VOLUME ISSUE OCTOBER , P107
As always, the 2025
Yamaha YZ250F likes to
be ridden hard. After all,
it's a pure race bike.
PHOTOS: KIT PALMER
A
fter a major update
last year, the 2025
Yamaha YZ250F re-
turns with small refinements,
mostly to the suspension. A
few other tweaks were made
to make living with it a little
more enjoyable.
Updates to the 2025
Yamaha YZ250F include
revised front and rear suspen
-
sion featuring an updated
rear linkage, new shock and
fork settings, a lighter spring
rate for the rear shock, and
delta-shaped piston shims
in the fork. Yamaha said
these changes were made to
improve stability and trac
-
tion and give the bike a more
planted feel at the front end.
A new handlebar switch box
features a revamped ribbed
design to help the rider avoid
pressing the wrong button
while wearing gloves. The
mapping and engine kill but
-
tons are also now recessed
to reduce the chance of
inadvertently bumping them.
Additionally, the throttle tube
now has greater spacing
between the grip and housing
assembly to eliminate what
has become known as "Ya
-
mathumb," aka blisters.
Furthermore, the footpeg
bracket design is lighter and
modified to give your ankles a
better grip on the bike.
The already-proven engine
is unchanged except for map
-
ping, which has been revised.
The 2025 Yamaha YZ250F
returns with the same $8899
MSRP. The Monster Energy
Edition version returns, as
well. It's the same motorcycle
but with different (black)
graphics. The special graph
-
ics will cost you a couple hun-
dred dollars more at $9099.
We recently spent a day
riding the '25 YZ250F at Fox
Raceway (Pala, California)
and found the bike to be an
improvement over the '24
model despite the few and
seemingly minor updates. All
the tweaks Yamaha made
to the bike were steps in the
right direction, even if they
were only baby steps.
One of the few gripes we
had with the '24 model was
its standard engine map. It
