Honda V-TWIN RS250R

[Bandit]

I think its more of an "over seas" bike, do a search an most japan websites show up..

[Smokin'Gun]

The 2-stroke market has gone to shit lately though. Everytime I race a motocross theres one less 2-stroke there. Now its only me and my friend on 125s and we race against 4-strokes. Over the past 2 or 3 years at least with dirtbikes anyway theres been somethin like a 60% increase in the sales of 4-strokes and a 30% decrease around where I live

[scream'ntwostroke]

Yes it really sucks to see a decline in 2-strokes. But everytime at the dunes when someone on a raptor talks trash about the shee and they want to drag. It cheers me right up when i smoke them and make them eat some good old 2-stroke roost.







scream'n

[motomark]

Originally Posted by sparkzilla

If they can make an EPA approved 2stroke for a rqace bike why not for a quad?
No matter what brand we are loyal to we all know how good a modern trx250r would sell. And I bet there are a lot of us that would run out and buy one just because it is not a thumper. Also if they can meet EPA guidelines why can't anyone else?? There is still one hell of a good 2stroke market out there. They just need to give us a new model or 2.

Great point on the EPA guidelines. I bet if they came out with a new tech 250 it would beat the 450 in sales.

[TRX-RMXJapan]

NSR's are everywhere over here. I made a post a couple weeks ago about NSR250 and NSR500 motors.

[350XsX]

im guessing that race bike isnt street legal?it has no lights or turn signals

[rs250r rider]

Sorry, guys, I know it's an old thread, but as a Honda RS250R owner, I wanted to help get the facts straight.

The RS250R and RS125R are not EPA approved or street legal. They are pure GP racebikes. They're not new at all, they've been around since the early 1980s, or even earlier. Only handfuls ever made it to the US each year. That number went up in the past years since the AMA was running a 2-stroke GP series. Unfortunately, since the MotoGP series is phasing out 2-strokes, the AMA decided to discontinue their series and now HRC isn't bringing the RS250R into the States. The price listed on the Thousand Oaks Honda site is correct. The bikes come with a couple crates full of spare parts, cylinders, heads, crank, pistons, etc.

The reason the Japan market has more of these is because Japan makes street legal 2-stroke versions of th RS250R in the form of the NSR250. Since 2-stroke 250s are legal there, they have well established 2-stroke club and pro level racing. There are literally thousands of NSR250s available there. The NSR is very similar to the RS line, the most obvious difference is that it doesn't make as much horsepower. Also, the RS carbs don't have an idle circuit, so anyone wanting to use a RS engine in a fabricated quad would have to work around that. The RS engine has basically 2 modes, hard acceleration and off. You could put carbs with an idle circuit on an RS, but then you'd probably just foul the motor in minutes, and it'd really mess up your top end. The RS motor is hyper sensitive to atmospheric changes and would surely sieze or foul in a quad type environment. The better choice would be a NSR motor, which has an idle circuit and is more of a daily workhorse.

Old RS and Yamaha TZ250 motors can always be found on ebay. They're popular with the shifter kart crowd. If anyone *was* going to try using one of these, I'd really recommend the Yamaha TZ motor. The RS cranks aren't rebuildable and a new one is pretty expensive. Used TZ parts are also more plentiful.

So, yes, the Honda RS250R is a real bike. And, yes, that's the real price of it. In my opinion, it's worth every penny.

[terboed]

Originally Posted by Smokin'Gun

The reason its so expensive is probably because its new, theres not many 2-stroke street legal bikes made anymore that are readily avaliable and Honda probably had to dump a TON of money into that motor to make it meet EPA regulations for these days

i dont think this bike is street legal. im pretty shure it is for the track only. you might be able to convert it to a street machine though. but not legaly.

[sirsmokesalot]

about 2 years ago i was working at a place called jt honda. they had one. the only one ive ever seen. the spares package was pretty impressive. i swiped a couple of pistons for my cr 125 but the deck height was too tall. they had an incredibly short stroke.

[terboed]

i guess i should of read all the posts first. rs250 rider allready took care of this issue.