What cheap 250+ 2 stroke?

Smooth · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Karma :

What are the options for 250-500cc two-stroke projects?

of the bikes I can think of:

RD250
RD350
TZR250
TDR250
KR1S
RGV250
RS250
RD500
RG500
-all seem to fetch a lot of cash.

Remembering them from the late 80s as a schoolboy I'd really like a TDR250, or maybe a TZR, but they're getting scarce and I notice that Bike magazine has a feature on the TDR this month which will probably bump prices up further...

Are there any other similarly fun bikes with potential that are less 'in demand'?
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Blau Zedong · Banned Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Karma :

Reasonable RD250's can still be had for sensible money, especially the C and D models. Also take a look at the Suzuki X7.

350YPVS's also are worth a look, there are some decent working bikes out there for a lot less cash than an LC would fetch.
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tafflade · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Karma :

RGV's are definately going up in price, I picked mine up a year ago for £700 and an identical model sold on ebay the other week for about £1600 Cool

ms51ves3 · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Karma :

TZRs are the cheap LC 250s.

I got mine for £175 Cool

*smug*

EDIT: Don't bother looking at the 500s, they go for extremely silly money because of what they are and how very rare they are.

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

The KTM350 enduro I had would have made an interesting supermoto project; still a moderately peaky power delivery as no powervalve (later 2 strokes are often very flat). Claimed 51hp and not much weight.
Mine cost me £350 no MOT and I sold it for a bit less, but kept some of the spares (ie innertubes etc).

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thefallenange... · Crazy Courier Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Karma :

2T are getting so rare now people are buying 2 bikes to make a donor bike. Personally KR1S was the most fun but expensive bike i've owned.

https://www.kr-1s.co.uk/forum/

One of the best forums for close nit communites, i would go there.
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hmmmnz · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

there is still the
nsr250
rmx250
ktm exc250
rs250
cr250
kdx250
plus all the bikes from the 70s
the Hercules, the awesome bridgestone gtr350,
all the kwaka triples,
the ts250
the t500

and thats just the jap bikes,
you could also look at the cz or mz or jawa's, the mbk twins and triples,

there are so many cool bikes from the eariler days its criminal that you are just looking at the main stream bikes
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Smooth · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Karma :

Thanks for the ideas.

I'm thinking mostly of something late 80s rather than a 70s
'classic'.
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Really the only thing you can get cheap at the moment is a 350 powervalve. And even then you might end up buying one with no powervalves in it... Rolling Eyes

The rest are all being hoarded.
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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

Also the Gilera NGR250 (and some other mid 1980s 2 stroke 200cc supermotos predating the TDR250 by 5 years or so). Kawasaki KR250 (tandem twin, parallel imports). NS400. RG400 (Japanese 400cc version of the RG500). Yamaha SDR200. Yamaha R1Z.

All the best

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c_dug · Super Spammer Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Karma :

Abosolutely loved my TDR while i had it and seriously regret selling it, just make sure you get a good one if you go for one.

Check out www.tdr250.co.uk for some decent advice, all the guys are sound as a pound on there so feel free to ask away Thumbs Up

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hmmmnz · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

seems a shame that you are just looking at the late 80's
the 70's bikes had that real motorbike styling
and the power of them was quite respectable
the kwaka 350 triple in the early 70s was chucking out almost 50hp
the OSSA 500 was chucking out nearly 60hp
and the old rd400 was hitting about 45hp
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stevo as b4 · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Jul 2003 Karma :

The Suzuki RG250 Gamma, wasn't bad and i belive they are nothing like as sought after as a RD250LC either. You should get a shoddy Gamma for peanuts really.

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Smooth · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Karma :

There are some good ideas on here. Cheers.
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CRF_Rider · Spanner Monkey Joined: 07 Nov 2008 Karma :

how about one of the early KTM exc300's?
Honda CR500's can be picked up reasonably cheap. An i know they go into a CR250 frame so if it was SM'd it'd be a right beast.
awesome power.
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