That's a beautiful bike.
This is dumb, but I miss my old XV250. It was way too small for me, but still fun -- and so nimble. Traded it for a project Del Sol that I wound up giving away..
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That's a beautiful bike.
This is dumb, but I miss my old XV250. It was way too small for me, but still fun -- and so nimble. Traded it for a project Del Sol that I wound up giving away..
Yamaha XV 250 "Virago" from Wikipedia image database:
It is not dumb at all: small bikes are a joy to run. Nowadays you can't speed, you can't be too bold on the road now, are you ? 🫡
Ah! OK, now that I'm looking at it again, I remember the instigation for selling was because the top exhaust pipe turns out to be fake, it's just trim. Both cylinders are routed through the bottom one. And I felt kinda cheated when I found out.