Well I finally got out on my r5k today after a month of going over the bike, it turned out to be in great condition for its age.

Brake pads all round and fresh fluid, fork oil, seals and dust covers, gearbox oil and coolant, float valves, float bowl seals, gentle polish of float valve seats, float heights set, oil pump bled and set, new chain an sprockets, new tyres, RC valves set, fairing fitted properly with new fasteners and homemade headlight foam, new gear selector spline boss, new exhaust gaskets, new plugs, petcock repair kit fitted, every thing cleaned lubed and polished where appropriate.

The bike is completely stock except wire splice.

The traffic was bad and the rain was closing in so only went out for a short time. But long enough to know it runs absolutley great smooth and claen right through the rev range with good midrange and a screaming top end, although I could only give it a short squirt here and there.

Its the first time I have ridden in 15 years and damn it felt good to be back on a 250, this nsr is fantastic I love it and will keep it forever.

The forks are soft though and it threatened a slapper at one point, will try and get out tomorow and do a plug chop to check the plugs.

I am running an inline filter but dont like it so will stump up for a fuel tank strainer asap.