{"id":13073,"date":"2014-08-26T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=13073"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:20:38","slug":"79-yamaha-it250-impulse-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/08\/79-yamaha-it250-impulse-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"79 Yamaha IT250 &#8211; impulse buy #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know&#8230; I&#8217;ve always been impulsive with making decisions. Yesterday was one of those days.<\/p>\n<p>Someone in middle-north NJ put a Yamaha IT250 on craigslist. Within 2 hours I called him and decided to go check it out.<\/p>\n<p>The guy wanted $650. I bought it for $540. No title. Stuff like this goes quick, so you gotta be prepared to pull the trigger asap. Huge thanks to neighbor Brian for helping me get it!<\/p>\n<p>It needs some TLC, but it seems to run legit. It&#8217;ll shape up well. It&#8217;s gnarly fast.<\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t know what the IT is&#8230; it&#8217;s basically a full on race YZ version with lights and street legal. So it&#8217;s the holy-grail of street legal and off-road 2 stroke Yamahas. IMO.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not 100% positive on all this&#8230; but differences between the normal Yamaha DT\/CT versions and the IT versions are that the IT had:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>YZ motor<\/li>\n<li>YZ suspension<\/li>\n<li>better expansion chamber<\/li>\n<li>bigger carb<\/li>\n<li>different head and piston<\/li>\n<li>similar gearing to YZ &#8211; 6spd<\/li>\n<li>light aluminum wheels<\/li>\n<li>no oil injection<\/li>\n<li>plastic everything<\/li>\n<li>light magnesium hubs<\/li>\n<li>footpegs, shifters and rear-brake levers that fold in<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping to not put much of any money in this thing. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>The motor sounds good. It runs pretty good as is. Tires are good.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping to clean it up. Do the wiring. Give it a full tune up. Do the VT registration trick, and just rip on it. It has a sweet custom Kawasaki spark arrester ha. Def keeping that.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I&#8217;d prefer the IT175 but they&#8217;re super rare. I don&#8217;t need the fastest bike. I haven&#8217;t seen many IT&#8217;s pop up on the east coast at all. I always see them on eBay in Cali. I&#8217;m an avid ebay\/CL stalker. Yann has the IT400, he got it out at mid-ohio. <\/p>\n<p>I rode it around the neighborhood last night and on del ave for a bit. The front wheel pops up in every gear.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison. The 79 IT250 had around 35hp. Where the 79 DT250 had around 18.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-11.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-11.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-11-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-21.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-21.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-21-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-31.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-31.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-31-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-41.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-41.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-41-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-51.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-51.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-51.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-51-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"cott-article__copy-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-61.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-61.jpg\" alt=\"photo 6\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-61.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/photo-61-1100x825.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya know&#8230; I&#8217;ve always been impulsive with making decisions. Yesterday was one of those days. Someone in middle-north NJ put a Yamaha IT250 on craigslist. Within 2 hours I called him and decided to go check it out. The guy wanted $650. I bought it for $540. No title. Stuff like this goes quick, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156,190,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13073"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13138,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13073\/revisions\/13138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}