Beast Mode - WR500 Yamaha

Had a great 70 mile ride on it yesterday. Setting the rear suspension and putting a new tire on transformed the bike. Rear end works great and planted. New footpegs made standing EZ and confident and gave me so much more control over the bike. The bike will idle up any hill in 3rd. It is amazing but expected. After some suspension, ergonomic adjustments, and learning how to exploit the bike it works very well for me and was able to keep it at the front of our 6 man pack. Something fun about the old guy (me) keeping a 1992 monster out front of the "kids" on their fancy new machines. (Beta 300, TE310, TE511, YZ250, WR165). I was really happy with the bike overall and REALLY looking forward to the lectron as it is going to be the icing on the cake. Fun stuff.

First carnage of the day, Ken missed the ramp when unloading and raked his shin down the extruded aluminum ramp. Looked super painful.



The beast





Fantastic day until this happened to my buddies YZ250...



I rode out and got a tow strap and we towed him out. Got home at 9 but everyone is OK and no bikes left in the woods so all good.

judging by the intact plastic and frame wear that looks like a low hour bike.

Hey, if I wanted to hear about Hondas I would have started a thread about hondas... ha ha ha... Just laughing at thread drift and Rayrays upsetness of it.

Anyway, yep, to bad the side cover is off, will need a bunch of parts and all the bottom end / trans bearings at the very least. That said these bikes are not hard to tear down and do that. You are starting at zero cost so still should come out OK. The completeness and stockness of it makes it seem worth doing to me. You will also have the piece of mind that all the trans bearings are new and the motor was just gone through.

I like to butcher the english language, my teacher parents loved that I can't keep up with the kids these days and their "totes hilar" crap. ha ha ha

Those have cool motors but the suspension is very lacking and the brakes suck. I always fondly remember them but when I ride them it just takes to much effort and I need real brakes for the hills we descend.

Wow those new huskys are pretty good. They can almost keep up with my 92 Wr500 ha ha ha. Buddy Mike bought a new FE250. I liked it more than he did but he got used to it and liked it by the end of the day.

Shit just got real. stand back kids...

Already rode it around some. Same super smooth power all Lectrons have. Love it already. Real ride tomorrow. The throttle pull is so much nicer, that alone is going to be nice.