2020 YZ250X // How I set up my bike for HARD ENDURO!

hey what's up this is jason hamborg this is my 2020 yz250x i'm going to go over what i've done to the bike i'm going to try and keep it pretty brief but it'll just give you a little bit of a idea of what i've done why i chose to set it up the way that i have and yeah if you want to see kind of any more specific stuff let me know and i'll definitely kind of make some more of these to fill you in for starters i run the fast company flex bars i've had these on my bike for about three years now and man i just i love them a lot like for fatigue arm pump i have a wrist injury from a few years back that they really help with as far as kind of avoiding my wrist being super sore i run uh torque one lock-on grips i feel like they last a long time they're really sticky when they're first new and lock-on is rad zeta unbreakable levers i also run a zeta easy pull clutch perch makes life easier on that technical terrain it's just less fatiguing because it pulls really easy i get a lot of questions about these hand guards these are the sycra rebound hand guards they're really expensive but they last like crazy well the only bummer about them is there's a spring in here that actually creates the rebound and that does tend to break after a couple crashes and you can't buy the spring you can buy replacement parts for everything else but the spring is not available so usually i'll just tighten them up and they don't spring back but it's not a huge deal i get questions about why i run flags and not wraparounds i just find that the flags protect me for what i need and i've ran wrap arounds in the past they kind of scare me a little bit like i know people who have broken hands and wrists by their hands kind of falling through but then also i just don't like that if you kind of even just nick a tree the bike really snaps like your handlebars really snap it's really impacted like i can hit something pretty hard here it'll deflect off but it doesn't necessarily like throw me into anything crazy like head shake wise so that's why i want to run flags and yeah these flags i think work really well as far as suspension is concerned this is not stock suspension it's still the kyb ss stuff but it's revalved and it has stiffer springs i'm about 190 pounds without gear so whatever that is with gear and yeah the re-valve kind of allows me to run basically my compression as soft as it'll go for my hard enduro stuff moto i'm kind of somewhere in the middle and then if i'm kind of hitting big jumps that sort of thing i will crank the compression just right up i run my forks about 3.5 millimeters from the top of the clamp to the top of the main tube um and i just find it's a good mix for kind of the riding i do i'm running an ims tank this tank has been with me now for two bikes i had it on my old yzd yeah it's a big tank i think it's like 15 liters or something like that like over three gallons honestly i don't notice it anymore maybe notice it for the first ride or two but i can have this thing filled right up and i do i do tend to fill it all the way to the top every time and just get used to riding like that and it's nice to be able to ride for a long time and it's nice that it's clear it's ugly as hell but you can see how much fuel you have which is awesome i currently have a set of dval rad guards and braces on my bike i actually started with a set of enduro engineering braces and they were trash they're super crappy and they cracked in a number of different spots and enduro engineering was not good to deal with i usually try not to bag on companies but usually companies are good to deal with and try and have good customer service and those guys definitely don't so i have these devol ones on so far they're pretty good like i'm not in love with them by any means they have a couple little weird things as far as mounting or just the way that they have something set up but they're not breaking and my rads are in good shape so i like that it's kind of an incorporated guard slash brace and uh yeah for the type of stuff that i do you can't ask for the world i understand that but i think these these braces do work quite well this is a gripper seat that i got through guts racing these ribs are awesome for like moto kind of holding you on the seat but then also some of those real slow speed kind of uphills where your feet are off the pegs and you're kind of just like paddling along these these ribs actually do a lot to keep you on the bike i have the fmf gnarly pipe on with a stock silencer i wanted to try the gnarly just by itself before going to a silencer i think maybe you know next year if i run into a problem where this silencer gets beat up and i need to replace it i might do that with an fmf full system but as far as right now this gnarly is pretty good for adding more bottom end grunt i definitely did notice it putting it on it does tend to sign off a little bit in the higher rpms so i think if you're riding more like heron hound style or moto maybe you'd want to look at something like a fatty or a pro circuit or something like that but if you're doing like hard enduro tight technical stuff the gnarly definitely helps additionally to that i have an apex technical innovations head on the bike check out my other videos that kind of talk in more detail about that i'm running the xc dome you can have you can run three different types of domes the sx mx and xc and i just found that for what i'm doing the xc kind of makes the most linear power and works the best for what i need if you have a yz250 a yz50x i'd say that's one of the first things that you can look at doing it's pretty inexpensive and you definitely do notice it i also have a set of v-force reeds on the bike that was actually one of the first things that i did to my 2017 bike was put on a set of v-force reeds and i just brought them over when i got this new bike they're awesome yeah and then the only real other thing that i've done to the engine itself is i have done the power power valve mod the power governor mod the governor mod whatever you want to call it i'm not going to get into detail about what it is google it but when these yz50xs come off the factory floor there's a slight hesitation kind of right before the bike goes from low range to mid-range and then the mid-range hits and like rips your arms out of the sockets if you're riding technical terrain you'll notice it if you're not you probably won't notice it but if you have noticed a little bit of a hesitation check out the power governor mod or the power valve mod or whatever and um yeah it helps for sure i just run a stock clutch but i'll probably end up switching over to a rekluse clutch not the auto clutch but the manual drive probably the torque drive clutch and basket next year next time i need to replace my clutch i'll end up going with that just because i think they the baskets themselves are built a little stronger and might last a little bit longer i also run a heavy flywheel weight i need to check the box to confirm which size it is it's made by gytr but you'll definitely notice a heavier flywheel on these bikes just tends to stall a little bit less i don't really notice it impacting power i don't know if i don't know that's just my honest opinion i don't really notice the power impacts i just noticed the fact that it doesn't stall as easy and once you learn how to build energy in the flywheel you can use that energy to get up over things a little bit easier and having that heavier flywheel allows me to do that better yeah i mean that's pretty much everything i've done to the engine like i said it's the most i've ever done i don't have any like head work or porting or polish or whatever they do um it is just all both bolt-on parts but the bike rips now man like uh with all the stuff that i've done if i compare it to a stock the stock engine like the things that i'm able to do with it are uh you know definitely really conducive to the type of riding that i'm excited about which is like the hard enduro technical stuff i run fast way ankle saver foot pegs and i run them in the 10 millimeter lower and back position i just find i'm a little bit taller of a person i'm about six foot two or like 188 centimeters i think that is roughly and these these foot pegs do really well to kind of just lower me bring me back a little bit and just open up the cockpit a little bit uh for me i think it's more beneficial to bring your center of gravity down than to say bring in like high-rise handlebars or a-ping or something like that so i run the ankle savers they're also just nice from a fact that i don't jump as much as i used to so it's nice to have that little bit of extra protection if i come up short or overshoot a jump just to know my ankles aren't gonna explode out of the top of my legs i run an sxs skid plate with linkage protection all built into one they're expensive but they do offer a ton of protection both obviously to your frame rails to your engine to your linkage but they also just make life easier as far as like sliding over things and that sort of stuff it's really easy to mount take on and off and i can change my my oil without pulling it off so that's that's really handy i think these bikes they come stock with a 1450 gear ratio that is too high for me in the type of stuff that i do so originally i went to a 1350 um which is good i think it's about it's it's about the equivalent of going up in the rear two or three to go down one in the front um so at 13.50 the bike worked really well i needed to replace all my stuff and i decided to go to a 1351 so even further lowering the bike down and um yeah it works really really well now can kind of pull like second gear third gear sometimes in stuff where i used to be in first and second and that just goes a long way to reduce wheel spin and kind of give you more grunt and traction so i just run like cheapo sunstar sprockets steel sprockets they last a long time and they do what i need them to do and then i always run an o-ring chain because i don't like constantly adjusting my chain and that sort of thing so yeah and then finally tires and wheels it's been nice coming from a yz250 to a 250x because with the 18-inch rear wheel i actually do notice that quite a lot in the higher speed stuff when you kind of have a log that's not huge and it kind of allows you to carry speed over it having that little bit extra sidewall definitely does help i run uh midas c19 in the front and currently i have a meters xt 754 in the rear the type of terrain that we ride where i'm from is usually soft sand loam lots of roots and not a ton of rock and this xt 754 is really rad for that it's got like nice big tall lugs and it really chews hard i think if i was riding more hard pack stuff or faster flowy stuff tires with shorter knobs definitely work better but the 754 with the taller knobs works really good for the majority of what i ride i also run a tubeless front and rear again i don't have a lot of rock where i'm from and i ride such a range of types of riding regard like depending on where i'm going i can throw in different psi and my bike just works better on average i actually tend to run the front pretty much between i would say 10 to 14 psi but probably somewhere around 12 psi almost all the time i don't like when i can feel my front tire rolling like on the sidewall and then in the rear i'll run everything from like four to six psi for technical stuff but then when i'm gonna ride moto or faster speed harder pack stuff maybe i'll go up to like 10 to 12 psi so that's what that tubeless system allows me to do yeah i think if i rode somewhere more rocky maybe i'd entertain the idea of using moose especially in the rear but i don't need to do that so i'll run what works best which for me is tubeless i'm not super picky when it comes to brake pads either oem or like something from braking or sbs or wherever one thing that i do with my brakes though is i switch out my 4 to a dot 5.1 the 5.1 has a higher boiling temperature and it just does fade less i definitely notice brake fade with the dot4 but the 5.1 for me kind of alleviates that as far as other fluids are concerned i just run pump gas and then i run amsoil dominator at 40 to 1. and then in my transmission i just run a petrocanada dextron 6 atf i've ran atf in two strokes since back in the day when my dad was putting them in my 80s and yeah again my clutches last a really long time i switched my oil out probably every i would say six to ten hours probably around eight hours is is typically when i would switch it out and i just keep track of those hours uh through an hour meter which is mounted actually cut into my bar pad up here i don't run a fan on my bike the stator doesn't have enough power to run a fan but i do run the evans waterless coolant i made that switch at the start of this year and it works really really well um i ran through four liters of 50 50 antifreeze within the first like month of having this bike i switched to the evan stuff and i've you know i it's like maybe a liter and a bit of a little jug and i've had it all season i think it just has a higher boiling temperature so yeah your bike still gets hot but the nice thing is is with regular antifreeze your bike gets hot loses coolant and then just gets more hot whereas having that evans in there at least it's always in there protecting the bike you

Channel: Jason Hamborg

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Keywords: enduro, dirtbikes, dirtbike, endurolife, 2stroke, 2strokes, ridediamonds, twostroke, twostrokes, fasstfamily, flexxmoto, #fxrmoto, moto, uswe, nodancingmonkey, motocross, motocrosslife, hardenduro, gncc, mx, yamaha, motox, yz250, yz250x

Id: TXT_jt1wnYc

Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 07 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/scotchtaster]

Wow, you have done a ton to overhaul your bike and set it up for Enduro!

Why not buy a beta or KTM xc or xcw instead of putting all that money and effort into a YZ?