Riding those little 250s around the hills is a hoot. Wish I still had access to our daughters TU250.
Scooting around the gravel tracks out back on the little XT the other week I thought exactly the same.
Doing the sweeps and later twisties from Noojee to Powelltown was quite intense and a shyteload of fun topping out at a screaming 107kmh....the 110kg felt like a B12 in Tassie @230, wandering all over the place.
Great fun....and easily as quick through the twisties as on any bigger bike.
The 2 guys on the chrome-buckets didn't know what hit 'em when the 250/300 chookies-on-knobbies screamed past at the top of their lungs....
I want white-wall knobbies next, hell yeah!