newbie from the pacific northwest

sold the dr650,

just got ahold of an 08 wr,

hello and howyadoin,

looking forward to hitting some singletrack that the big pig was scared of,



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Howdy. :)

Yeah, the WR-250R will be lots better for that kind of trail.
Less weight is an amazing thing.

That top pic looks a lot like much of the trails around here, where you never have to worry about not getting your daily dose of important minerals.
I'd kill to have more trails with some real dirt like in the bottom pic. :)

Hello! Nice places to ride you have there, enjoy the ride.

Welcome, HI!

*those pictures look familiar.

Welcome. Enjoy the bike.

Congrats!

Congrats!

first impressions:

not nearly as capable on the freeway as the 6fiddy, but,

the bike is bone stock,

i have ordered some parts to make it more friendly for what i want to do to it,

hopefully opening up the intake, FMF programmer and gutting the stock zorst will get er dun!

(top speed indicated 79 mph, sixth gear, had to downshift to accelerate!)

i'm thinking about taking it on a "road" trip this spring and i'm hoping for a slightly higher cruising speed!

Those are good ideas.

Stock, the bike has what's called an airbox flapper which makes the bike breathe through a TT-R125-sized airbox inlet whenever you open the throttle. :)
Details on getting rid of it are in the Mods forum.

Welcome. I used to have a DR650 also. It was a good bike.

YZEtc wrote:

Those are good ideas.

Stock, the bike has what's called an airbox flapper which makes the bike breathe through a TT-R125-sized airbox inlet whenever you open the throttle. :)
Details on getting rid of it are in the Mods forum.

i haven't gotten around to modding it yet,

those that have,

did you find your top crusing speed increase significantly?

i was at an indicated 78-80 in sixth with the throttle "just about" wide open to maintain those speeds.

will the "airbox flapper, FMF controller and a cat-less stock exhaust" mod help that at all?