There's no F after the 2002 YZ250 so we're dealing with 2-stroke might, this time.
Generation (2002 - 2004) Ģ002 Yamaha YZ250 (P) LC Owners Service ManualĢ003 Yamaha YZ250 R LC Owners Service ManualĢ004 Yamaha YZ250 S Owners Service Manual
The front suspension was a kyb® spring-type fork with speed sensitive damping fully adjustable while the rear was equipped with a kyb® single shock full adjustable. It came with a 90/90-21 front tire and a 110/100-18 rear tire. Power was moderated via the multiplate wet clutch. The engine was a air cooled, later liquid cooled single cylinder, two-stroke. The YZs of this time were near replicas of "Works Bikes" with their aluminum fuel tanks and light weight, lacking only magnesium engine cases and a few titanium pieces. This was the beginning of the Yamaha Monocross machines that changed motocross forever. Yamaha created the very first single-shock, production motocross bike ever. The similarly named Yamaha YZ250F is intended to compete with the Yamaha YZ125. Yamaha produces a four-stroke version made to compete with this version in the YZ400F/ YZ426F/ YZ450F. It is one of the last two-stroke 250cc bikes still in production. The Yamaha YZ250 was a single cylinder, two-stroke motocross motorcycle produced by Yamaha between 19.