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Originally Posted by
Petenz
This is so true...
The last thing the XT likes is low revs in a to higher gear...
" Suzuki DR650 is the same & they blow 3rd gear apart real fast"
I have found lowering the gearing to 14/48 sprokets that goes along way to cureing the prob..and is only 500rpm more at 100kph in 5 gear.....
I feel my TTR250 is a far more flexable motor in that it dosn't complain
nearly as much if yer in the wrong gear/wrong revs...
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Fwiw, I think the gearing alteration would go a long way towards helping engine reliability. Also, it's true the 250 4-strokes don't seem to hammer their gearboxes, probably because they are all short (relatively) stroke engines, revving much harder than the bigger motors for a given speed, and their gears might be more lightly loaded anyway.