RD250

A comment here and a chance encounter there and I had managed to replace my rear caliper after just two race meets. Here's how & why... It is probably pretty telling that the best picture I have of my red Brembo(ish) caliper is captured with the bike on its side. The Yamaha Aerox caliper was very cheap at £27 new with pads and worked just fine as a low cost Brembo rear caliper alternative. It had three flaws however: It was red. I kind of liked the way it worked with the accent red stripe but was getting mixed reviews from others. Risk of damage to the bleed nipple in a fall. The pads had all but fallen apart. Clearly colour and pads are easily fixed with paint and a quick order to EBC which was on the way anyway. A chat with Andy Green (we have lots of these) had come to the conclusion that a bleed nipple banjo bolt and a blank would reduce the risk of damage easily. It  was whilst looking into other sources of this very cheap caliper for another racer that I spo...

Shopping With the winter maintenance season on its way I started looking for parts to get the bike where I wanted it for the 2017 season. Wheels were high on my shopping list as the stock cast wheels weigh a fair bit. I wanted a set of Astralites but they are very expensive. Spoked wheels were going to be the more likely option but getting a good set was't very cheap either. As it happened this pair of Astralites came up cheap on eBay for only £250 with the added bonus of all the spacers for an RD250 fit. They were still in their original anodised finish with the only draw back being a few dents in the rims that would need ironing out. Straightening things up I spent a long time trying to get in contact with the Tony Dawson and   Paul Allender. Tony being the man who brought the Astralite wheel to us and Paul the man who brought them back after a 10 year gap . Paul was selling the wheels again on RennStar  but sadly they have recently announced th...