Credit where credit is due: the bLU cRU have certainly it hit it out of the park when it comes to dishing up twowheeled pleasure machines that we Aussie moto warriors grow to love. From the very first Pee Wee 50 back in 1981 through to the very latest YZ450F 42 years later, Yamaha has kicked some serious dirtbiking goals.
For the past 22 years, Aussie trail and enduro riders and Yamaha WR-Fs have gone hand in hand. The blue trailblazers have been perennial top sellers for the tuning fork brand by striking an optimum blend of performance, price and unbustable reliability, all mixed with local R&D input to make the bikes so well suited to Aussie riding conditions.
While the big-banger WR450F has long been Yamaha's off-road headline grabber and sales leader, its smaller sibling, the WR250F, doesn't get left in the shadows. In fact, the 250F has enjoyed a coming of age of late, and there's a definite raft of riders who live by the ethos that light is right. And I'm not just talking about race heroes like Kyron Bacon, who swept all before him on the national off-road race scene last year by blitzing the big-bores on his Shop. Yamaha OffRoad Racing team 250F. I'm also talking about real-world pie-eating and beer-swilling trail riders, for whom swinging off the back of a 450F all day long eventually takes its toll. It's quite the ask to keep hurling a big-banger through the trees from sun up to sun down.
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