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A HOT RI_ MID A COOL BIKE.
Nobody in American
steering. The cylinder
lOtt1cross coula hold a
head has two,outlets for
candle to Donnie Hansen increased coolant flow:
in 1982.
The engine they cool is
He burned up tracks all equally sophisticated. A
over the country en route blend of horsepower and
to the 250 National and
torque that giv~ the
CR250R blazing speed as
Supercross Charnpionships.
well as a forgivingly-wide
And beneath him
powerband.
every whoop of the way
Making sure all that
was the Honda RC250.1ts power gets to the ground
tremendous horsepower
is Pro-Link, our exclusive
. was ~tained lap after
rising-rate single-shock
~ by a sophistieated yet
rear'suspension system.
, ~ cooling system
You can select from 20
to Honda
rebound and 12 compressame COQling syssian damping settings.
used on the 1983
Smoothing out the track
production
up front are massive
.
43 nun air-adjustable
forks with 14-way adjustcompact, lightframe-mounted
able compression
radiators instead of a sin- damping.
gle large one ensure more
And the CR250R
efficient cooling and easy ',weighs an amazing 212.8
pounds dry:
'The 1983 CR250R
Its so hot, it'll
give the competition chills.
IllESPEID
OFIIGIII.
There are
only two ways to
make a motOrcycle
faster. Add power
or subtract weight.
So we, did both.
Inside the CR125R,
we put sometllitt8
new:
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A redesigned 122 cc
two-strQke engine that
