Vintage Dirt Bike Q & A

The tyre is one that came to me free with a bike i bought, a modern(ish) KTM250EXC. It was a spare the guy had bought before he decided to reuse the KTM's motor in a buggy... I bought what he didnt use for another project. So its a modern 18inch tyre... An IRC Volcanduro VE-33 in 5:10 18.

Today I fitted a bunch more new parts to this bike. I finally tracked down a NOS clutch cable by buying a CR250 version and the slowly filing down the engine end lever pin, if the engine was apart and i was doing this again I would just drill out the holes of course, but thats not so easy with the engine built and in the frame.

Also fitted a new front brake switch along with new levers, new pins and new covers, all available cheaply enough from Honda.

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MT250 with CR250 top end & Bassani pipe... almost fully restored.

See more of my motorbike builds at my Honda MT250 and Yamaha RD and RZ website, 2Smoked.com

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I keep doing small jobs on this bike like fitting the rear brake switch spring and a bunch of other stuff, and I finally found an OEM CR250 inlet manifold in good condition, but seems the inlet is 40mm and the 36mm round slide mikuni i wanted to fit is 43. I guess i could take some material off but it seems a bad plan on a new carb LOL. so this bike is still not yet a runner....

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MT250 with CR250 top end & Bassani pipe... almost fully restored.

See more of my motorbike builds at my Honda MT250 and Yamaha RD and RZ website, 2Smoked.com

If you like watches, check out my websites: DeskDivers.com & PloProf.com