88 cr 500

racingbrett · L Plate Warrior Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Karma :

well i bought the bike as a project a few years back for £200, sold the trailer that came with it for £150 so not a bad start.
its a bit of a hotch potch of a cr500 :/ runnin yamaha front forks and 2 pot stoppers, plastics were and still are in need of a good clean up. When i first got the bike it would take a lot, a hell of a lot to get it going and then it would smoke real bad, still pulled my arms out the sockets Razz

, so out came the engine, what a nightmare, there didnt seem to be much worth keepin both side covers are holed, the clutch basket has had 2 of the inner posts snapped off the piston was cracked and the conrod felt way to sloppy, i wasnt all to happy, the engine got boxed the bike buried at the back of my shed and thats where it stood till now, im hoping to revive it, god knows how cause the parts seem to be crazy prices, but it seems the engines will sell for crazy prices anyway. so im on the look out for an engine and mean while im re-evaluating the current engine and building a parts list.. oddly my engine code matches to the year i was told (88) but the stamped frame code seems way off, doesnt even seem to be a honda code although the frame is deff a honda one,, code is H, ?(possible M), ? (possible P), ? (possible P), E 02-5700106 means squat to me, dreaming to turn it into a road going super moto for twisty fun.

so any ideas on what road wheels i can get onto this bike easy enough (would love some spoked but they sell for a song) and if my engine is past resurrection any idea what engine would make a good transplant for a roady super moto

mad4it028 · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Karma :

hi the 13 didget frame numbers cant be registered road legal easily or cheaply as cant prove import duty has been payed so you need to hunt out a 17 didget frame which i have reacently done for that reason cost £40 ebay
go for the alloy frame cr250 that way you can get newer plastics and alot lighter although youll pay more for alloy its worth it

as for your engine if the water pump covers gone on a cr500 forget it there like rocking horse shit only rarer

oh as for wheels aprillia rs125 wheels go in with alittle work see my cr250
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racingbrett · L Plate Warrior Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Karma :

water pump cover was ok as far as i can remember, so a 13 digit frame number is possible? i searched all over the net and found no reference, i was starting to think some idiot had ground out the numbers and stamped his own into it.

MaybeGuy · Super Spammer Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Karma :

CR500...
£200...

CR500.....

£200......
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Kickstart wrote: Hi I tend to agree with Matt. All the best Keith

racingbrett · L Plate Warrior Joined: 09 Mar 2009 Karma :

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

What do you want to achieve?
Most CR500 projects I've seen haven't turned out amazingly well and have ended up costing a lot of money - and not actually been that much faster than many other bikes out there.

Were it me, I'd be tempted to try and make what money I could from selling on the parts.

Ok, they're even rarer, but for a mega-smoker project I'd choose one of these if I couldn't afford a Maico/ATK: https://www.bikepics.com/pictures/471254/ (KTM 550 MXC). Alternatively, KTM360s were made until fairly recently, make similar peak power to a CR500 and have much better availability of bits.