NSF250R

[veefer800canuck]

I still think they should have been 250cc twins by rule........ better exhaust note and more RPM's.

[Blunder]

Sounds kinda sporty when run alone. I wonder what a field of 30+ sounds like.

[veefer800canuck]

Lawnmowers run amok.  

[JamesG]

Blah...

[RRdvark]

Sounds kinda sporty when run alone. I wonder what a field of 30+ sounds like.

A motocross race.

[heinee]

I still think they should have been 250cc twins by rule........ better exhaust note and more RPM's.

   

[miles]

Want  

[Blunder]

A motocross race.

 

I don't watch MX, so it'll be new to me.

[nantahala]

Press release:  http://world.honda.com/HRC/news/20110603/

Specs: http://world.honda.com/HRC/NRS/SPEC/

[Fourstring]

For $34k, I hope that thumper kicks ass.

[DogBoy]

Me likey.  

[veefer800canuck]

84 kg and 35.5 HP fo the 250 4 stroke = 2.36kg/hp

28 Nm torque for the 250 = 3.00kg/Nm



71.5 kg and 32.3 hp for the RS125 2 stroker = 2.21kg/hp

24.5 Nm torque for the 125 = 2.91kg/Nm

So reasonable performance compared to the old smokers. We'll see how the torque affects the lap times. Maybe they can get on the gas earlier in the corner than the peakier 2 strokes?

[DogBoy]

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=44706

Dunlop announced as exclusive tire supplier for Moto3. Don't know if any 125cc teams get special gumballs right now but a spec tire could make lap time comparisons between the "old" two-strokes and new thumpers slightly more difficult.

[Jason F.]

I would love to ride it but it sounds like crap. I agree with the OP it needs to be at least a twin.

[veefer800canuck]

I would love to ride it but it sounds like crap. I agree with the OP it needs to be at least a twin.

Turn up your speakers  

[Blunder]

[RRdvark]

The new 250 singles will sound like the contraption they used to start up that sweet old Honda.  I can enjoy the sound of almost any engine configuration except a four-stroke single.

[veefer800canuck]

20,000 RPM redline on the 125!    

[miles]

I can enjoy the sound of almost any engine configuration except a four-stroke single.

That's funny.  I hear a field of supermotos and I think it sounds great.

[DogBoy]

I wonder how high the four-stroke racebikes will rev? KTM announced a Moto3 bike and I know they've had a 250 4T single MX bike with a 14K redline for a few years. I'd think the road race versions would go beyond that.

And count me in the group that likes the sound of modern four-stroke singles.  

[Orson]

Honda's five cylinder 125cc GP bike in the early 1960s supposedly revved to 22,500 rpms  

[miles]

125cc five cylinder?   I imagine valve springs were easy to find- they just swiped a bunch of ball-point pens from the office and cannibalized them.

[jadziadax8]

Is it just me or is he moving his wrist the wrong way to rev that?  

[nantahala]

Post on USGPRU forum with price:

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RMD Motors Japan is taking orders for the new 2012 Honda NSF250R. Price for the bike will be 1,840,000 Japanese Yen.

First orders start from June, 9th 2011-July, 6th 2011. The second order date starts from July 11th, 2011-?.

Delivery to our shop in Japan will be in December this year. All of the info will be up on our website in the next couple of days.

We also have a few new RS125R available. Price for a bike is 1,100,000 Japanese Yen.
************

That makes the price a little shy of $23K.

RMD has some nice eye candy:  http://rmdmotors.com/

Matt

[Orson]

Is it just me or is he moving his wrist the wrong way to rev that?  

good eye  

I vaguely remember hearing sumthin about a reversed throttle but can't remember whut the situation was.

[Blunder]

good eye  

I vaguely remember hearing sumthin about a reversed throttle but can't remember whut the situation was.

It was a fiendish scheme by Honda to make the riders pay attention to their duties.  

[Orson]

I *think* it had to do with a rider who had some type of hand/wrist injury that brought about the alteration.

kinda like Doohan's famous thumb brake when he had leg injuries.

that doesn't explain why they left it on the bike. I may be imagining the whole thing.

[veefer800canuck]

Is is maybe the audio being so far out of sync with the video that the rising revs sound coincides with the closing of the throttle motion???

I dunno???  

[phaze5]

i remember my first ride on a 2 smoke, i was 15 when my older bro found a bike and wanted me to check it out, at the time i had an 80 gs 550 my bro found a older kawi 550/750 i forget the size, didn't even understand what the owner was telling me till he started it, i said that sounds like a snowmobile can i ride it,

holy jesus hang on this is a riot i thought to myself, older but still a riot, it may have been the smoke in the air but something said to me buy it, so i told my bro if you don't i will, oh the downside was thepurple color he looked like a fag on it, i told him if he still had the bike he would be cool as hell lol

[nantahala]

$28,599...  

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=45546

I just don't know what to think...  sigh.