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The Internet is a fantastic resource for how-to videos but sometimes we just like watching someone disassemble and reassemble a motorcycle for the sheer joy of it. Whether the video we bring you here brought more joy to the creator or is spreading more joy to those who watch it, is probably a tossup.
ASMR for Riders
Even if a Honda CR250 isn’t your cup of tea, motorcycle-wise, watching this tear-down and rebuild from RRC Restoration is strangely hypnotic. Keep in mind, this is (according to the author) more than 2000 hours of work distilled into less than half an hour of video.
The bike isn’t in terrible shape to begin with, just well-used and a bit neglected. It obviously needed a bunch of work. The frame-up restoration turned it into a thing of beauty.
Here’s the video; before you click “play,” get yourself a cup of coffee or something lovely over ice. Best part: no annoying music, just shop sounds. Aaaah.
Pulling It Apart
Getting down to bare frame doesn’t take too much effort. That’s probably because the bike itself is small, and the engine is a two-stroke, which means that’s lightweight too. Each component comes off without too much of a struggle. That might be the magic of video editing, though.
First, he strips and repaints the frame. Then, the wheels (though the way he places the wheel on the tire machine gives me the jeebies; that’s not how you do that). The wheel components go out to be re-anodized, and then he relaces the wheels with new spokes and trues the wheel, and pops some new tires on. The rear wheel, of course, goes a lot faster than the front.
Putting It All Back Together
He blasts and replates all the swingarm parts, replaces all the bushings and bearings and reassembles, then does the same with the rear shock. Sadly, we don’t get to see his fork rebuild here, but if that’s something you’re interested in seeing in-depth, there are fourteen more videos of this build with much more detail than this one. And yes, one is dedicated to the fork rebuild.
He pulls the engine, transmission, and clutch apart, down to its components, and blasts, repaints, cleans, and replaces as necessary. Look how beautifully those frozen bearings drop into the heated case. All the gears, shafts, shift dogs piece together. Then the crankshaft; the case pops on, and it’s time for clutch reassembly.
Learn Along the Way
Anyone who doesn’t understand how a clutch works, only needs to watch this: outside, inside, outside as the friction plates, steel plates, and clutch springs mate the engine power to the transmission. A shiny new single piston and new rings pop right on the end of the connecting rod. The cylinder and head aren’t complete without a shiny new spark plug, and then it looks so easy to pop that little engine right back into the freshly-painted frame.
Carburetor, airbox, drive chain, exhaust—t goes quickly to the end. He skips all the plastic restoration, but listening to that thing fire up at the end (and see the shop full of smoke) is sheer glory. You can almost smell it.
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