I recently noticed that the shed my 200 lives in was smelling like mouse piss. I got a chance yesterday to clean the shed out, relocate a mommy mouse and babies, bleach then power wash the inside of the shed.
Meanwhile I had moved the 200 into the garage and today I got degrease, deep clean, and wax it which was long overdue since it was not cleaned and covered before it went into that shed.
Results were good. This is a very original bike - other than the fork gators it's pretty untouched. I never attempted to polish any of the clear coat which is fairly well gone. Polish is saved for the R5. It runs really well and it felt good to give it the attention it deserved.
Trivia: 76 is the only year 200 with a front disk brake. According to SocCal250's Production Numbers doc it's also the lowest production model of all US RD models over the years. Serial number is 877 of 2000, I've only ever run across 2 others, both online...
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Here it is camping at a race track...
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:clap: Looking good Ed! It's a beauty and definitely a keeper!
I have the entire front end of a 200C in my storage, which I was planning to add to a future project so I could have a RD125 or RD200 with front disc.
Please open and inspect the air filter box on your 200. Mice LOVE to hide things in them! I once found an entire ear's worth of maze kernals in the filter box of my '86 SEi aftr only two weeks setting idle in our basement garage. I don't relocate. Poison and sticky traps!
Dang that is nice. Hope to find one someday
that is nice. i have a soft spot for 200's
More trivia: Not only is '76 C-model the only RD200 with a front disc, the RD200 is the only RD model with electric start :twocents:
Ed, that's a fine and lovely motorcycle. Don't ever sell it!
pidjones: I have an '86 SEi, and you need it. Please come and take it out of my barn; I'll sell it for less than the family rate!
:jacked: sorry
Quote from: pidjones on June 23, 2021, 08:27:44 AM
Please open and inspect the air filter box on your 200. Mice LOVE to hide things in there.
Well the meeces didn't get into the air box but I found a sticky mess of gooey Uni's in there. Economy came to the rescue, this arrived yesterday.
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This was my very first RD buy back in the early 80's.
The owner could not get the bike running and was a steal to purchase and all it needed was the woodruff key for the crankshaft, my father was a steel fabricator and made me one.