Changing direction

Looking at this superb CR250 it is hard to believe that the initial idea was for something quite different from the race ready 250 which USA star Ivan Tedesco was using to good effect at Farleigh Castle for Vets MXdN in September.

The bike’s owner Stevie Denton told me: “I originally fancied building a CR with an XR500 engine in, so got a frame from the USA and quickly discovered an XR engine won’t go in to the frame without an awful lot of work. The frame isn’t big enough at the lower end, so short of cutting off and remaking the whole engine cradle part of the frame, I had to have a rethink.”

What he came up with was to produce a 250 which would be as good as a CR250 could be, using what was available to him. Actually Stevie said “…what was lying around…”

So, what goes in to a bike fit for superstars of MX to race? Well, quite a lot actually and time-wise it took several years’ development to bring