Daelim VJF250

Sputtering – I love my bike. It has almost 10,000ks on it now. I have one issue and that is that it's bogging down and trying to stall at about 7000 revs. Hoping it's not serious and just a partially blocked injector. Anyone else had this type of issue? How did you fix it?  Show details

Great first bike – Great first bike for the money I have had a few issues with the back brakes losing fluid but other than that no other problem. A comfortable bike to ride around town or at 110km on the high way. Always get loads of comments on how good the bike looks.  Show details

great bike but having a small problem – its a great bike got it with 7000ks and ive just hit 13000ks on it but it hasnt had a fuel filter change which is what i think the problem is only because im have trouble finding it?? and not only that i cant seem to find one online ? problem is when i go to take off giving it a quick turn of the throttle it just dies out its becoming worse and worse as the weeks go on any help would be much appreciated  Show details

Daelim VJF 250 – Don't burn it when you get your full licence as you may be able to get all your arms and legs back from some fool that buy's it so you can kick start the new bike, besides it will be a whole lot easier to hang on to your new bike but I think you may have another problem yet as to be able get your full licence you must be able to show you can ride… Read more

safely at a speed of over 43 ks an hour, that is why they build the back breaks so well as to be able to stop at a break neck speed of, yes you guessed it 43 Ks an hour but there is a positive part to all this as the fuel consumption is so low as a result of the motor not going most of the time. One last thing that you had not thought of, the stop light on the back of the bike is timed to stop working when the break stops working, yes you guessed it Daelim were able to pull that one off, or should I say fell off.

Thank you for the entertainment gave me a good laugh.

Amazing First Bike – So far I've owned this bike for about 11 months now and i can say it's been amazing. Sure it's not the best bike you can get while on your Learner but because I got it 2nd hand and turned out to be the second owner it was very cheap at $2000.. As the exhaust was stock, Unlike most 250's from lets say... Honda, the exhaust really rumbles and… Read more

it's quite loud, and i loved it, however my dad didn't, but that didn't matter.

So far I believe that I ended up getting more than i paid for.

The tires were still new, front brake pads were still really thick, but the rear pads were at the point where it should've been replace a while back before i got the bike but that wasn't a hassle.

I did find the it strange to see a kill switch where you'd expect it but since it was my first bike for my learners i had no problem with it.

I had no problems with servicing the bike as I took care of the bike at home but i still need to figure out why my engine check light still comes on, that i will take into honda and see if they have any idea's.

All out, I've had positive feedback from people around me such as friends that loved the look and sound of the bike.

Great bike for the price! – Purchased a brand new red 2013 VJF250 on 20 Dec 2014 and love it so far! Been riding it for 3 weeks and it's only done about 180km's. This is my first bike and with the new Victorian L Plate laws i'll be keeping it for at least 3 years. Comes with a 2 year unlimited km warranty. Was finding neutral a little hard to find at the start but as the… Read more

bike wears in it's getting a bit easier now. Would definitely recommend this to anyone looking at their first bike.

Great starter bike – A great bike at a great price! I've owned a VJF 250 for about a month so far and its been great, zero issues. I would definitely recommend this bike to anyone new to the motorcycle scene.

For the price - it's fantastic! – I've had the bike for 6 months now after returning to riding after a gap of a couple of decades. I have no complaints about this bike. It lacks grunt but it's a 250! Within the limits of a 250 it handles well and rides well. It looks great. Would have liked a gear indicator, BUT at $4,500 brand new with a 2 year warranty its great value. Very… Read more

easy on petrol. Only issue - for its first service I took it to an authorised dealer - that seemed expensive. Price, looks, uses no fuel It's a 250, service a little dear.

Great little bike – I have had this bike for around a month now. Bought a 2012 model brand new. I have yet to run into any issues with this bike. The first 150kms the bike did vibrate a bit but has since smoothed out, with the recent purchase of an official VJF R performance exhaust the bike now rev's much easier. great bike, would recommend it to anyone looking to get into riding reliable, great looking

Value for money – Bought this as my first bike after a bit of research... being price sensitive I found the Daelim VJF250 is a great value for money bike... I've had a number of small issues with the bike during the first 3 months: 1) I have had a sensor failure which caused the bike to rev below 1000rpm while idle and eventually (10 minutes later) caused the… Read more

bike to stop running...

2) The alternator wouldn't hold charge, so I was stuck at my destination with no working bike!

3) Brake light stopped working (found to be the brake pedal spring connector to the light activator)

All three of these issues have been rectified by the dealer I purchased this through, he has even come out to pick the bike up for me (customer service is great)! The dealer notified me that the first two issues have come up a few times, and that they now test for these issues prior to selling the bike (hopefully no one will hit them again).

I have since had the clutch fail on me... again this is being repaired and the dealer has picked up the bike again!

All in all, for the price, the minor pain points are worth it. Price is good; upright riding position; power okay Electrical / sensor issues; clutch problems; rear break light issues

Daelim VJF250 – I just love my bike ! I have had it nearly 1 year and had no problems. It looks the biz and rides well ! Very economical both on purchase price and running costs. Lady driver. In fact most people think its more than a 250 because it does look bigger Price initially Still has some plastic looking components

Great bike, brilliant value – Bought the bike for $5000 on the road and haven't looked back! 2 year warranty, plenty of power, really maneuverable in traffic and seems really solidly made. Will sit on 100 kmh really comfortably. There are some vibrations as you move through the rev range but I assume this will settle down as I pile the kays on. I achieved 4.5 l/100 k's… Read more ·  3

after my first fill which I assume will lower as the bike runs in (I was also riding it pretty hard).

Starts easily because of it's fuel injection (no silly choke to mess around with) and really looks the goods in red.

In short, I totally recommend this bike. Solidly made, efficient, looks the goods and is warranted for two years. Some vibrations, neutral a little hard to find when cold (but this happens to a lot of bikes).

First Test Ride: impressions on Daelim's New 250 – I'll try and be objective as possiple here, but for me riding is as much an emotional experience as anything else... you feel the bike, ride with it, and to divorce it from that would take away from the meaning of riding. Anyway, here goes... Ok, so I got to test-ride the 2012 VJF250 today. I have to say, overall I was extremely impressed… Read more

with this bike... though lacking in grunt I found the ride wonderfully smooth and it would be a fantastic entry level learners bike (the intended market anyway), fun to ride without being scary for a first timer. That's not to say a more experienced rider wouldn't enjoy it- if they're not a pony-queen. Those looking for raw power should look elswhere, in fact 250's really are not the ballpark for power anyway, so this bike would probably not enter their sigts.

The first thing I noticed when I got on the bike was the layout, so lets talk this out first. The front brake has a 4 point adjustable position lever,handy for those who have huge or tiny hands. For me I found the factory setting just fine for a quick ride, but customisation is always nice and it saves you getting a screwdriver out (or buying a whole new lever) if the default doesn't suit you. The instrument panel (like most new model bikes these days) is an analouge tacho with central digital speedo display, and then a side panel LCD with a few extra bits including a clock (handy), odo (naturally) trip meter (expected) temp guage (somewhat small and hard to read but not critical) and fuel guage (About the same size as the temp guage but on the oposite side and thus not sheilded by the plastic moulding on the panel so not a problem). It has a tron-like blue LCD backlight but if this annoys you you CAN turn it off... in fact it was off on my bike untill I asked them to turn it on. I liked it, some won't, but you can turn it off so that's handy. Position wise the whole dash is very easy to see so no problems there.

One thing I found a little bit tricky were the headlights. Under your right thumb where you expect a kill switch to be there is the primary light controls - on, park and off - as a selector switch. You CAN ride with your lights off on this bike, for those who wish to. The arguments about visibility can be made and countermade but I'm not going into that debate in this post. But the option is there. Your highbeams however are on a toggle switch (in for on, out for off) on the left hand side, with the flasher on the brake side of the controls where you'd expect it. Somewhat different but not an insurmountable problem imho.

Style wise the bike is very pretty... some may say it's a msih-mash of to copied styles but honestly... that could be said of a lot of bikes. it doesn't look like a direct clone, and I think it looks good on it's own merit, so I'm happy. I'm not my sisster (who is very vocal on motorcycle styles) so I'm not worried. One point of style/design: The indicators are clear mountted yellow LED's. I found these to be much nicer both in size and brightness to my old Across flashers. The distinctive shape I would think would also aid visibility.

The seating position on the VJF is almost straight up and down. In fact it was almost identicle to my old CB250. For me that ment I was immediatly relaxing into the bike, and extremely comfortable. The seat itself is a synthetic job (not leather) which appeared to be a lot more waterproof than leather (when I acidentaly spilt my complimentary water onto it nothing stuck- just shed right off) and it is VERY cosy. This is good because brand new the bike buzzes like you would not believe, though I would say I did not feel it at all through the seat, only in the pegs and knees.

Taking off; I could describe the WHOLE feel of the bike as light but grounded. The VJF is very stable, even in a stiff breeze (At 165kg dry this is to be somewhat expected) but the moment you touch the steering it responds instantly. I could see this aspect getting a new rider a little bit of a shock initially but for me, my heart lept. I had so much fun zipping around the roud-abouts fo north fitzroy, even at a sedate 40km/h. Honestly I could have done that all day. It almost felt that fun like this should be illegal. Maybe absuing council roundabouts for sheer pleasure is. I don't care. I did it anyway.

Acceleration is likewise fairly light in feel, and at first this had me dissapointed... but although the responce doesn't seem that great, when you look down at your speedo you realise that what you're NOT feeling is the jerk of a sudden pull. The power is applied very smoothly, but it IS there, at least to 60 (no highway riding for me on a test bike!). I'd potentially credit this to a slightly torquey fuel injected engine,and once I realised I was actually moving at the pace I expected, I learned to love not having the bike jump at the start.

Braking is a tricky judgement point. First let me say I have only been riding a year, so I was cautious not to put the brakes to any intensive test, but I found a nice quiet dead end cul-de-sac where I (a touch nervously) gave it a few relatively sudden stops. Again, the pull-up is extremely smooth, but here the dual front disks do their job admirably, and it pulls up very quickly... a lot more so than the old Across did. Again I am not an experienced rider and I didn't do anything close to what I'd call a 'simulated emergancy stop' but I liked what I felt, and it would be shorter by far to what I'd have expected from my previous two bikes. A final note here on the suspension: It might not be as hard as some sport bike riders like, but for city riding (or the M1 past pakenem which is always dicey at beast) it was gorgeous. I'm used to getting bounced around by anything more than 30 on your average speedbump but this thing just seemed to roll with it wonderfully...

Buzzing. This is my only bugbear for the whole ride - being new, and a thumper, I was prepared for it and I have heard that after 500-1000km the engine settles down a lot however I must report on what I felt. At anything above 6krpm, the bike buzzed like a bee. It didn't feel unstable or knock, and I wouldn't be worried about it from an engine perspective, however the feel through the pegs was a sensation I'm not really used to, and wouldn't want to live with throughout the bike's life. That being said, what I hear tells me it settles down nicely as the engine beds in, and I look forward to discovering that for myself!

Overall, the VJF is everything I'd expect from a 250cc - light, responsive, and comfortable. No, it's not an angry stallion begging to be let slip it's reigns and tear off down the street (*cough* Ducati) but it's a little 250, anyone who gets on expecting that is somewhat delusional. What it does do is pull off the curb (and through the gear range) at any rpm you like, and gets you in out and around the city and suburbia without flinching at the obstacles you encounter there, while still (on paper at least) having the up and go to make it on the highway. I honestly loved it, and for the deal I negotiated (and at 5k ride away sticker price it's already a good deal) I'm extremely happy with it, and cannot wait to have one sitting in my driveway. Price, Comfort, Handling, torque response Vibration -Should fade wit engine wear-in, may feel underpowered

Excellent – Has been a great 1st bike, handles very well and has no problems getting away at lights or doing 110km on highway. Fun to ride and looks great! Quality finish with many extras. Would recommend to anyone! Esp new bike owners! Very balanced and eary to ride Very fuel efficitnt Easy to start Centre stand Electronic dash - very easy to read Seat height slightly low 3 gear too short

I'm very happy with bike – I've owed one for 6 months no problems an great bike to learn on highly recommend for any learner to purchase. Build quality is great for price which surprised me, also slightly wide tyres give bike good grip even though speed wise u might not need them. Only thing I haven liked is bike gets boring after a while because it is so easy to ride with… Read more

grunt that is easily out grown Easy to ride and comfy, great first bike especially for people who have no experience with bikes Lack of grunt means you out grow bike quickly