Hi All,
I know thats possibly a weird topic (and my first post) but here's the thing..
Lived in NYC for the past 11 years and had a weekend bike of a Hawk GT 650 (Bros over here). Started stock and I modified it to stage2 carb mods, exhaust, VFR rear wheel, cbr600F3 forks and front wheel with the cartridges revalved with a racetech kit.
Moved back to London last year with a Mrs and a 2 year old daughter and to get the Mrs used to (me) daily biking got a scooter.
Obviously chose the lightest (cheapest) 2 stroke 50 I could find, Zip 50, and changed out the air filter, exhaust and PnB's to make a stock looking 70cc which wheelies off the throttle and does over 50mph on the flat..
Problem is Im not 17 anymore, used to bigger bikes and feel the time is right to get a 'big wheel' bike again.

I commute 6 miles into central London every day and perversely want to keep the 2 stroke theme going and as Im a Honda kind of guy fancy an NSR250..
Have settled on an MC21 but cant really decide on an R or SE?
Obviously I want the SE (cant afford an SP) as its got the dry clutch and more importantly cartridge forks which can be revalved like Ive done before.
But the R has an oil clutch which I think might be better for London stop start traffic.
But the R only has damper rod forks, you can of course use something like 'gold valve emulators' but thats still 1/2 arsed..

So..
R for the clutch and buy new forks??
Or
SE and live with a dry clutch (how many miles do they do?)

Either way I want to do the old cable splice definitely a set of pipes and then maybe a set of heads. 7.4 stock CR sounds well low to me, forks revalved and sprung and it now seems that one of the sponsor sites can rebuild and valve the stock shocks.

Cheers and looking forward to some decent feedback,
Marc