1001 simple tips you can't live without

DONT THANK THAT YO UCAN JUMP OVER A BIKE HAFE YOU SIZE BECAUSE WHEN YOU TRY TELLING THERE DAD WHAT YOU WERE THANKING. IF YOU WERE WONDER WHO TRYED THAT.

o and fill your bike up for the main even if you think you have enofe

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Excellent read, peeps! Very helpful. Just got a new bike (06-- Yz250) gonna be taking it out for the first time... this weekend.

I'm just gettin a 4 stroke 125 cc and these tips semed very useful for a n00b like meslef

one of the most important things you can do is make yourself the kind of rider people like. by that i mean don't talk crap about people, think of the opportunity to help someone like putting karma (yeah i know its hippie crap but its true) in an imaginary bank account. lend someone your spare gloves for a race, help that little kid on a 70 pick up his bike and get it started if he crashes it on a trail, then tell him what he did wrong and get on your bike and do it yourself, usually if u do that he will not be afraid to try again. be good humored if someone laughs at you putting the bike over backward on a near verticle hill, even if it frustrates you think about how funny it looked to them yell out "it looked cool though didn't it" or something like that they will be more likely to come help you pick up your bike. a good example the other day my uncle took me to some trails a friend of his owns. ther were a few people ther and i didn't know who owned the trails. while we were riding this little kid on a xr70 crashed in a creek i was riding a while behind him and when i crossed the creek a saw him with his front end stuck in the mud i stopped and helped him pull it out. while i was pulling it out of the creek a guy on a gasgas 125 stopped up on a ravine trail that overlooked the creek but ther was no way to get from ther to where we were. 5 minits later i managed to start his bike (he couldn't because it was flooded) and i took my helmet off and slowly crossed the creek beside him telling him what he should be doing then the guy on the gasgas (the kids dad) pulls up and asks the kid if he's all right he says yeah and his dad thanks me for helping. later back at the pickups the kid was rubbing his eye because he caught a tree branch in the eye because he left his goggles at the creek i toss him my spares and his dad rides up and says he couldn't find his gogs so i tell the kid he can keep my spares (they were wayyyy old anyway). later when i was loading my bike he came up to me and said thanks for all your help. then he told me the combination to the lock on the gates and said your welcome here whenever you like just don't bring more than one or two other people with you.

This is a great thread. Just bought a 93 Yam YZ250 the other day.

Just to stress: Always wear your pads. Learned that the hard way when my arm turned to ground beef.

Bring TOOLS. I had a crappy dirtbike that I would take to the track. Couple times I would land hard on the bars and they would go down like a bicycles. That really sucked. Nice having tools to fix it better.

If you don't have specific riding gear make sure you bring a change of clothes rather than wearing home the jeans you rode in. Nothing worse than riding home in your nice clean car with dirt and sweat infested clothes.

Don't be an ass to slower riders on a track or trail. I'm not the best and I hate it when people who know they are better than me wiz by me really close to prove a point. I'm just there to have fun, not race and be intimidated. Almost had one dude jump over top of me. No need for that.

I've ridden plenty of four stroke dirt (and street) bikes but only a couple of 2 strokes. Any specific advise for newby 2 stroke riders.

-for gods sake turn your gas on we almost die from laugh9ing when we see someone walkin off the track with a dead bike then get to the pits and yell "o FLUCK" and it starts back up cuz they were stupid and forgot about the littel petcock thingy that sayd "on" and "off"

Guilty as charged. Even the cursing part..

Have fun

1.Dont ride wheelies down gravel roads when you got girls on quads behind you...

2.Dont listen to your friend when he builds a jump out of wood and tells you to hit it wide open...

3.Make sure there is no wagons or basketball hoops where your riding...Keeps you out of hospitals

4.Dont drag race your friends van down the highway with your old 80...

yz250f_seth wrote:

holeshot is the best time to gain position practice all you can and make sure you can start in second gear

Why second gear is it not faster to start in first??

If a particular tree is taunting you, don't take crap from it. Take out that tree with too much speed

, despite the many friends it may have around it

GLeN wrote:

yz250f_seth wrote:

holeshot is the best time to gain position practice all you can and make sure you can start in second gear

Why second gear is it not faster to start in first??

Guess it just depends on how you are with the clutch, and how much you care about it.

Starting in second is quite a good idea caue when i tried it it just seemed as fast as first but it was easier to change up gears

Riders preference, if you start in first you always have your foot ready on the left peg to shift up to second the moment you get going

OK I have not made my point clear enough, In a race start in second if you dont wanna be in the back of the pack with a face full of mud. First gear is slow. No other word for it. I started in first at a race that i was getting thirds in the holeshot like everytime and came around in 12th. Second gear if you wanna win, first if you want to shift you purty little butt off.