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Thats a pretty apt comparison between my 250 and 300. coming off the 144 I kind of like being "in the gear box"! different strokes for different folks i guess!!
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thats exactly what it does on my 11 250 ....
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You gotta understand, I suck. I'm always messing up either my clutch or gear selection. I'd have a Rekluse if I weren't so cheap.
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I came off of a Yamaha 167 onto a pair of GasGas 250s, both with RB modded heads, and for a while I thought the Spanish two-fifty was the perfect engine. At some races I had to play the map switch like a teletype machine though, and there were times where I couldn't quite find the right gear.
Having been a fly-on-the-wall to a conversation extolling the virtues of the 300 I sampled one last season and then jumped in full force this year. With the right jetting its super-linear on the bottom and the wheel hooks up and doesn't spin, even over nasty roots and rocks. Twist the right grip a little more and the trees fly by. It doesn't seem to matter what gear you're in (full disclosure I'm running a 13/50 Ironman combo) because with the torque available you're always in the right gear! I'm racier on the big-bore than the 250 because I don't have to be as spot-on with the clutch and throttle - thank God for that big piston!
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Which, you ask, is the better of the 250 & 300? Well, that's easy.
The only bike for me is a 250, that is when I am riding on dirt with good traction, tight turns, tight trees, etc. The only bike for me is a 300, when I am at the bottom of some rocky creek bed, looking at a wet, snotty, rocky, twisty climb out & back to the top, or need to power through deep sand or thick gumbo mud, or need to climb some huge hill. That is my position, I will not compromise or deviate from it under any circumstance. * confession: I stole the theme of this from a speech given by "Soggy" Sweat in the MS House of Reps when they were debating whether to allow sales of liquor by the drink. the speech is known to history as "The Whiskey Speech"; it is truly a classic, & well worth googling it up if you are interested, + he was a great guy (he was still at Ole Miss when I went to school there, & I bought a signed copy of the speech when he was in poor health late in life) . |
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