Well, I've been wanting to do this for awhile, and since I just broke up with my girlfriend of 5 years, i thought this would be a good time to start the project.
Anyway, I'm planning to do a whole frame up restoration. I want the bike to be something different, something that stands out, and something that when someone sees it, it will leave an impression.
I am thinking about two different color combinations. I really like seadoo's blue and silver 250r that he had so I thought about doing something similar, OR i was going to go with white and blue.
Since I haven't been able to find any blue plastics (so far) it looks like I am going to be doing white, blue and black as my color combinations. I'm thinking the stock blue seat, fork guards, and then Powder coating the frame blue with all white plastics. Other various parts such as the motor, thumb throttle, etc. will be black.
I'm going to rebuild & powder coat the motor too. It will be my first time rebuilding / even opening a motor up, so it should be a learning experience. I have the OEM 1985 atc 250r service manual so I will be following that down to the "T". I will still have a lot of questions though so be prepared lol
Here are some pictures of the progress so far.
Goofy looking picture of me
Damn Wheel hub castle nut was giving me a hard time. I had to cut the thing off.
WOW. Swing arm bolt was NOT Seized? I was screwing around and decided to tap it with aand it started to moved. I was all like
This is how it sits so far
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