post your motorbikes

[Stephen Blair]

I'm going to be selling my enduro, I now live in a national park and have an E bike mountain bike! So I can't go thrashing around scaring the Cappercailies,!

[wrsni]

The AJP's not going to be everyones cup of tea, but it's pretty much a modern version of my XR 200 and it's the Enduro version with the adjustable suspension, race exhaust and big pegs.

 

I love air-cooled dirt bikes, sadly too few of them available new.

 

I know I'm unashamedly old school but I like my dirt bikes as minimalist as possible. If you're not pushing the limits of hp, which few are off-road, you don't need water-cooling, which then means you don't need a fan, which then means you don't need a bigger battery, bigger alternator, reg/rec, extra handlebar switches, more wiring which there's no room for, never naming all the extra piping, radiators, etc for the cooling itself.

 

I had high hopes for the CRF230 but then Honda went and built it out of crap and just ruined the whole principle behind it, be interesting to see how yours does.

[MGSLandscape]

Went out on the crosser yesterday :-) was so wet! But good fun once the lines were created!

 

Anyone else out in the soup!?

[Chris Sheppard]

I love air-cooled dirt bikes, sadly too few of them available new.

 

I know I'm unashamedly old school but I like my dirt bikes as minimalist as possible. If you're not pushing the limits of hp, which few are off-road, you don't need water-cooling, which then means you don't need a fan, which then means you don't need a bigger battery, bigger alternator, reg/rec, extra handlebar switches, more wiring which there's no room for, never naming all the extra piping, radiators, etc for the cooling itself.

 

I had high hopes for the CRF230 but then Honda went and built it out of crap and just ruined the whole principle behind it, be interesting to see how yours does.

 

Know exactly what you mean. I wanted the handling and suspension of a modern bike, but didn't like the idea of the maintenance heavy engines they usually come with.

 

The CRF 230 could have been great, but I'd say there's very little difference between that and the original XR 200's, despte the massive age gap.

 

Quick pic of old and new

[wrsni]

The CRF 230 could have been great, but I'd say there's very little difference between that and the original XR 200's, despte the massive age gap.

 

 

In many respects the XR is better. Do you think people will be scouring the country high and low in 20 years time looking for CRF's?.

 

Whereas the XR's and XL's will still be thumping about.

 

What sort of suspension of the AJP, it certainly looks the part.

[Chris Sheppard]

That's very true. I suppose the XR was current when it was first released, whereas the CRF was old fashioned before it was released.

 

Mine's got Sachs forks and shock, but I think they have marzocchi forks now with sachs shocks. Earlier ones had Paoli conventional forks.

[wrsni]

All sounds good, and presumably the brakes are AJP!

 

Engine?

[Chris Sheppard]

Funnily enough, nope, they're not AJP brakes I don't think they're the same AJP.

 

The aircooled ones are, I belive, honda copies built under license for AJP in Taiwan - though seem to have no problems with longevity and parts are cheap! The watercooled ones in the PR5 are the same as what's in the GasGas Cami I think.

 

Still not had chance to go out on it yet, worst case there's a hare and hounds the day after boxing day.

[Lorry thompson]

My ride I love it 😁

[jnoon]

My new toy

2014 200 exc