Been a member for years but haven't posted or really used it, so am basically a newbie.
I am in the process of starting a rebuild project on my NSR. I remember the fun that I used to have on the little Movistar Repsol machine but left that in the back corner of the shed for the past 7 years after she seized up and I bought a new toy - 2002 VTR SP2.
I love my SP2 and although it doesn't make any difference with adding Kms on it (given the quality of HRC), I want to not have something else to take out. That being said, I did an impulse buy and bought a 2000 VTR SP1. Another HRC masterpiece but if I'm being honest, I am missing my NSR.
I bought the NSR blind from a guy in Adelaide 10 years ago. I got it back and it had issues from the start for a while. Had to replace the jets, do a top end rebuild, have the crank reconditioned and then it came good.
I learnt how to ride on my NSR and what a Learn bike it was. I remember hitting the Great Ocean Road and I was chaining the corners with a black 999 duc trying to catch. It never happened and right then I knew that the bike was very special.
Over the years it was with a mechanic that seems to always give it back with more problems that it arrived with and this was costing me money. I guess this was another reason that it has been tucked away for so long. The last time I picked it up, I rode home and it bucked me off the seat in the rain in the middle of an intersection but I managed to save. There was no oil and it seized!
But since Facebook and all of the Two Stroke pages, I have been attending events and now have this on my 'goal list' for 2016.
I am looking forward taking on feedback and guidance from you experts as well as getting in and doing some of the work myself. I am as mechanically minded as a dancer with two left feet but am a thinker, so always work it out.
I have a TYGA race kit, full TYGA stainless system with Carbon Cans. HRC Jet kit, TYGA rear sets and a limited NSR250R SP!! So that's "3" SP's in the garage.
Wondering about a J3 HRC engine and if this will be able for registration in Australia. If not, maybe this will just be my tracker.
But I want to bring this back to be a Rothmans Special. Ideally If I can get a 500 into this frame, that would be my end goal but for now, I want a Rothmans special on the road.
Some pics of what I am starting with.
Wish me luck
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