I actually feel sorry for some of these young guy's buying second hand 250F's.
All the marketing people tell them they are the best thing going so they save up their cold hard cash and buy a 05-06 250F.
So now they have the new bling bike ( for them ) and after a couple of rides it shits itself.
Now you have a guy how can't afford to fix it so they park it in the shed and they are lost to bikeing.
The manufactors are turning riders off the sport.
P.S. I met a young guy (16) at the last ride that just picked up a 2000 RM125 as his first bike.
Listening to him and his mate talking his mate who had the best bike of all ( a KXF250 ?) kept telling him to get rid of the RM and buy a 250F.
I had to speak up and told him he was full of shit and that his mate needed to keep the RM as it was the best bike for him and IF it blew up he could fix it for $200. I told him to put a flywheel weight on it to smooth it out a bit.
The 250F guy then told me he just spent 2k on the engine and it goes real good.
He was a bit ambarrassed to hear his mate could rebuild his for alot less.
Lucky they actually listened to me and said thanks maybe I know what I was talking about.
