CR 250 01 clean up FINISHED

Hello everyone,
I'm kinda new here so to get to know you guys better i wanted to share the clean up of my CR 250.
To quickly introduce myself.. My name is Bryan Borny just become 21 years old, I live in Belgium and have the dirtbike microbe since a little boy !

First of all normally i was planning to make a detailed REPLICA of RC's 2001 MXoN bike.
Because i was going to buy the newer CR250 and keep the 01 as a showbike !

But in 2013 i raced 2 4Hour enduro races and i really loved it !
So i decided to buy a enduro bike for the year 2014 and use the 01 CR for another year of motocross riding.
That's why i only giving her a clean-up and not make a detailed replica anymore..
Because i didn't want to spend alot of money in bead blasting the ening and re-anodizing parts and making the bike look like a real RC REPLICA and then making her dirty again week in week out..
But she definitely needed a clean up ! the bike didn't look good anymore after those 2 enduro races i've raced with her

It's the first time i'm doing a thread like this so i'll try make it interesting.
All pictures during proces been taken with a cell phone camera so quality isn't that good.
She is almost finished so i hope you guys like what i've done so far on the bike..

I dont have a lot of pictures of how the bike looked right before the clean up without me riding on it..

Before the clean up she looked like this, FMF fatty exhaust + powercore 2 silencer SADmx custom decals etc..





Started stripping her down.

She was pretty dirty on all spaces you can't reach during washing the bike.






Then high pressure cleaned her again.




Continue stripping





Completely stripped,






When i took off the swingarm i noticed that the chain had slided trough the slider and the aluminum at the bottom of the bearing Took it to Honda vandevelde Racing and they welded it , put new bearings in it and a new chain slider. Unfortunately i didn't make any pictures !

The frame was pretty dirty so i started cleaning with soft steel wool and a fine copper brush.



And the result, Could off have been better ! but i was happy with this result.. cleaning it like new would be useless as i'm gonna ride the bike again.



If i was going to build the replica i would bead blast the engine.. But for now i just took some steel wool and copper brush, though the result looks better in real ( bad photo quality..)

Now assemble everything back together.


Bought these brand new Works Connection radiator braces , Couldn't find these anywere on the internet ! found them by accident on www.kapaza.be , Bought them from a guy wo still had this new in package, Also bought 40 inch OEM Carburetor hoses, I didn't measure how much i would needed so guess what ? havent enough.. And now this guy has ran out off stock

Cleaned the carb and fitted the hoses.



Replaced the stock reeds for boyesen carbon reeds ! Stock reeds look pretty bad but they still close very well on to the reedvalve.

Bought a UFO crf 250 11 frond fender and modify it onto my bike (stole this idea from racesthilaire) http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Race-Shop,42/CR250-front-fender-conversio…

Some stuff have arrived, The Throttle Jockey RC MXoN Decals. Looks pretty sick and amazing quality ! Also another package with BOLT full plastics fastener kit, cycra number plate...









Also bought new tyres Pirelli scorpions always have ridden with this type of tyres.


Looks like a bike again all freshed up.



Placed the front fender, All i had to do was file the back holes more to the back and drill 2 extra holes. Notice the front fender is a little bended,
They told me to place it in the freezer so i did and it was straight again but as soon as the fender started to get room temperature again it bended back in this form



Also fitted the Cycra number plate looks pretty sick ! still have to make a bracket for it,
If i drilled the hole in the number plate a little bit more down i would have only needed a spacer between te plate and upper clamp.





Removed old decals and added the new ones.




Repacked my FMF silencer with stock FMF packing. Also carbon wrapped the silincer to get the factory look ! I know this carbon wrap is good quality stuff but dont know if it will resist the heat..



Before cleaning and replacing the gas tank i might take off the petcock to take a look. I was absolutely stunned when i saw this !
Flushed the gastank with many gasoline and then cleaned the tank and petcock.

My old number plates were pretty banged up.. but still had my other pair of racing plates that still almost looks like new, Removed the decals and cleaned them properly and applied the twin air decals.



I also made my own carbon airbox decals, Still had a pair of old airbox decals and used them as a template but they didn't fit 100% but i don't mind. Reason i did this is because my knees rub against the airbox, so i rather rub trought the decal then my airbox ! I made more then 10 decals so every time i rub trought the decal i'll just stick another one haha

Mounted my old radiators back on, I still doubt if i will buy these gpi racing radiators and hoses from ebay.
Read alot of positive reviews about them. But i dont trust cheap chinese stuff..


Today i received my new UFO radiator shrouds, brought them to SADmx to stick the RC woody decals on it, I don't have the patience and to nervous to stick them my own.

This is how far I've come, Still waiting for some new OEM parts i ordered and a UFO rear fender..
Also i bought on ebay a Magura Hydraulic clutch system but due to some problems with the seller we asked our money back...

Hope y'all like it !