Webmaster posted on July 02, 2010 14:29
Is Yamaha's WR250R the world's best lightweight adventure bike? It's capacity to eat up mile after mile with minimal spannering would suggest so. And the number of large capacity fuel tanks sold also points to a machine ideal for long distance minus a cuumbersome weight penalty.
Crombie’s WR250R offers the ideal combination of light handling and the ability to cover huge distances in challenging terrain. Follow his Aussie adventure now
Epic motorcycle adventurer Steve Crombie has set out to prove how capable the fuel injected WR250R is by completing a solo 8000km offroad adventure from Darwin to Sydney.
Dodging crocs and waist high rivers, he is the first person this year to make it out to Limmen Camp on the Gulf of Carpentaria and has since continued south offroad to Alice Springs. Due to flooding, the Simpson has become impassable - now he will carve solo across the north west edge of the Simpson Desert and navigate his way across to the Strzlecki Desert and around the flooding Lake Eyre to Sturt National Park.
From here he will continue down to Wilcannia and onto Ivanhoe before tackling the railway tracks east back towards Sydney on 13 June.
You can follow his journey here:
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view?trip_id=202707
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Editor's note 1 – The bike
Modifications to standard WR250R include:
- RV Aqualine 13.5 litre tank
- B&B bashplate, numberplate holder, rad guard, master cylinder guard
- GYTR rear rack
- Tall screen custom fit from Yamaha XJ6S
- Pivot Pegz footpegs
- Ficeda Micro indicators
- Acerbis Multiplo handguards
- Staintune muffler
- Teknik suspension adjustments
- Goodridge brake hoses
- Unifilter filter
- WRF sidestand
- JT sprockets (14/49 ratio)
- Dunlop D908 (front) and D606 (rear) tryes
Editor's note 2 – The bloke
Crombie started his journey in Singapore in November 2009 when his Discovery Channel program - Lonely Planets Natural Born Traveller won an Asian TV Award.
Since then he has travelled by land and on more than 20 different typess of transport across Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa and Sumba before contracting Dengue Fever and ending up in Darwin Hospital.
Now he is on the final leg home. His book, Lost On Earth about his previous exhilarating 90,000km two year journey from Australia to the Arctic Circle
will be released by Pan Macmillan August/September 2010.
Editor's note 3 – The promo
Yamaha's WR250R is currently available with FREE pit tent and jet washer plus super low 5.99% YMF rate at participating dealers until 24 August 201 .