Micha's Motorcycles

Yamaha XS250SK

This was my first bike, which I purchased privately. It was very much pre-loved, and the previous owner only took it out for weekend trips during fine weather, and this was very obvious - the bike was in excellent condition despite being over 10 years old!

I used it to commute daily to and from work, a round-trip of nearly 80km. It was very reliable, but I was also quite meticulous about getting it serviced regularly.

I took it on a couple of longer trips as well, but the small engine capacity meant it had to work fairly hard for those, nevertheless it did a fair job, and with backpack and tankbag I got a decent amount of gear on it.

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This was my second bike, which I got from Caboolture Yamaha after trading in the XS250. The step-up was a bit extreme, and it was probably more sheer dumb luck that I didn't kill myself on it..

The reason for getting it were that it ticked all the boxes bar one for my next bike: fairing, luggage, shaft drive, within my price-range, and about 500-600cc engine. That last point was the missed tick-box, and going from an underpowered 250 to an, at the time, over-powered 900 meant that I got a few surprises every now and again!

The bike wasn't in perfect nick with some scratches on the fairing and overall just a bit more used, but it was extremely reliable and never let me down. Apart from commuting I also went to Sydney and back on it as well as various other trips.

After moving to the UK it was mostly in mum's carport, instead of getting stored in my brother-in-law's shed as arranged, and after a couple of years it was very much looking the worse for wear. Mum eventually took it to the dump after being told it was beyond economical repair.. I was not very happy about that, but to be fair I was the one who left it behind and didn't spend time trying to sort something out while I was away.

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