It is a great bike. Gets up to speed quick for the road but has enough grunt and manageable power for the woods.

Stop telling lies lad

@@billybarr7443 are you a sheep Billy barrrr

Thank you! And yeah I am fortunate to live in a spot that still has chunks of woods here and there that I can get to close to home and ride these bikes.

Thank you Josh. Yeah it’s got a ton of grunt and I’ll be taking it to Mid Ohio this year to ride around the fairgrounds and trails. Super comfortable bike too.

Thank you! I had this thing back in the woods last night and got caught in a pop up downpour thunderstorm. My buddy was on his 74 XL350 and both bikes made it out no problem. We were down in the valley and had many hills to climb and creeks to ride though. It was a blast

The bigger front wheel was a try-out from Honda but failed, in sand and mud it was more unstable then the smaller wheel.

Thanks for watching! 70s and 80s had so many cool innovative bikes

From brand new they came out with "trailing" tyres........ semi knobby ............

Thank you Cory!

Hope you find one! They are great bikes

Yeah, if you can find one that was well maintained for those prices I’d jump on it. While I had this bike, it was very reliable and was able to get up speed on the roads very easily. It was able to handle my trails no problem too within limitation of the dual shock that mine had. These also came later on with a more modern mono shock.

Can’t say for sure…I’ve never ridden an XT225.

Yea it does

Thanks! It was a great bike while I had it

Lol they can be! There’s an abandoned stone cabin back there that’s probably been there since the early 1900s. It’s gotta be haunted! Lol

Yup, I’m hoping to find one later this month at the Mid Ohio swap meet!

@Garage2Trail I have one for a 1981 if interested

@@coltonwalker9616 what are you looking to get for it?

@@Garage2Trail are you selling this bike

I sold it at Mid Ohio a few weeks ago.

It actually did pretty well. Gets up to 60 quickly. 2nd and 3rd gear are tall so that helps!

@@Garage2Trail Texas has 75 mph speed limits so its always a big consideration for me.

@@beardedrancher gotcha. It would probably do it but would be scary with knobbies and no wind protection lol

@@Garage2Trail fair enough lol. That's why I ask these questions. My wr250r was uncomfortable cruising at that speed. Maybe I should slap a windshield on a Dr650 instead. Or find an old cb550

@@beardedrancher the one thing that may help vs the WR250 is the XL500 wouldn’t need to be revved as high to maintain those speeds and if it had dual sport 50/50 tires it might be comfortable aside from the wind to deal with. I never had a chance to take the 500 on the highway when I had it…just back roads and it did well.