WTB a cheap 250

**Zerker** · 9th December 2009, 17:18

Hi
Looking for a first bike, so anything considered, please flick me a PM or post here if you have something I might be interested in.

Zerker

**McDuck** · 9th December 2009, 17:36

Originally Posted by Zerker

Hi
Looking for a first bike, so anything considered, please flick me a PM or post here if you have something I might be interested in.

Zerker

If you spend that little on the bike to start with it will cost thousands to keep runnig, spend around 2.5-3.5 to get a decent one...

**Zerker** · 9th December 2009, 18:34

cheers for the advice, doing it anyway.
not all old 250's are deserving of the junk pile just yet, and I'm sure I can pick up a good one.

**McDuck** · 9th December 2009, 20:19

Originally Posted by Zerker

cheers for the advice, doing it anyway.
not all old 250's are deserving of the junk pile just yet, and I'm sure I can pick up a good one.

Not trying to sound like a know it all but you will not get a relibel bike turn key redy to go (with WOF) for less than 2k unless you are VERY ucky...

**The Everlasting** · 9th December 2009, 20:25

Originally Posted by Zerker

cheers for the advice, doing it anyway.
not all old 250's are deserving of the junk pile just yet, and I'm sure I can pick up a good one.

Well yeah if your a mechanic,then no worries..

**hmmmnz** · 9th December 2009, 20:56

you could however get a good little smokey for that money, and have a perfectly reliable bike,
look for a little ax100 or a little suzuki gt125 somthing along those lines,
they are quite often just as fast a the single cylinder 250's and far easier to fix if something breaks

**Zerker** · 9th December 2009, 22:21

cheers for the advice guys.

I'll re think the 2-strokes, but I have a 2-stroke scoot now, and it's expensive to maintain, I want to move onto a 4 stroke, and start learning how to work on em.

**huff3r** · 9th December 2009, 22:24

Have you looked on trademe? theres a cbr250 on there for $1k, needs the spark plug hole re-threaded (heli-coiled?), but sounds cheap and easy..

Wait, why am i letting more people know about this?!

**Zerker** · 10th December 2009, 09:42

Yeah I saw that one too.
but with the cost required to get it back on the road, I'd rather scrounge up the extra cash and get the CB 250 RS thats just had an overhaul and new tyres front and rear.
(I've talked to him but he cant go as low as my budget, give me a month though :P)

thanks for the helpfull tips guys keep em coming

**hmmmnz** · 10th December 2009, 10:13

the cb250rs are great bikes, far better than the cbf250 things that are being sold at the moment, they have an almost cult status in the uk,
my mate bought one for 10quid and toured the whole of europe on it
20000miles in a few months, it never broke down although the exhaust fell off and was replaced with a bit of scaffold pipe,

saying that, i had some mates do almost the same thing a 125cc and 100cc bikes, i think one of them had 50000miles on the bike before he left and was still on the original conrod and big end bearings,

working on a 4stroke is all well and good, but a little standard non race 2 stroke will require far less maintenance, and if stuff goes wrong, fixes are usually simple and only require a couple of hours before your up and running again,

some of the best bikes ive ever owned have been small capicity 2 strokes

anyway, good luck, i hope you find what you seek

**Icemaestro** · 10th December 2009, 10:15

I got my first bike (cbx250rs) for 1250... they are out there, wouldn't want to get a 1000$ cbr though:-P there was a 1500$ fxr150 going a couple weeks ago...

**Seraph** · 11th December 2009, 17:14

Originally Posted by hmmmnz

the cb250rs are great bikes, far better than the cbf250 things that are being sold at the moment, they have an almost cult status in the uk,
my mate bought one for 10quid and toured the whole of europe on it
20000miles in a few months, it never broke down although the exhaust fell off and was replaced with a bit of scaffold pipe,

saying that, i had some mates do almost the same thing a 125cc and 100cc bikes, i think one of them had 50000miles on the bike before he left and was still on the original conrod and big end bearings,

working on a 4stroke is all well and good, but a little standard non race 2 stroke will require far less maintenance, and if stuff goes wrong, fixes are usually simple and only require a couple of hours before your up and running again,

some of the best bikes ive ever owned have been small capicity 2 strokes

anyway, good luck, i hope you find what you seek

Very true, but when something goes majorly wrong...it's major...Pcked up a nice cheap vj22 a while back, and 1 day for whatever reason it stopped feeding oil...Goodbye cylinders. If you do get one, far safer to premix your fuel and do away with seperate oil.

**Scotty595** · 11th December 2009, 17:35

I bought a "cheap" cbr250 and it has ended up costing quite a bit in maintanence. However it is now pretty much perfect (although I have thrown a fair bit of money at it).

I had a nice little RGV150 as well which was far cheaper when things went wrong, for example, i exploded the piston in to tiny pieces and just got a replacement engine for about $350.

Whatever you do i would recommend some sort of check on it, nothing is worse than spending $1000 on something (even if it was a bargain) and coming back form the mechanics with a quote of $2500 to fix it up. after all $1000 is still a lot of money.

If i were to do it again, I would have stayed with the little RGV for longer and saved up for a decent four-stroke.

**Zerker** · 17th December 2009, 17:44

cheers to all for the advise and links I've been getting (both here and PM's).
been to look at a couple bikes now, niether of which I've ended up buying.
so if you hear or see anything, or have anything for sale, I'd be verry interested to hear about it.

Zerker