1985 ATC 250r Update "Ride Report" 2/23/14

[Mr. Clean]

This was my first 250R I bought back in October 2006. Pretty much rode it everywhere, flat tracking, trails in Florida, Imperial Sand dunes, Northern AZ trails, Nevada Logandale trails, Dumont dunes, and local desert riding. Last year went to service the swing arm bolt and it was stuck! I did not want to build from the frame up but once I cut the bolt it was on. The build sat for too long and I finally got motivated to start building again. I have a couple builds going and this will be quickly followed by another.

I could not be happier with the swing arm bushings, and TM designworks slider. Few more things on order this week and should be ready to fire up later this week or the weekend.

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Quality control inspector approving the work.

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[Jabcon]

beautiful!

[jb104]

I love the stock colors with the polished front and aluminum wheels. Very sweet I am jealous.

[sp8twn]

Nice R!!!!Love the last picture of the whole bunch with ronnie sitting on his mantis!!!

[RIDE-RED 250r]

Some really cool pics there Mr. Clean! :beer

[fire1]

Just awesome!

[fla 2-stroke]

cool pics mike,love the ones from the old ocala days.

[bkm]

Who'd you have do your tank? Who ever it was should have done a little better job around the filler neck.

[oldskool83]

Nice bike. Those swingarm bushing should never let a bolt seize in there. I used them on my build for that reason.

[dcreel]

Looks amazing, your bikes always do... The attention to detail is amazing..

[Swinger]

Who'd you have do your tank? Who ever it was should have done a little better job around the filler neck. Ha ha,, ohhh nooo!! Beautiful machine Mike! Very clean....Mr. Clean!

[Jason125m]

Amazing, very nice Mr Clean..

[Xowner]

Who'd you have do your tank? Who ever it was should have done a little better job around the filler neck.

Classic! ....

[Marty]

Mike that 250R f yours is sweet, cam out real nice! And my regards to your wife for letting you put a swing arm on her nice counter, if she knows.

[BiggDogg]

Awesome bike bro. GO BUCS!

[Mr. Clean]

Who'd you have do your tank? Who ever it was should have done a little better job around the filler neck.

I sent my tank to rustyhondas :p Ha your just mad cause I leapfrogged your 250r build :welcome: :D


And my regards to your wife for letting you put a swing arm on her nice counter, if she knows.

She took the :pics: :beer

Thanks everyone for the kind words!!

[bkm]

:lol::lol: I derserved that one. Man I've been slacking on that thing thats for sure. I guess that filler neck doesn't look so bad now that I know rustyhondas is on the job. :lol:

Great work as always Mike. In all seriousness though Mike, I know your not a green guy, but I would love to see you apply your wears to a T3 like you do the R's.

[Mr. Clean]

Time to call this build complete. Torqued down all hardware, added some decals, a front knob for all types of riding and swapped a bunch of hardware for fresh zinc plated.

Changed the pipe and silencer and did some jetting around the neighborhood, about the only thing left is to jet it at the dunes to make sure its happy.

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[loshe191]

Very nice job on the 250R!!

[CRAZY70MAN]

Man that is a clean looking build!! What kind of chain buffer is that on the front of the swingarm?? That baby looks heavy duty! Nevermind.....I see you listed the chain slider in your description

[slashfan7964]

Looks good but no fork boots?

[BOB MARLIN]

Mike,
what silencer is that?. Looks kinda like the one I am running.

Nothing like good old oem plastic !

[atc007]

Man that is a clean looking build!! What kind of chain buffer is that on the front of the swingarm?? That baby looks heavy duty! Nevermind.....I see you listed the chain slider in your description

T.M. designworks. That sure is Clean !

[Mr. Clean]

Mike,
what silencer is that?. Looks kinda like the one I am running.

Nothing like good old oem plastic !

It is a Coffmans silencer. I agree on the OEM plastic, looks so much better!!

[the great gazoo]

Wow, very nice! I always wondered about the OE versus Maier R plastics,I know the differences on just about every other model except the R, because I never had a 250R.

[Mr. Clean]

Went to the dunes for Presidents day weekend. Took the R right out on a flat for a couple plug chops and noticed the axle fade nut had backed off. Tried to tighten it down and it would get snug then break loose. Great what you going to do now? I flipped the threaded collar and was able to get it torqued down and added some loctite. Seems the threads on the one side were wore down enough to not allow it to tighten.

Worked a little more on jetting, and still need to do some more carb adjustments. Overall that was the only issue from the shakedown other than needing a carb bowl gasket.

No action shots but here are a few stills. I have some go pro footage as well. Once I edit it, I will post the R climbing Patton hill.

[atc007]

Here's a silly question for all you lucky sob's that get to play in the dunes lol.. When you mount sand tires,I assume you mark the tires when mounting,like degreeing a plug. So the paddles are lined up perfect left and right once installed? So it pulls perfectly straight. I never thought about it till looking at this beauty sitting there.

[Mr. Clean]

I just rotate the hubs to line the paddles up.



Here's a silly question for all you lucky sob's that get to play in the dunes lol.. When you mount sand tires,I assume you mark the tires when mounting,like degreeing a plug. So the paddles are lined up perfect left and right once installed? So it pulls perfectly straight. I never thought about it till looking at this beauty sitting there.

[JasonB]

Man that is such a slick 250r! Top notch work as always man, damn that thing is clean!

[honda200x1987]

That is a clean build, makes me want to build one myself! Did you restore the OEM plastics? They look new!

[Mr. Clean]

I have some go pro footage as well. Once I edit it, I will post the R climbing Patton hill.

Camera pointed backwards, roughly the 5 minute mark is the hill climb. R is running a bit thick at the moment.

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Did you restore the OEM plastics? They look new!

Those same plastics have been with this machine since 2006. I have not done anything but maintain them after every ride.