Yamaha V-star 250
The Yamaha V-star 250 has a top speed of 120 km/h, produces 21 hp and weighs 145 kg. Motoryk rates it 6.5/10.
์ผ๋งํ V-Star 250 (์ด์ ์์ฅ์์๋ Virago 250์ผ๋ก ์๋ ค์ง) ์ 1988๋ ์ ์ถ์๋ XV250 ๊ธฐ์ข ์์ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ์์ ๊ฑฐ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ, ์์ฐ ์ค์ธ ์ํธ๋ฆฌ๊ธ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ ์ค ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค๋ ์๋ํ ์ ํ ์ค ํ๋์ ๋๋ค.๋ํ V-ํธ์ ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณธ๋ ์ ๋ง๋ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ์ด ๋ฐ์ด๋๊ณ ์ด๋ณด์๋ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฉํ ์ ์๋ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ ๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 249cc V-ํธ์ ์์ง์ด ํ์ฌ๋์ด ์ ์ ๋ฐฐ๊ธฐ๋์์๋ ์ง์ ํ ํฌ๋ฃจ์ ํน์ฑ์ ์ด๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค.๊ธด ์๋ช ๊ณผ ์ ๋ ดํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋๋ถ์ ์ต์ด์ ๋ชจํฐ์ฌ์ดํด๋ก ์ธ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ป์์ผ๋ฉฐ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ด๋ณด์ ๋ผ์ด๋ ์ฝ์ค์ ํ์ํ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฆฌ ์ก์์ต๋๋ค.
21 hp
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19.6 Nm
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145 kg
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120 km/h
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2.7 L/100km or approximately 37 km/L (typical real-world average)
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Bulletproof Starter Reliability
The V-Star 250 is widely regarded as one of the most reliable beginner bikes ever made, with many owners reporting 20,000+ miles with minimal maintenance beyond basic oil changes and chain adjustments.
Watch the Carburetor
The most common issue is a gummed-up carburetor from sitting unused โ always inspect for rough idling or hard starting, as ethanol-blended fuel causes buildup quickly if the bike is stored without fuel stabilizer.
Strong Resale Value
Due to high demand from new riders and a discontinued production status (last made in 2017), used V-Star 250s hold their value unusually well and often sell close to their original purchase price in good condition.
์ฐ๋๋ณ ์ธ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์
์๋๋ Virago 250์ผ๋ก ํ๋งค๋์๊ณ , 2008๋ ์ V-Star 250์ผ๋ก ๋ธ๋๋๋ฅผ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์ฐ ๊ณผ์ ๋ด๋ด ํฐ ๊ธฐ๊ณ์ ๋ณํ๋ ์์์ต๋๋ค.
"๊ตฌ๋งคํ ์ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ์งํ ์ด๋ณด์ ์์ ๊ฑฐ."
์ ๋ V-Star 250์ 18๊ฐ์ ๋์ ๋งค์ผ ์ถํด๊ทผํ๋ฉฐ ๋ผ์ด๋ฉํ๋๋ฐ, ์ค๋กํ ์ปจํธ๋กค๊ณผ ์ฝ๋๋ง ๋ผ์ธ์ ๋ํด ๊ทธ ์ด๋ค ์ฝ์ค๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฒ์ ๋ฐฐ์ธ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ก ์ฒด๋ ฅ์ ์ฃฝ์ด์ง ์๊ณ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ฆ์ ํผํ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์ฃ .V-ํธ์ ๋ฒ๋ธ์ 249cc์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ ๋ง ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, 690mm์ ์ํธ ๋์ด๋ ํค๊ฐ ์์ ๋ผ์ด๋๋ ์์ ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ฉด์ ๋ฟ์ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋ฏธํฉ๋๋ค.๊ณ ์ฅ์ด ๋๋ ๊ณณ์ ์์ 90km๋ฅผ ๋์ด์๋ ๊ณณ์ด๊ณ , ๋ชจํฐ๊ฐ ๋น๋ช ์ ์ง๋ฅด๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ์ธ์ ์ง๋ํ์ฌ ์ธ๋ชจ์๊ฒ ๋๊ณ , ๊ณ ์๋๋ก๋ ๋ง์น ๊ธฐ๋์ฒ๋ผ ๋๊ปด์ง๋๋ค.์ง์ง ์์ํจ์ ์๋์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ณด ๋ผ์ด๋๋ค์ด ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๋ ๋์ ์์ํจ์ ๋๋ ์ ์์ ๋งํผ ์ฝ์คํฌ์ ์ ์ ์ต๋๋ค.
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์ค๊ณ ๊ตฌ๋งค์ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ
"A solid learner bike you'll definitely want to sell within a year."
$2,500-$3,800 usedLook, the V-Star 250 is exactly what it looks like โ a beginner bike wearing cruiser clothes. And honestly? That's fine. It's genuinely pretty, pulls off the classic bobber aesthetic surprisingly well for the money, and won't terrify a new rider into a ditch. The 249cc air-cooled single is smooth enough at city speeds, and used examples are everywhere in the $2,500-$3,500 range. Parts availability is decent, maintenance is dead simple, and insurance costs almost nothing. But let's be real about the limitations. Highway riding is a white-knuckle prayer โ 70mph has that motor screaming and vibrating like it owes you money. Two-up riding is essentially a joke. And experienced riders will outgrow it embarrassingly fast, probably within six months. Check the carb carefully on older examples; they gum up fast if the bike sat. Also inspect the fork seals โ these bikes get dropped by beginners constantly.
Top 10 Accessories
Curated picks for the Yamaha V-star 250 โ owned, ridden, recommended.
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Rough idle, hard start, or hesitation during acceleration
Oil residue on front forks below seals
Slow crank or no start on first attempt
Spongy feel or reduced stopping power at rear
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Very reliable, easy cheap fix beginner bike
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are common problems with the Yamaha V-star 250? +
Carburetor clogging from old fuel: Rough idle, hard start, or hesitation during acceleration (moderate) | Fork seal leaks on aged units: Oil residue on front forks below seals (moderate) | Battery drain from long storage periods: Slow crank or no start on first attempt (minor)
Is the Yamaha V-star 250 a good motorcycle? +
A solid learner bike you'll definitely want to sell within a year. Rating: 6.5/10. Best for: Brand new riders wanting urban commuter cruiser. Avoid if: You already have any riding experience whatsoever.
What is the horsepower of the Yamaha V-star 250? +
The Yamaha V-star 250 produces 21 hp @ 8,000 rpm, with 19.6 Nm @ 6,000 rpm of torque. Top speed: 120 km/h.
Is the Yamaha V-star 250 good for beginners? +
Yes โ the Yamaha V-star 250 is a reasonable choice for new riders (21 hp is manageable), weighing 145 kg. Brand new riders wanting urban commuter cruiser
Is the Yamaha V-star 250 reliable? +
The Yamaha V-star 250 has no widely-reported critical reliability issues. 4 minor issues are documented โ see the Common Problems section above.
Is the Yamaha V-star 250 good for daily use? +
Brand new riders wanting urban commuter cruiser Fuel: 2.7 L/100km or approximately 37 km/L (typical real-world average).
How fast is the Yamaha V-star 250? +
The Yamaha V-star 250 reaches a top speed of 120 km/h, producing 21 hp at 145 kg curb weight. Real-world performance depends on rider weight, gearing, and road conditions.
What gear should I buy for a Yamaha V-star 250? +
Motoryk has curated a Top 10 gear list specifically for the Yamaha V-star 250, covering engine oil, tires, chain, battery, and brake pads โ see motoryk.com/bikes/yamaha/v-star-250/top10. Each pick is matched to this bike's spec.
