2011 TCX250 flywheel weight?

[eddychecker]

I rode last weekend and found that I'd really like some extra flywheel weight. I think it might help in the really slow stuff when I really should be downshifting but don't want to lose momentum. Any thoughts? Does anyone even make an add-on flywheel weight for these bikes?

 

[Alberto]

what effect will it have over the bike to have more weight in the flywheel?

 

[robertaccio]

FWW for a 2011 TXC250 Blackhead. I don't really think you find one, I don't even think anyone ever made one as a kit. Fact is a good machine shop can make one as long as you dimension a size that would fit on the flywheel as well as inside the cover.........I think personally you should ride it as is and tune it for your riding. TXC had a good race ready ECU from OEM. even a final gearing change can help your cause, I rode 13/52 for a while but found it hopped a lot on decel (2011 TE310 with 2012 TXC310 ECU) and would sometime bump stall, I went to the factory racing spec 13/50 and it calmed down the machine and matched much better with the entire package. FYI.....you are on a bike that is for all intents and purposes obsolete as a model, best to stick with stock and work the add ons to suit you and ride the thing no one is going dedicate any time to making stuff for these Italian Huskys. Unless they do find a home with another company, but all we have is potential black (and redhead) head based builders from Spain to China to India.....

 

[eddychecker]

I figured I would have to adjust my riding style as well as the gearing to help overcome these problems. Thanks for your advise, I'll change the gearing and report back.

 

[joedirt]

Do you have the race ecu with the 12 port injector(the green one)?

 

[reveille]

Yes he does, his bike was owned by a Hall's employee and very well sorted. I'm thinking gearing will help as rob mentioned but these bikes have such short strokes it's the nature of the beast. I rode with him last weekend and he needs a new front tire as well...hehe. Too many over the bar launches recorded... In all fairness, this ride was one of the tightest snottyest woods rides of the year and he normally rides a ktm 450 xcw. So now do you see why I ran a rekluse on my 310?

 

[eddychecker]

I really think a rekluse would help as well. A new front tire is on it's way as well as a new rear and 13 tooth sprocket from Hall's!

 

[robertaccio]

but these bikes have such short strokes it's the nature of the beast.

exactly- so many folks in the intertube were talking about these things as old school 4 strokes and even seeing guys hcam stuff they were being ridden at 3k rpm---these things get going at freaking 5k (Im just using examples numbers)-- these are modern short stroke F1 tech motors the 250 is made to be revved like a 125 2 stroke of course the 310 has more inertia and more torque but it too is a revver. They are short stroke fast rev quick shift through the gears bikes. these are engineered to be race bikes and I gotta say the chassis is one of the sweetest ever, when you get dialed in with your X-lite they handle and whip through stuff with amazing speed and control with minimal rider fatigue

 

[reveille]

And now I ride a 501, problem solved. For me at least. Most of my problems are lack of skill though. Still working on a fix for that one...

 

[eddychecker]

And now I ride a 501, problem solved. For me at least. Most of my problems are lack of skill though. Still working on a fix for that one...

The fix is simple, GO RIDE**************************************** I might join you Sunday at FVOR.

 

[reveille]

The fix is simple, GO RIDE I might join you Sunday at FVOR.

Better yet, join me in Freeport. Send me a text if your interested.

 

[eddychecker]

Sent

 

[R_Little]

The 12 pt injector and ecu makes the motor much more snappy.

I actually like the 4pt injector feel , it make the power a little less abrupt....kinda like a Flywheel weight.

 

[eddychecker]

After riding it again yesterday, I found that the issue isn't so much how snappy it feels (it does), it's that I am unfamiliar with riding a short stroke 250. My KTM 450 can be lugged up a hill, down a hill, across a hill... get the idea? The TXC really can't be ridden that way and I guess I've figured that out. I shouldn't expect it to do something is wasn't made to do. It is a high revving machine that has to be driven, not lugged at all. No worries, my son has no problems with it and my problem is simply my own.