Re: It's a sickness...
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:09 pm
Is it just my imagination or are KR250's becoming a bit of a subculture?
The 2Stroke website for the Southern Hemisphere
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Thanks for the welcome blokes.Richie_rich wrote:Welcome! Very nice bikes you have there. I like the fork and wheel mods on the RG - are they aprilia? It's not obvious when you first look at the photo but looks like a nice upgrade and a nice change from the usual RGV mods.
Good eye - yes that's a set of RS250 wheels, brakes and forks.
It's a surprisingly easy mod, the steering stem is exactly the same length and thread pitch, I had spacers made up for the lower stem bearing and rear wheel, and welded a tang onto a crappy RG swingarm I had to secure the rear caliper bracket and that's about it!
I can now run easy-to-find radial rubber and the brakes are sensational.
Good luck with KR250, will watch your progress with interest.
Thanks, I think I'm going to need it.
I grabbed mine reasonably cheaply, but photos only show so much - I'm dreading getting it home to find the real issues!
Some progress shots of the RG (not the real early nasty ones though)...BRG1200 wrote:What wheels have you got on your Rg500? Looks good on them.
As above!
Handsome looking trailies.
Ta, the water-cooled one has tried to kill me at least once.
I do fear however that it may need to make way for the KR - wanna buy it?
Have you got any "before" photos? Would be very interesting to see where you started from, I'm presuming you've done a truckload of work on them.
Thanks!Richie_rich wrote:Looks like you've done a lovely job on the RG, looks like new. I have to admit that I much prefer that red/whit/blk colour scheme to the blu/white ones. Also makes your fork / wheel mods look very factory - particularly the black forks. Lovely!
If you need motivation for your KR250 build I believe the latest edition of Practical Sportsbikes magazine has a coparison test of a non-PV KR250 vs. a PV KR250.
I assume you've come across the KR250.org website and a KR250 forum that's part of the UK KR1 forum here: http://www.kr-1s.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=16
Useful info and lots of knowlegable souls.