My Project Bike.
I’ve been looking for a project bike to learn more about motorcycle mechanical workings for some time. There have been a lot of great bikes that I have spotted on Craigslist, but due to lack of funds I never got around to buying one.
As luck would have it, Catherines brother had an old enduro bike that he was happy to hand over for free! A few weeks after mentioning this to me, I arrived home to find an old blue clunker pushed up beside my garage. I was a little flabbergasted on how craptacular it looked but after a closer inspection, it was everything that I was looking for! It might not have been love at first site, but it sure grew on me the more I went over it.
It’s a 1977 Yamaha DT250 Enduro bike. It’s street legal and was registered until 1995. It spent considerable time slowly deteriorating under a tree in Georgetown. When I gave it a gentle cleaning, dozens of spiders ran out of the engines cooling fins. It was like a spider condo. Some had to be force ably evicted with a screwdriver.
When I got it, it wouldn’t run at all. There was no spark reaching the plug at all. I figured it was something electrical, which to me is far beyond my very limited experience. I found a guy named Patrick who works on vintage bikes. He was a real life saver and managed to sort out the bikes many, many electrical problems. Once the electrical issues had been taken care of, it started right up! It now starts on either the first or second kick!
Here are a couple of pics I took the day after I got it.
I haven’t had much time to do anything to it yet, but I have been accumulating a lot of new old stock parts and decent used parts. I have almost everything to redo the fork oil. I have also ordered a carburetor rebuilt kid for it along with a new chain and front and rear sprockets. I figure those three things should be the first to be done, once thats done, it should be in good enough shape to try taking it up and down the block once!
I’ll post my progress here as I go along. 
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