Yous Guys.

It’s all your fault.  Here I am, relatively happy with my Yam XT-225.
It started, ran, very little maintenance, and totally reliable.
(Just hop on and ride)
But wanted something a bit heavier and more power.

But  NOT 800 + pounds and 1,400 CC.
Drove those, (my friends)
1. Way to big,
2. Would properly get many tickets, and perhaps a accident.

Researched, and a single Cyl, and 650CC, and 400- pounds,
sounded just right, so, bought the 06, S40, with 5500 miles.

Then looked around, and decided I needed to find a Forum, dedicated to those bikes,
(Like their is a Excellent one on the XT-225, and now the 250)

Read, learned, and adjusted. (and even posted some questions, and some smart A** remarks)

Tired of picking up Metric, late 70’s early 80’s, and fix for 10 ride for 30.
I wanted something I could just ‘Get ON, and Go”.

Well the S-40, wasn’t it. But, with proper, ’things’ it became such.

AND, I Liked it.  So much, that I started looking for another one.

And it is: ‘All Your Fault”, Everyone one of YOU.

I just HAD, to buy this one.
A 1997,  LS650, with 5600 miles.
Need’s new rubber.  (Original tires, can you image that)
Plus all the other little dingy things that need to be done.

For $650.00

But, it is Red, and we all know, “Red Is Better”.

Just remember, it’s ALL YOUR Fault.

Great looking bike and you stole it!   You might want to drill out the brass plug and richin it a little. From the looks of your header with that low of miles, I would say your running pretty lean. Eliminate the backfire

Serowbot wrote on 07/24/14 at 19:34:12:


I still got one up the back of the shed, too. My Mrs' second bike (first is a PW50, still got it 25 years later), now our offspring is learning to ride on it. Good times.

MnSpring wrote on 07/24/14 at 19:53:28:



I'm on this forum on behalf of my wife, who is a Savage owner (she doesn't do the whole forum thing on the internet...mainly Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest).

This is me and my bike back in 2010:



It's a Triumph, and I'll never not own at least one.  It's now 5 years old, and it has just under 8000 miles on it, and every one of them is mine.

Dave wrote on 07/25/14 at 04:52:39:


You haven't seen his ears.  

OK.....Now I get it.

"The Yamaha XT225, or known in some markets as the Yamaha Serow, was a dual-sport motorcycle produced by Yamaha from 1986 to 2007."

You had a motorcycle named after a goat!  If things had worked out differently, we could be calling you "Dreambot", or "Apachebot", or "Shadowbot".....or "Thunderbot".

<--- The name is a coincidence.  This was NOT my fault!!!