Hi David

I vote for a coffee mug (as its not warm enough for beer coolers over here ).

Of course, if you happened to have a genuine period GREEN Kawasaki riding top in size large...

Well I'd love that too

Cheers
Julian
Julian this is my 13 YO daughter wearing the only genuine 1970s Kawasaki ...

TL 250 seat update. Having ditched my aluminum seat, I've bought a new RS250 seat from Shedworks in the UK. Its been newly widened and arrived back last week. Having not worked with fibreglass myself, I had someone else (They make carbon-fibre canoes for Olympic rowers) add a 25mm plug down the ...

Back in the 70s there was a UK produced (Fraser) trials bike fitted with the 4 valve XR/XL 250 motor, and while it was much more powerful than a TLR motor, it was also very heavy and much bulkier than the CB125 based TLR................pretty nasty piece of kit really, and better suited to trail ...

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wow, $1400 for a TL? thats like paying $25000 for a secondhand Honda/l Montesa today [/quote]

Not as steep as it sounds as the $1,400 is 1976 Kiwi dollars. That same year I also bought a brand new XL250 for NZD$1,750 (couldn't stretch my budget to the extra for an XL350).

Here's another ...

1976. Paid $1,400 for a '76 TL250 - one owner. Condition: rattling cam chain.
2012. Paid $750 for a '76 TL250 - unknown number of owners. Condition: not running for previous 10 years, some parts missing.
2012. Paid a further $1,500 in parts. Condition: still not running, some parts missing.

Summary ...

"Good for use as a static display". TL's RULE – until you try and pick one up.
But isn't the above pic inspirational.

I've a long way to go; see photo of the Fat Bird below...

Hi yes have seen it and read about in quote a few places. XL and CT 125s are obvious sources for you.
Have a search around the old rice forum and m for further infor of those who have gone before.
I've got it on my list of things to do for my TL250. Two schools of thought, one is that your coil may ...

Sammy miller products in the uk has a selection of TY seats and they post worldwide.

Plan C for the seat base is to take whatever's left of the seat base you have to a boat builder. Quite a few boats have one-off fibreglass seat bases and they also work closelyy with marine seat cover makers. And ...

http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd480/NonstopRoss/RS250-seat-trial.gif

Here's the RS250 seat base that I'm fitting to my TL. Seat base has been cut in half length-wise and now needs a 25mm insert from nose to tail to fit the piggier TL frame. Photo is before I cut the seat ...

"The HEAVY XL frames of the day". lol.
While the TL frame geometry may have been different the steel is the same Titanic-grade as the XL.
I cut the seat bracket off my TL250 frame last week and there was so many sparks it was like a scene from Flashdance (showing my age)!