Elsie is here

[Rashika]

For those of you out at the Have-a-go day on saturday, you would have seen my new beastie. Well not NEW as such, but new to me.

She is Elsie, an Rd250LC, and goes damn well for a piece of 80's engineering. Came from Auckland this time round, but was from Nelson previously i have been told.
After saturdays first outing at Ruapuna for the have-a-go day, we have now race-prepped her....thats race speak for butchering my poor baby and taking off all the pointless stuff like lights and indicators etc... I'm getting to learn all this jargon.

She was an odd colour of black, and white, now going mostly black till I can figger out what else...I'm thinking silver decals to go with new leathers (Ta muchly to MotoEquip for those)...I like to be different from the other RDs out there, besides being at the back. And given that her rego'd colour is black, why change something that she is used to.
And of course her number will be 99....ah she is a darling to ride too
Pic 1: heres the first piccy of her, before any changes
pic 2: Me and speedy lining up to go out on Saturday
Pic 3: down the straight

will get some more when the damn camera battery has charged up!

[Sniper]

Congrats, she looks nice.

[Rashika]

and now my camera is working, as she is looking today
Pic 1 & 2: Elsie with a spiffing new paintjob
Pic 3: how to loose weight on your bike, in 50 easy steps.
Pic 4: Elsie with little sister RZ'R'99 beside her

[clint640]

Nice, I had an RZ for a while. Some low bars & 30mm spacers to preload the front springs a bit made it turn much better & cost bugger all.

Cheers
Clint

[Kickaha]

And given that her rego'd colour is black,

Black was a factory colour and one that my bike may yet end up in
http://www.reproductiondecals.com/de...tent.html~main

[Mental Trousers]

Good on ya Rashika. And good to see SpeedyGirl out for a blast on the old girl.

[Mr. Peanut]

Haha, awesome. I love those bikes

Good luck with the rebuilds

[dangerous]

Nice choice of post classic race bike Rashika, ya going to love that smellie thing I tell ya

[miSTa]

Very nice. Brings back a few memories of when was a young fella and the RDs wee the bees knees. Look forward to seeing in the flesh.

[yorkshirelard]

do they still have a good following on the track and still have the 350's, and also can you fit the two disc set up front (as per class rules)?

[dangerous]

do they still have a good following on the track and still have the 350's, and also can you fit the two disc set up front (as per class rules)?

In the club we race with theres 3 other LC's a couple of 400's etc, and all ya need is the fork leg off a 350 and you can race twin stopers.

I had a spin on Elsie on Saturday and was impresed with the lightness and go/stop thing... makes my post classic Kat seem the pig of all pigs

[Rashika]

Nice, I had an RZ for a while. Some low bars & 30mm spacers to preload the front springs a bit made it turn much better & cost bugger all.

Cheers
Clint

yeah well the 'RZ' aint EXACTLY an RZ...its a combo of RZ250 frame and FXR 150 motor, to race in buckets (thanks to Stanko!) So hence the odd name, was trying to think of an easy way to name her, a combo of RZ and FXR, so RZ 'R' came to mind.

[ajturbo]

I like to be different from the other RDs out there, !

what and win something???

[Rashika]

what and win something???

ha! fat chance...
And the other RDs do very nicely i must say

[yorkshirelard]

I first started racing on 250LC's in the UK years ago, and providing you look after the motor, was a cracking piece of kit to ride and cheapish. how about new and secondhand spares?