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Offline Skoti

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CB250 MC26 help
« on: February 27, 2024, 04:32:55 PM »
Wondering if anybody can advise me on known problems to look out for when buying a CB250 type MC26.
It's a 1996 model that's done 23,000km.

I'm not intimately familiar with this model as it was launched after I already had given up working in a Honda stealership.


Any advice would be much appreciated.

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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2024, 06:02:26 PM »
Was that the “Nighthawk” over here?


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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2024, 06:10:35 PM »
Steve,

I think it looks similar to the Nighthawk, but the one I'm gonna look at has ''CB Two Fifty" on the side panels.
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Deal done
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2024, 06:36:06 PM »
Well I managed to buy a 1994 CB Two Fifty, came from a collection in Austria.



It's not needing much done apart from servicing, fluid changes and replace the 12 year old tyres.
I've ridden it and it feels like a modern version of the old 1970's CD175 that some of you may remember.

My wife is gonna use it,  I'm sure it won't frighten her with too much performance...

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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2024, 08:34:35 PM »
Looks like a bigger version of the 125 twin from the 80's or maybe the CD 250U

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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2024, 10:06:27 PM »
That's very clean, a good buy :)
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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2024, 05:33:20 PM »
A bit like a CM125 - my first bike!
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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #7 on: March 16, 2024, 05:51:16 PM »
We had a CB250 Two Fifty a few years back. It was parked up in a chaps kitchen up in Scunthorpe and the wife had said either the bike goes or he goes 😂😂😂 Bought it from him and moved it on a few weeks later, lovely little bikes.
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Re: CB250 MC26 help
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2024, 06:26:44 AM »
That’s a tidy looking bike!
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