Vintage Dirt Bike Q & A

HI
what other kick starters will fit the cr250m as my CF pipe is too close to use cant get a good kick when starting the engine.need something that turns out a bit more to give me clearance
thanks
jim

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Jim Garvey
1x honda cr250m 1973 in bits
1x honda cr250 champion dirttracker
1x yamaha tt500 dirttracker 1976
1x yetman triumph dirttracker
1x tt500 longtack speedway bike
1 x 1940 350 ariel speedway bike
1 x bultaco astro grasstrack bike antig

The MR250 kickstarter should fit, as the shaft is the same as the early CR250M's. I have a picture of both bikes side by side and it looks to me like the MR250 kick arm may be an inch or so shorter than the CR250M arm, but I don't know if that will help you or make things worse.

I think if it were me, I'd try bending my existing arm out a bit more. I'd obviously do it off the bike, and with the arm bend point heated cherry red.

There's a CR250M kicker on eBay right now, and every now and then someone parts out an MR250, although they're fairly rare.

Ray

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'74 CR125M (175cc), '75 MR175, '82 RM250Z, '08 YZ250F, '14 Zero FX electric, '14 Zero MX electric, '18 Alta MXR electric