I had that same bike when I was sixteen I paid 650 for it it had 10,000 miles on it moved to San Diego two weeks and it was stolen I really loved that bike thanks for the memory
Had one of these back in 1980. Put rd400 front-end, swingarm, mags and engine with DG pipes jetted out with k&n filters, plugs one number hotter NGKb8es, that bike was so fast he used to blow away Honda 750s. So basically it was a 250 with the tank side plates when I was beating all these big bikes they would say no way that's a 250. Lol
@@2wheelmonster easy to do. Only thing I had to do was move the counter sprocket out a little by using the same type of washer that goes on the counter sprocket before the nut that you bend over like a locking kind of washer so I just put a few of those on the inside of the sprocket and it lined up perfectly because of chain was sort of not correctly straight when I just put that engine on, the engine was from a red rd400 I think 1976. That bike was so fast and banging Wheelie's in 3rd gear like nothing.
did some tree trimming for a 75 rd 250 last week...is it true you can put rd 350 cylinders and pistons on a rd 250 with no internal modifications?...(same stroke?) it would be a real "sleeper" rocketship!
Thank you and it cost about $3500 if I remember correctly and a lot of parts came from HVCCYCLE in Lincoln Nebraska United States I spoke a lot with a person named Brad who was very knowledgeable on getting this particular bike back to what it would have been like rolling out of the factory hvccycle.net/
