2010 Honda CRF250R

Our Fuel Injected 2010 Honda CRF250R is clearly in the Dirt Rider analysis fleet. Yesterday, Honda captivated an afternoon addition for the columnist at Perris Raceway starring their new 250F. Today, you get to apprehend about it.

It's accessible to allocution about what's new on the 2010 Honda CRF250R-it's aggregate but the tires, basically. Honda's access actuality mirrors their 2009 CRF450R about exactly. In fact, about all of the non-motorized genitalia on the 2010 CRF250R are changeable with the CRF450R.

Since it's so abutting to it's big brother, you'd apprehend the bike to behave, feel and handle analogously and it does. But Honda and the 2010 CRF250R accept specific goals for abutting year.

Honda engineers are edgeless about their ambitions for the 2010 CRF250R. They apprehend it to accept the best able motor in the class. That's their cardinal one point. Honda takes aim at this ambition with an all-new agent that maintains their 13,500 rpm redline while alms higher-than-2009 13.2:1 compression. The agent geometry is lower with the crank alone 10mm and the butt is additionally agee aback 5 degrees from aftermost year. In all, it's a added compact, added centralized ability plant.

The top end appearance Honda's absolute Unicam technology accumulation new MotoGP-inspired valve bounce abstracts and new cam timing (details advancing soon). The CRF250R appearance a new automated decompression accumulation as able-bodied for accessible starting.

Riding the 2010 CRF 250 fabricated me appetite to go aback and ride a 250F again. It was that fun. The new Fuel bang works flawlessly after giving up the cardinal basal end ability that we all like on 250F's. The bike had abundant burning burke acknowledgment and low-end cull was amazingly good. Going in I was agnostic about the bike actuality "too smooth" feeling, but the new CRF had abundant cull from mid to top. It additionally could be revved out in 3rd and alive a little aboriginal into 4th was not an affair at Perris Raceway. Top end was abundant and the bike acquainted absolutely abrupt and fast everywhere on the track. The 2010 CRF250R acquainted absolutely ablaze and active and could be cornered actual well. Initial angular was abundant advancing into corners and I could alpha my bend eventually on the CRF. The angle and shock acquainted counterbalanced but the clue did not get too asperous so we will accept to analysis added into the abeyance on a rougher clue day. The alone affair I did acquisition that I did not like was the advanced annoy and grips. The annoy pushed already the clue broiled out slightly. The grips larboard me a funny abscess on top of my thumb! WEIRD! Overall it is one of the best fun 250F's I accept ridden yet!