The begginings of my (cheap) CRM Motard

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The begginings of my (cheap) CRM Motard

Post by flibble » 31 May 2006, 14:27

Well, at the moment its needs a lot of dents pulling out, the brakes attatching (I have got the spacers made) and a bit of a repaint or better yet, some new plastics, but I've started now so I'm happy at least :)
(And yes, I threw the back wheel on in a hurry for the piccie, I know its in back-to-front!).
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Ive been having too much fun on the 500 to get the CRM done quickly :)
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Been road registered for 2 weeks now (what a pain that was!) and, even with a straight-through pipe, the police havnt actually taken an interest yet! (jinxed myself now :{ )

Both togeher:
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199? CRM250 Mk2 - Shabby but funnnnnn!!
2001 ZX9rE1 - Shiny and smooooth
1994 CBR900 - Plain daft (50 tooth sprocket)
19?? CR500/YZF600 Ugly cheap monster project
Love em all..
Can't ride any of 'em for toffee. :)

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Post by simon foster » 31 May 2006, 14:53

Very nice,

What wheels and brakes have you used?

Can you post a close up phot of your Front Brake caliper mount of the 250 and 500 please?

All the best

Simon

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Post by CRM'er » 02 Jun 2006, 09:05

Wow loving the cr500 engine in the motard. Wish i had one of them in my crm! Theyre looking good, man the 500 must be great fun on the road

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Post by d5aul » 02 Jun 2006, 17:47

Flibble
Your CRM looks very Jacked up at the back, have you modified something?
I would think jacking it up that much may ruin the handling?

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Post by CRMR » 02 Jun 2006, 22:55

[/quote]Very nice,

What wheels and brakes have you used?

Can you post a close up phot of your Front Brake caliper mount of the 250 and 500 please?

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Post by THE FLUTE » 07 Jun 2006, 15:13

CRMR wrote:
Very nice,

What wheels and brakes have you used?

Can you post a close up phot of your Front Brake caliper mount of the 250 and 500 please?[/quote]
If you want to see one in the flesh come round and look at mine i am only in L.F.E also have anothers set of NSR wheels spare and some spacers,also the aluminum to make another brake plate Just give me a call and pop round
Cheers Phil

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Post by flibble » 10 Jun 2006, 23:16

What wheels and brakes have you used?
From my bad memory (had them a long time!) I think the wheels etc. were as follows:
Front wheel - Fazer 600, 1998 model with fz750 master cylinder and zx9rB1 brake caliper and homemade relocation bracket, came off my excessively ugly silly project motoard of years ago: http://www.kevindyson.f2s.com/cr600.jpg
Sadly exploded half way down the local bypass :'(

Rear wheel is a Cagiva Mito, bearings changed but with original crm caliper etc.. just had to space out the disk about 10mm to fit properly.
Your CRM looks very Jacked up at the back, have you modified something?
I would think jacking it up that much may ruin the handling?
It has the shock from my old cr500 (which duly turned into my ugly project bike after a crash), and as far as I can tell, the handlings at least as good as it used to be, if not better?!? hard to say really.. :)

Also, as a note, the front caliper/wheel/disk/s[acers etc.. etc.. are all intercahngeable from the crm250 to the (1987) cr500, handy for MOT's :)
I'll sort some piccies out later tommorow, I can't say theyll be pretty though! I have the (barely) skills to make brackets etc.. but little patience for making pretty :) hehe

For anyone else doing conversions on the cheap, its so far always been possible to jam pretty much any wheel/brakes into any swingarm given the right friends/experience and I've messed about with almost every bike I've owned so far, lol.
199? CRM250 Mk2 - Shabby but funnnnnn!!
2001 ZX9rE1 - Shiny and smooooth
1994 CBR900 - Plain daft (50 tooth sprocket)
19?? CR500/YZF600 Ugly cheap monster project
Love em all..
Can't ride any of 'em for toffee. :)

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Post by adz250 » 22 Sep 2006, 20:45

8) looking good fibble but that 500 is the puppy for me :lol:


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