Looking for light fast track bike

[CookMySock]

I think you will discover it costs a lot to run an inline four bike on the track.

Why not a KR150 ? They are plenty quick, cheap to buy, crash, rebuild, and feed, and fooken great fun to ride.

Steve

[wbks]

Stories of two stroke un reliability are often un reliable... But I guess if you want a commuter as well a cbrr or zxr 250 would be great. I always liked just getting on and riding without pretty much any maintenance on mine. I doubt you would have any trouble with one, so long as you ride it sensibly... And by that I mean don't be like some turds who rev theirs all the way to the redline in every gear, which confuses me as the power obviously drops after around 16, 000 rpm

[=cJ=]

Hehe, get some ring a ding ding up ya...

[Rayray401]

again....like above...VFR400...with the new power to weight ratio rule im sure it wont be a problem..great around the corners too XD

[driftn]

Hard to go past a Honda CBR250RR when it comes to performance.

RGV 250
TZR 250
NSR 250
KR1

Just to name a few, If I were to go the 400 way would have to be an NC30 hands down.

[ducatilover]

Get a two smoker, or get a cbr250/zxr for street stock. Or get a perm?

[skidMark]

Get a two smoker, or get a cbr250/zxr for street stock. Or get a perm?

a street stock perm? can i put a roller in? perm warmers...

special riding apparatus to not damage the perm?

[ducatilover]

a street stock perm? can i put a roller in? perm warmers...

special riding apparatus to not damage the perm?

I have all of the above if you wish to borrow them?

[quickbuck]

Right, my ten cents worth....

Go for the CBR250.... I say that 'cos I'm Honda Biased.

You can race them in a class called Minilite 250 in the Vic Club Winter Series....
I wouldn't actually go for a VFR400 for a track bike... because even though I have a Honda Bias, my pick is you actually get cheaper improvements from the ZXR400's. Pre 89 they actually had "Upside Down" Forks.... Post Classic Junior is the class for them...
These only came on the NC35 version of the VFR400... and they aren't Pre 89, so the only class for them is F3!

To give you an idea, the F3 racers were lapping 5 seconds quicker on the Long Track at Manfeild than the very same bike in Post Classic....
Part of it was he had destroyed his Slick... But other than that, the pace was much hotter in F3.

[Kwakajack]

thanks, i do see what you mean......but i am planning on riding to the track-days.....and i would like to get there ill be 15 soon

How about an FXR150 or an RG150? That'll give you access to the development racing classes too, then on to 125 GP bikes etc, and if good enough, further up the racing spectrum

[hayd3n]

ring ding ding ring ding ding

[DELLORTO]

How about an FXR150 or an RG150? That'll give you access to the development racing classes too, then on to 125 GP bikes etc, and if good enough, further up the racing spectrum

ive got a fxr150 thats moddded and its still not fast enough.....

an rg150 looks too 80's for my taste

[wbks]

So what do you think you'll get? So far pretty much everyone has said go the cbr250rr, or one of the two strokes. You don't like the 250 two strokes, or the 150's, so that only leaves cbr250rr, right?

[colsan1]

Hard to go past a Honda CBR250RR when it comes to performance.

Your havin a laugh arent you ?
If you want a light track bike the ONLY way to go is a two stroke 250.
even in resticted jap spec (45bhp) ANY stroker will piss on any 4 stroke 250.

I'm sure some of you will disagree but you'll be talking bollox.

[tzrmike]

Another thing to consider is availability, if not the cost, of parts. In this regard alone, for the 2 strokes I would think the nod would go to the RGV, as the Aprilia RS250 used a modded version of the RGV engine, and I'm pretty sure the RS250 was still in production until the mid 2000s. Just watch the powervalves.

NSR mc16 & mc18 parts are no longer manufactured by Honda, unsure about mc21 upwards.

KR1 and KR1S are very rare, not sure about parts availability. They were popular in the UK though, so there may be aftermarket support.

TZRs 1KT (2MA) have an fairly good supply of aftermarket parts (ex UK), but genuine parts from Yamaha must be made of gold considering the prices they charge. Plus, the power potential isn't as good as the later model TZRs. The 3MA and 3XV TZRs were grey imports in the UK, so aftermarket support isn't as good.

In general, the wet weight of a 2stroke 250 is equal to, or less than the dry weight of a 250 I4 4stroke, and for a given power will produce more torque, actually making them easier to ride!