NSF250R

[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.
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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.