RD250

This is a work in progress but as the blog is being written at the same time as I am working (for a change), I thought I might as well publish it to make it a live update of sorts. So do pop back in the future to see when I finally give up and set the lot on fire. We never thought that 2020's race reason would even happen so when we found ourselves at Cadwell park, all be it as privateers and the sun was out, we were all pinching ourselves.  All of the bikes were going well and so something had to give and it was the RD250. 2 laps into race 1  on Chris curve the RD suddenly lost power, regained it then died all together. My EGT and TTO temperatures all looked fine so I wiggled carbs and throttle cables but the engine came back with a noticeable rattle so the clutch was pulled and my race was over. I had a back to back race on the VFR750 so by the time I was back in the pits, Roy Dale had kindly put my bike on its stand outside the van. We had a look to see what the pr...

At the end of the 2016 season I had to return a lot of loaned parts. That included the carbs (2 sets), exhaust and even the crank. These have been grouped together to pick out the interesting bits of this part of the build. Suck My standard carburetors had to go back to Andy and I had already returned the set that I actually raced with to Sy. The bike had already been stripped for parts by Ian who borrowed it to try and make Silverstone on his own machine but sadly his back had other ideas so I didn't need to pull as much apart here. New Mikuni VM32 carbs were supplied from eBay USA for nearly half the price I can get them in the UK. Thankfully I was state side so the shipping was cheap too. I found it cheaper to buy them separately rather than as a pair but care has to be taken to get a Left and a Right carb as the idle screw will be masked on the right carb otherwise. I also ordered a set of new throttle cables as my current (one sodding race old) cables had the wro...