08-21-2015, 06:10 PM
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Sorry Guys
Went to the local Honda dealership to day to buy a bigger pilot jet for "Will". While waiting I was looking at a left overt 2014 CRF250l. A salesman asked me if I was interested in it and I said yes but I already had a bike and not enough room for another one. He said he would have a look at mine for a trade and I told him it was a china bike and he probably would not be able to give me what I would have to have in trade in and besides interest rates are to high on motorcycles. He told me he could get me an interest rate of less than 3%. I told him he could look at will but he probably wouldn't give me what I had to have. Well to make a long story short, he did give me what I needed in trade in a I ended up 2.84% financing.
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08-21-2015, 06:23 PM
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The CRF250L is a single cylinder watercooled 249cc engine. I hit 77 mph at one point on my way to work today. I used my gps and the speedometer is ls only about 1 mph fast. This bike is a little bigger and taller than will. The suspension is firmer. This bike is fuel injected which is good and bad. It is a 6 speed which I have to get used to having the extra gear. I do like the bigger wheels but I think I'm going to miss "Will", wish I had the room to keep him, lol. I'm gonna hear it from my wife for next couple of weeks because I just went out for a jet lol. I made it to work today riding it in the same time it takes to go by car, Will would take me almost 2 hours going down back roads. I have put 72 miles on it so far to today and will put another 42 on it on the ride home form work. I already ordered a rear rack for the CRF so I wont have to make one this time.
I still have the Ranch Pony and 2 Tao Tao quads. so I will still be checking in. This forum has a great bunch of people |
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08-21-2015, 06:58 PM
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Will had close to 1000 miles (almost 1600km). When I bought "Will" I never had owned or even ridden a dual sport. I couldn't understand why people wanted to ride a dirt bike on the road. But "Will" showed me how much fun a dual sport is and not I can't understand why anybody would want a single purpose road bike. I have been wanting a Ninja 300 for a while but then I remember thinking you cant off road with that and that's not much fun. I have some spare sprockets, a JT chain, a magnetic pickup speedmoter (if idon't put on quad) with tachometer, and some CDI's if anybody needs them I will be posting for trade soon.
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08-21-2015, 07:35 PM
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On a sided note, the leak on my wife's explorer ended up coming from the thermostat housing. She sold her daughter her car and is now driving the explorer again, I didn't tell her you mentioned explorers have timing chain issues. |
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08-21-2015, 07:38 PM
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08-21-2015, 08:01 PM
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Its only a few certain years of the Explorer engine, mine was a 2005 and 2005 was the first year. 2004 and older used a different engine. I believe this is the engine with all the timing chain issues. 4.0L V6 SOHC / |
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08-22-2015, 02:57 AM
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Congratulations; the CRF250L is a great motorcycle.
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Agreed! Its one of the bikes on my "watch" list. In fact i may still end up getting one next year after the wedding, by that time there should be a few used ones up on the market for a decent price.
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08-22-2015, 11:28 AM
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Don't apologize, Andy; that's a terrific bike! I'd love to have a CRF. Spud has the X version, and he has really enjoyed it. I had an XR250R, and I always wished it was a dual sport.
Feel free to start a thread on your new bike that will show us changes you make over time. I recommend that you peruse Spud's threads.
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08-22-2015, 03:29 PM
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Congrats!
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