{"id":12080,"date":"2014-03-07T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=12080"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:52:23","slug":"small-and-rare-sport-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/03\/small-and-rare-sport-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Small and rare sport bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if you’re like me, but I just can’t get interested in most sport bikes. I hate how the mindset of dumb americans is “bigger is better”. For example… most dumb jocks think; “I want to get a motorcycle… of course I’m going to get a crotch rocket. A 600cc is lame. I’m going for the 1000 even though I’ve never ridden before.”<\/p>\n

I’ve always been turned off to sport bikes. Maybe the above example had something to do with it. It wasn’t until the timeframe I was going to New Zealand that I started taking notice to some bikes we never had in america. Once I saw some of the small GP level sport bikes we never had, I thought they were so badass. In NZ I got to see a handful of these in person at a motorcycle shop that was right up the street from where I lived. I love how they’re all smaller than a modern 600cc sport bike. They’re all about the size of a cb450. Nice and light \/ nimble.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about some of them on here before, but I thought I’d recap. Most of these are from the late 80’s or early 90’s.<\/p>\n

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Honda nsr250r<\/h2>\n

\"nsr250r\"<\/a>
\n– street legal
\n– never available in america
\n– 250cc – v twin – 2 stroke
\n– 60hp
\n– this thing is a full on street legal race bike. fucking sick. I wanted to get one in NZ, but they were too expensive.<\/p>\n

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Honda cbr250r<\/h2>\n

\"cbr250r\"<\/a>
\n– street legal
\n– never in america
\n– made until 1996
\n– 250cc – 4cyl – 4 stroke
\n– 45hp
\n– 19,000rpm
\n– this is what I had in NZ<\/a>. It’s faster than you think it would be. Super light and nimble.<\/p>\n

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Honda nc30<\/h2>\n

\"nc30\"<\/a>
\n– street legal
\n– never in america
\n– 400cc – v4 – 4 stroke
\n– 60hp
\n– this little v4 with a single sided swing arm is so sick. I’ll take this any day over the fat bulky rc30 750 (which was available in america).<\/p>\n

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Honda rs250<\/h2>\n

\"rs250\"<\/a>
\n– not street legal. race only
\n– I think you could get it to race in america?
\n– 250cc – v twin – 2 stroke
\n– 90hp… I think
\n– from my understanding this is a beefed up racing version of the nsr250r<\/p>\n

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Yamaha rz500<\/h2>\n

\"rz500\"<\/a>
\n– street legal
\n– never in america
\n– 500cc – v4 – 2 stroke
\n– 88hp
\n– this thing is a fucking animal. imagine a v4 2 stroke. So nuts. Every year there is one of these at the Norton meet.<\/p>\n

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Yamaha tz250<\/h2>\n

\"tz250\"<\/a>
\n– not street legal. race only
\n– I think you could get it to race in america?
\n– 250cc – 2cyl backwards configuration – 2 stroke
\n– 90hp… I think
\n– these are cool for a few reasons. I don’t know too much about it, but they made a couple different engine configurations. v twin and parallel twin.<\/p>\n

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Yamaha tzr250<\/h2>\n

\"tzr250\"<\/a>
\n– street legal
\n– never in america
\n– 250cc – 2cyl – 2 stroke
\n– 50hp
\n– Yamaha Power Valve System (YPVS) which raises and lowers the exhaust port depending on the rpm of the engine is pretty cool.<\/p>\n

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Yamaha fzr400r<\/h2>\n

\"fzr400r\"<\/a>
\n– street legal
\n– available in america?
\n– 400cc – 4cyl – 4 stroke
\n– 60hp?
\n– I don’t know much about these but I assume it’s yamahas answer to the honda nc30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if you’re like me, but I just can’t get interested in most sport bikes. I hate how the mindset of dumb americans is “bigger is better”. For example… most dumb jocks think; “I want to get a motorcycle… of course I’m going to get a crotch rocket. A 600cc is lame. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,223,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12080"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12100,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions\/12100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}