Monkey Flip Productions and our Yamaha WR250R and WR250X lowering link video

Monkey Flip Productions did a fantastic job on our new WR250R and WR250X YamaLink install video!!

Also, scottmac from ThumperTalk took some excellent before-and-after photos. Click HERE for a direct link. The riders on TT have been very helpful in the production and follow-up of the YamaLink. Truly a great resource!

High Desert Adventures Backcountry Motorcycle Tours

While replying to a customer's inquiry for his WR, we visited his website, High Desert Adventures Backcountry Motorcycle Tours. Seems to be a theme this past few days: incredible photos that make you want to get up off your lazy ass and get on a motorcycle!

Alaska trip photos from WR250R/X #1 customer

Kathy, in a round about way, was responsible for the WR250R and X YamaLink. We were on the fence about producing the motorcycle lowering link, but her email a few months back was the deciding factor of us going to production. It was so simple. Basically a "I would like to touch the ground....can you help?"

Here are some beeeautiful photos from Kathy's recent trip to Alaska.

Motorcycle Lowering Links WR250F feedback

Found this posted at ThumperTalk about the WR250F YamaLink.


HI! I just got a Yamalink too for my wr250 and I'm freakin happy with it! Don't cut the kickstand until you get your suspension where you want it--we cut mine after the link but before fixing sag and it turned out we didn't need to cut it (but it's not that bad).

Yamalink has been awesome answering all my techie questions too, dont' hesitate to ask!

Here's how I lowered the bike before YL
shaved at lesat 1 1/2" from the seat
moved forks up in the clamps about 15 mm
softened sag to 4 7/8" (I know...) and softened comp
I could touch with tip toes, had to concentrate to get my leg over the back to get on

I popped on the Yamalink, I can get the balls of my feet down.

Without fixing anything I rode around an mx track, the front end was bouncing around, so we stiffened the back comp, that made it much better.

I was fighting the softened suspension(yay! going faster!), so we put the sag at 3 3/4" MUCH BETTER, brought the back end up so bike wasn't choppery.
Also, the spring is right for me, and the forks are set at stock, so far.

I went to the Oregon dez, had an awesome time, the bike handled SO MUCH better. I had a friend who is an expert rider, who rides the same places I do and is close enough to my weight ride my bike to feel out the suspension and he said it felt smooth and he was happy to ride it(he wouldn't tweak it too far from what it was). He was also surprised the link did not "seem" to affect suspension travel(you know how everyone say a link sacrifices suspension performance) --I told him to bang the whoops .

So, I thought the link was cool "just" to lower the bike, BUT it allowed me to set up my suspension better, and y'all know when your suspension is set up right for you you go FASTER--I even bottomed out my front forks so now I get to stiffen those up. WOO! It also seemed to lower the center of gravity. So a LOT more perks than just getting feet down!! IN a few weeks I'm going to go ride in the western Oregon mountain stuff (where you soften up your suspension and what I ride most) so I'll see how the sag, etc goes. I might try putting it at 3.5".

Hope that helps!!

PS, I got a "mom was freakin fast" from my son, and my husband said "wow I didn't have to wait for you forever" (after a straight 10 miles stretch of trial)==so that made me super happy!

Put another YamaLink on the barby, mate!

Kangaroos. Great motorcycle racers. Yamaha riders under 68 inches (that's 5'8", fyi).

The country of Australia is a mecca for shorter Yamaha riders. I can fill out a US customs form in my sleep ever since word got out Down Under.

I think Australia may have passed Canada as the top YamaLink buying country.

We have a bet in the office as to how long it'll take someone from the countries of Vietnam and Chile to purchase. My money is on Chile. At least they had an ISDE a few years back so there's gotta be WRs and YZs, ya think? I've traveled to Vietnam. Scooters galore!

Iceland is NOT Ireland in YamaLink Land

Seems the postal service, the US one, likes to send boxes of YamaLinks to Ireland instead of Iceland. So after spending $50 to ship and get a surprise return, our customer chose UPS. Guess how much. Go 'head. Guess.... (we'll wait).

$190!!!!!!!!!!!! It only takes 4 days, but it'll take much longer to get over the sticker shock. We split the difference to apologize for what happened (truth be known, it was out of the US postal system's hands when the screwup occurred), but, wow, $190!!!!!????

Her name is Misty, and she wants info on the YamaLink

Remember the days before Caller ID, when you could prank call a friend's parents or order a truckload of cole slaw on their behalf?

We're cleaning out our phone messages and came across a funny one. Believe it was left a month ago.

Someone named Misty said, "...I'd like some information on your mo-tor-cyyyy-cle lower-ing links." If you read that paraphrase in a tone that pretends to not know what a motorcycle lowering link is, it's even funnier."

Our Caller ID listed the small town where Misty called from.

The next two days we received similar calls from bike shops in California. Asked for some basic information. Never placed orders, but they were specific about the years of Yamahas in need of lowering. Now, I'm a bettin' man, and I'd bet my new Yamaha YZ450F that Misty and the two girls who called from the bike shops are friends.

We never returned Misty's call. We figure she's busy calling other companies from her cell phone and disguising her voice as a naive and curious would-be parts buyer.

For the record, the most cole slaw we ever ordered was 22 pounds.

Not so good YamaLink report

Looong story short, 3 weeks ago we sent a European distributor a big box of WRF YamaLinks. Three minutes ago the postal lady returned them. All!

Of course we've made contact with the Euro buyer and even sent a photo providing "proof." Odd, after 3 weeks I'd be contacting us asking "Hey, where the heck are the YamaLinks?" Nope.

I'm sure it's a minor setback for them, but we do feel bad. But how are we to know no one would be on the other end to sign for the big box? Sigh.

Good YamaLink WR250F report

"I had an awesome long weekend at China Hat.... A few people asked me all about the Yamalink (see the stickers worked!) and I tried to answer their techie questions best I could(both guys that were camped nearby, and I rode with one of them one day, so they could see how I was doing with it). I was wondering if you had some sort of articles or write up about how your link works and the measurements, etc, so I can better answer questions....it has really helped me set the bike up properly with suspension and be more confident and faster. I only had one tip over--total brain fart moment going around a sandy super tight turn with no room to lean the bike over, wasn't a height issue at all, and the other time I almost lost it--getting going again at a intersection having to get started over loose grapefruit lava rocks, I saved it cuz I could get my feet down, that would have really hurt me or WORSE broke something on my bike if I had tipped over.

Just wanted to let you know I'm blabbing! I even bottomed out my front forks a couple times, I never expected to be able to do that in a million years "and I owe it all to Yamalink."

Drew is a happy WR250X YamaLink guy!

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!

I got my link today after being at work for 12 hours. I got home and had dinner and stared at the package, tired and unable to go to the garage. After pondering it for about another minute, I got up and headed out anyway.

I followed the directions to the letter. They couldn't be better. Every line was spot on (and funnier than the next). It took me about 40 min as the fit was tight ant took a bit to get it back in place, but never the less, I persuaded it gently. I got it all together and stared at the motorcycle jack.....it was time.

I released the jack and she came down slowly. Though the difference was slight, I could see it. (I have become one with my WR250X, I could tell). Now time to swing my leg over.

Up til now I had to prepare for this feat. I am 5'5", and getting on was not as easy as I would like. In the past I could get one foot flat only if the other was on a peg and my butt was slightly off center. But now, now I had one foot flat, sitting firmly in my saddle. Though I cannot flatfoot both at the same time, my stance is very comfortable now. I wouldn't want it any lower for this style of bike.

I waited til the testing was done on a new model Yamalink.

I waited for the first production batch.

I missed my chance for the first batch, and waited again.

I got the first of the second batch ordered.

It was sent the day I was promised.

It arrived 2 days later.

It went on the bike fairly easily.

I fell in love all over again.

Your product is incredible, but more so is your customer service. The only thing I am upset about is the fact that you don't have a t-shirt available for me to wear to advertise for you, so others would ask what my new smile is about and I could point to the shirt, then the bike.

Thanks again, for making shorties smile. Yamalink is my best WR250X modification thus far, and probably will remain at the top!

Feel free to post my delight. And if anyone questions the benifits, send them my way. I have no connection to the company, but a HUGE connection to the product!

Drew

Someone failed the motorcycle skills test!

I don't know about your state, but our state has a very - oh how do I be polite about this - jacked up and totally wrong from a common sense point of view motorcycle skills test. You know, answers like "in a panic situation slam on the rear brake and keep it on until you have come to a complete stop."

Without giving up names, someone on staff failed the skills test. Someone with 35 years of safe road riding. Hahahahahaha!!!

WR250R/X Yamaha lowering link online tutorial

The best online example of how to utilize the factory one inch lowering on your WR250R/X is found by clicking HERE.

Yamaha Lowering Link for the WR250R WR250X

There's noooo way it'll be backordered

Talk about feeling like a db. We had many wanting to pre-order the new WR250R/X YamaLink for the past week or three, but we told them "heeeey, you have nothing to worry about." Why? Cuz the product is brand new, word isn't out, our supply will be good.

Nope. Wake up. Read emails. Each one is spoken for, and when you throw in a few shops hitting the 'buy' button like an angry kid whaling on his little brother, well, you have an "out of stock" situation. Not good. Not good. One potential buyer named Drew got the shaft the worst cuz he asked a few times "I want to pre-order so I get mine." Sigh.

Right now we have the CNC machine in overdrive! And every pre-order has free domestic shipping and we're paying for 1/2 of overseas shipping on the WR250R/X YamaLink. That'll teach us!

Blisters the size of silver dollars

The 2008 Idaho City Enduro is in the record books....and so is the size of my blisters! 117.5 miles of chopped out trail (albeit perfect traction!) and a slight tendency to hang on for dear life has given me two beeeautiful palm-sized pain zones. In fact, I'm surprised I haven't passed out from typing like I did from the discomfort of the hot shower water hitting my hands.

Okay, time to lay down and wimper.