well guys it's a pretty exciting day kind of turning a new chapter in the
channel here we have a new project bike coming our way my buddy's delivering it
here in a few minutes and as soon as that thing shows up I'll show you guys
what I got my hands into you by the meantime check out the sunset back here
man we are spoiled up here in the northwest check that out that is
freaking gorgeous all right here we are let's get this thing unloaded yeah so
here she is a 2001 rm250 picked it up my buddy Drexel here he brought it over
here so you guys can thank him for hooking me up with a bike to build so
yeah I was over at his house last night testing some number plate brackets and I
saw this thing in the shed or in that garage I kept bugging him about it I was
like I need to need to buy this thing off you so ya found a found a way to get
him to sell it and here it is in the shop so I took a little bit of
convincing it was gonna be my winter project but got a couple more going on
and figured it could go a little bit better use than me slapping it
together yeah so I got some cool plans with it and I can't wait for him to see
it when it's all finished up and get him back out here and let them go rip it
around but yeah she probably get you some cash awesome in 600 I appreciate it
what steel huh yeah so I'm gonna give you guys a little closer look at this
thing like I said it's a 2001 rm250 so the first year of this generation like
first year of this body style and frame and suspension all that so as you can
see not very complete missing the top-end gas tank seat I do have all that
I got that with a bike but as far as condition goes doesn't look too terrible
I think it's a good bike to start from let's take a look at the engine looks
like it does turnover crank nothing too crazy up and down no
movement there your usual side-to-side sub brain is all
kind of welded up so what is going on with this subframe is it has a rmz
airbox and rear fender you can tell that looks a little bit different there off
of our MZ 250 also got the rmz side plates for it rmz seat it does have the
newer rmz front plate and front fender on there and looking at this thing
closer the forks are actually off of an r MZ 250 as well so they are the Showa s
FF Forks so FF f stands for a separate function fork basically meaning that one
fork does have to work and the other fork does the rest so this is a actual
spring fork it's not the air system this came on I want to say around 1415 rmz
250 so the left fork controls the compression compression adjustments up
top rebound is down there this fork right fork has the spring in it so you
can adjust the spring preload right there and I don't know if there's any
adjustment on bottom let me look no no adjustment on the bottom of the
right fork so yeah these are pretty solid Forks I am hoping to keep them on
here as long as they're in good shape as far as the rear shock that is the
standard RM shock on there which I believe is a Showa so pretty decent
shock there rest of the bike seems like it's in decent shape let's test this
linkage out oh that's sloppy that's pretty floppy
there yeah she's a flopper so definitely gonna have to go through replace all the
bearings and bushings on the bike pretty much gonna have to give that full-on
rebuild like I did with the CRT 50 and of course we've got the awesome spoke
skins up front always love these things pick the best color pink pretty freakin
sweet now kind of garnish on there but it
is missing a spoke there that looks like an rmz front brake system - possibly I
don't know how much different it is than the original RM see what else we got
here no damage around the counter shaft so
that's always good so with the subframe it looked like they kind of welded
things up to get the orange the airbox to work I don't know if that's the RM or
arms the subframe on there not really sure it looks like that it's more
welding down here I'm kind of hoping to put this thing back to original plastics
I don't know let me let me mock the arms these
plastics up on here and see how that works see how it looks on there if it
doesn't fit very good I'm gonna go back to the og style another thing I always
look for is where on the swing arm I don't see it wearing through there at
all so that's good take a look at the shock seal a little bit of leak there
but honestly all suspensions can be gone through anyways
rear wheel huh it's in decent shape I don't know this the whole thing is gonna
get a good rebuild so I'm not too worried about stuff leaking and worn-out
bearings a little bit of leak out of this fork it'll be pretty interesting to
tear into these SFF Forks I've never had these apart kind of want to see how they
work inside I know this side is pretty standard but the spring side curious
what that looks like inside let's see how these brakes are working seems
pretty solid yeah they're decent nothing to blowing out but yeah so that's the
bike it's a great start for a build and I am really excited to get going on it
think about laying the bike over on its side look at the bottom of the frame
bottom the cases and just make sure there's nothing busted up on there let's
take a peek at the underside of this thing got your usual scrapes and
scratches on the frame hopefully these cases are in good shape
that's the biggest thing I do not want to replace the case is a little bit
dirty nothing leaking there no repairs drain
plug looks good bottom side of this more looks solid
everything is pretty nasty on this thing though it's definitely gonna need a good
cleanup make sure none of this is all feed up under here this is always kind
of a critical area here that can take some damage from time to time but that
looks good you know what I'm gonna go grab the other parts I got with the bike
the seat gas tank side plates and kind of mock it up and show you guys what it
would look like with the rmz setup on there I'm pretty curious too so my first
thought with the rmz plastics is it actually looked pretty good
whoever did this did a pretty solid job on lining everything up seat lines up
good it's hard to tell for sure without everything being bolted up completely
but side plates see all that looks pretty solid the rear fender is a tiny
bit off that subframe might be tweaked a little bit but yeah looks like all the
holes line up see to gas tank isn't too bad a little bit of a gap there I don't
know it doesn't look like that seat is gonna latch onto the subframe like it
should but for a conversion I would say that actually looks pretty good I'm
gonna have to bolt everything up kind of get a good idea of how it'll look and
I'll make my decision whether or not I'm going to keep all this stuff on here or
not really curious on what you guys's ideas are on what we should do with this
bike got a bunch ideas myself but I always love hearing your guys's thoughts
in input so put it down below in the comment section and I do have something
very special I want to announce so you guys at this time I will be running a
bike build contest you heard that right doing a contest over winter to fix up
your bike so I know you guys have a beat-up bike or you want to go find a
bike to fix up over winter and now is your chance I want to
a bunch of people on board want to see you guys building up bikes fixing them
up and so here's how this is gonna work so I'm putting $1,000 up for grabs for
you guys so the winner gets $500 second place gets $300 and third place gets 200
for a total of $1,000 total so just a cool way to kind of give back to you
guys give you some incentive to go fix up your bike and possibly win some money
and better yet you get a follow along with this project and build your own
bike at the same time we can kind of share ideas with each other create a
whole community around fixing up dirt bikes I am so excited to get this thing
going to enter the contest the charge is only $10 and entries are to be submitted
over on prime MX com so the entries are due by the end of the year so December
31st at midnight so you're gonna do a before video of your bike and then the
contest is gonna go through April 15th so essentially you could start right now
you know around early December had the rest of December January February March
and half of April to get your bikes then plenty of time I'll have all the details
and the links for this contest down below in the description so all those
entries will be submitted over on my website prime MX then I'm gonna put
together a panel of people probably my brothers and I we're gonna pick out
about 20 to 25 of those entries the best ones and then put them up on a poll for
you guys to vote on and so the winners will be chosen by what you guys like so
absolutely no bias so I'm gonna give you guys a little preview of what your
before video should look like keep in mind you're gonna have to follow all the
rules of the contest to be eligible to win I wanna keep it fair for everyone I
don't want people doing a before video from you know say three years ago and
then doing it after video now and so I just want to keep it fair so for the
before video you're gonna do a quick walk around to the bike you don't have
to talk at all but you do have to show this YouTube video to prove the date so
give it a play just to prove the date here
okay there we go walk around the bike a little bit kind of show what condition
it's in before you start you can get as detailed as you want video quality does
not matter you can use your cell phone you can use whatever you have just as
long as it shows the bike clearly try to make your before video under 60 seconds
if you want to tell a story about the bike if you have something really
interesting to say about it or you want to show get really detailed with it
that's up to you and then upload that video on YouTube as unlisted by December
31st at midnight put in your submission on primum XCOM and you are submitted and
make sure you save the email for the submission from the website now the
second part of the submission will be the during video you can make this like
10 seconds if you want just show the bike torn apart so for example if all
you wanted to do was pull off the seat the gas tank maybe all the plastics and
redo everything like that you can do that but show how far down you go with
the bike I would really love to see that and then when you have the bike all done
you know get everything back together we will do another walk around this can be
as good as you want to go with it you can do you know try to keep it under 60
seconds as well but you can do an edit you can do a just a simple walk around
with your cell phone once again quality does not make a
difference here you're not going to be punished for a lower quality video it's
all about the quality of the build so get after it guys I want to see your
projects but first and foremost let's keep it fun and help each other out
now one last thing with the contest after all of these missions are done the
contest is over I'm going to go through all of your entry videos and put them
all into one single video and upload for YouTube really want to show off you guys
it's hard work and show the world what we did and one very last thing I want to
say about this contest it's not all about dumping a bunch of money in your
bikes it's about the biggest transformation so if you
start with a complete hunk of crap bike polish it up do some nice graphics make
everything super clean go through and replace some bearings you don't have to
dump you know tens of thousands of dollars so don't go out and get a second
mortgage on your house for this contest or anything like that the whole premise
here is the have some fun connect with you all and build some cool bikes so the
name of this contest is team Prime that's T EAM PR y em e so if you want to
share all your progress of your build on Instagram
use the hashtag team Prime I'm gonna go ahead and follow that hashtag so I can
keep up with all of your projects now as far as my exact plans with this bike I
do have a video coming out tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled for that got some
exciting news for you all alright guys let me know what you think of the new
project I'm pretty high have done it and I want to hear your guys thoughts on
what we should do with this bike as far as colors Plastics you know suspension
there's so many different things so write your ideas down below in the
comment section alright that's it for now
I will see you tomorrow take care