U guys rekon this 89 cr250

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Edited Date/Time 10/17/2020 7:08pm
It's got frame nos present, but guy has painted over them
It looks like frame maybe hr00350key
Engine no may be 5109896 its bit hard to tell






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JMX82 10/17/2020 10:04am
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Looks really good to me! Those WP forks are supposed to be awesome and it has HRC ignition cover too
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Boomslang 10/17/2020 10:22am
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Sc2 wrote:
It's got frame nos present, but guy has painted over them It looks like frame maybe hr00350key Engine no may be 5109896 its bit hard to...
It's got frame nos present, but guy has painted over them
It looks like frame maybe hr00350key
Engine no may be 5109896 its bit hard to tell






Was a damn good bike out of the box.
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lostboy819 10/17/2020 10:43am
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Boomslang wrote:
Was a damn good bike out of the box.
Are you kidding me ? the 89 CR250 had the worst forks ever out of the box, they deflected off of everything and even with Hondas cone update it just made them livable. Blush
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Boomslang 10/17/2020 10:54am
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Boomslang wrote:
Was a damn good bike out of the box.
lostboy819 wrote:
Are you kidding me ? the 89 CR250 had the worst forks ever out of the box, they deflected off of everything and even with Hondas...
Are you kidding me ? the 89 CR250 had the worst forks ever out of the box, they deflected off of everything and even with Hondas cone update it just made them livable. Blush
No I'm not kidding, the bike was good out of the box and for sure (i agree with you re the forks) the stock suspension cannot work for everyone. I had two 89 125s and one 250 and my suspension was revlaved a few times until we had it dailed. I felt most comfortable on those Hondas. I went back to Kawa in the early 90's and struggled.

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lostboy819 10/17/2020 11:06am
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Yep the first year of the upside down forks they were bad. Took half a season and two Honda updates to get them workable. But the rest of the bike was pure Honda and bulletproof. I still remember the first ride on my 250 and hit a small set of sharp rollers and it was like the bike turned left and off the track I went , same thing next lap but to the right, if you didnt hit square edge bumps head on you were in trouble.
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Sc2 10/17/2020 11:12am
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Great stuff, but would u say its deffo an 89 by just looking at it
I'm not familiar with late cr's
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lostboy819 10/17/2020 11:17am
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88 and 89 were almost identical except for the forks so it could be either year because it has aftermarket WP forks. The 89 had upside-down SHOWAs and the 88 was conventional forks. I would think because someone replaced the forks that is would more likely be a 89 because 89 SHOWAs sucked but the 88 conventional forks worked pretty good
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lostboy819 wrote:
Are you kidding me ? the 89 CR250 had the worst forks ever out of the box, they deflected off of everything and even with Hondas...
Are you kidding me ? the 89 CR250 had the worst forks ever out of the box, they deflected off of everything and even with Hondas cone update it just made them livable. Blush
You might as well have just drained the oil out of those forks and filled them with concrete- the end result would have been virtually identical. Plus, the quick chassis made them feel even worse.
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Brad460 10/17/2020 12:01pm
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How can someone even ride that bike with that rusty axle nut?! Pinch

(Add that to “ things that’ll keep me up at night”)
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Gworm 10/17/2020 12:17pm
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The axle bothers me worse than the nut.
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Sc2 10/17/2020 12:34pm
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The axle bothers me worse than the nut.
She going to need some tlc for sure
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Sc2 10/17/2020 12:35pm
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Did the calipers come in black, or is that someone's handy work
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philG 10/17/2020 12:35pm
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Brad460 wrote:
How can someone even ride that bike with that rusty axle nut?! Pinch

(Add that to “ things that’ll keep me up at night”)
I cant see things like that from behind the bars.

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lostboy819 10/17/2020 1:11pm
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Sc2 wrote:
Did the calipers come in black, or is that someone's handy work
Someone painted those
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I would have to replace the blue seat and go back to the red
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wildbill 10/17/2020 2:48pm
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Should've tried the 89 500!
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Travis707 10/17/2020 3:07pm
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It’s funny how we used to ride “in” the bike as opposed to how we now ride “on” them lol




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FIREfish148 10/17/2020 3:49pm
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Those bikes were fast, my ex girlfriend had one and it absolutely ripped.
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FIREfish148 wrote:
Those bikes were fast, my ex girlfriend had one and it absolutely ripped.
The HPP engines were good. Substantially better than the older ATAC system.
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lostboy819 10/17/2020 4:04pm
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FIREfish148 wrote:
Those bikes were fast, my ex girlfriend had one and it absolutely ripped.
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The HPP engines were good. Substantially better than the older ATAC system.
Other than the forks the 89 was a great bike and after I fixed the forks on mine I loved it, fast and handled awesome and bullet proof.
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lostboy819 wrote:
Other than the forks the 89 was a great bike and after I fixed the forks on mine I loved it, fast and handled awesome and...
Other than the forks the 89 was a great bike and after I fixed the forks on mine I loved it, fast and handled awesome and bullet proof.
Absolutely correct.
It was a good era to be on a Honda- right up until the 1997 aluminum frame disaster.
Dirty Points 10/17/2020 6:14pm
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Sc2 wrote:
Did the calipers come in black, or is that someone's handy work
lostboy819 wrote:
Someone painted those
Someone may have painted them, but they did come as black.
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lostboy819 10/17/2020 6:33pm
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Sc2 wrote:
Did the calipers come in black, or is that someone's handy work
lostboy819 wrote:
Someone painted those
Dirty Points wrote:
Someone may have painted them, but they did come as black.
You are correct, they were black that year.
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sandman768 10/17/2020 6:52pm
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Here is an example of a very low hr 89 showing the black rear caliper.
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Dirty Points 10/17/2020 7:07pm
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lostboy819 wrote:
Someone painted those
Dirty Points wrote:
Someone may have painted them, but they did come as black.
lostboy819 wrote:
You are correct, they were black that year.
To my memory every year, every Honda bike in the 80s
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sgthubbard#60 10/17/2020 7:08pm
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Those WP 4054 forks are from a euro bike, ATK, Husaberg, Husky, etc... if they were specific for a Honda they would have black billet lowers that used the stock Honda wheel and Nissin caliper. They’d have also come with billet triples from WP. Those are stock Honda triples. Either way they are far better forks than the stock Showa forks from 89.
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Sc2 10/18/2020 12:02am
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Sounds like they have a good rep (apart from forks) and a desirable bike
In the UK there the cut off year for evo and prices are creeping up

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