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Marque Remarks => Honda => Topic started by: Stewart Allen on December 30, 2013, 10:13:49 am

Title: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: Stewart Allen on December 30, 2013, 10:13:49 am

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ebaymotors/1973-74-HONDA-ELSINORE-CR-250M-Tribute-RUNS-GREAT-Built-from-a-79CR-NuCosm-Resto-/201010544376?pt=US_motorcycles&hash=item2ecd297ef8&forcev4exp=true


Lots of nice work, don't know about not being red

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: Slakewell on December 30, 2013, 10:29:21 am

I do have to ask WHY?

(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll152/archtopz/021_zpsea7f0f09.jpg)

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: firko on December 30, 2013, 10:41:33 am

I like it purely because it's something a bit different. If we didn't have a pre conceived notion that all Red Devil Honda's should be ....err, red, this would look like something the factory would/should have done.

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: yamaico on December 30, 2013, 10:48:54 am

We took the bike almost all the way down to the Bare Frame+Cleaned & refinished most main pieces then hand reassembled onto the frame

Wow, true craftsmen, hand assembling everything back onto the frame after taking it almost all the way down to the bare frame....

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: Canam370 on December 30, 2013, 11:06:08 am

Ah well, look at the bright side - at least he didn't ruin anything special! ;D

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: oldfart on December 30, 2013, 11:06:16 am

I like it

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: marshallmech on December 30, 2013, 09:58:00 pm

yeah i like it to looks ok and something different

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: oldyzman on December 31, 2013, 01:15:21 pm

I would convert it back and sell off the '73 bits...

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: HL500 on December 31, 2013, 01:19:12 pm

I am confused by it and it doesn't look right or at least it doesn't fit the image we would associate with either bike.  The front end looks unstable to me given it has 300mm travel and out of balance with the rear.  I'd like the bits to make two bikes.

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: flower pot racing on December 31, 2013, 08:41:19 pm

looks great.  I have always like the green and silver colour scheme

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: Tahitian_Red on January 01, 2014, 05:24:15 am

How about this one on the Vintage Swapmeet now?  I think it is a 1979.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g438/Tahtitian_Red/15497983-31067-large_zpsb4586a54.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g438/Tahtitian_Red/15497983-310672-large_zpsabbaa899.jpg)

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: 09.0 on January 01, 2014, 09:50:59 am

I like both.

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: bigk on January 01, 2014, 10:33:33 am

A bit like black rims, a great thing while you own the bikes but a very hard sell when it comes to that time. I don't mind either Elsinore or RM, but good luck trying to sell them like that. Obviously considerable time & money spent but massive devaluation at the same time.
K

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: SON on January 01, 2014, 10:59:17 am

I love them both
And their builders should be applauded like any great artist for doing what he wanted with his muse.
However the art critics in us all would change a few things in each.

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: firko on January 01, 2014, 11:09:40 am

Quote

Obviously considerable time & money spent but massive devaluation at the same time.

I too like them both. If the resale value factor is important to you*, you're right on that these bikes are devalued but most of us who build bikes away from the mainstream the statement the bike makes takes precedent over resale value every time ;).

*as it understandably is to you Michael, because selling these bikes is part of your business. 

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: John Orchard on January 01, 2014, 11:16:15 am

Wow I love them both, I think it's cool when they retroize a modern bike.  I think a down-pipe will soon get trashed with long travel suspension though.

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: Husky500evo on January 01, 2014, 02:05:51 pm

I like them both as well. The vintage dirt bike world would be a very boring place if everyone restored bikes to look exactly like the picture on the sales brochure. So it is always refreshing to look at the ideas of someone who is artistic and thinks outside of the square. I personally would have preferred the Elsinore to have the original RZ tank painted with the green-stripe colours and an up-pipe, but each to there own. I also like the look of the Service Honda CR500AF done in the green-stripe colours.

(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/Husky500evo/ServiceHondaCR500AFrhsElsinorecolours_zpsf8642d61.jpg)
 

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: firko on January 01, 2014, 04:19:03 pm

Husky didn't quite get it right unfortunately:
                                                                     (http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/husqvarna-baja-concept-side_zpse1a2f6de.jpg) (http://s1112.photobucket.com/user/firko2/media/husqvarna-baja-concept-side_zpse1a2f6de.jpg.html)

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: firko on January 01, 2014, 04:25:05 pm

But this Kato rendition by Oberdan Bezzi looks the goods.
                                                                       (http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/KTM-MC450-1976_zpsd388d75d.jpg) (http://s1112.photobucket.com/user/firko2/media/KTM-MC450-1976_zpsd388d75d.jpg.html)

Title: Re: CR250 1979 ???
Post by: Husky500evo on January 01, 2014, 05:10:31 pm

(http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/Husky500evo/RetroStyleHusky_zps0c4997b8.jpg)

Yes, Husky didn't quite get it right with the pic Firko posted, but I don't mind Oberdan Bezzi's idea of a Husky. Hopefully , Husqvarna might return to innovative design and outside the square thinking, with the merging back with Husaberg and the Swedish engineers. It would be nice to see a return of a refined 70 degree laydown Berg motor, or maybe even a revisit to automatic transmission technology.