Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Honda 250 Elsinore

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The Honda CR250M Elsinore is a two-stroke motorcycle first manufactured by Honda in March 1973, with 29 horsepower and weighing only 229 pounds.It was Honda's first two-stroke bike, the first competition bike that Honda built from scratch instead of adapting a street bike, and the first production motorcrosser.Gary Jones rode it to win the 1973 AMA 250 national motocross series, yet within a year the Yamaha YZ250A was outcompeting it. The first US Honda factory that opened in 1979 in Marysville, Ohio built CR250Ms.





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