Vintage Dirt Bike Q & A

ive had 2 '79 CR250's,2 '78 Cr250 and a 1980 CR250 over the years and i just cant get comfortable on one.I love everything about the bike but the handlebar/footpeg/seat height relation ship just never seems right........what do you guys think and do to make yours fit you?

At 5' 7" I am very comfortable on mine with Renthal Honda CR Low bend bars and IMS footpegs. The stock gear lever is too short even for my Size 8 boots (old school boots are better!).

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Michael Stiles
1979 Honda CR250R Elsinore | 2006 Husqvarna SM510R | 2007 Service Honda CR500R-AF

I think the footpegs are way too high...they could be lowered from what I can see by about 2 inches and then be even with the frame...that would give us tall guys a little room. Don't understand why the footpegs would be up so high.

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Garry Mainer
#33m (retired)
Honda Cr250r 1980
Honda Cr250r 1980
Yamaha TY250C 1976
Arctic Cat 650 H1 2007

i have trouble just finding a handlebar with the rise like the original have- i cant imagine using low cr bend-i feel like im sitting waaaay up on top the bike-not in it

thats exactly how I feel....especially when I stand up. I plan on doing some mods on the footpegs to see what happens.
I wonder if you rode pre-evo bikes and maybe did a little flat tracking, like I did when I was younger and are still looking for that lower center of gravity. It seems to me that motocross evolved out of trail riding and they have kept pushing the limit as to what a bike can do...they can only make them so powerful, but they can make them jump higher, thus the long travel suspension....I think the high jumps are cool..for the young guys....but not me at my age.
Went to a new track last night and the whole track less than a half mile had like 30 jumps of which 7 were table tops, hell you never got out of third gear. That just ain't motocross where I come from. Guess I'm getting old.

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Garry Mainer
#33m (retired)
Honda Cr250r 1980
Honda Cr250r 1980
Yamaha TY250C 1976
Arctic Cat 650 H1 2007