You know its getting old when people leave "do you want to sell it" notes on it

[HenryDorsetCase]

always wanted a motorsport when i were a lad

me too: when I were a lad riding round on my TS125, the rich kid up the road had an XL250 Motosport that he would not let any of us ride. Might have been something to do with the other mate that had his DT250 endoed by a guy on a ride (or me looping a DT400 showing off for some girls..... nother story).

Aaaaaaany way: I always wanted one too. There must be a few still in sheds in Sth Canty and Otago I reckon.

[rastuscat]

My mind keeps saying Elsinore.

WTF was an Elsinore?

[Ocean1]

My mind keeps saying Elsinore.

WTF was an Elsinore?

Depends.

Either an MT250 trail bike or a CR250 MX bike. Depending on the market.

Similar tank. But that's an XL250, 4 stroke trail bike.

[scumdog]

My mind keeps saying Elsinore.

WTF was an Elsinore?

2-stroke sold by Honda in th early 80's/lat 70's.

"The only two-stroke dirt bike good enough to have the Honda name" was their slogan. (Or similar.)

[JimO]

my first bike was a ts185 suzuki a mate had a 175 yamaha and another had a 250 elsinore....................the good old days

[eldog]

As do i re old coons,you would love this old girl...always been a fan had XR/XT/xw then almost the holy grail an XYGS with every option,stupid enough to sell it then had a couple of B series XRs until this GTP which is a keeper for sure...one of 95 in Blue PearlAs for the old TLS well i started buggering round with it a long time ago...just forgot to stop until recently,goes well still and the GSXR front end was a revelation.

XR-XT and variants of 2012 GT RSPEC v6

...love it,if only sheep could cook eh.

Cook sheep on spit. And that's when the fight started

[russd7]

2-stroke sold by Honda in th early 80's/lat 70's.

"The only two-stroke dirt bike good enough to have the Honda name" was their slogan. (Or similar.)

early 70's, 73-75 or somit like that, could do 70 mile an hour down the road, (best not ask how i know that) also good for removing barberry hedges, thank fuck that concrete strainer was 6 inches to the right.
now worth a small fortune in the states

[98tls]

Saw this one at the March Hare awhile back...

[neels]

Saw this one at the March Hare awhile back...

Saw a very similar one in some town down southland way on it's way back from the burt munro, not the same one as the one pictured doesn't have the rego plate held on with bits of string like the one I saw. Old school 2 stroke up the main street did sound rather mint.

Not long after I bought my GT cortina way back around '91ish I had someone knock on the door offering 4x what I had paid for it, probably should have sold it then, at least it wouldn't still be sitting in my garage waiting for me to spend large sums of money on getting it back on the road........

[Swoop]

...was offered $500 more than i paid for it after getting it off the trailer and washing it...

Flamin' heck. That's a good earner for just a wash!

Imagine what you could earn if you did a bikini bike-wash each weekend? You could retire!

[actungbaby]

Done little with my 40 something year old but was offered $500 more than i paid for it after getting it off the trailer and washing it...

wow loks cool what cc is that thing nasty i got my old xl 100 k2 been told its a sl i brought it back in early 80,s

brought across the ditch from chch looks really shitty i love it though hasint gone in like 4 years sits in the garage ontop of a desk.

previous owner cut the rear guard down . dam people hacked it yuk . sump plug fell out at 70 kph seized

quickly clutched it took it home added oil went again. ave stiped the engine gearbox new piston rings new cylinder head.

can get the swingarm of damm things locked i think need gas axe been that way 30 years shocks shaged loose on the frame

makes it real intresting to ride ;-)