CB250RS café racer project

**jester_parks** · 28th April 2009, 16:17

The "rearset-kickstart-business" is also ahead of me, but haven`t found a solution yet. I guess I will also start like Wobbles with a foldable peg and might bend the kickstart to pass the lever.....

**tychver** · 28th April 2009, 20:16

Mine came with what I think might be a ~2000 yzf250 kickstart.

Fat piece of cast aluminium. It's significantly shorter than the standard lever. Should clear modified rearsets.

I'll dig it out and take a pic later. It could be a honda lever from another XR or CRF, it just looks identical to the one on my friends 2000 YZF250.

**jester_parks** · 28th April 2009, 22:24

Please show!!

**tychver** · 3rd May 2009, 20:48

This should be it.

**xwhatsit** · 3rd May 2009, 22:13

Oh right! Harder to kick over? They're pretty easy engines to start anyhow, especially with the decompression feature.

**jester_parks** · 4th May 2009, 16:48

Nice piece of Aluminium - looks like some Moto-Crosser-type, maybe Yamaha YZ....

**tychver** · 5th May 2009, 08:49

Yeah it was harder to kick over, and it really stood out against the black engine casing.

**tychver** · 5th May 2009, 09:11

By the way, what size are the standard handlebars on a CB250RS?

I'm thinking of keeping the clamps and fitting ace/clubman bars.

**xwhatsit** · 5th May 2009, 10:37

Originally Posted by tychver

By the way, what size are the standard handlebars on a CB250RS?

I'm thinking of keeping the clamps and fitting ace/clubman bars.

You mean diameter? 7/8", like almost all Japanese bikes -- it's nice they agreed on some sort of standard

**Ixion** · 5th May 2009, 13:18

'They' didn't. The 7/8" fitment goes way back, 1930s at least.

Only major holdouts are Harley (figures), BMW (naturally, just got to be different), and some off roady things

But : - did you know there are two standard mounting WIDTHS (the distance between the clamps, or between the knurled bit on the bars? fact.

**paulw** · 5th May 2009, 17:58

wow, that kickstart will be handy to replace the oem - when my next one breaks... they're hard to find these days in aus!?!?!

I'm new to the thread guys, and i tell you what, this has sooo much info on the RS it's not funny. Great work... I crashed my first one, and couldn't bare to get rid of it - hey presto, a year later there was a half dead one on ebay so now i've started the good old "take the best bits" job to combine them.

Got one all together with the good frame and old engine... ready for roadworthy until I thought "hmm, i'll just change that cylinder head gasket"

which led to a cam chain and... the engine in many many pieces

Long story short, thought I might put in a new piston for good measure - i've seen one or two notes about these, and that it might be able to up it to 280cc just by putting in a different piston?? any ideas gents?

Cheers
Paul