Hi all, first post.
Completely new to everything motorcycle and mech related.
So I have a Rebel 250 of unknown year (it's in a building where it's been since 2014) and am starting to think about getting it running again after accepting my level of hatred towards most things 4-wheeled.
Inherited it from grampa in 2014, he let it sit outside for at least 5-6 years prior to my getting it since he lost license somehow due to seizures. Or maybe just chose not to ride it bc of seizure fear. It's been in an outbuilding since then with nothing done to it.
As far as I know, it ran fine enough before it was allowed to sit, but I'm sure that's no longer the case.
No real experience with anything mechanical, since it always bored me and never seemed relevant to anything I'd need, but am gonna need to learn since I don't have anywhere near the money to pay for anyone else to fix it, don't want to have to rely on anyone else to fix problems, and would rather know what to do immediately in the inevitable case of mech problems.
No bike license, but hate driving anything with 4 wheels and hope to eventually make it my daily in and around-town transport for cig runs and whatnot.
Any typical things to look out for with 80s Rebels?
And what's likely to be problematic with something that sat for so long? I assume anything rubber and similar to be dryrotted beyond recognition. Rusting that may be fixable with phosphoric acid soak, etc.
Total teardown, cleaning, and rebuild assumed to be necessary.
Completely new to everything motorcycle and mech related.
So I have a Rebel 250 of unknown year (it's in a building where it's been since 2014) and am starting to think about getting it running again after accepting my level of hatred towards most things 4-wheeled.
Inherited it from grampa in 2014, he let it sit outside for at least 5-6 years prior to my getting it since he lost license somehow due to seizures. Or maybe just chose not to ride it bc of seizure fear. It's been in an outbuilding since then with nothing done to it.
As far as I know, it ran fine enough before it was allowed to sit, but I'm sure that's no longer the case.
No real experience with anything mechanical, since it always bored me and never seemed relevant to anything I'd need, but am gonna need to learn since I don't have anywhere near the money to pay for anyone else to fix it, don't want to have to rely on anyone else to fix problems, and would rather know what to do immediately in the inevitable case of mech problems.
No bike license, but hate driving anything with 4 wheels and hope to eventually make it my daily in and around-town transport for cig runs and whatnot.
Any typical things to look out for with 80s Rebels?
And what's likely to be problematic with something that sat for so long? I assume anything rubber and similar to be dryrotted beyond recognition. Rusting that may be fixable with phosphoric acid soak, etc.
Total teardown, cleaning, and rebuild assumed to be necessary.
