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cooneyr
10th May 2007, 13:17
Not sure if this should be in sports/road bikes or off road section but given the ability to road reg (supposedly given the sales card) then I'll put it here. I saw this for sale at a car dealers on Moorehouse Ave near the hagley park end.

Kinda different - lets see what we have here (correct me if I'm wrong - I really dont have any idea bout CR's or road bikes) - looks bike it is a CR250R from the late 80's with a VFR400 rear swing arm and front forks off some road bike (no idea what).

Steering head angle is "rather' steep but I guess that makes it easier to throw around. Hard breaking would see you on the tank though so maybe a lowering the rear end would help things. Final gearing looks like a bit of a compramise between speed and acceleration given smaller rear wheel than factory.

Use to think the RMX I had for a while would be fun on the road but this would probably be better.

Sorry about the pics - I can't get my phone to talk to vista yet so have to make do with pix size ones for now.

Cheers R

ZeroIndex
10th May 2007, 15:46
Damn that looks like some good fun...

Romeo
10th May 2007, 17:24
Sweetas, I saw this in the Autotrader magazine. It's a pretty crazy looking machine I'll give it that much ;s.

jeremyb
10th May 2007, 17:58
Looks like a Bros wheel, therefore swingarm, $6k is a bit steep tho'!

cooneyr
11th May 2007, 08:10
Wonder if the dealership is open to test rides. Summit road anyone?

Cheers R

NordieBoy
11th May 2007, 08:41
Bros bits.
The only catch is tank range.
But should be OK if not fanging it...


Tui moment :D

cooneyr
11th May 2007, 10:18
Bros bits.
The only catch is tank range.
But should be OK if not fanging it...


Tui moment :D

LOL - Bling

Tank range would defiantly be annoying although working that thing hard through a set of twisties will be hard work.

Cheers R

Paulus
11th May 2007, 11:42
Plastics would suggest an 88 or 89. Decals on the radiator shrouds say 89 (if they're original). That old HPP motor was a tractor and was pretty reliable too. Be awesome fun on the road if it handles okay with the steeper head angle.

Buddy L
11th May 2007, 12:32
Nice, would be a pain carrying a container of 2 stroke oil around with you and mixing it up ever time you get gas.
Unless it has CRM motor in it:sick: ? with CR graphics:love:
Would still be fun.
But not at that price.:shit:

Paulus
12th May 2007, 09:28
Have any of you guys ever built a super motard out of an MXer? Do you know what is required to get it on the road? I imagine it'd need a lighting coil, lights, mirrors, horn, indicators, side stand, quiet silencer and some form of low volume vehicle certification. I have this (long term admittedly) dream of making one from a late model CR500. I reckon it'd rip!

cooneyr
12th May 2007, 09:35
Have any of you guys ever built a super motard out of an MXer? Do you know what is required to get it on the road? I imagine it'd need a lighting coil, lights, mirrors, horn, indicators, side stand, quiet silencer and some form of low volume vehicle certification. I have this (long term admittedly) dream of making one from a late model CR500. I reckon it'd rip!

Correct me if I'm wrong but I though that things like breaks, bearings etc etc all have to meet certain regs so if that model was never certified as a road model in NZ you need a complete vehile low volume cert which would be seriously expenive I would have though. The beasty above "should" have been in the same situation as I would have thought that the CR range was never road cert so who knows really. Ring VTNZ or LTNZ - I'm sure somebody would help.

Cheers R

bistard
12th May 2007, 11:13
Have any of you guys ever built a super motard out of an MXer? Do you know what is required to get it on the road? I imagine it'd need a lighting coil, lights, mirrors, horn, indicators, side stand, quiet silencer and some form of low volume vehicle certification. I have this (long term admittedly) dream of making one from a late model CR500. I reckon it'd rip!

Honda actually sold them new in Aussie,they were a CR500E & would be a blast

NordieBoy
12th May 2007, 16:28
And put it in a CR250 frame :D

Mr. Peanut
12th May 2007, 16:49
And put it in a CR250 frame :D

:shit: Drooooooooooool.

Paulus
12th May 2007, 17:19
And put it in a CR250 frame :D

Awesome!

There was a company in the US specialising in the CR500 CR250 chassis transplants a while back. They looked beautiful. Is that one yours?

Paulus
12th May 2007, 17:23
Honda actually sold them new in Aussie,they were a CR500E & would be a blast

Yeah I remember these. Didn't Honda Aus convince Honda Japan to reopen the production line for one more run after the bike had been officially discontinued? Was the road kit added locally? I'm almost certain these were completely road legal in Aus and maybe that would help with getting certification here.

NordieBoy
12th May 2007, 20:29
Nah, It belonged to "ImReallySlowMe" on Visordown before it was stolen.

Paulus
13th May 2007, 00:20
Who says the big two stroke is dead?

http://www.transworldmotocross.com/mx/product_reviews/article/0,13190,678966,00.html

I realize this is getting off topic in a sports bike forum but this is a base for a mean street bike.

Lion
17th May 2007, 19:24
Awesome!

There was a company in the US specialising in the CR500 CR250 chassis transplants a while back. They looked beautiful. Is that one yours?

www.servicehonda.com