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Yamaha YZF-250R4

switchlanez

switchlanez

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Anyone have more dirt on this? All I know is it's supposedly coming out in 2010.

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what what what?!

please tell me it's talk of a yamaha 250 sportbike. I want the first one out of the box!!
 
Supposedly this is what it'll look like...your pics didn't load for me. And it'll come in red/white, black/yellow, blue/white, and maybe another color combo or two. Would be another wonderful option for beginners and would make great competition for the 250 aftermarket and overall sales market. More info found here...http://www.2fiddy.com/2008/05/yamaha-yzf-r250/
 

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^ that's also the 125.

Yamaha hasn't confirmed a 250.

Would be a nice learner bike though.
 
Yea, I know, but apparently the design is going to be very similar/almost exactly similar to the 125 since apparently it's pretty successful in the non-US markets. If it ain't broke philosophy I guess. That is, of course, based upon it's actual production. There have been a lot of rumors but as you said, nothing concrete yet. This is all just speculation, which as we all have seen in '09 model spec pic threads, can be wildly inaccurate, but we'll see.
 
Hands down I will buy one immediately and jump right into 250 production racing!
 
We've got it on relatively good authority that the Yamaha 250 will be produced as a California spec bike for 50 state distribution. Yamaha will never sit idly by and watch Kawasaki take all that second tier money ala the Ninja 250.

The Ninja 250 (for all it's hype) has taught us all an important lesson: American demand cannot be summed up by "bigger is better"

I'd prepare myself for watered down versions, EXCEPT that with the current price increases we've seen it might end up being $5000 MSRP, in which case we're talking plenty of billet bits and some 600cc trickle down components.
 
if it's a 4 cylinder it'll be worth 5 grand. Is that what the r4 means?
 
call me biased (yamaha guy here), but that shit looks 5x better than the current ninja 250R
 
Var said:
if it's a 4 cylinder it'll be worth 5 grand. Is that what the r4 means?
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R4, by logic, would mean a 400cc.....
 
SCL said:
The Ninja 250 (for all it's hype) has taught us all an important lesson: American demand can no longer be summed up by "bigger is better"
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I think that's probably more accurate.
 
Var said:
if it's a 4 cylinder it'll be worth 5 grand. Is that what the r4 means?
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Kinda doubt it (that it means 4cyl), I think it's just a takeoff on the R6/R1.
R4 meaning smaller in displacement than the R6. They probably just wanted to keep the same naming strategy since the R6/R1 have been so popular in the US.
It may very well be a 4cyl, but being that it's modeled after the r125 - it could be a single.
 
Rayman said:
R4, by logic, would mean a 400cc.....
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But if they call it the YZF-250R4 wouldn't logic tell you it's a 250? I understand the R1, R6 & even R7 monikers but this precedes the R4 with 250. Eh, either way while they might be fun you can get so much more "used" bike for the same money.

I do hope they bring them over though.
 
i love my 250R but if I had to choose between that and my 250... that would've got my money instead if the price was right...
 
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