Yamaha WR250R – Another Greg Yager special

Adventure Rider Issue #21

• Fit out
• Checkout
• Tech – Essential tools
• Preparing For Adventure with Andrea Box
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Ready For Anything with Karen Ramsay
• Thailand – Baht busters
• KTM Rallye NZ – Aussies cross The Ditch
• Major Mitchell Trail – History lesson
• Cherry Pickin’ – Choose just one 2017 bike
• Ubuntu – Life-changing Africa
• Bali By The Backroads: Another winner from Britton Adventures
• Suzuki Freewind – Ahead of its time and still a great option
• Tech – Tubeless repair
• 2017 BMW F800GSA – A great bike made even better
• The Stirling – Riding south-western WA
• The Sultanate Of Oman – Exotic riding at its best
• Crossing Record – John Hudson sets a new mark
• It’s What We Do
• Yamaha WR250R – Another Greg Yager special

The hardest-working WR250Rs in the country are probably the ones used by RideADV to recce courses. Main man Greg Yager himself can spin a spanner and ride a bit, so when it comes to preparing Yamaha’s tiddler 250cc four-stroke for serious, fast-paced adventure work – with emphasis on the ‘work’ – Greg’s got the holeshot (as our motocross chums would say). Yamaha Motor Australia had Greg build a bike as a model for Yamaha customers to work from, and Adventure Rider Magazine was lucky enough to get a look at it.

There’s a market building in small-bore adventure bikes.

New releases at the recent industry showcase, EICMA, had most of the established brands offering some kind of 250cc or 300cc off-roader in variations ranging from fun dualsport bikes to semi-serious rallye lookalikes.