Welcome aboard Vinduroman! Good luck with your new to you XT225. These bikes are great as light weight go anywhere trail machines, as you know given your experience with the XT your wife had. The WR250R is a killer machine, but in a class altogether different from the XT, a bike that demands being ridden 'balls to the wall' to wring the most out of it. The light weight low seat height XT225 on the other hand is comfortably at home on rugged slow speed single track where 'paddling' along is simply part of the script!

And, hey, at 67 you're not all that old, at least not around these parts of the woods!

Enjoy the site and your 'new' bike, and ride safely!