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XR250L Project

September ‘94

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Weight Reduction

In the interest of reducing weight, Gordo and I scoured every inch of the bike,

looking for extraneous parts to remove.

Remove the turn signals and reflectors. Remove the turn signal relay and

rubber mount. Disassemble the turn signal switch and remove the little turn

signal lever. Cover the opening in the switch.

Remove the seat strap and grind off the captive nut brackets.

Remove the engine run switch. You can use the ignition key to stop the engine.

After disconnecting the switch wires, connect the remaining male and female

ends on the main harness together.

Remove the push throttle cable. You have to readjust the pull cable quite a lot

(I can’t figure out exactly why).

Remove the helmet lock bracket and be careful that you don’t grind into the

frame tube too deep. In lieu of the lock and cable, I installed a metal grommet

on the flap of the tool pouch and a small Master lock to keep out curious

fingers.

Remove the passenger pegs and brackets if you don’t plan to carry passengers.

Remove the heat shield on the exhaust header.

Cut out the upper and lower indented areas on the plastic front sprocket cover

to allow mud to get out easier.

Remove the kick-start-activated compression release cable. As I discovered on

my XR, it’s easier to find top dead center and start the bike with this cable

removed. I was always pushing past TDC because there wasn’t enough

compression resistance to my heavy foot. Remove all the little brackets that

hold the cable. Gordo did all that and more. He removed the pivot arm that

pushes on the exhaust valve from the valve cover. He plugged the hole with a

high temperature rubber plug and covered the outside with gray epoxy, so it

would look nice.

Someday when I have the right-side engine cover off, I’ll take off the extra junk

on the kick start shaft that activates the lower compression release pivot arm,

as I did on my XR.

I removed the small brake-light switch mounted on the front brake lever

assembly because I use the front brake a lot and don’t want to distract people

riding behind me (heh heh heh).

Altogether, I removed 23 pounds as follows:

misc parts................15.0

battery and case ........4.5

exhaust trade.............1.0

gas tank trade............1.5

number plates............1.0

My XR-L weighs only 4 pounds

more than my similarly stripped ‘86 XR250R.

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