Hello everyone,
I’ve just joined the forum as I was looking for a nsr250 MC21 which I have now found and picked up yesterday. It’s a known bike on the forum I believe and is pretty tidy really. I wanted a project but this one was too good to pass up.
My background is Rgvs before moving onto 4 strokes but as most people my age I needed to buy back my youth with the Nsr and add one to the collection! I’ll try to put a picture up but I’m useless.
Thanks Chris.

That my bike's twin, Chris! I have J686!


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wow looks like an amazing bike. welcome to the forum.

Yep, my old bike Chris, another one that got away, also one of the best paint jobs I have seen, all those decals are airbrushed, I would love to see the old girl in the flesh again, enjoy it.
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Andy, ha that’s amazing. Definitely it’s twin!

Prelude2.2, it really is tidy for its age, cheers

Les, I spotted your name in some paperwork i have , paints still lovely and it’s just had another engine rebuild so hopefully good for a while. Shame it’s lost it’s magteks.

I might get to ride it this week if we get a dry day!

Still looks pretty much the same Chris, I sold it with the standard ex system, but then sold the tyga system to Mike who bought it off me at a later date, the engine had been completely rebuilt when I had it, along with a lot of other new bibs and bobs, mostly all genuine Honda parts, it was almost like a new bike, I realy only sold it cause I had a garage full of two strokes and had packed in riding on the road, and was concentrating more on trackdays, and at the time had a well sorted track MC21, and that one was too good to risk sliding down the tarmac. Hope to see you on her one day.
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Zeus wrote:
Andy, ha that’s amazing. Definitely it’s twin!

If you have the paperwork going back, you should find that it was imported by Sumo Motorcycles, in Leegate, Lee Green, who later changed their name to Soto Motorcycles and moved to Gasoline Alley, near Brands Hatch, which is where I picked mine up from. First ride on an NSR250 was 200 miles home in early 1995.

They also had an MC28SE there at the time these were in the showroom, which I couldn't afford at the time (end of 1994), hence how I ended up with an MC21. Lucky for me, really!
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Les, as I understand it the engine was rebuilt again after you sold it and that wasn’t very successful as it was running badly. The chap I bought it off rebuilt it again and found a crank seal hadn’t been installed correctly.
I had the tank off yesterday to replace a frayed throttle cable and it’s like new still under there.
I don’t know if there are meet ups on here but I will try to get to one on the bike if there is.

Andy, I have a phone book size stack of paper work that I’m still ploughing through but I saw that mine used to be black and that the paintwork was done in 2009. Were our bikes painted by the same person? At the same time?
Single sided swing arms never really did it for me so it was always the ‘exotic ‘ mc21 I lusted after but couldn’t afford.
200 miles on a Nsr , you obviously enjoyed it then! I used to go touring on my first Rgv and put a lot of miles on it, never missed a beat (spat me off alot though!).

Cheers guys.

No, my MC21 was painted less than a week before I collected it in early '95. It was in primer, ready to be painted in Ralph Waldmaan's HB colours when MCN came out with a photo of Mick Doohan's first Repsol paintwork. I was on the phone to [then] Sumo Motorcycles at 8am, MCN in hand! No word of a lie, the guy picked the phone up and said "that'll be Mr. Grant then!"



The paintwork is obviously quite "wrong", but there was only one quite poor newspaper photo to go by at the time. I quite honestly believe it was the first Repsol replica ever done.
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Well I’ve rode it and I came back annoyed, At first I thought with the bike but then myself. I had to channel my younger self from 20 odd years ago and go out again the next day...... love it !!
I’d forgot the raw fun of 2 strokes after switching to 4 strokes an age ago. I’m having to learn it all over again but it’s small, light and handles well so looking good so far!
Chris.

Great! Glad you found the groove again!
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It’s definitely the groove you have to find Andy! Lol.
I’ve always loved small bikes. After my Rgv a cbr400rr was a perfect missile for me because of its size. My friends struggled to keep up on their 750s because of our twisty local roads.
But then I put a 600 engine in it!
Anyway I digress, loving the 2 stroke again after a long break!
Cheers

I’ve done a few subtle changes over the last couple of days, can you spot them? Nothing major but pleasing to my eye, after all I originally wanted a project so I’m scraping around for stuff to do! Ha.

Wheel rim tapes and clear indicator lenses.

Not a fan of the tapes, personally, but each to their own. (The Cup Noodles should actually have white or gold wheels!)


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Yeah I was in two minds over the tape but the wheels just look too plain with the race rep paintwork. I can’t live with white wheels (too much hassle to keep clean) and I hate gold, the top yoke was gold when I got the bike and it was the first thing to go black!
I also made a plastic cover to go over the awful hole someone cut in the belly pan for the expansion chamber, not a perfect colour match but loads better. Also replaced the sweaty rear “race” brake reservoir for a proper Honda tube.