My RGV 250 Rebuild
 

Thought I would post some pics of my little project:

What it looked like when I picked it up. 4000 miles. Registered in 1995. It had been stood in a farmers garage for the last 5 years in a giant vacuum bag. (The sort you use your hoover to suck air out of). Someone told me he wanted rid while I was at Sherburn, so I paid him a visit with cash in hand and he accepted my offer. I rode it home and it goes like sh!t through a goose. I decided to rebuild it after reading posts o nthe RGV forum.

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Here's the wheels back from the engineering firm who had to drill out every caliper bolt.

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Actual mileage 5076 at the time of the strip down.

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Re: My RGV 250 Rebuild
 

Very nice! I would love an RGV to re-build but i seem to be wanting to do too much without the mullah!

How far you going with the rebuild?

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£400 worth of billet power valves. Anyone who has had an RGV knows why these are soooooo important.

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More bits to fit.

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Plastics off to go the S****horpe to be sprayed up in the Lucky Strike Kevin Swantz Race Rep.

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Wheels back from the powder coaters.

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Essential for labelling every part - Chinese takeaway cartons

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Every part is being powder coated. First bits back from Triple S in Bingley.


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Fork Rebuild with Hagon Prgressives. They are a bit better than the Sh1tty SV forks.

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Before anyone asks the scooter has been sold lol.

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Homemade fork tool, made from a meat skewer.

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Wheel with new EBC prolite discs and new bearings and new tyres.


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Re: My RGV 250 Rebuild
 

So what about the tractor?! haha

Love the rebuild, has it been completed now then?

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Then disaster. My 2 year old son taking his John Deere tractor for a spin rams into the bike and knocks it off the abba stand, casuing a great big scratch on the frame when it fell.

Looks like the frame is getting powder coated as well now.

Minutes before disaster.

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To date. I haven't touched the bike since April as I have been pre-occupied with the SV and a new baby.

All the plastics are back in the full lucky strike scheme and they look amazing. I have hid them in the loft away from tractor boy.

I paid £1800 for the bike, and so far I have spent well in excess of £3000 on parts and powder coating etc. Every nut bolt etc is being replaced.

I am putting off the next bit because it is an the engine drop. I have all the bits to rebuild the engine such as pistons, new heads, billet power valves. Trouble is finding time now!

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nice work! lovely.

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Calling him lovely is a bit familiar dave, didnt have you down like that :)

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I don't mind lol!

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Hey Dan, if that rgv had been in a vacuum bag and was such low mileage, why the rebuild?
I would have thought it would have been spotless.

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It was lol. And it ran like a dream. It's the usual thing I wanted a Swantz Lucky Stripe Rep. I will probably spend the next 10 years building it, and then finally agree with you lol!

Basic answer is I want it like new.

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I know what you mean, i picked up a go kart chassis last year as a winter project, 125 honda engine, 5 speed manual, i have mounted the engine and done feck all since.
Maybe this winter i meant.

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Very nice.

However I wouldn't have resprayed the plastics. If they are only subject to 5000 miles then they must have be near mint and I don't think Suzuki make them anymore. I would have found a set of used and abuse plastics and sprayed them...

But out of interest Billet Power Valves, where from? And are you doing any other work to the engine?

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The plastics weren't my cup of tea. They were purple. I don't intend selling the bike so I took the plunge. They look the bollox now, much more to my preference.

The billet valves were from the Sean at thetuningworks.com. I am also fitting Cougar cylinder heads, £470., silicon hose kit., £90, Top end replacment, £340, New Valves £460, Lomas Titanium Race system £700.

As you can see it has become a bit of a labour of love.

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No where near. I have run ouit of time again. I will start again in Winter. It has been off the road 2 years now.

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Bloody hell, rolling chequebook or what

Post it on oldskoolsuzuki, they'll love you forever :-P

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Yeah trouble is the money has run out, now and so has the time. Fortunately I have all the parts in my loft ready for the rebuild.

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Run out of money you say............?






Wanna sell it???

JOKES!


Liking this, and I know what it's like when you start something like this, like you, I spent a fortune at the Powder coaters, chromers, painters etc on my project!

Can't wait to see it finished!!

2-Strokes are better than 4!!!!! :smt045

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so what bhp u hopeing from it then ?

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MMmmm I can smell the castrol R.
reminds me of my old Gamma I used to take it to the local hillclimb and thrash the pants off it.
when you've finnished it can we take it for a trackday lol

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Glade should make a Plug in Castrol R Air freshener for men! :)

I's buy it!

Good looking project!

C

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the last week i have been riding with my mate on his NSR 125rr id stay behind just so i can sit there and smell it :D

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No idea, but it will be getting a run on a dyno when finished,

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i have decided i no longer like you.








your RGV250 on the other hand is looking luvilly jubbily. i know its not the same bike but one day i will have a TZR 250 (3MA) rear straight exhaust or the 500 jobby. i love smokers.

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Wibble!
Can you not sell a kidney to help fund this?
I wanna see the finished article :cool:

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Money is not the issue I have all the parts for the rebuild. TIME is the killer, I will start again over winter.

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Paul Copperwheat from Cougar Red is one of my old schoolmates, we used to play together as kids and only lived a few doors away from each other. Nice bloke and an excellent engineer.

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Why what have I done to offend you like?

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The stuff he produces his god like on the 2 stroke circuit. Bloody expensive, but quality stuff!

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So I've heard, he's well respected for his RS and RGV race parts. The RGV my mate Danny trialled had Cougar RED heads and a set of their powervalves, and they were about the only things that didn't give any trouble. Our good mate Jamie Cooper's now taken over that bike, and is winning races.

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Great project and thread, the finished wheels with new discs and tyre look superb!

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Envy is a bugger :-P

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yup. i'm sitting here bikeless and you flaunt loverly pictures of ring a ding dings at me. you should be ashamed of yourself.

in a **** emery voice: Ooh! you are awful! but i like you.

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E-Bay is your friend, I picked up a 400/4 Yam the other week for peanuts. It needed a new exhaust, so I was back on E-Bay and I won one this morning. I now have a winter hack for getting to work. The insurance cost the same as my 125 and I have three times the power. :smt024

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CAF - fact.

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wish it was as easy as that my loverly. i put on 12-14 inches on my waist in the last year and none of my biking gear fits apart from gloves, boots and helmet. christ i cant even keep up with buying jeans as i'm a 26" inside leg and need to get anything i buy altered.

sorry for the derail m8.

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Did this ever get finished? Senn a few pop on on practical sportbikes lately, lovely bikes..

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Last spotted on ebay for 1500 more than Dan sold it for finished