i am looking at a 1987 250x for riding in trails and just around home. i have a friends that goes to the michigan dunes a couple times each year with his 250r. i know i couldn't keep up with him but would it atleast prefrom well in the dunes? thanks

 

It will get around enough to be fun. My wife rode a Suzuki Quadsport 250 4 stroke for years in the sand, pretty comparable machine I suppose. Worked well, and a nice trail bike. Get a pipe and open the airbox because you will want all the breathing you can get. Let 'er rip!

 

My cousin has one ported and polished and bored out to about a 315 or something and it runs close with my z400. I'd say you'll have some good fun on it and later maybe you can hop it up a little bit, God bless.

 

I ride the silver lake dunes in michigan.
A 250x will make it around but it might be tough to make it up the bigger hills, might help to have paddles.
I started on a 225 yamaha 3-wheeler with nobbie tires and had a lot of fun.

 

In ' 95, I rode in Silver Lake with some guys, and one had a 250x with Maxxis Sur Tracs on the back,flipped to the sand/snow direction, and he had a blast, roosting up the dunes, sliding on the top,etc. Sure,he couldn't keep up with the Banshee in the group, but neither could I !!! I never heard him complain about lack of power, but he was a smaller guy, you didn't say how tall / heavy you were,so I can't say how it will haul you around.

 

first of all i think silver lake is the place where my friend goes but i am not sure. second of all i am a small guy too. well i am only 13 but i am 5'4 and weigh 115 lbs.

 

does that help at all?

 

it will be a graet quad for you to start out on, you wont outgrow it anyitme soon.
good all around quad, but it will never be the fastest.

 

It will be fine, I see guys on less bike than that doing ok.

 

Go buy it already.