I Bought This $500 Dirt Bike (Bad Idea?) YZ250 Build PART 1

I bought this 2006 YZ250 for $500. The engine needs a full rebuild and there are chunks of metal in the oil.
I'm going to rebuild it and see how close to a modern enduro bike I can get.

[onthethrottle]

Best tech in the industry at work, can't wait to see how this goes. I can tell you it's going to turn out perfect! Excellent show.

[MX-VS-ATV]

Ran a 18 yz250 almost bone stock enduro/hard enduro/woods for a couple years I’ve gotta say it works really good. She did bite me a few times but honestly learned so much using that bike in the way I did.

[THATREDBRZ]

Hey Chuck. Love the videos !!!! I am Allways learning something from your videos !

[MartinKLR]

Great choice of bike, really looking forward to this build.

[JJMLJ]

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with this. I know I made a lot of mistakes building mine up as a cross country bike. In hindsight, I really wish I lowered the compression to make it more enjoyable in the tight stuff. I love my friend's X.

[willmcgregor]

Looking forward to see what you think.
I have yz250 I am making changes too also

[masterbeta]

The cool thing about these bikes especially if you can get it as cheaply as you did is it goves you the opportunity to build it the way you want. You can throw $3k into it and for $3500 you can have basically a brand new bike ready to rip.

[Motosportz]

the commentary is pretty quiet in this vid. Get a mic. Thanks for all you do.

[eric-yt]

Hey Chuck,

If you ever have this issue where you get mono audio, just create another audio track in your editing software and copy and paste the audio file on the new track, then fade one trade left 100% and the other track right 100%

[RiceEater]

I would love to see a video with your input on cylinder head:squish, compression, MSV, and detonation as modifying these YZ heads is so popular

[ducaduke]

You HAVE AMAZING CONTENT PLEASE PLEASE MAKE YOUR VIDEOS LONGER HAhaha

[thewatcher]

Yamaha Fan Here. Zachatk1 Has A Video Where He Raced Enduro. Maybe You Can Get Some Tips From Him.

[traileater]

I thought you already built one, with a 40oz flywheel?

[traileater]

I know there was a big problem getting parts around covid time, not sure if thats still the case now.

[dcmotive]

Y Zed. He he. You kanucks. Ive got a 2003 Y Zed F in about that shape. Im halfway thinking of just making it electric. The top end and bottom end parts cost so much, and it might pop again cause its a problem with these.

[Vazerin]

Wish blown bikes by me were 500, just spent 1300 on a 01 YZ250 with a siezed top end that damaged the head, if I knew the head was damaged I would've never taken the bike but that's the shitty thing about Facebook, alot of liars and assholes