Yamaha Wr 200

[dea-tor]

Hi All, Just joined and my first post

Can anyone give me some experiances regarding power on the yamaha wr 200

I have just purchased a second hand one in the United Kingdom, it is road registered as a 1998, having viewed the previous forum topics it would transpire that this model was a short production one way back in the early nineties

It starts always after the second kick, the carb is clean(Mikuni t30ss) the electronic powervalve is set up correctley just bought a new servo from yamaha £250

Standard gearbox ratio and sprockets(15/52),stock front pipe & dep silencer

The symptoms i have is low bottem end torque, the bike pulls like a train and tops at around 80MPH

I would have thought the bike should power weelie in the low gears, but it does not

I have a yamaha service manual, the overview is this was a race bike, but with a low torque bottom end and 80MPH top end i can only summise this was for flat out straight road racing and not offroad competion ?

Maybe be its me who has got it wrong

I would apprieciate any members past experiances on this bike

Kind regards Dea-tor United kingdom :ride:

 

[fuzzy]

It was Yamaha's short-lived 200cc enduro bike. YZ125 based version of the WR250. Really more of a beginners woods bike/great trail bike than anything else.

 

[nectar]

chg frt sprocket to 13...will help low end, but lower top speed....