RD250

Changing the chassis is a bit of work but I really didn't want to be getting bored this winter so I thought I'd go and mess up my engine as well. The basic plan stood that I would take my existing RD250D aircooled cylinder heads and mate them with a set of RD250LC cases. Why? Well you get a better gearbox, but more importantly the cases are fully rubber mounted. Shakleton the RD250 had suffered greatly with vibration induced lack of structural integrity throughout 2017 so a rubber mounted engine was high on my wish list.  The cases I started shopping for a set of cases as soon as the season ended but could find nothing under £900! Andy Green, one of my racing team mates, offered me a set of cases to get started with. They came from the back of his shed but for all my appreciation for his help and generocity, they looked like they had come out of a canal! These things were covered in grime, missing/ bent studs and some rather seized looking internals would all n...

As 2017 drew to a close and the season became a handful of stories, it bacame time to get to work on the RD250 D This meant some serious work was to commence. I only realise now, as I type this that: of the original bike I bought off of Tom back in 2016; only the clutch lever, rear brake master and barrels will remain. So it is fitting that this blog entry should be a gallery of some on the high and low lights of my time with 'Shackleton' to 100 mile an hour (on a good day) vibrator.   Good by Shackleton the RD250...  ...and a warm welcome to the TRD250 To be continued... 

 Reed all about it: I got me some Vforce 3 reads! At $137 with manifold rubbers and some spare reeds they were an absolute steal so it would have been rude not to pick them up during a recent trip state side. They were however: well used and in need of a clean so that was going to be my first job when I got them home. The reeds, stuffer blocks and cages are easilly seperated by pulling apart and witdrawing the centre reed holding pin. Once apart I could give everything a thorough clean and inspect. I found a few of the reeds were getting a bit fragile and worn on the edges so some of the spares were quickly swapped in for the dodgy reeds. Once all was clean the reed blocks were reassembled. Being Banshee reed cages they are a fair bit bigger width wise to the standard RD250D cages but seeing them drop into the inlet of a spare YPVS engine  reassured me they should fit knowing others ran with YPVS reeds in their bikes. Things would need modifying but it was p...