Bike Advice

[Bigian]

Hello.

I need some help in finding a very very cheap bike to do the Lands end trial on. I am looking at any single that will do the job.

I have a Ossa Mar which just has not got the legs for 350 lane miles and a BSA A7SS which is to heavy for the rougher terrain.

Has anyone done the event or can give advice. I think the site is great lots of good articles!!!!!

Cheers Ian.

[guest7]

The Kawasaki KLR 250 is a very under-rated trail bike. The standard suspension isn't brilliant but it's good enough and the engine is much pokier than you'd expect. It's also pretty light.

DR350s are getting thin on the ground these days in good nick, but that's another great little thumper trailie.

Cheers
GC

[Bigian]

I did look at KLR's DR's and XT's I think that a lot of the really cheap ones have been thrashed to death or butch-ed.

 I think that a road type bike might do the job, fitted with knobbly tyres.Z200 or MZ something?
I think most of the early jap stuff was twin 2 stroke engines with torpedo exhausts.

[guest18]

Yamaha Serow's have a good name I believe? If you can live with the weight most 600 ish trailies are better value than the little ones, they tend to be used off road less and therefore survive longer!

[Bigian]

I saw there were a few Xt600,Dr600 on that dreaded site, If i could find a fairly old one it could be a option.

I need to keep looking in those barns !!!!!!

[robG]

How about a CB 250 Rs . Great little bike and you can tiddle about with the gearing . Or if you are really lucky , the CL250 . This was an on/off road version of the Rs with extra low first gear . They are around and about and still quite big on the continent . I've been offered a couple myself but they've not appeared as yet . Lovely to look at , high level two into one exhaust , rack etc .

Rob .

[Bigian]

I think a rs might be the way forward!

[SteveC#222]

How about something like an MZ250 special?



Cheap, tough, bulletproof, easy to convert.

I remember reading something in MZ rider years ago about someone doing the Lands end on just such a machine. This picture isn't the best convertion I've seen but the only one I could find.

[guest18]

Hmmm first MZ stroker I've seen that makes me thinl "cool, I could fancy one of these..." I think I'd better go for a lie down until the feeling passes 

[SteveC#222]

A cheap TS 125/250 or ETZ is probably going to be £200-£300 ish ? A set of Knobblies, fiddle with the exhaust and mountings, Maybe change the front wheel for a 21" ( Small jap trailie ?) and maybe change the gearing - you could have a pretty decent little off roader and change from £500. 




..and it would have the all important Z cred!

[niblue]

Yamaha Serow's have a good name I believe? If you can live with the weight most 600 ish trailies are better value than the little ones, they tend to be used off road less and therefore survive longer!

Serows are excellent little bikes - pretty decent off road, and rideable on-road. 600 trailies are hard work off-road, especially if you're inexperienced or unfit.

[Bigian]

I think i might be both of them!

[guest7]

I used to trail-ride in the Elan Valley with a bloke who beat us all hands down on a ratty old Honda MTX125 

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[Steffan]

How about something like an MZ250 special?

Interesting an ETZ 251 frame and running gear, I wondering if they did both wheels as this model came with a 16" rear. TS250 (that's 4 speed not /1 AKA Supafive engine) and some tricky welding on the silencer; which looks stangely too long.

Steffan

[Steffan]

On reflection it could be a TS frame, well the clocks are right but then the tail light is definately ETZ, the give away of course would be a peak at the section under the tank box vs tube.....