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So I put the cad drawing onto foam board first to see if it would work before I did sheet metal. It looked good so I moved forward with sheet metal. Yesterday it got it all cut out of 22 gauge sheet steel and welded it up. I think when I do the left side I’ll use 18 or 20 gauge. I didn’t...

Last night I went to see the friend who sold me the bike because he has a friend who just bought his first motorcycle and wanted me to look at the malfunctioning speedo. While I was there he told me that he had found something he thought went with the bike and it turned out to be the right side...

So not a whole lot to update on this bike. I put the rubber gas tank mounts on and a new air filter, but other than that it’s about the same, though I did pull the swing arm and paint that one day. It didn’t really need it but it was a little beat up looking and I was pretty bored. And here’s...

What an incredible bike. An NSR250 is very high, if not the top, on the list of my dream bikes. How hard has it been finding parts for it?

Cool I’ll take a look into those. I really don’t care about the turn signal light as I don’t have them, and the neutral light is disconnected because the switch was shorting to the frame and causing problems when I was trying to time the bike, but they’d definitely be nice to have down the road...

I am located in Madison, Wisconsin. The place is called Suter’s Speed Shop. They sell bikes and parts and stuff but we rent a storage unit next door and you can see the boneyard from there, so that’s how I found out about it. I’m not sure if anyone can walk through the place or not, but it...

Thanks! It was never supposed to be a pro level fix, and it cost me $0 and about 2 hours of my time so all things considered, not too bad. I had not heard of that source of parts. Looks like a good place to go. Some stuff is definitely on the expensive end, but other stuff is dirt cheap. I mean...

I have a roll of vinyl masking tape but couldn’t find it last night so I just made this work. I also pulled the masking off before the paint was very hard so the edge was kind of rubbery, so I’m sure if I had waited longer I might’ve gotten better results. I would love to do some custom paint at...

I’ve done some fiberglass work before, which was my plan for a permanent fix later on, but never tried plumbing cement. What’s the benefit there?

Small update. Just been trying to clean things up and get the bike to presentable condition. Not looking for show quality, she’s a survivor after all, just something I can hop on and not worry about. I spent a few hours the other night re-wrapping some sections of the wiring harness and tucking...

That is one beautiful bike my friend. I’m just impressed that you can get it going 65 lol

That bike looks like a heap of fun man. Personally I’m a little biased towards Honda’s for no particular reason other than that’s all I’ve had experience with in power sports and I just think they’re cool. I am a big proponent of small displacement light weight bikes. All bikes have their place...

Thankfully it was only a few minutes of lost time. I can’t tell you how many times I have forgotten little things on the bike or on my 84 Honda TRX200 atv that have cost me so much time. For example, I have put the carb all the way back in the bike about 5 times now and forgotten to put the...

haha no offense taken. After the initial moment of self hatred I laughed pretty hard. I believe that when I told my brother what I had done his exact words were, “you nimrod” followed by extensive laughter. Definitely not one of my finest moments when it comes to mechanical repairs, but hey...

Oh I almost forgot about my dummy of the year award. So when I removed all the old gaskets I had to remove some residue from the mating surfaces, and I put a paper shop towel in the intake port on the head so that I wouldn’t drop a bunch of seal material down into the engine, but as it would...

So I finally got a day to work on the bike again and when I put a straight edge on the carb flange it was definitely warped so it i got that all flattened out and did the spacer and insulator for good measure too. I also went and bought some gasket material and cut some new gaskets. The old ones...

Thanks all for the tips guys. I loosened the carb nuts off and that helped a ton. It still has some occasional issues, so I’ll get the carb pulled off one of these days and check flatness. Other than that the bike is coming together. I’ve got new front brake shoes coming in soon so that should...

I put a new oem o-ring on but I get the feeling that I have been tightening the carb way to tight. I never would have thought of something like that being a problem. I will put a straight edge (surface plate is wishful thinking for me lol) on it just to be safe too. Thanks!

Never heard of something like that. Do you know the reason behind that?

There should be a paper gasket between the carb body and the insulator? I assumed that the o-ring on the carb did all of the sealing there. I don’t recall seeing a gasket there so if there is one needed, that could definitely cause a problem