mc19 cbr250r review

[ducatilover]

my older brother decided he wants a bike, so I took the role of test pilot as i have my lisence...he decided an mc19 cbr250r with 22km at freedom honda was a good call and as the great younger bro i am i took it for a squirt.
The bike was given to me with a full tank so i took advantage of this and decided to give her a good ride.
my first impression was the riding position, it was lovely and fitted my sad beaten body very well.
i noticed that i was sitting more "in" the bike than the spada.
i started off trundling through palmy letting the engine wrm up and getting a feel for the beastly toy.
my first gripe was the brake feel, it was poo. but a simple bleed would help that.
the engine is a sweet revving bundle of joy and was suprisingly torquey and very very flexible, as i was in town for 20min i didnt pass the magic 10krpm mark and was very happy with how it was acting.
As i aproached a nice wee bend going out to the main road to ashurst i droped a chheek off the seat and counter steered the bike into said bend, suprisingly it dropped down more linear and faster than the spada and sat on a line much better and it was far more stable.
i finnaly got to the open road and pulled into the traffic...and the 100kph area comes up...i shifted through the tight and direct gear box to second and listened to the baby scream...it got to 12krpm and tappered off....

how gay i was thingking to myself, my spada has more than this....so i rolled through third gear and got to 16.7krpm and the little darling had a mood swing and flew down the road at an incredible rate for a 250...i promptly shifted to 4th when the 18.5krpm limiter decided my fun shouldnt last, and it dropped down the tach bt kept up its furious pace.

i slowed down for the turn to ashurst with a big grin on my face and proceded up the saddle road...i found that either keep it below 12krpm or above 15k to get anywhere fast because of the flat spot...
I proceded up the saddle road and found that the cbr handled obscenely well and was incredibly fun and ultimately rewarding to ride. i have never had so much fun on a bike.
anyway i got over the saddle road and went through the manawatu gorge and then headed to the pahiatua track, which is my road that i carve every day, and had such a great time and got a smile whenever i got that top end rush.
i gave the bike back and jumped on the spada and wanted to cry...the spada felt like a trail bike and i didnt even want to ride it
all in all the cbr250r is an incredibly toy and i love it. highly reccomended
buy it colin

[bobsmith]

Hmmm... the flat spot shouldn't be there though. I used to have a MC19 which seemed to put out very linear power all the way to 16k and more... Yes MC19s are great bikes but I would suggest you get freedom honda to fix the flat spot if they can. Had a friend who had a MC19 who had a similar flat spot problem... I believe a bit of work with carb was required. (though sadly it caught fire after someone "fixed" the flat spot and the bike was written off...)

[ducatilover]

Hmmm... the flat spot shouldn't be there though. I used to have a MC19 which seemed to put out very linear power all the way to 16k and more... Yes MC19s are great bikes but I would suggest you get freedom honda to fix the flat spot if they can. Had a friend who had a MC19 who had a similar flat spot problem... I believe a bit of work with carb was required. (though sadly it caught fire after someone "fixed" the flat spot and the bike was written off...)

i thought it was a bit retarded to have tuned a flat spot in there lol

[vtec]

Well if you liked that then you'd love the mc22 RR. They were a big step up. I've ridden my RR's for years, and they kick arse, tip in so fast compared to the supersport bikes that I've been racing. They feel like a real race bike should.

Anyway I spent a day (to and from work) on an mc19 with pirelli sport demon tyres. It was a mates that I'd helped repair after we bought it damaged. I promptly dropped it just before I got home on a real tight left hander, might have been the tyres, but I didn't like the way it handled and braked compared to the mc22. I'm sure they're fine, and even race worthy, just not as good as the mc22.

But for the price an mc19 is probably the best value bike money can buy. They are much cheaper than the RR.

[Sanx]

I have an MC19. No flat spot (well, the whole engine's a flat spot compared to the Blade, but...).

And how much, out of interest?

[ducatilover]

freedom honda have 3 mc19s on the lot and the one i rode had the lowest kms and they want 6k for it. i wouldnt pay 6k for it

[ducatilover]

http://www.motorcycletrader.co.nz/Us...d=116211D544CD


might refer this to my brother

[vtec]

Ummm yeah, the mc19's are worth $4k at most, the mc22's should be $6k at most.

[ducatilover]

that sounds right.

what has every body got to say about the mc22 with 950kms on it?
im almost tempted to buy it.
so very close to buying it.
so very very fucking close.

[Toast]

Anyway I spent a day (to and from work) on an mc19 with pirelli sport demon tyres. It was a mates that I'd helped repair after we bought it damaged. I promptly dropped it just before I got home on a real tight left hander, might have been the tyres

Doesn't surprised me, Jase. The Sport Demons aren't bad tyres, but it's a struggle to get heat in to them and keep it there one the road. Those tyres caught me out on my MC19 on the Coro once. Good, hard ride, feeling confident, but after legal speeds through a town I dropped it on the second corner...gutted!

They're bomb proof little bikes, good for a first 250.