Oh Yeah!

[bigk]

This will be good!

[paul]

[paul]

[JohnnyO]

Wow that's a lot of red! Lookin good, cool swingarm, 480 engine..

[bigk]

Many many hours so far, and many more to go. Just the airbox & engine plates equate to about 20 hours! It's for a client, I think he'll be happy. That's Poof Boy in the back ground and it looks like the IVF program worked for him.
Cheers,
K

[Kenneth S (222)]

Nice Michael. It's going to be one mean mother to ride when it is finished. Would that qualify for EVO? I suppose it would.....wouldn't it?

[bigk]

Err, not in the land of Oz on that one KJ. You have to put a Husky CR430/500 engine your 1980 CR250 chassis to be EVO legal but let's leave that old chestnut alone for the moment. I doubt this bike will ever see dirt anyway.
K

[Tim754]

 That is hot! .....Um appears to be set for a very slim carby? or perhaps you just light the petrol soaked rag

[bigk]

Standard Keihin carb, the boot has since been trimmed, carb fits beautifully.
K

[Tim754]

  just joking about BigK. Still a what hot flashy bit of kit so far!!!

[Husky500evo]

This project looks fantastic. I find hybrids like this really interesting. I have to say (sorry GMC) that I would much rather look at something like this, than any HL500. Each to their own but, as the world would be a very boring place if everybody had the same tastes.

[bigk]

The aim is for it to look totally factory and so far it's looking that way. Unlike the Americans who alter the frame mounts slightly, I do it differently. Even the 250 RA pipe & muffler bolts on perfectly, too bad they won't work properly with the big bore engine. Took an awful lot of just staring and thinking until it clicked on how to do it, it's so simple it's almost laughable.
K

[Husky500evo]

   This is the CR250RA/480 hybrid that Geoff Holmes built some time ago up here in Queensland. It was banned from racing in the Evo class and now lives up in Cairns. The workmanship on this bike is very tidy (I think that Geoff owns a panelbeating shop) and it would be hard to tell, unless you were a Honda nut, that it wasn't made this way by Honda in Japan (although it now has a YZ front end on it). I thought that I would repost this image, since Village Photos went belly up and took all my forum posted pictures with it.
    This bike is no where near as pretty though, as the red bike that Big K is building up. 

[smed]

The 125 tank looks cool,I test fitted one to my 79 250 & there is a big nut crunching gap between it & the seat,does anyone know the fix,add more foam or reposition the seat brackets further forward

[STW996]

Geoff's stuffs is first class, he has some fantastic bikes.

The one Belly rode at the nationals at Conondale (84 CR 500) is one of his.

He has just completed a 75 CR 250 that is mostly new old stock including brand new tank!

For those Honda the 75 was a very rare bike, not many around in Australia as Honda still had a truck load of the 74's to move on (I am talking 250's here).

Shane