Yep they are brilliant bikes, two problems was caused with this the condenser and the previous owner had fitted the wrong oil lines from the pump which were inducing air into the lines which caused piston slap. Ended up fitting another top end on standard bore and the correct lines. She ended up going eventually unfortunately to fund my flat tank Norton was a great bike though.
Indeed always handy I used to do that with my 250lc spare set of coils etc, dont need as much on the Nortons few spanners that's it :) sold the aircooled to a new owner a few months back.
Hope you get it sorted matey. I've just had to change the coil and condensor on my little honda. I put a new points on it too just to be on the safe side
Hi thanks for the comment :) part 2 is up showing the fault fix was the condenser got some spares now. In part 3 i investigated the top end that video is up as well ill make some new playlists for the Japanese bikes :)
Hi mate have a question. Can you accelerate from 3-4k with wide open throttle? Is it even good way of fast way to accelerate? Ive noticed in my RD that with WOT performance is much worse than if i open throttle slighlty part by part. Some people say its normal behaviour of engine because it gets instantly to much air. However its something which is annoying for ms
Hi Adrian I've not got the bike any more sold it a few years back for the WW2 Norton personally I'd drop it down a gear and get the revs up two strokes like to be in the powerband for acceleration which is where they are most exciting. They ride very different to a 4 stroke and its a different riding style. If you watch some of the rd250lc clips which are old on my channel you will see my revs are mostly always over 5k rpm in the powerband I'd have a read up with doing plug chops as well if you are not familiar with doing that as its a good way to check how the engine is running fueling wise on the setup. There are alot of variables so it's hard to advise without riding the bike ie oil pump vs premix etc. I always prefer running the yamaha pumps as it gives a much better throttle response throughout the rev range as its metering the exact amount of 2t oil for the given revs. Are you running a pump or premix? Any other questions feel free to ask and I'll try and advise best I can. I think there's some other clips of me riding the 250c on the Channel that might be worth a watch to see what I was doing revs wise.
@@adaptableadventurerider im using yamaha pump for oil mixing.was rebuild by arrow (best guy in industry) i agree it rides the best above 5k however its hard to ride all the time in powerband 😄
@@Endrjo yep I was gonna say Arrow is the guy I used on all of mine. Yep thats for sure :) they certainly suit an open road. From memory if I was cruising about I'd just nock it down a gear before opening it up they deffo don't ride like say a gsx750et. I'd deffo do a few plug chops n see how things are looking best insight into it. I did notice quite a big difference in how they aircooled n the elsie rode n fueled. Found the elsie felt like it had a bit more low down that liked to be above 4k though. One thing worth checking is you don't have an airleak anywhere on the carbs etc that can blunt throttle response. I didn't quite get on with the 250c from a riding point of view great bikes and a friend of mine swears by them but I found the elsie suited me more an the Nortons even more so looking forward to getting my nos parts build 350lc finished n on the road for some two stroke fun. I found the 250c always wanted to go like a scalded cat with nothing inbetween very little in the lower rev range.
I had one of these in silver, never had any problems in the time I owned it apart from running out of petrol once.
Yep they are brilliant bikes, two problems was caused with this the condenser and the previous owner had fitted the wrong oil lines from the pump which were inducing air into the lines which caused piston slap. Ended up fitting another top end on standard bore and the correct lines. She ended up going eventually unfortunately to fund my flat tank Norton was a great bike though.
I used to own an RD250C. I always carried a comprehensive tool kit around with me. I needed it.
Indeed always handy I used to do that with my 250lc spare set of coils etc, dont need as much on the Nortons few spanners that's it :) sold the aircooled to a new owner a few months back.
Hope you get it sorted matey. I've just had to change the coil and condensor on my little honda. I put a new points on it too just to be on the safe side
Thanks mate :) yep shes running sweet now got to the bottom of the faults in episode 2 and 3
@@adaptableadventurerider nice one matey. I watched them last night. Pleased it's all sorted now 🖒🖒🖒
Oi, why'd it end there? I was just getting into that! 😂 Looked like an over sparky right points to me so agree to try a condenser. How is it now?
Hi thanks for the comment :) part 2 is up showing the fault fix was the condenser got some spares now. In part 3 i investigated the top end that video is up as well ill make some new playlists for the Japanese bikes :)
Hi mate have a question. Can you accelerate from 3-4k with wide open throttle? Is it even good way of fast way to accelerate? Ive noticed in my RD that with WOT performance is much worse than if i open throttle slighlty part by part. Some people say its normal behaviour of engine because it gets instantly to much air. However its something which is annoying for ms
Hi Adrian I've not got the bike any more sold it a few years back for the WW2 Norton personally I'd drop it down a gear and get the revs up two strokes like to be in the powerband for acceleration which is where they are most exciting. They ride very different to a 4 stroke and its a different riding style. If you watch some of the rd250lc clips which are old on my channel you will see my revs are mostly always over 5k rpm in the powerband I'd have a read up with doing plug chops as well if you are not familiar with doing that as its a good way to check how the engine is running fueling wise on the setup. There are alot of variables so it's hard to advise without riding the bike ie oil pump vs premix etc. I always prefer running the yamaha pumps as it gives a much better throttle response throughout the rev range as its metering the exact amount of 2t oil for the given revs. Are you running a pump or premix?
Any other questions feel free to ask and I'll try and advise best I can. I think there's some other clips of me riding the 250c on the Channel that might be worth a watch to see what I was doing revs wise.
@@adaptableadventurerider im using yamaha pump for oil mixing.was rebuild by arrow (best guy in industry) i agree it rides the best above 5k however its hard to ride all the time in powerband 😄
@@Endrjo yep I was gonna say Arrow is the guy I used on all of mine. Yep thats for sure :) they certainly suit an open road. From memory if I was cruising about I'd just nock it down a gear before opening it up they deffo don't ride like say a gsx750et. I'd deffo do a few plug chops n see how things are looking best insight into it. I did notice quite a big difference in how they aircooled n the elsie rode n fueled. Found the elsie felt like it had a bit more low down that liked to be above 4k though. One thing worth checking is you don't have an airleak anywhere on the carbs etc that can blunt throttle response. I didn't quite get on with the 250c from a riding point of view great bikes and a friend of mine swears by them but I found the elsie suited me more an the Nortons even more so looking forward to getting my nos parts build 350lc finished n on the road for some two stroke fun. I found the 250c always wanted to go like a scalded cat with nothing inbetween very little in the lower rev range.
Top speed?
90 mph and the 0-60 is about 6.6 secs from memory stock :)