Well I never got to race a 2-stroke, and I thought what better way to do that than do some Viper rounds, I had a really nice 85 CR250 over 10 years ago when I was alot younger and stupider, didnt know what I had and sold it to buy a newer bike (found a picture of it the other day, hate myself even more) and kind of regretted it. So I wanted something along those lines, either 86 or 89, perfered a 89 because of the front and rear disk and upside down forks. And this thing popped up in the trading post only drama was it was in a little town called Delegate about 140km from Cann River. I picked it up for $1000 (he had no calls on it, the town was smack bang in the middle of sydney and melbourne and i was the only one dumb enough to go that far for a bike), anyway 12 hours,1100km, a chipped windscreen and we got it home (i dragged dad along to take turns driving, billy hunt not silly cu...
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When I looked at it the next day I thought oh crap what have i bought, I wanted to get it scrutineering passable so i had my original shock of my CRF 450 lying around so I ripped the shock out the bushes were knackered, so i pulled the linkages apart getting ready to cry thinking here we go it has begun..... they were tears of joy, they were all practically brand new, so i greased em all up, new shocker bushes with a good spring hello ride hight. So I just went along and did some basic maintenance stuff flushed fluids, changed oils, lubed cables, tightend bolts etc , some new kick starter gears (broke the clutch hub, dont use a screw driver to try and hold it... they break) , repacked the muffler and re riveted it as it was about to fall out, nothing expensive just effort, the further i went the more cool stuff i found on it such as Pro Circuit pipe and muffler (old school) and the piece de la resistonce and White Brothers easy pull clutch!!! I love it and no you cant have it.
The rear guard was all bent so i bought a polisport one, the colors a bit off it's more of a 86 orangey red but it was my only option and it made it look so much better. I've ridden it a few times and it's an angry thing (I loooove my 450) so at the moment i'm just trying to tune it a bit and get it running as best I can, she's a bit tempramentle. I cant wait to race it. Anyone know where i can get or if i can get a aftermarket kickstarter this things floppy as and it flings out while riding.
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