2002 YZ 250 Quarantine Project

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In May I decided to sell one of my low hr TC250s and with that cash in had same day I saw a 2002 YZ250 for good deal. It’s a green sticker bike so figured I’d freshen it up a little for a trail bike. As the rebuilding began I decided to do it up right and go for a FMF YZ250 that looks like once you would’ve seen at the races back in the day!

The bike is done now but figured I’d share pics of the build along the way and some finished photos.
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cclay47 8/31/2020 10:21am
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Here’s the day I got the bike, then took it home for a good degreasing and decals removal. Lol at the mulisha graphics and all the decals.



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The break down begins


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cclay47 8/31/2020 10:26am
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cclay47 wrote:
In May I decided to sell one of my low hr TC250s and with that cash in had same day I saw a 2002 YZ250 for...
In May I decided to sell one of my low hr TC250s and with that cash in had same day I saw a 2002 YZ250 for good deal. It’s a green sticker bike so figured I’d freshen it up a little for a trail bike. As the rebuilding began I decided to do it up right and go for a FMF YZ250 that looks like once you would’ve seen at the races back in the day!

The bike is done now but figured I’d share pics of the build along the way and some finished photos.
This is the goal I had in mind when beginning the project

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cclay47 8/31/2020 10:32am
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The motor felt tight and had good compression but figured to have it redone top to bottom by Lamson Motorsports. Ended up having the bottom end completely done and then had the cylinder ported, head milled and carb ported.


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cclay47 8/31/2020 10:37am
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For all my builds I always use TCR Wheels for the wheel building. As always he didn’t disappoint on this set.





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ERA Moto nailed the remake on the graphics!

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Came across a nice shock for the build and the assembly begins!




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Markopolo400 8/31/2020 10:44am
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Looks good! I had an 04 back in the day that I loved. You need to find some matching forks for that shock Smile
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Rickyisms 8/31/2020 1:18pm
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Looking real good. Love the period correct graphics and gold wheels.
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Rickyisms wrote:
Looking real good. Love the period correct graphics and gold wheels.
Thanks! There’s a lot of cool builds out there nowadays I’m just a sucker for that early 2000s stuff so definitely was shooting to keep it correct for back then
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Love it. Doing backgrounds?
I’ve got some cut outs from Era Moto I’m going to use, I want to keep it simple with the white back grounds and black numbers. Will post more pics after those are on there
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