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Offline marc84

250r collection past and present
« on: October 29, 2020, 05:41:35 PM »
Hello every one, I am new to the forum but old to 250r's. After a 10 year hiatus of owning any I just purchased 2 of them this fall to build. After being out of the game for a while I can not believe the prices people are asking for used parts, which inspired me to look back at all the R's i owned and what a gold mine I would be sitting on if I hung onto them

Offline croat1

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2020, 06:23:32 PM »
Marc84, very nice quads.  These are ones you had before?

Joe
A few Laegers
1987 oem
Mission: Back to Basics.  On the trail or dune

Offline havinnoj

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2020, 06:48:17 PM »
Nice quads indeed!  Welcome to the site.  What are your plans for the new ones you're building?

Offline broken1

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2020, 07:39:13 PM »
Welcome to the site. You've had some nice R's but tell us what's going on with that sweet 56? I can see the wheel wells have been cut & it looks to be mini-tubbed with a set of MT sportsmans. I love tri-5's! Got any more pics?
« Last Edit: October 29, 2020, 07:41:21 PM by broken1 »

Offline The norm

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2020, 09:06:00 PM »
Nice machines! Welcome to the site..
1986 Trx250r-- Hybrid Engineering 391(Good bye super 310)
1986 Trx250r-- Hybrid Engineering  ported stock 86 cylinder
1986 Trx250r-- craigslist engine with unknown ported 89 cylinder.
1985 Atc250r-- Needs a lot of work (Super 310's new home)

Offline marc84

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2020, 12:50:52 AM »
Marc84, very nice quads.  These are ones you had before?

Joe

Correct. All 4 where from back in 2007-2009, The good ol days when 250r stuff was dirt cheap

I paid $3k for this one. Laeger chassis with Pep shocks and a Duncan 265 power valve engine

Offline marc84

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2020, 01:10:57 AM »
This one was by far my most favorite 250r I have ever owned. Walsh racecraft chassis with axis shocks, Duncan 265 power valve engine. According to the previous owner, this quad was built for Dana Creech.  The handling of the chassis and the smoothness of the powervalve  made me feel like a pro when I rode it

Offline Hawaiiysr

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2020, 02:14:15 PM »
A laeger for $3k?! i could sell just my laeger suspension for that much. 

Offline marc84

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2020, 05:00:56 PM »
A laeger for $3k?! i could sell just my laeger suspension for that much.
Thats why it was the good ol days. It was like a perfect storm of circumstances going on in 2007 (1)There was 7 different manufactures producing race quads (2) Racers where actually getting factory support (3) There was the looming economic depression starting to effect people. The 250r market was completely flooded with very nice machines selling for peanuts. I was like a kid in a candy store buying up full quads and used aftermarket parts. Eventually the bad economy finally caught up with me and i had to unload my hoard to pay the bills. If i still had that hoard today it would probably be worth close to $100k in parts in todays prices

White and red Laeger  paid $3k parted it out $9k
Walsh quad  paid  $4500  parted it out for $12k
Red Laeger quad  paid $5k parted it out for $12k
White and blue Laeger show quad paid $5,500  parted it out for $8k
I hung onto the Laeger show quad till 2009 and the economy was already so bad I had too pretty much give the frame away.

Offline marc84

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2020, 05:11:44 PM »
Laeger pro trax chassis, with pep shocks, 310 motor, full bore plasics .  It was basically a brand new quad, previous owner spent over $20k to build it

Offline marc84

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2020, 05:18:05 PM »
 motor collection, never got a chance to put that PSI together

Offline croat1

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2020, 06:13:09 PM »
Marc84, that Walsh was very nice. Hell all were very nice.  By chance were you on atvriders. Com?  What are you plans for your 2 new builds?  I can’t what see what you have planned.  Prices have sky rocketed on these old gems.

Joe
A few Laegers
1987 oem
Mission: Back to Basics.  On the trail or dune

Offline 2ndmoto

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2020, 08:10:54 PM »
Looks like tons of fun right there. Why does one need 5 trx250r motors? Because 4 was not enough
« Last Edit: October 30, 2020, 08:14:46 PM by 2ndmoto »

Offline marc84

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2020, 03:18:18 PM »
Marc84, that Walsh was very nice. Hell all were very nice.  By chance were you on atvriders. Com?  What are you plans for your 2 new builds?  I can’t what see what you have planned.  Prices have sky rocketed on these old gems.

Joe

Thanks Joe. Not sure it may have been atvriders.com, not from me though. It had a ton of attention to detail and one off parts, so I’m sure it was built for a pro.

Here are the 2 I just bought. Both are 87’s stock frames. White one is bone stock, the red one has some decent aftermarket parts on it. Going to build the red one into a high end Mx racer and build the white one into a low budget XC racer with what ever spare parts I have left over from the MX build. I can’t believe how difficult it was to find these and how much I had to pay for them

Offline broken1

Re: 250r collection past and present
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2020, 07:27:52 PM »
Tire marks on the shop floor from doing donuts is always cool especially with 2 nice R's parked on top of them!

 

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