The most recent harescramble events have somewhat been "test rides" to troubleshoot my YZ250F, which has been experiencing an intermittent issue that only seems to rear its head after about an hour and half of riding. Sure enough, it reared its ugly head at round two of the 2025 VCHSS series.
What really stinks, though, is that it happened during the last lap of what was shaping up to be a second-place finish.
Off the line I was last of fifteen riders, which is par for the course considering that I'm usually the only rider using a kickstart. As usual, I paced myself in order to avoid tangling with anyone making erratic passes and slowly made my way through my pack of riders, only having to fully stop twice for logjams in the tighter sections of woods. By the end of the second lap I saw a "2" while passing through the scoring gates and decided to keep the same pace that landed me there.
Although the YZ had shown some of the sputtering at higher RPM's that are a telltale sign, it hadn't shutoff and I decided to keep it happy with gentle throttle application. Without warning, though, it conked-out about three miles into the final lap.
I knew right away there was hardly any chance it would refire and that proved to be the case. I pushed the bike to a more suitable spot for extrication and watched my class ride by.
Back at the pits, everyone had a different opinion of which component might be the culprit, so I ordered a bevy of parts to swap out once home. Hopefully the problem will be solved with this next set of parts and perhaps the next race will be ridden to completion.
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