1999 McGrath YZ250

I have always loved the 1999 McGrath bike and was searching for close to a year for a cheap donor bike. I found this one on Craigslist for $500 and the engine was locked up. I show up to the kids house and take a look at the bike and it has an old AMA Pro Racing sticker on it. I’m located outside of Charlotte NC. I get home and start researching who’s bike it was. Had zero luck on researching the tech sticker. The bike was essentially a roller with the motor already out of it. I tore the engine down vapor blasted it and rebuilt it and left the chasis alone. This was supposed to be a winter project then I had to have knee surgery so I was out of the count for 8 weeks. When I got better I dove into the chasis when I pulled the seat off it has Neese wrote in sharpie under the seat so I’m pretty sure it was Jim Neeses old Supercross bike. I started trying to get cool parts and tracked down a GYTR subframe, than found the billet clutch perch and levers, bought a set of KYB forks that McGrath used, then the build got a little out of control. (Having surgery left me with a lot of time looking for parts)

Anyways it’s on the home stretch now and here’s some before during and where the bike is