Can You Trail Ride a YZ250F MX Bike?

[@dcouture79]

I just love all these bike categories. You can ride any bike in the woods. Get a bike you like and learn how it rides, you’ll be having a blast.

[@hermayneMUNSTER]

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[@ridgeridermoto]

The 3 big mods I did to my 2015 YZ250F to make it more trail worthy were: trail tires, throttle tamer, and FMF Q4 pipe. Those 3 things make the bike so much smoother on the trails. Suspension also plays a big role.

[@bobbyboucher4101]

Throttle tamer.. 🤔, I like the sound of that. I'm gonna look into that.👍

[@ridgeridermoto]

@@bobbyboucher4101 for trail riding, smoothing out the on / off throttle is a necessity in my opinion

[@ThisMonkeyDj]

​@bobbyboucher4101 im looking at getting one on my yz250f

[@ACE-so1zv]

I have 2018 yz250f I ride trials and moto I just get the suspension dialed in and works pretty good on trails and moto

[@keithphillips1234]

Does it ever overheat? I’m looking at getting a 06 up yz250f myself for open dirt road riding and woods/trail as well. We got days of dirt roads, gas lines, and open woods. Thanks

[@jamesberry3892]

@@keithphillips1234I ride mine doing similar shit wide open constantly and it does get really fucking hot, but it also cools itself extremely efficiently and as long as you go hard, take it easy for a min and go hard again you should be good, be warned the gears are close asf together so you’ll constantly be fighting over revving, it’s very fun tho. Incredibly smooth and powerful torque

[@ridgeridermoto]

I've had zero overheating issues with my 2015 YZ250F. Not even on 2 hour trail rides in 70F degree weather. Maybe in the summer the 4t might overheat but I've had no issues. My 2006 and 2008 YZ250Fs also did not have this issue even in 90F weather. The engines will get hot but I never had it overheat. Granted I don't ride a lot of technical enduro but even at singletrack speeds i've never overheated@@keithphillips1234

[@ssim5964]

man i love your videos... you are something like my mx teacher 😂

[@jongib6096]

Have a great video, I love this bike, I am getting the FX as I do, rocky off-road & track

[@MatthewG_208]

You should race the TORCS hare scramble series, the next race is in the bastrop area.

[@NickRomanoMX]

The track bikes do well in the woods. I trail ride my YZ

[@duckygang603]

Does it overheat?

[@NickRomanoMX]

@@duckygang603 never had it overheat before. I do check and sometimes need to fill the coolant up before I ride though.

[@Barefoot-Bob]

will backing off the timing help as well ??

[@dahatchery]

If you really want to get how well that 4 stroke works in the woods, you need to ride it in 1, and 2 fir at least 3-4hours. You’ll also note that it’ll start to get really hot then overheat, you’ll notice that the idle will start to go higher that’s an indication that it’s about to overheat. To ride the trails it best to ride a 2 stroke they don’t have nearly as much moving parts let alone as high compression the new 4 strokes. That bike may have been fine for a few minutes but again it’s going to start getting hot. It really isn’t designed for slow ridding, it’s meat to be pinned with a lot of air running through the radiators, that’s how it could keep it cooler then the putting around.

[@duckygang603]

As long as you go fast you should be fine, I personally don't know what to do because i want a 2 stroke for mx/trail, but it requires much more clutch and shifting which I don't want to do. 4 strokes are much more balanced therefore I'm leaning to it, but I don't want to run my yz250f or kx250 hot during trail riding.

[@dahatchery]

@@duckygang603 well, it’s like this you can basically run a 2 stroke 250 or bigger way into the mountains all day without having to worry about overheating. I thin I’ve stated my experience over the years about these new high compression 4 strokes, once again, they are simply designed to be pinned on a track or a hare and hound. Do you do either of those for more that 4 hours??? If you don’t then a 2 stroke fir the most part “ANY ONE!” Will do. If you chooses to ride your 4 stroke 250/450 what ever, it won’t matter they will over heat, enough overheating will produce at least a top end rebuild which would cost you at a minimum of $2200 in parts only unless you can do it yourself! Those bikes are “sh$tty!” at best unless you’re sponsored and race motocross only. I’ve been through most of them. That’s why I own 9 2 strokes only. 03 CR500AF from a 03 CRF450 roller ( through the crap engine in the ocean!) 05 YZ250, 02 YZ250, 2000 YZ250, 03 RM250, 01 YZ125, and 2 99 YZ125s. You can’t educate me on how these new 4 strokes are better than what I’ve just stated because they aren’t designed for all around ridding, they are strictly motocross. That’s it!

[@seniorktm962c8]

Lots and I mean lots of riders ride mx bikes on Michigan single track trails and love them. Over heating not an issue.

[@ridgeridermoto]

I've had zero overheating issues with my 2015 YZ250F. Not even on 2 hour trail rides in 70F degree weather. Maybe in the summer the 4t might overheat but I've had no issues. Not sure where this myth comes from. My 2006 and 2008 YZ250Fs also did not have this issue even in 90F weather. The engines will get hot but I never had it overheat. Granted I don't ride a lot of technical enduro but even at singletrack speeds i've never overheated

[@Barefoot-Bob]

@@dahatchery a lot of that also is timing high compression / fast timing thats why i asked above if any body has tried turning down the timing a bit and rejetted to prevent load up

[@ridingseq8064]

Hey just curious, I also have a YZ250F and I was wondering what your map settings were for this video? As I ride mainly enduro, I am always trying to find the best maps that suit me, and I can never get my go pro angle quite right so I'm also working on that as well now 😂

[@akmoto_]

Google “Keefer Free Feeling Map” and it should pop up

[@travisbates6049]

Yes you can but it doesn't have the wide ratio transmission like the YZ 250fx model

[@canamxmr4760]

I’ll take mine on the trails with my wife’s bike and it works but it is very stiff.

[@Kobi-bg2st]

What year is this

[@akmoto_]

The bike is a 2021

[@alaynafolk4994]

im getting a 2022 yz250f tomorrow, what fuel do you run in it? do you run vp race gas in it? i run superminis and run vp 105 octane but not sure what i should run in a 250f

[@akmoto_]

I run pump 93. You aren’t gonna get any real benefits out of race gas on a stock bike to make it worth it

[@rokstr222ify]

No need to run race gas, but pump gas is definitely no good either, all pump gas now has 10-20 percent ethanol in it, which will eat up fuel lines, gum up your carb if left sitting any longer then a week, and is overall crap, non ethanol premium, aka clear gas, is the way to go in pretty much anything carburated, it's only about a dollar more gallon then pump premium, and should be easy enough to find if you look online and call around to stations trying to find out which station sells it

[@KolinKovack]

@@rokstr222ify the newer bikes are fuel injected no carb.

[@Stealth164]

125 is the best for stuff like this

[@willies992]

250 - 300 2 smokers

[@keithwilliams8145]

I wanna take my yz250f out on some trails

[@mikieemiike3979]

4 stroke guys. Lol