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fjyang · February 12th, 2014, 10:03 AM

Nice bike Joe! Not many of those around anymore, it was only available for 86-87 and few people know it was the vary first Ninja 250 that kick off the 250 trend back in 80's.

If you want to café or turn it into street fighter please reconsidered. There are plenty of 88-97 250's for dime a dozen out here for cut up projects but the 86-87 are rare and your bike looks vary complete so its easy to take it back on the road with vary little effort. I would kept the body work as that's what unique about the bike but if you want to swap front & back end of 98+ Ninja 250's it'll update the running gear to 17" rims and still maintained the looks.

Clean the carbs and swap out the pilot jet for size or two bigger and you'll get great idle as it was jetted too lean from factory to start with.

February 12th, 2014, 10:03 AM	#6
fjyang ninjette.org member Name: Frank Location: Pasadena Join Date: Mar 2009 Motorcycle(s): 87 Ninja 250, 90 Ninja ZX750R, GPZ 900r, 02 Moto Guzzi LeMans, 95 Triumph Speed Triple Posts: 121	Nice bike Joe! Not many of those around anymore, it was only available for 86-87 and few people know it was the vary first Ninja 250 that kick off the 250 trend back in 80's. If you want to café or turn it into street fighter please reconsidered. There are plenty of 88-97 250's for dime a dozen out here for cut up projects but the 86-87 are rare and your bike looks vary complete so its easy to take it back on the road with vary little effort. I would kept the body work as that's what unique about the bike but if you want to swap front & back end of 98+ Ninja 250's it'll update the running gear to 17" rims and still maintained the looks. Clean the carbs and swap out the pilot jet for size or two bigger and you'll get great idle as it was jetted too lean from factory to start with.