The r3v motorcycle thread

[bikerbill2021]

Thanks, I am really happy with her. Should be a great build. Honestly I got a really good deal... The guy I bought it from was a really nice older gentleman that had owned it for over 15 years and kept up on service and maintenance etc. I showed up with a rental trailer and took it home for $1900. Really excited about it.

Good deal, thats a great price for an old air head, cant seem to find ones in worse shape out here for under 3k. Look forward to seeing what your going to do with it, make sure to update us with pics :)

[zcenterb]

Thanks, I am really happy with her. Should be a great build. Honestly I got a really good deal... The guy I bought it from was a really nice older gentleman that had owned it for over 15 years and kept up on service and maintenance etc. I showed up with a rental trailer and took it home for $1900. Really excited about it.

[bikerbill2021]

Ill play. Picked this up yesterday. Rode dirt bikes for years and finally decided to jump on an old BM liter bike. Its a 1980 R100. Will be my Cafe/Scrambler project.

good stuff, thats a great base for a cafe, see a lot of people building some excellent looking machines out of them. mind if I ask how much you picked her up for?

[TeXJ]

that bike looks huge in front of the e30 lol

+1 for nice bike

[Massive Lee]

Nice ;-)

[zcenterb]

Ill play. Picked this up yesterday. Rode dirt bikes for years and finally decided to jump on an old BM liter bike. Its a 1980 R100. Will be my Cafe/Scrambler project.

[bikerbill2021]

I saw this and thought the banshee is a 250 :D

nah thats the suzuki, all banshees are 350 twins, pretty much remained the same insane bike for almost 20 years

[TeXJ]

just picked up another LT250R for my "bay buddy" i.e. my good friend who is the next bay over in my shop, an 85 to the tune of 350 bux, he'll be building that up

I saw this and thought the banshee is a 250 :D

[bikerbill2021]

I wonder how easy it would be to swap a modern yz gas tank and rear subframe to that. Sweet bike!

thanks!

Im not sure about a new subframe from like 02 and up, but my bike is essentially a 93-95 YZ250 that I swapped all the 96-01 plastics on, including the 96-01 rear subframe. It took some slight bending and massaging, as well as spacing the top mount, but it eventually bolted up. Then the tank is a standard size clarke tank, as I tried to put the 3.1 gallon clarke tank on and it was a no go, hitting the steering column and just too tall.

I do know that pretty much any standard size YZ tank from 96 to present will fit, just need to fab up some brackets to mount it to the bike like i did

I have a thread on Thumper talk that ive been updating for it of everything i have found and everything i have done to do the conversion. I love the 90s YZs, they are bad ass bikes, so I'm stoked I was able to freshen up my WR a bit :)

heres the thread

http://www.thumpertalk.com/topic/1211072-updating-a-97-wr250/

[TheTacoMan]

I wonder how easy it would be to swap a modern yz gas tank and rear subframe to that. Sweet bike!

[bikerbill2021]

noice! I guess I never realized they are "only" a 250cc

Banshees are a 350cc twin actually :D

Got my WR finished today as well, going riding tomorrow!

[TeXJ]

noice! I guess I never realized they are "only" a 250cc

[bikerbill2021]

nice banshee man!

edit: Wait is that a banshee

lol yep, bad ass bike ;D

[TeXJ]

nice banshee man!

edit: Wait is that a banshee

[bikerbill2021]

just picked up another LT250R for my "bay buddy" i.e. my good friend who is the next bay over in my shop, an 85 to the tune of 350 bux, he'll be building that up

And then picked up this super clean bad boy for my business partner for $1900. Ive never ridden one until tonight, and I'll I can say, is all the rumors were true, this machine is explosive!



it was a good day