2 Strokes Down Under

Hi, new to the forum. I have been re-assembling my old 1969 t250 over the last few months. Fresh paint,tyres, spokes,lots of alloy polishing. I hope to get it back on the road by Xmas.



lots of other pics during the rebuild but these are a few.

Looks great! Nice one

Very tasty tezza. Keep up the good work.

Hey Tezza, did you reach your goal of Christmas....?
Would love to see it in the flesh and see how she runs

Sorry,
Haven't been on the site for a while. I now have 2 ds6 yams that I have started restoring and they have taken lots of my spare time.
Yes the Suzuki is finally regoed and on the road but it has a bad right seal on the crank and is literally blowing a smoke screen. It still goes like a scalded cat though. I now have some new seals and will drop the crank in for a rebuild in the next week or so. I am trying to get it sorted by the end of the month so I can go on a few runs with the VJMC.

Well, I got the crank back this week and rather than strip the motor down ,I dusted off another engine and started assembling. I managed to find most of the parts in the boxes of bits. A trip thru the beadblaster and some degreaser and voila! an almost complete engine. I just have to steal my good clutch plates,heads,barrels and pistons from the engine in the bike and it should be good to go. might even put the VM32 mikunis back on.

great looking project
may we ask who did the cranks please

cheers mike

Smithies Power Centre at Currumbin on the Gold Coast did it for me. Cost of dissasembly,fit new seals and re-assemble was $120. He mostly does work on racing Ducatis but dabbles in cranks for 2 strokes. Nice work and turnaround was less than a week. The weather is crap at the moment so the bike is in the dining room. I will get the engine in today and probably give it a run tomorrow. When its all sorted I am going to try out the helmet cam and get some video.