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- YZ250 Suspension and Chassis setup. This is the first part of video number two of a series on how to dial in your bikes suspension and chassis. Each video will cover a different part of your bikes setup and at the end there will be a video showing how to put all this together as a package. Hoping to help you set up your bike to be the very best it can be for you. Thanks for watching and see y'all out there!
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Great Video series. I have a 2016 YZ250. Love the bike. Probably the best explination of how suspension works in laymans terms.
Ahh thanks man! Glad to hear its helping!
I weighed my gear boots , helmet etc it came out to 25lbs , so now I sit on the bike with a 25lbs dumbbell , works for me..
Right on. Im sure that works. Dang 25 pounds, I never would guess gear weighs that much. But maybe it does!
@@UpAllNight91 Yep size 12 Garnae boots, pack with some tools , water/beer , adds up , I’m a trail rider , old and 220 lbs , love my 250 Zingers, your vid’s are really good and detailed plus you come across as a good guy with a calm demeanor don’t change brother.
Originally from England and quite partial to some reggae myself.
@@northernspur6282 Right on! Thanks for the kind words, Appreciate it! I too love my 250 and the 125! Wish I was out riding this weekend, but next for sure. Its my therapy lol. Hope your having a greaat weekend on the trails!
Ace tutorials mate.. my go to’s from now on. Your hand gestures to explain things really helps(me anyway as I’m 3weeks new to this)to understand what your explain.. your flow is on point bro👊
Thanks man! Appreciate that! What kinda bike are you setting up?
Yzf250.. first time out tomorrow.. 😎
@@cozdj nice!!! I will be out riding tomorrow too! Weekend is here
Good stuff man. Well thought out and spoken.
Thanks! I will probably get to the video covering the clickers tomorrow hopefully. Thanks for watching!
This helped out 100%
That's awesome man! Thanks for watching!
Just picked up a 2021 yz250x . Can’t wait for the other videos to give me some ideas on where to start on my suspension . I see that you do harescrambles and mx. Do you have any opinions on setting up a bike for both mx and harescrambles? Appreciate the guidelines that you are throwing out man. Thanks
Congrats on the new 21! Best place to start really is where I started in the videos... getting sag sorted out and fork heights, as well as possible springs if needed. I should be continuing into the clickers next week. Setting up for both hairscrambles and MX. Hmm. Well I just use my moto setup for the HS (hair scrambles). I do know if I focused on HS I'm sure there's maybe a slightly better setting in there somewhere, especially once tired and energy is low. But for me consistancy is important for safety so I prefer to keep my bike setup the same in both. Since I do more MX than HS I set her for that. And at least when things get out of hand, either MX or HS, I am 100% familiar with my bike and setup. Since it's not always changing for different environments. Just how I do it. But if I had to set one up to do both well I would shoot for springs that are on the softer side of the body weight scale and then dial her in on a rough track or riding area. If she can handle the rough and nasty stuff then she will be the safest for me she can
I just taped my measuring tape to the rear fender over the axle and used a black marker for what number I was trying to hit and then just recorded myself with my phone set up next to the axle. The lonely man's sag checker
LoL. Yeah whatever it takes when your by yourself. I work all day alone and always gotta come up with creative stuff like this lol
Good vid series, Tips from old dude, dont use a chisel to turn the rear spring adjusters, use and rounded punch/driver or old socket extension to prevent cutting into the metal. ALSO to mark them after adjustment ask your wife/girlfriend if she has some fingernail polish she doesn't like and use that to paint slippage marks on the nuts to thread interface, just a little dab, makes it super easy to see if anything has moved, works great on other fasteners too.
Thanks man. Yeah my adjusters surely get marked up. I will try that next time. And finger nail polish works too I do know this. Thanks for watching though and thanks for the tips, will surely try the round punch or a socket extension. Hopefully see ya out there some day!
BTW. I'm a old dude too lol. 46 years old lol
@@UpAllNight91 (sorry, tried to be funny), I'm 61 lol
@@UpAllNight91 I figured you would already know my tips, but other less experienced riders might not, just trying to help add to their knowledge base, the more we know the better the sport gets.
@@ddrowdy7666 lol. Hope your still riding at 61! Hope I'm still riding at 61! I know a few guys in thier 70s that ride which surely gives hope. And I do really need to use a round punch. My adjusters get all cut into. I make a lot of changes figuring stuff out and it shows lol. Suspension and chassis setup seems to be a dying art these days with bikes coming so good off the showroom floor, many just ride them as they are and don't even know there's more in the bag if you just go looking. Thanks to commenting and contributing!
Good informative video sir. What state r u in?
Thanks! In Florida. Parrish, between Tampa and Sarasota
@@UpAllNight91 are there many off-road trails open up there? We don't motocross. At least yet.
Well we have croom close by. That's like 5 square miles of some of the coolest trails. And it's been there since like early mid 70s so it has history. We also have ocala big scrub. Then there is Florida Trail Riders. Pretty much every every weekend at a different location around Florida. That is the coolest, huge event. Both Saturday and sunday. Over 200 riders per day. Lots of these courses are way out in no where and it's just cool to blast down trails in the middle on no where. I first started free riding anywhere I could, legal or maybe not so legal. Then started just hitting croom. Then starting hitting tracks and spent a good 20 years almost 98% tracks. Just recently (5 years) i started going back to croom and hitting various FTR (florida trail riders) events. Its been fun taking all the skills I gathered doing motocross but now bringing it back to the roots in the woods and learning stuff that you just can't learn on a track.
@@UpAllNight91 cool! Yeah I rode leisurely as a young teen and now at 41 getting into it with my wife and eleven-year-old. We've been to Croom a couple times and looking for more places but we're in West Palm Beach so nothing is very close
@@sparkyboots west palm. Ok. There should be a track within at least a hour and 20 away I would imagine?
top! thank's 👍
Your welcome and thanks!
I got a 2024 yz 250 and my front forks are super soft wondering how to adjust front forks
Hello. Do you know if the setting have been changed yet or not? Is this a bone stock bike?
Hey yea it’s bone stock nothing has been changed maybe have 3 hours on it at the track
@@wyattlarson1104 ok. Are you a faster rider or heavier rider? You may need to spring it. For me the YZ250 needs heavier springs, even the newer one that is a hair stiffer than the older one, it still requires stiffer springs for me at 155 pounds, B level rider. If your lighter or slower you might be able to just tune some of the clickers some to get by. If you go to heavier springs its best to do the front and rear together to maintain balance
I’m 180 pounds pretty fast rider b class rider as well I find I’m bottoming my front forks out a lot when landing in the sweet spot on jumps. So replacing my springs to a bigger size would be my best bet? Or should I try adjusting my clickers and rear shock?
@@wyattlarson1104 Oh yeah at 180 pounds and a B rider you will surely want to do springs. The clickers alone may help but it wont be enough and as the bike ages it will get worse. A good start would be .46 up front and 5.3 out back. if you like them nice and stiff then 0.48 up front and 5.5 out back. I'm currently using 0.48 up front and 5.5 out back on my 18 but soon to get a 24 and will first start with .046 up front and 5.3 out back, mainly because the 22 and newer does have slightly firmer valving than the 15 to 21's have.
Is it mandatory to measure on the side the kick start is on?
No. which ever side is good for you. Either side is good.
@@UpAllNight91 Thank you
@@bunnyman6321 right on! Dude you are like the biggest fan of this Channel. I have my wife working on getting merch set up and whenever that is done I want to mail you some if you would like
@UpAllNight91 I appreciate that. Yes I'll accept some merch, we can compete with Gucci brands 😂😂😂
This channel is awesome; this for the true moto guys. Other channels be doing time lapse and nothing wrong with that; I want to hear detail instruction not just a video in 2x
@@bunnyman6321 LoL probably some trucker hats and T shirts. Not sure yet, wife is handling it. Holy cow this is one of my earlier videos where I would ramble on for ever lol. I know I would get more views if I made things more short attention span like. But then it leaves out the details and I want to make something true and real for the guys like you that are out there really doing it. I also try to keep my face out of the videos if I can because I dont want it to be about me, I want it to be about the bikes.
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Dude I'm a suspension guy what the hell are yo doing. It takes three guys to do, one to hold you up, one to measure your sag and the rider needs to be in full gear to get actual sag. Please take this video down. It is totally. I sledding and for someone who rides and works on bikes as much as you do YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS.
I dont remember the last time I actually checked race sage with a ruler or measuring tape. I go mainly by feel. As thats where the rubber meets the road. I will check the static and stuff later just to reference but honestly chasing a number doesnt always get the best result. I dont know if you caught a video where trey canard said he was surprised with Jett and Sexton when they decided to not use the measurement and go by feel that they where surprised by what the riders preferred and he said he learn a lot from that. He said for years they kept shooting for 105 and numbers like that. But when they went by feel they found jett preferred around 98 to 100 and sexton around 100 to 102.