Project NSR

Where did all this come from anyway? Well that is a good question but for the time being at least you are going to be finding out where this project has already been as this blog is a little way behind so I will try not to spoil things. Lets start from the original plan. That being to buy a  2 stroke 250 sports bike to fill that gap that I missed out when I was starting out on bikes. The hope with this machine was to give me a fun bike that I could fettle and tweak whilst my trusty VFR800 RC46 remained my main work horse. It basically came down to a short list of the NSR250 MC18 (late model) and 21. There was also the wild card of a VJ22 RGV250. I have been a bit of a Honda rider of late and the Suzuki was the one that got away when I went GSXR400 instead but my riding history is for another day. This was not an exclusive list however. It was all a matter of what is available now? Many other bikes like the KR1S were getting rare so a bit steep and the the only TZR that really ...

On the 21st of June at 8pm I was stood, on hold to the bank whilst Cal frantically rewired his trailer in a farm courtyard. 2 hours drive from home I was facing the very real prospect of having to unload my as yet unpaid for bike and go home empty handed and defeated. The bike in question is the Honda NSR250 MC28 SE. I came across this bike a month earlier on eBay and had put a low bid in, you know, just in case. Unsurprisingly I was outbid and all was forgotten until a fortnight later when the seller emailed me with tails of wow from a line of crap ebayers and as a result was prepared to take the hit and sell it to me for this low bid. Well the chance to own the much talked about MC28 with its smart card and digital PGM4 ignition for the the price of an MC21 was not going to be missed!  I met my good friend and colleague Cal at work where he had kindly offered to help me, with the use of his trailer, to go pick up this new bike as I had no trailer of my own and the bike was u...