1989 cr 250 restoration

Their work is absolutely fantastic.
It's some kind of part-ceramic coat which is meant to be better at oil retention, whilst also reducing friction, making the hair grow back on your head, and increasing your stamina in the bedroom.

A friend of mine used to roadrace RS250's, and reckons Aptec are the best guys in the business.
With a self-tuned bike that was basically 2 CR125's stuck together, and made 90-odd HP on Avgas, he obviously knows his stuff.
He cut the head for my 125, and it flies.

I believe their prices are on their site. They are not cheap, but you get what you pay for.

I seem to remember reading something about swapping in the later TC cartridges somewhere a couple of years ago.
Also read the early USD forks supposedly wear the insides of the legs for fun, contaminating the oil.

This was my reasoning for just swapping in a set of Twin Cartridge Showas, although it could all be Internet bollocks as Despite having a set of 91's and a set of 08's stood next to each other, I never bothered to try the swap.

Sometimes people just retype or repeat what they read in print (I own a Publication and did a comical, totally bogus story once just to see how far nonsense in print would spread. I was amazed at the power of the press.)

Where the 1989 Honda CR250 Forks harsh, yes. Yet only through the small choppy stuff. I jars you in back-to-back small hits like sharp square edged whoops. That CAN be worked out with revalving regardless of what Motocross Action Magazine said.

The real problem like @Goodluckmonkey said is with contamination. The internals shed metal flakes/shavings and they plug up the internals. I am most certain that in these modern times a company like Enzo Racing or FCR Suspension could smoothing out the mid-stroke harshness of the fork and polish out the internals to lessen contamination issues. There are so many special coatings out there now days.

Great post.
I used to get tired of people saying "this is fact, and this is fact" without having tried something themselves.
If something's heresay, I'll state that, as it may well be founded in truth, or it may just be what someone heard down the pub.

As you say, undoubtedly these things can be made very good using modern coatings and materials, and I was really tempted to have a go, just to preserve a little more of the bike I owned as a teen.
In the end, it just wasn't worth the aggro or expense.

@Goodluckmonkey, it seems like it is always the ones who haven't even seen or used a certain product that regurgitates what they read about a product in print. People like yourself and I have used, ridden, owned, and/or raced with these Forks and know first hand that they can be made to work in "modern" times.

The thing with a lot of Motocross Action Magazine (my favorite Motocross Publication) Bike Tests are that they always try to do a backyard fix on something first and then make a general assumsion off of that. There test of the forks read as "we tried these fork springs, we tried this oil, we tried this oil height". "Those things didn't work for the MXA Gang, so thus "NO ONE CAN FIX THESE FORKS" and that somehow became the truth at tracks all over the world and the internet just helped to spread the propaganda. It is sad because I read one of my very own posts on the Forks, and I had to shake my own head at myself.

Without a doubt Enzo Racing or FCR Suspension can get those forks working to perfection.

Sorry if I got your tread off topic Scottish Twinshock, but when people are researching 1989 Honda CR250 Forks/Fork Revalve they will now be able to see some positives, see what truly was the issue and no who can fix them.

Looking good so far, I just sold my 89 today to fund a motor rebuild on my 86. Been thinking about the vapor blast on the cases, yours looks awesome.

Stock Honda swingarm of that era were anodised, if you want te renew the original aspect go on with paper untill it will seems perfect and look for a company for a natural anodising treatment in your country.

In attached pictures you can see my 91 swingarm before and after the anodising treatment.





It's not exactly as the original one but it's much better than not anodized at all.

I have a 89 cr 250, that I bought to restore that I split it into boxes for a house move, I now have to admit that I will never get it done, 2 years later, if you are interested in purchasing a donor bike let me know, it was running before I split for moving and is complete except for an expansion pipe as it was the wrong one for the bike and didn't fit in the boxes. Location Dunfermline.

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Regards

heres my 89 cr 250 in Ayrshire

Hey bud looking the biz now. Im going thru exact same process as you rebuilding up a 93 CR250. I see youre based in Scotland. I stay in South Lanarkshire. Looking to race mine in the twinshocks next year.

My thread is on in this section if you fancy a gander. Also do you know anyone local to me who can lace and true wheels. Got mune ready to go but wheels are holding me up