merc4now
Been Around the Block
{I was asked to move this from 1-800-help to here}
Ok I've posted before and honestly went no where with it (gpz and kzltd). Was made offers on the projects I had and needed to apply the cash to keep my aging vehicles running for family. I do work on the side anything mechanical and electronics/computers for side cash or trades, this came to me via small cash plus trade (two seperate ones). I figure start small to learn the basics and move onto to bigger bikes in years to come. After picking these up I looked for cafe style SR250's and some where pretty cool but for some reason the tracker/brat? style kind of stuck with me when researching what I wanted to do with this. So short and sweet I could use all the help possible to make this 1981 yamaha Sr250
look as close as possible (maybe diff paint but honestly Id be happy to completly clone it) to this
http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2012/6/17/crds-95-yamaha-sr-250-atomica.html. Now made respect goes to SteveG for his "Sr250 Named Mexico" and i'm gonna read over his tread a few times to see how he started and his tweaks as its the closest I could find on this site to the "Atomica" build. But any help would be appreciated. even like simple stuff, can anyone recognize if it has the stock forks/ tire size? what are those style of handle bars called? and that seat just a flat custom seat on a custom loop?
Ofcourse for starters it doesn't run so I'm going to go through some basic checks and see what may be the issuse previous owner thinks it jumped timing. I also have another on the side in back of my garage, so i'd like to build two maybe competly different styles just to play with customizing.
Ok I've posted before and honestly went no where with it (gpz and kzltd). Was made offers on the projects I had and needed to apply the cash to keep my aging vehicles running for family. I do work on the side anything mechanical and electronics/computers for side cash or trades, this came to me via small cash plus trade (two seperate ones). I figure start small to learn the basics and move onto to bigger bikes in years to come. After picking these up I looked for cafe style SR250's and some where pretty cool but for some reason the tracker/brat? style kind of stuck with me when researching what I wanted to do with this. So short and sweet I could use all the help possible to make this 1981 yamaha Sr250
look as close as possible (maybe diff paint but honestly Id be happy to completly clone it) to this
http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2012/6/17/crds-95-yamaha-sr-250-atomica.html. Now made respect goes to SteveG for his "Sr250 Named Mexico" and i'm gonna read over his tread a few times to see how he started and his tweaks as its the closest I could find on this site to the "Atomica" build. But any help would be appreciated. even like simple stuff, can anyone recognize if it has the stock forks/ tire size? what are those style of handle bars called? and that seat just a flat custom seat on a custom loop?
Ofcourse for starters it doesn't run so I'm going to go through some basic checks and see what may be the issuse previous owner thinks it jumped timing. I also have another on the side in back of my garage, so i'd like to build two maybe competly different styles just to play with customizing.