Scott-300ex
04-24-2006, 04:07 PM
So I am on this forum for the races around my house. In my sig I put "Looking for a 250r" cuz I was. Then I make this thread about harescrambles, and this guy Wes replyed and said he knew a guy with one. So he gave me the number and everything. So I call the guy and its an 89 Honda 250r with a header and silencer pipe. The rest is mostly stock. I'm like, "Thats EXACTLY wut I want". So he tells me where to go look at pictures of it. So I did and I'm like "Sweet". So I call him back and we made plans to meet yesterday, Sunday April 23, 2006.
So its a 2 hour drive up there, and we go and meet him then we followed him to his house. He had a nice house, like 5 or 6 acres and a lake and a nice lawn and room to ride. So we get there and it was sitting outside, I'm like, "Awsome!" He has 5 quads thats why he wanted to get rid of it. He was ganna leave for a race so we had to get there early and get out of there so he could race, at Taylorville, IL.
So he talks about it, I ask about it, this guy takes great care of everything, and has a quad mechanic he takes it too and he threw all the paperwork he had on it to me, and boy he had it ran threw after winter before he rode it and other stuff too, so its in great shape. So we talk about it. Then 2nd kick he starts it up, he rides it around the house, and I'm quiverin because I LOVE 2-strokes, and the sound of it and the fact that it is a 250r is just awsome. So he comes back and he's like, "Alright you can ride it." So I go get my helmet(Very important). I hop on it and had a blast on it. It died on me cuz it wasn't warm yet and I didn't hit the gas. I kicked and kicked it wouldn't start, he comes over and of course gets it kicked the 2nd time again. So its just ganna take me some time learnin how to start that.
So I'm ridin it, gettin used to it so I don't flip it. Hahaha. After about 45 seconds I give just a little tug and throttle and I rode a wheely. Im like, "Man that was easy." So then I sat on the gas tank and did the same thing, a small tug and throttle and the front end came up and I rode that one. Man are those 250r 2-strokes bad@$$!!!!!!!!!!!! So that got me pumped up even more. I also got on it to see the acceleration, and it hauls! I wasn't runnin the crap out of it just to let you know, I was easy since I didn't hand over the cash yet. Although you do have to ride 2-strokes hard. And he said he rode it hard, but man its in such great shape.
So I come around the house and my dad and girlfriend were with me and I come around and turn it off, and said "Wow.......I'm sorry Kaitlin, but........I think I'm in love."
So I go into his house and he gives me the paperwork and his name is Andy Nash. He tells me he has skidplates for it. I'm like "Oh man, those are somethin I'm ganna buy for it." He's like, "Oh, I got some if you want them, I'll throw them in for free." I'm like, "Oh yeh man." Then he said he had A-Arm skids for it to so we went to his work and he gave me them too.
It doesn't have a case saver on it so he said he'll knock $25 bucks off of it so I get one. So I thought that was nice. He was a real nice guy and he really takes care of everything.
He redid the whole thing over the winter, had it stripped down to the frame and repainted it and everything, so that was awsome.
So I get all the extra's which he gave me a 5 gallon race gas can and it had 1 gallon of the gas he runs in it and also a quart of transmission oil which he said he changed constantly. 32:1 with 93 octane. Sound good? With Castrol TTS oil.
So we load it up and go to his work for him to give me the A-Arm skids and he must have forgoten about the money cuz I still had it. I thought that was funny. So he gives me the skids and the name and number of his mechanic for his quads, then we talked about it more and he asked wut I was ganna do with it. I said play ride in sand and woods and prolly race XC and Flatrack. So we talked and I gave him the money and we took off.
I suck at starting it, I finally kick started it today. Like 3 times, but it'll just take some time.
This is long so Congratulations if any of you read the whole thing.
Here's some pictures.
So its a 2 hour drive up there, and we go and meet him then we followed him to his house. He had a nice house, like 5 or 6 acres and a lake and a nice lawn and room to ride. So we get there and it was sitting outside, I'm like, "Awsome!" He has 5 quads thats why he wanted to get rid of it. He was ganna leave for a race so we had to get there early and get out of there so he could race, at Taylorville, IL.
So he talks about it, I ask about it, this guy takes great care of everything, and has a quad mechanic he takes it too and he threw all the paperwork he had on it to me, and boy he had it ran threw after winter before he rode it and other stuff too, so its in great shape. So we talk about it. Then 2nd kick he starts it up, he rides it around the house, and I'm quiverin because I LOVE 2-strokes, and the sound of it and the fact that it is a 250r is just awsome. So he comes back and he's like, "Alright you can ride it." So I go get my helmet(Very important). I hop on it and had a blast on it. It died on me cuz it wasn't warm yet and I didn't hit the gas. I kicked and kicked it wouldn't start, he comes over and of course gets it kicked the 2nd time again. So its just ganna take me some time learnin how to start that.
So I'm ridin it, gettin used to it so I don't flip it. Hahaha. After about 45 seconds I give just a little tug and throttle and I rode a wheely. Im like, "Man that was easy." So then I sat on the gas tank and did the same thing, a small tug and throttle and the front end came up and I rode that one. Man are those 250r 2-strokes bad@$$!!!!!!!!!!!! So that got me pumped up even more. I also got on it to see the acceleration, and it hauls! I wasn't runnin the crap out of it just to let you know, I was easy since I didn't hand over the cash yet. Although you do have to ride 2-strokes hard. And he said he rode it hard, but man its in such great shape.
So I come around the house and my dad and girlfriend were with me and I come around and turn it off, and said "Wow.......I'm sorry Kaitlin, but........I think I'm in love."
So I go into his house and he gives me the paperwork and his name is Andy Nash. He tells me he has skidplates for it. I'm like "Oh man, those are somethin I'm ganna buy for it." He's like, "Oh, I got some if you want them, I'll throw them in for free." I'm like, "Oh yeh man." Then he said he had A-Arm skids for it to so we went to his work and he gave me them too.
It doesn't have a case saver on it so he said he'll knock $25 bucks off of it so I get one. So I thought that was nice. He was a real nice guy and he really takes care of everything.
He redid the whole thing over the winter, had it stripped down to the frame and repainted it and everything, so that was awsome.
So I get all the extra's which he gave me a 5 gallon race gas can and it had 1 gallon of the gas he runs in it and also a quart of transmission oil which he said he changed constantly. 32:1 with 93 octane. Sound good? With Castrol TTS oil.
So we load it up and go to his work for him to give me the A-Arm skids and he must have forgoten about the money cuz I still had it. I thought that was funny. So he gives me the skids and the name and number of his mechanic for his quads, then we talked about it more and he asked wut I was ganna do with it. I said play ride in sand and woods and prolly race XC and Flatrack. So we talked and I gave him the money and we took off.
I suck at starting it, I finally kick started it today. Like 3 times, but it'll just take some time.
This is long so Congratulations if any of you read the whole thing.
Here's some pictures.