger]

I rode around the woods behind my Dad's tonight before I went in to wrench on my X2. This thing is a ton of fun. It is about the best bike I have ever ridden for climbing over logs and picking your way through tight gnarly stuff real slow. On dirt roads it is super predictable drifting with your feet up and the tail way out there. It does totally hate sand and isn't going to fly to high but it is lots of fun for what it is.

My friend gave me an Aceribis cyclops headlight that has a high and low beam and I gave it a little ride in the dark. Works prety decent. I don't think I ever had a bike with a headlight whne I was racing motocross back in the day. It was kinda weird riding offroad in the dark.

 

[Speedfreak]

That night stuff is a blast. A group of us guys used to ride 4 wheelers mostly 250r's or quadzillas back in the day. We would leave out about 11 at night and pick a radio tower or a TV tower anything with lights way off in the distance and head there. We would cross the interstate and all sorts of really stupid stuff. If we ended up in someones back yard we would just go around your house or across your deck....

WOW now since I am a home owner that sounds really bad... I am kinda depressed that I used to do that man we were reckless back then If anyone is reading this and I tore your yard up or done a burn out on your deck at 2 AM I am sorry...:ugh:

 

[w-nut]

those are a great wee woods bike , i used to race them in cross country races in the early 90,s there is a o much you can do to those the get them going real good ,

 

[Legdragger]

those are a great wee woods bike , i used to race them in cross country races in the early 90,s there is a o much you can do to those the get them going real good ,

Cool, other than getting the fork rebuilt and some stiffer springswhat else do you think I should do to get some good bang for my buck? The Cobra pipe on it makes great power.

 

[Big Kahuna]

only problem I have had on my XR250r is when you have a steep hill where you dont have a run up to it, you have to hit it just right to make it, they dont have that instant Brap of a 2 stroke woods bike (KDX220). But, you can go low and slow with them.......

Next bike will be a WR250F or WR450 (YXF250/450), lighter bike but it a thumper.

I friend had a XR 250 with a big bore kit and had sent the suspension off to be worked over, OMG that thing was a blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wydopen]

Cool, other than getting the fork rebuilt and some stiffer springswhat else do you think I should do to get some good bang for my buck? The Cobra pipe on it makes great power.

some handguards and good rubber and you should be good to go....it is what it is..i wouldnt bother with much more than that ...get your cockpit set up and thats all you need..

 

[kx454]

i wouldnt even put anything on it, those bikes are just a blast in the woods. they are great cause are so easy to throw around and you dont have to worry about blowing radiotors off them when you cartwheel it. and unlike my modern 250 and 450 they dont overheat in supertight gnarly stuff.....

 

[w-nut]

Cool, other than getting the fork rebuilt and some stiffer springswhat else do you think I should do to get some good bang for my buck? The Cobra pipe on it makes great power.

how far do you wont to go pete , a cheap way to stiffen the forks up on the xr is to get some spacers made (just some tube or bit off pipe works from memory ) to preload the front spings i think i used about a 20mm spacer from memory in my frist xr . next on the cheap mods lighten the flywheel just like you do with jetski fly wheels any machine shop can do that for you , cams , 280 big bore kits head porting , 42mm mikuni flat side carb was a hot thing for them ( man do they rev with one off those) valve springs the sky is the limit with the old xrs lol.
man thinking about my old xrs brings back some fun memorys . the motors in the xr is billet prof realy just check the tapets and keep the oil changes and clean iar filters and they just keep going and going , oohhh and they love to rev

 

[ANT]

don't touch it. if anything a new set of tires and when it comes time for chain and sprockets gear up about two teeth on the rear. otherwise leave it alone. if you dump money into u might as well save and buy something better cause it won't make enough power to justify money spent on it. i picked up a kdx200 a while back that i traded some jet ski parts for and that thing was sketchy riding at night lol. i'd rather have a quad for night riden.