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Offline Stewart Allen

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CR250 1979 ???
« on: December 30, 2013, 10:13:49 am »
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2013, 10:29:21 am »
I do have to ask WHY?

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« Reply #2 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.
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #3 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....
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2013, 11:06:08 am »
Ah well, look at the bright side - at least he didn't ruin anything special! ;D
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2013, 11:06:16 am »
I like it
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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2013, 09:58:00 pm »
yeah i like it to looks ok and something different
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« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2013, 01:15:21 pm »
I would convert it back and sell off the '73 bits...
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2013, 08:41:19 pm »
looks great.  I have always like the green and silver colour scheme
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2014, 05:24:15 am »
How about this one on the Vintage Swapmeet now?  I think it is a 1979.



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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2014, 09:50:59 am »
I like both.
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #12 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.
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« Reply #13 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.
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Re: CR250 1979 ???
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2014, 11:09:40 am »
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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. 
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