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FiendzCC
12/6/2018 9:21am
12/6/2018 9:21am
Edited Date/Time
11/27/2019 7:36am
2002 CR250 bought for $1050. Got a heads up from a friend who found a post on Facebook marketplace with a deal too hard to pass up. After some very vague and uninspiring messages back and forth with the seller, and asking multiple times for a phone number (we're not facebook/texting kind of guys, we just call you), we finally confirmed that it wasn't a scam and the seller did actually want to sell the bike. Some of the people on sites like this and Craigslist really make me wonder why they bother making a listing in the first place because they seem so unmotivated even when you're ready with cash in hand.
Anyways, here's the bike...
This one has some sweet "features"...
Spray painted forks
Spray painted ignition cover in purple...
Breast Cancer Awareness sale? I don't know. The guy claimed it was a bike he bought for his chick, but unless she's a bodybuilder and her name is something along the lines of 'Olga' or 'Helga', I just don't buy it. I'm 6'4" and these bars feel like I'm riding a cholo'd out Harley Road King. The kill switch cable routing and zip ties are obviously mint as well.
I also have a theory that this broski thought he had some aftermarket perches, because the other side had the clamp piece bolted in the same fashion. Never heard of this brand "dn"
Somebody cut their chain too short the night before a Glamis trip double master link, double strength, bother!
This 250 sure has a ridiculous amount of compression, but you bought this bike for your lovely girlfriend! Gonna need to tame that power down somehow, so just make your own throttle stop... what could go wrong!
Anyways, here's the bike...
This one has some sweet "features"...
Spray painted forks
Spray painted ignition cover in purple...
Breast Cancer Awareness sale? I don't know. The guy claimed it was a bike he bought for his chick, but unless she's a bodybuilder and her name is something along the lines of 'Olga' or 'Helga', I just don't buy it. I'm 6'4" and these bars feel like I'm riding a cholo'd out Harley Road King. The kill switch cable routing and zip ties are obviously mint as well.
I also have a theory that this broski thought he had some aftermarket perches, because the other side had the clamp piece bolted in the same fashion. Never heard of this brand "dn"
Somebody cut their chain too short the night before a Glamis trip double master link, double strength, bother!
This 250 sure has a ridiculous amount of compression, but you bought this bike for your lovely girlfriend! Gonna need to tame that power down somehow, so just make your own throttle stop... what could go wrong!
The Shop
Blows my mind what some idiots do to a bike. My '95 YZ250 had SAE bolts here and there.
Who does that?! I curse the bastard as I un-fuck certain jacked up things on a bike.
Not pretty but I've seen worse.
From this angle, you can really admire the attention to detail the previous owner had with the blue garden hoses...
Bitchin' spray painted subframe
Check out that connector
Gonna need a new pipe. I wonder what brand we'll end up going with...
Rear shock off...
Swingarm coming off next. This one was surprisingly much easier to remove than the YZ we did.
Got the motor out and gave it a bead blast to clean up the surface. As you can see the case saver was snapped off. Because the cases have been discontinued for this model, I recently reached out to Vital members to see if anyone had one they wanted to sell us. I received plenty of responses (thank you to everyone that reached out), but we decided against this route, and instead enlisted our friend Corey Hugonett to weld it up for us. Corey is an old roomate of mine, and a top notch welder who has done work for numerous race teams in the truck scene. We should have the motor back from him soon, and then we'll decide on what we would like to do to the motor from there.
Here Colin and Corey discuss what we're looking to achieve/what hair gel Corey uses.
Now off to our buddy China Myron to work his magic and get us some more power. He did our motor for the YZ125 we built and it runs amazing with the porting and head work he did, so I'm really excited to see what he ends up doing for this 250. China has a dyno now, so we should be able to have an idea of what sort of power it's making when it's all done. We didn't dyno the motor beforehand though, so we won't have any "before" data to compare to.
Before:
After:
Goodbye hoses:
Before:
Paint stripper and pressure wash:
After bead blast and back from Fontana Radiator:
They found a few spots that needed to be rewelded, good thing we sent both to be tested and inspected:
Pit Row
After getting our swingarm welded, we took it to our anodizer a couple blocks away to have the OEM anodize stripped off. We just got that back yesterday, so Colin filed down a couple rough spots near the chain adjustment marks before we take it to get polished.
Same thing with the frame, a few of the edges were just a little rough and needed to be smoothed out.
Swingarm turned out nice. You can see Colin posting photos of it to @FasterUSA on Instagram in the reflection.
Almost forgot about the ignition holder, we're dropping these off at anodizing next so we drilled the aluminum rivet out.
I'm told sometime this week on anodizing, will update you guys hopefully soon. Other than that, we're trying to figure out a clutch for this thing so we can complete the motor. What are you guys with CR's using for clutches?
buddy has a cr250 he runs a full hinson set up, best by far
The clear anodized frame hasn't been as easy to achieve as we had hoped. First we get bitched at by our polisher for bead blasting the frame the way we did, now we're getting bitched at by our anodizer for the buffing compound used by the polisher that they have to clean off before anodizing. Colin went over there with a can of Maxima Contact Cleaner just to get something going with the prepping process at least. I'm wondering if the gun part business is just so good right now that motorcycle stuff just isn't their priority.
We did receive some parts this week for the motor and chassis that I'll update on more tomorrow. The progress can feel so stagnant at times with this build, but I have a feeling it will all come together in one big wave in the next month or two, as we're starting to see things show up.
We brought it all back to them the very next day, and after a few more days of waiting we finally have our frame, sub frame and swingarm all back and ready to be bolted together.
Trying to keep the brake fluid mess somewhat contained, along with all the old parts and internals. We will be freshening up the calipers and master cylinders (or brake reservoirs) with new rubber.
Now that the parts have been stripped of any residues, they're ready for the blast cabinet. Colors to be used in spraying have also been selected.
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