I recently got bitten by the green-laning bug, and when I mentioned this to some of my online biking chums on Ixion not one, but two, offered me bikes.
So, exactly a week ago I picked up one lovely, race-prepped GasGas EC250 and one large pile of cardboard boxes claiming to be a CRM250 Mk2 dismantled to replace the balancer chaft bearing and never remantled.

After a weekend of spanner-twirling it went for it's first ride for 2.5 years to the garage. Where the chap wouldn't let me have any fuel, for reasons that his gesticulations never did make clear. But that's by-the-by.

Quite what I am going to do with it is not entirely clear. I might keep it to lend to folk so that I am more readily able to find riding companions. Or I might keep it for events like the Cambrian and Red Kite where it qualifies as a Trail Bike whereas the EC200 might not.

Keep it!

I reckon it would be worth keeping -- even if it
was for lending to companions, as you suggested.

Good to meet you

Hi Andy and welcome As you say, keep it for doing the Rally's and lending out to mates to get them out trail riding and into our wonderfull sport Why would the guy at the garage not let you have any fuel Was the tank leakin Think i'd get my fuel elswhere if he doesn't want the business. Your name Andypugh, not of Welsh origin are you mate

> Why would the guy at the garage not let you have any fuel

I never figured it out, and I couldn't be bothered to argue the toss.

> Your name Andypugh, not of Welsh origin are you mate

At least one of my ancestors was, but we have been living in Yorkshire for 3 generations now. Well, apart from me who has been exiled to Essex.

welcome andy & keep it! nuff said

andypugh wrote:> Why would the guy at the garage not let you have any fuel

I never figured it out, and I couldn't be bothered to argue the toss.

> Your name Andypugh, not of Welsh origin are you mate

At least one of my ancestors was, but we have been living in Yorkshire for 3 generations now. Well, apart from me who has been exiled to Essex.

hi andy where abouts in essex are you jj

junglejackson wrote:hi andy where abouts in essex are you jj

Basildon.

And, today, I found out why I am keeping the CRM...

The R1 wouldn't start after a week stood while I went skiing (it has always started first prod of the starter, and I have been wondering for a while if the 4 year old battery had the wherewithall to provide a second prod of starter. Now I know)
The Gas Gas was nearest the top of the pile of alternatives, and got me a mile up the road before the chain broke. (lucky that it broke a mile after the end and not a mile before the end of the Red Kite)

So, out came the CRM, which eventually started and took me to work no trouble at all.