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I'm 6 ft and about 230 lbs, still losing weight. Would I look goofy on one of these?

I couldn't stop laughing at the giant storage box on the back, that's so big for the bike.

A concern I have is that your rear turn signals are not fully visible to vehicles in back of you due to the width of your trunk case, especially not fully visible to vehicles as they get closer. Beautiful 250 with that nice white color you have! I just recently bought the same bike 2008 in the black cherry color. I also have a nice wider trunk for my 250 but realized it's too wide resulting in restricted views of my rear turn signals. For the wide trunk you're using, you can remove the passenger seat and find a way to snug the trunk up further to allow for vehicles to see your turn signals.

I know that when I have all my traveling gear strapped to my V Star 250, all it takes is a little push down on the luggage rack and the front wheel rises off the ground. The pivot point is the kick stand. Even fully loaded, I can still run 70 mph on the highway. It's a great little bike. Also, I removed and threw away my front fender over a year ago. I just like the way it looks. Q

1.69 quarts with filter change.

One of the most beautiful bikes with a most ugly tool box. Why?

I would go with a top box and saddlebags. I am picturing a gallon of milk shifting down while in a turn.

I LOVE what you did with the tool box. These are still some of the BEST bikes ever made. The Yamaha 250 is SO DAMN popular.

Good looking motorcycle.

That trunk could hold a lot of food.

I’ve done this to few of my bikes just to hear it haha

I like the 250! I have had any bike you care to mention including Harley, triumph, Honda shadow1100 etc. all big bikes. No real reason for it other than posing. There is a difference between actually riding and posing. A perfect all around bike now that they don’t manufacture Ujm like they used to. Check your ego and enjoy the ride

I ride a 2014 V Star 250 as my only transportation. It's a great bike and I enjoy the ride. It is so light that when I am loaded down for the road, I can press down on the pack strapped to the luggage rack and the front wheel will come off the ground. The toolbox bolted on this bike has to have the same effect if there's any weight in it. Otherwise, as I've gotten older I want something easy to maneuver and the V Star 250 is the greatest. I've had larger bikes, but I can do most everything I used to do on bigger bikes, although maybe a little slower. Thomas Quick aka old skool and I'm just saying.

I was just given this exact same bike (technically I paid $10). It has almost exactly 20,000 miles on it, and is in pretty rough shape, but it runs well. It looks like whoever owned it originally must have dropped it 30 or 40 times, and the fork seals have dry rot. I'm hoping to fix it and get my motorcycle endorsement. The cables all look brand new so I think that someone was working on it at some point.

My wife's has 50,000 miles on it. Still going strong!

Basically cleaning blood with blood

How much OIL?

Yes be sure nd lube your Allen wrenches like I do. lol That's the way I roll. Don't let it get you down. Thanks

What is that oil filter o ring? What are the dimensions I cannot find one anywhere some help a brother out

Nice!

watching this is like coming closer to reality

I’m 6’1 170 at most all I need is 55-65 so this bikes good enough on power but I heard they are small, would I be cramped on one?

Thanks, I'd love to learn to ride and this bike has caught my eye big time.

Good review. I like the looks of this bike and the old school simplicity. But do wish it was FI.

Accelerating hard lol

Have to downsize from my 06 Aero 750 due to weakness from cancer. Looking at a 2015 250 vstar.

This helped alot! Thanks

Where do you buy the filters ? Noob here guessing autozone wouldn’t work 😂

this guy is completely full of shit and boring

What is going to keep that home-made, tool-box bracket from pivoting up and forward, during a hard stop, and hitting you in the back or on the head? Use saddle bags instead. Good luck!

I have the same Yamaha from 2015. It’s only over 400 miles away, but I don’t know what’s wrong. I can’t drive it. If anyone wants it, I can buy it cheaply. I’m near 19116 in Northeast Philadelphia.

I wouldn’t say I spilt so much however I dry vomited coke in the middle of the sheltered seated area in the cemetery, do you consider that vandalism?

I feel like these are just big scooters. I want one. LOL Maybe in 2022...

Here in greece i have the same bike model 1990 is a dream bike Zero damages the last 31 years good choice.

Yamaha should update this model and use Fi instead of a carburetor.

love the sound all that and all you did was make a few holes inside the pipes did you have to adjust the carb or anything?

this bike is taking fat bong rips at idle

What's the 0 to 60 accel time

I'm an old man who has owned 16 motorcycles over the years. Yours is a GOOD LOOKING bike and sounds great! Ride safely and enjoy every journey.

That tool box looks like a piano on back. What would anyone need with a box like that?

Getting a 2020 model in a week or two! Woot.

Very helpful video, thanks!

I like your bike and my suggestion is: ...Dont ever sell it! You’ll find you keep coming back to it over and over like I do ( I have two other bigger bikes) but these little V-Twins are so much fun! I bought my 2005 in 2016 so it was 11 years old but only 1100 miles on it! One owner! Basically the other owner had just broken it in for me! I bought it from a Yamaha dealership (he was selling it for a friend). I had the dealership add drag pipes ( so both pipes are connected to the cylinders separately ( not two into one like all the factory set ups). The dealership had to changed the carburetor jetting because of the drag pipes. From the factory, this bike run very lean. My mpg went down from 72 mpg to around 60 mpg after the pipe swap and jetting swap, but a small sacrifice for the way it now sounds! I had the dealership install a tachometer too. The tach was reading 6500 rpm at 55 mph in 5th gear. They then swapped the OEM front rear sprockets (15T/45T) for 17T/38T (after reading a lot of Virago 250 forums, this seemed like the best combo to get it acting like it had a 6th gear!) It doesn’t go any faster (mph), but the tach shows 5500 rpm now (rather than 6500 rpm) at 55 mph, so it doesn’t sound like a buzz saw on the freeway! And finally, I never cared for the chromed tear-shaped air cleaner module on the right front, ( or the chromed left front tear-shaped gas overflow module. I put a little round filter canister on the left side (with a chromed circular lid) and bought an aftermarket air cleaner (round filter canister and chromed lid) that resides on the right side just between the Twin cylinders. Now it looks like a Harley configuration. It’s my little Harley (a baby Harley, otherwise known as a Piglet! LOL! Anyhow, I hope you enjoy it for a long time!

Your video helped me change the oil in my bike for the very first time. Thank you! <3

How did you do it yourself with professional help????

I brought this bike a week ago! I’m loving it! Where did you get the rack?

I had an 08 virago 250 as my second bike, and I've never giggled that much while riding any bike. These are so fun.

sounds like my dirt bike😂

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why are you blacking out part of the video? strange way of editing.