XR250

[yzhilly]

Ok all you Honda Guru's whats the Hot up Tips on the XR250R 1982 . Do you need the Decomp setup ? Does it Work and is it worth fixing it .What do you do with the Speedo drive ,can you buy a spacer for the Front wheel or Just make one ,I havent pulled it apart yet . And the Rear wheel is 17'' standard  ours is cushion drive and 17 " rim. thanks xrhillyhttp://

[Quicksilver]

Hilly. Get the decompression working if you can mate. My XR500 had broken decomp cable and snaped of the kick starter shaft while I was kicking the big bastard. 250 might be easier on the foot but why risk it. The 500 is also 17 inch rear wheel. Standard set up. 

[Boyracer]

I wouldnt worry about a decomp lever, see if you can push the kickstart past TDC yourself then bring the lever back up for a full kick.
These run hot when worked hard so I would keep the oil fresh or get big fins welded to the head by Ballards or someone.
The bike looks ok for its age, good luck.

[gorby]

hello XRhilly ,
                I have a couple of those hondas here wrecked if you need any cheep bits.

[yzhilly]

Thanks Boy's for the tips , Is it worth fitting a Oil cooler to it . Hey Gorby i havent told Luke yet but he may xrhilly. I only need a Clutch cable and some Control levers to get it going so hopefully i wont need any parts .

[charliew]

Not too many performance parts for the motor, it was only around for a couple of years before it was changed to an RFVC design.

Wiseco still do a 10:1 compression piston for it. Mine hasn't been run in yet, so I can't comment on any performance improvement. The maximum oversize they do is 2mm if you want a bit of extra displacement.

Megacycle Cams still list performance camshafts for it (http://www.megacyclecams.com/catalog/catalog.pdf), but I have have never tried to get one.

Left my decompressor in, it makes it easer to kick and has never given any trouble.

There is an article here http://www.oldrice.com/Swissoil.html on fitting an oil cooler to an older dry-sump honda motor. Shouldn't be too difficult to do something similar.

[tommorth]

there was  a fair bit of stuff for these motors  even frames for the twinshockers
honda did a head with bigger valves etc and carb kits
oil cooler kits were around to
  the wiseco piston makes a diff think the most you can go is about 265 or maybe 262 was ten years ago when i had mine

some noticeble gains can be made with the muffler to and not just making it stupidy loud

think they made them for 5 years?? 
is yours 5 or six speed

[yzhilly]

I dont know much about this bike yet all i have done is fix the head and assemble it ,started it up last night and runs a treat, so i will give it a tidy up and tyres and give it to Luke and if he gets serious about we might look at  it a bit more  thanks for all the tips boys.