RS250 Project
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:20 pm
Well, I bid farewell to my Mark 1 Aprilia a few weeks back and was somewhat melancholy about it.... on one hand I owned what is quite possibly the best factory prepared 2 stroke road bike ever made, on the other hand it just sat there with the odd blat but wasn't seriously ridden.
So last week I am sitting at the airport ready for a work trip to Mt Isa where I spotted a mark 2 RS250 on Gumtree for $2500, I called the buyer and basically it had sat there for the last 3 years as he had lost his license, we bartered back and forth and eventually settled on a price.
Last Thursday I drove 6.5 hour round trip to get it from a farm 30 mins past Toowoomba, I was buggered when I got home, but wasn't too buggered to hook up the jumper leads and hear her fire up, she already has Castrol TTS in her... you cant mistake that smell
The PO bought it with 3000kms on the clock, it now has 20000 and he said he never did anything mechanical, I'm planning a top end rebuild just to be sure, its not that expensive and may save me some headaches when out on the road, plus I'm very keen to look at the power valves and see what condition they are in, maybe replace them with cougar reds if the budget will allow.
My heart says Tyga it up, so I am looking at some chambers and carbon bits for her on their website
She is a long way from perfect, but will be a good long term project.
thanks
Chris
So last week I am sitting at the airport ready for a work trip to Mt Isa where I spotted a mark 2 RS250 on Gumtree for $2500, I called the buyer and basically it had sat there for the last 3 years as he had lost his license, we bartered back and forth and eventually settled on a price.
Last Thursday I drove 6.5 hour round trip to get it from a farm 30 mins past Toowoomba, I was buggered when I got home, but wasn't too buggered to hook up the jumper leads and hear her fire up, she already has Castrol TTS in her... you cant mistake that smell
The PO bought it with 3000kms on the clock, it now has 20000 and he said he never did anything mechanical, I'm planning a top end rebuild just to be sure, its not that expensive and may save me some headaches when out on the road, plus I'm very keen to look at the power valves and see what condition they are in, maybe replace them with cougar reds if the budget will allow.
My heart says Tyga it up, so I am looking at some chambers and carbon bits for her on their website
She is a long way from perfect, but will be a good long term project.
thanks
Chris
