It doesnt help with one danger, running over your own feet. Ill never understand the ban myself. Its a choice, dont ride it if you dont want to.
The bans like most bans were by politicians doing what half a dozen people out of a million that squealed the loudest about how good the world would be without them and then telling the world what a great job there doing and give each other a pay rise. 
I wont mention anything else or this again. 
Thanks for posting guys. Your way to quick for me ontheR6.
Im waiting to hear of the OH&S request to ‘chop’ in a skidlid and skeletal armour.
Sold now, 83 SR400
Written off by a friend (no ill feelings) - 2013 W800
Look what Santa dropped off early....
It's a YZ250 WR.
Very few made, basically a YZ with a compliance plate & lighting.
Apparently they were released in limited numbers for Enduro competition where registration was necessary.
What year FMC. Mines a 1996 build with full road registration. I also have an 83 model IT250. My plane is to restore both of them if I ever get to retire.
Nice WR! You forgot to mention the wide ratio gearbox!
Nice ride FmC. MRsDNF, didn’t know you had an IT, I have/had a IT175, 78 model bought new when I was 12 years old, one of my favorite bikes ever. Took down motor to replace the clutch and it’s a basket case now, was in really good shape at the time buy it’s been sitting outside in the weather for 25 years now.
Only problem with the IT was the color I had a yammy blue 78 Dt 175 and loved it I wanted an IT but thought the colour was terrible ugly ..What was the bike with the purple or turquoise frame ?
What a hippie Glenn was .....
I think I used to buy weed from that guy .
It’s a 2001 model. The plan is, that when I break a leg, I get to stay home for a few weeks & mod some more flashlights….
When I got the IT my sister got a blue 78 DT175 at the same so I rode that one a little also. The 78 IT175 is what I would call baby blue or maybe powder blue with a black frame. Believe it or not I loved the color. Of course it was a beast for a 12 year old compared to the DT175, 2 different leagues. I grew up on a street of about 25 houses on one street surrounded by about 15 to 20 thousand acres of woods. There were 8 boys my age on that street and several more a year or two older or a year or two younger. I was the first to get a bike, an Indian 50 when I was five years old and that was the beginning of the bike wars. The next kid had to get a bigger and faster one. The IT put an end to all that, I was king from that point on.
The shame. 
[quote=Boaz] Only problem with the IT was the color I had a yammy blue 78 Dt 175 and loved it I wanted an IT but thought the colour was terrible ugly ..What was the bike with the purple or turquoise frame ? [/quote]
There was another trail bike like that was really good for knocking around on. The TS/ER185. The one bad thing about them was the steel tank. I'm not sure what the bike is that you never liked.
A mate has just bought a Husky 300 2 banger. Its an upmarket KTM. When the bodies able I'll have to hit him up for a ride.
A mate at work just sold a 91 model, I did not even know he rode dirt bikes. $1500. I could of cried and so would of the wife if I bought it.
Boaz, the purple framed Yamaha’s with purple graphics were YZ’s around 93-95. Some street bikes of that era also had a lot of purple graphics, not only Yamaha but other manufacturers were also using a lot of purple. The purple kept me from buying a couple of bikes in the past.
MRsDNF - your '96 WR, just out of interest, does the compliance plate say "WR 250", or "YZ 250 WR"?
96 model should have WR250 on the compliance plate, these were factory built enduro models with wide ratio gearboxes (hence WR) these were then converted in Australia to meet ADR requirements. Your 2001 model is a little different in that they were left over 2000 model YZ250’s that Yamaha Australia had left over unsold at the end of 2000. They took these and added all the ADR components to make them road registerable, they don’t have the wide ratio gearbox or the larger fuel tank that some of the earlier models had. They also don’t have the “enduro tuned” suspension of the earlier ones, they are a full on YZ250 motocross model with lights. They are fantastic bikes, I love 2 stroke dirt bikes and being road legal just makes them even better! Pity they don’t make them anymore, which makes them highly sought after. Yours looks extremely original too (bar the FMF pipe) it doesn’t look like it’s seen much work, nice find :bigsmile:
My bikes not home at the moment so l cant check. I'm sure mine was converted here in Melbourne by Bert Flood as it has his sticker on it somewhere from memory. His factory was around the corner from where I used to live.
Thanks for the confirmation, BIGBLOCKMOPAR.
Information on the origins of the bike is pretty slim, but what you said backs up what I have been able to find out.
I got the original pipe & muffler with it, along with a few spares, including a larger tank.
The name Bert Flood came up a lot when I was searching for info, but it seems that it was the earlier bikes (pre-2000) that were converted by them.
Looks like I got myself a ‘factory hotrod’ :bigsmile:
Bert Flood used to be the importer of KTM, he did all the ADR conversion on them in his factory in Ringwood. When he lost the importation rights to KTM, Yamaha Australia approached him to do ADR conversions for them because he had a lot of experience with making bikes meet our local regs. The early WR’s will have Bert Flood Imports/ Motorsports ( too long ago, can’t remember which!) on them, the later ones will have YZR ENGINEERING on them which is a company Bert Flood and John Redding set up solely for the purpose of doing ADR conversions for Yamaha Australia.