The TS 250 came out in 84 and continued unchanged through its model life? So water cooling no problem, disck brakes on front, no problem. 84 XR's had disk brakes on the front as well? I used to have a YZ250k i rode in a Vinduro and as soon as pix were posted someone made mention of it in a negative way. My lights did work. Nicad battery in the airbox. Soz for hijack, but if you love rules go and ride VMX.
The water cooled TS250 ran from 84-89, The last shape of TS
185 came out in 82 and remain unchanged until it was discontinued around 2002 (i think) The 250 saw only 1 or 2 years of production in mirrored styling of the 185 that remained for all the years after.In fact just last year they went back into production!!!
Just proving that ya cant keep a good thing down.
http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-reviews/suzuki/2012-suzuki-ts185er-ar133373.htmlThere is plenty of room in vinduro for legitimate "flow on models" that were released prior to 1985 yet went unchanged in later production years, some prime examples of later model bikes you could ride at a vinduro with no problems would be: TS 185 of any year!! DT175 of any year with drum front brake. A 1992 XT250, XR200 of any year. Yep any of these bikes would be fine at a Vinduro, although the XR200 would be spotted out by many due the much different later model Honda red all the rest would go completely un noticed at all.
VMX has its rules and many of them are there to protect the classes and keep them representing the era they are supposed to, vinduro is a social, non competitive environment. Apples n Oranges. Whoever knocked your YZ-K being at a vinduro obviously needs a little model/year re education, i personally love seeing (period correct) enduro converted motocrossers!
Cheers, Brendan
