RGV 250 ...

[Visitor Q]

Alrite my dears... anyone owned one?
Tis just my mate Stu has one he wants to sell, for about £430, in reasonable (but bounced) condition.
Just wondered how much you reckon getting two new pistons and barrels, a powervalve, a gasket set and possibly a new fairing would cost. New being taken in the 'new' tense (ie ebay etc) and do you think it would be an ok buy?
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Barrels and pistons are not cheap, especially not with the power valves. Think the gaskets are not too bad. GRP fairings should be fairly cheap.

I would guess at £100 each barrel for replating, £150 for the pistons, another £100 for the power valves, £40 for the gaskets. Say about £500 before replacing the fairings, and a fair amount of work.

You might well be able to source a few bits cheaper on Ebay, but they are bits that are in demand for the RGV.

Personally as that would make it around an £1100~ £1200 bike once sorted it seems a bit pricey.

All the best

Keith
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[Laura]

Depends what you want a rgv for really it would be worth it if you were going to use it for short distances a couple of times a week.

Anything apart from that stear well clear.
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[Key Walshe]

For the pistons, rings and gaskets then this site HERE - RGV250.co.uk[/url may be of some interest as they do a full top end set for £150 inc. VAT & delivery which doesn't sound too bad to me at all

But as Keith said, about £100 for replating each cylinder or [url=https://www.stanstephens.com/index.html?nico.htm~contents]Stan Stephens does an exchange service for £110 and that page also includes all the other options for cylinder replating which maybe worth a read.

Fairings can often be found either on eBay or at most breakers so I'd imagine you could get the full lot for under £250. As for the powervalve, I'll see if I can find anywhere that does them new but cheap, otherwise have a look around on the RGV site above as that's a website with forum specific to them so there should be some good info on there if you're seriously considering it.

In total though it's still going to come to around a grand or abit more to buy the bike and fix it up, so to do it up and sell it on with a profit it's going to be hard if that's what you're intending as they generally sell for under £1500 at the moment - could be an interesting project though!
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[Visitor Q]

Ok thanks for the help guys
ill tell him its next to scrap then
Maybe help him break it for money.

As for why i wanted it, it was just as a little bit of a low speed high poered (ish) bike i could throw about. Get it downgeared etc.

But for a pipedream thats alot of work. Plus i think ive just got a coil sorted for my bike for £5 so i may well be back on the road
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Thought you were after a slower or at least more sedate bike. The RGV would be a hell of a lot quicker and a lot less sedate.

All the best

Keith
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