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kawashima World Chat Champion
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pepperami Super Spammer
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Not the best videos I’ve ever watched.
Maybe some sub titles for us smelly westerners who are unable to speak Japanese, but thank you anyway.
Got to love a iL4 250 ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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stinkwheel Bovine Proctologist
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They did a 250 bandit. They were just silly and a bit shit. Lad in my town used to have one. It was all a bit monty-python.
It was going about half as fast as it sounded.
They made a 250 hornet too. A few landed uop in the UK. I bet those would be a good A2 bike. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles. |
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Japanese manufacturers were making all sorts of 250cc in-line four cylinder bikes back in the day.
My only issue is, and the smalest in-line four that I owned was a 399cc, they are rather boring 90% of the time you sit on them. Sure, the CB-1 reved sky high, sure it made high-pitch noise from the exhaust... but the mpg was crap and the power output just did not match the throttle input. I can't even imagine it being a 250cc. 14k, 18k, 20k rpm sounds exciting but it is not. Imagine driving your car using only the first three gears.
The cool thing about small in-line four cylinders is, you get all the drama and noise (reving the engine up to the top, going through the gears) very early on, still keeping it safe enough for the open road. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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bladerunner World Chat Champion
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I used to race an RGV250 vs GP 2 strokes and other road based 2 strokes mostly in the forgotten era class. there was a cbr250 in the same class and bearing in mind it was a 1 mile track with 2 sub 30mph bends..the cbr would be getting lapped after lap 3 or 4 however that cbr finished every race and even won a championship by always finishing! ____________________ Current bikes...cbr929, KDX200's, Rd125lc mk2, RGV250's |
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I'd love an old il4 250cc! Kawasaki are making a new one, zx25-r, supposedly 60bhp from the full fat model. Probably never going to make it to the UK .
My first ever BCF ride out back in maybe spring 2008, around that time anyway, I was on my TDR250 and another member had a CBR250rr. Side by side, neck and neck, through a tunnel. Awesome sound. They were actually relatively well matched for speed too. ____________________ I am a bellend, I am a man of constant sorrow, I am a gummy bear, I am a rock. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 315 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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