My 225DR

[fabiodriven]

never had a doubt on the outcome of this comparo!! Too bad it was acting up a bit, and i was feeling like crap, woulda liked to take it for a peel!! Looks cool, no doubt about that!! Hope you keep it after all the time and money invested!!

I wish I had known you were interested. It was probably good enough to take out to the sand flats at Mik's barn. I took it out there first thing Friday morning in anticipation of a breakdown, and breakdown it did. After about 5 hard laps around the flats (I run my bikes hard) it quit on me. I think it was something electrical, but I never found our for sure. I spent about 15 minutes taking it apart (because you have to unbolt the rear fenders as opposed to the entire rear fender coming off with a lever like the honda, bad move Yamaha) and looking at the electrical system, to which I saw now obvious failure. I unplugged the ignition and pulled the engine over manually (using both hands) and it fired on the first pull. I plugged the ignition back in and everything worked fine, so I just rode it back to the barn and parked it for the weekend. You could have tried it out though.

[tri-Z ripper]

Sorry to hear that John. i thought you were going to make that the daily driver, i picked up a couple SX's as well and i really want to get out for a ride. how's next weekend looking anyone up for saturday the 31st at Hinsdale or fire pond?

[El Camexican]

Did you replace the rear brake cable? If the back brake is anything like the 200 (cable turns a worm gear against one pad and forces it against the disc which rides on splines on the axle) then you will find that the cable stretches a lot for the first few rides and you will have to mess around between adjusting it and the cables. Once the cable stops stretching you will be able to leave it alone for multiple rides.

So does it wheelie?

[redsox]

i'm kinda sorry to hear that you're so disenchanted with that rig. I love how it looks. it made me wanna go get one. i looked at four or five of em' since your build, but never found "the right one." the good news is that the sx seems to be the winner walking away. i knew i had good taste.