Kilo

I bought my YBR new, and now it's 4years old and has almost 25000km. The only thing, that needed to repair, was front main light bulb, which costs about 5Euro. Apart from that it's just riding, changing oil as needed and refuelling. I expect, that I will have to change chain set soon, maybe it will last up to 30k km, but that's it. But thats not a fault, chain set is just like oil - it needs changing in regular intervals. I bought this bike, because I wanted (mostly) a daily commute with a bit of fun factor added. With decent tyres you can cut corners pretty fast (the bike has really good frame and front brake in its price category), acceleration up to 80kmh is better than most cars and fuel efficiency is about 3-4litre/100km, depends on style. I would not recommend the bike for someone with touristic ambitions and also it's really small, if you are planning on riding in two. Also, the power output isn't great for a 250cc. Honda and Kawasaki are offering more powerful 250s (about 31hp if I'm not mistaken, while YBR only has 22). Rear brake is a crappy drum brake, but who uses rear brakes on a bike anyway, right? I also had an accident when dog crossed my path in a village. What to say. Dog dead or mortally wounded, I had disclocated arm with broken collar bone and YBR was cool. Scratches on muffler and right mirror and thats all. The bike is built from classic steel, not the chinese one (without iron), I guess. I read a story about CBF125, which got bent steering bars, as it fell from side stand, this will definitely not happen with the YBR. So thats my experience, if it helps. And also sorry for any errors, but english isn't my native language ;-)