Bike of the Day: 1998 Aprilia RS250 

Makes perfect sense. I considered keeping this as a track bike but a.) it deserves to be out on the street with the CA plate b.) I'm much slower on two-strokes vs. four-strokes on the track. That's why I'm so impressed with Olly when he flies around all of us on his RS125 and TZ250. And you're right: they look amazing!

Yup, he has no clue how to ride motorcycles, or at least has no clue what he's talking about. Trying to dump the clutch at idle and only then start feeding it some power...? Ridiculous. This is what happens in a country where the majority do everything just by buying stuff and going for it, with no training or education at all. Actually he does take off properly many times in the video so I have no clue what he's talking about. He also complains about how hard it is for him to change gears, so who knows what goes on in his head... I guess come people just have their own hindrances and challenges to overcome, which don't affect normal, healthy people.

@@pistonburner6448 You need to ride it as if you want to kill it, just like a 125 on a motocross track. This guy is ready for his first electric bike 🤣🤣🤣

Rev it to 7000 rpm and play with the clutch to keep the rpm above 7000 and it will be a rocket.. Used to start off with my first bike back in 90’s, it was a yamaha rd350 lc 31k. Very similar thing with a bit more power but also with powervalve. If you check the acceleratin 0-60 it is quite good, much better than ordinary car’s even modern ones but you have to understand the 2 stroke to reach good times..

Yeah he needs to rev it and that is all. Going below 6k, lack of power? Drop a gear and smile.😎👍

It's not just the oil being burnt but the type of oil. Most wouldn't know the beauty of castor oil mixed in fuel being burnt. It's even better the synthetic esters.

Thank you for this. The new owner picks it up today! iconicmotorbikeauctions.com/auction/aprilia-rs250/

Exact same as the 1st gen RSV Mille's, though I imagine it pops up on the Mille than the 250 because they love batteries

Ah, thank you for the explanation! That makes perfect sense, as we installed a new battery once I got the bike. Now I just need to open up the service manual and adjust the light. Thanks!

Thanks so much!

Sounds like this would be perfect for you!

Thanks for the feedback! We hope to do more of these and we definitely want to improve where we can. So you'd like us to just go around the bike and show off details? In silence/with music or talking about them? And at the beginning or at the end?

@@IconicMotorbikes thats up to you how you want to do it. but if you wouls show more of the details of the bike and each side, some closeups etc of these rare machines it would be awesome. thanks for listening to the feedback :)

@@180FiftyFive makes sense, we'll look into it!

It's not the 2-stroke warning light.

I'm 6'2"

You obviously haven't used this clutch before. Your right he should be letting it slip when it engages immediately but clutch plates aren't always smooth in how they grab. Some bikes just are like that. My it250 83 had a real grabby clutch it will slip for the first 1/4 or less of the throw n when you released to halfway and be fully engaged before the lever is completely extended further it would suddenly start to up to fully engage making it a grabby clutch it never changed. Each bike is different. Every bike comes with its own characteristics and the longer you ride each bike the smoother it ends up being even if it's a grabby clutch technique changes to the clutch), if someone tests your bike or you will sell it n it will seem like the guy riding it is an amateur. Thats how you know it's a grabby clutch and rubbing the steel plates on concrete won't work since the meat has already been stripped it's only if you aren't getting the plates to grab, you rub them on concrete. The engagement is only fixed by replacing the entire basket of plates or just the steel plates every second service. They will feel like a quicker/tighter throw after servicing them since the discs are thicker and fill up the spaces in between. Sometimes you will need to adjust the lever so it doesn't have a dragging clutch.

Someone who wants to enjoy cool bikes regularly!

The oil pump is connected to the powervalve controller so you keep getting oil even when you roll off at high rpm.

There’s always 1 🙄

It's long gone so I can't check the stickers, but I bought it from the original owner who had a California plate on it from new.

85 was the last year for a smog legal two stroke...Yamaha RZ350. All the other 2 stroke imports we used to call Grey Market bikes. There were sneaky ways to get them registered.

Totally fair. But I don't have one of those with a CA plate, haha!