Bike of the Month - December 2006
1974 Honda CR250M Elsinore
Pat Stalionis
Hunt Valley, MD

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This is my 1974 Honda CR250M Elsinore that I restored from March 2006 to October 2006. I had a CR125M as a kid but couldn't afford the 250...until now. I purchased the bike off of MCMART.com as a well used/abused, but complete runner.

The bike uses a lot of the original parts that have been cleaned, painted, plated etc., to get it where it is now. There is also a fair amount of NOS and clean used parts.

I've always loved the swoopy lines and underslung pipe, plus Honda's liberal use of forged aluminum and chrom-moly tasty bits. I just think it's one of the best looking race bikes ever made!

I'd like to thank a couple of folks for all there help....Nathan, Thanks for a great site, Terry at Western Hills Honda, Don at Vintage Elsinores for the paint and tank, Ron at A&A Global (410) 252-1020 for powdercoating the frame and many other small parts, and CMSNL for the impossible to find parts.

I tried to get this bike as close as possible to the factory look, even duplicating the yellow paint on some of the torqued fasteners. I even turned up a toolkit.

I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did restoring an preserving it. It really was a labor of love.

Pat Stalionis

March 2003	1974 MT250	Mike Downs
April 2003	1976 MR250	Ronald Wampler
May 2003	1973 CR250M	Tom Blankenship
June 2003	1974 MT125	Steve Wind
July 2003	1973 CR250M	Toto Lopez
August 2003	1976 CR250M	Derik Martin
September 2003	1974 CR250M	Blake Addison
October 2003	1975 MT250	Dan Roe
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December 2003	1980 Works Mugen ME125	Danny Gonzales

January 2004	1979 CR250R	Michael Stiles
February 2004	1973 CR250M	Loren Davis
March 2004	1981 CR4250	Paul Zeinert
April 2004	1978 CR250R	Dave Nesbit
May 2004	1974 CR250M	Mike Yates
June 2004	1974/75 MR50	Dennis O'Neal
July 2004	1979 Mugen ME360	Henk Harms
August 2004	1979 CR250R	Jeff Devlin
September 2004	1976 CR250M	Camilo Surinach
October 2004	1978 MOTO-X FOX CR250R	Wayne Nix
November 2004	1973 CR250M	Larry Grossman
December 2004	1979 CR125R	Steve Williams

January 2005	1976 CR125M	Carl Richey
February 2005	1976 CR250M	J. Scott Krebs
March 2005	1974 CR250M	Nathan S. Britt
April 2005	1979 Works Mugen ME360	Brian Sneathen
May 2005	1980 CR125R	Richard Wareham
June 2005	1982 Mugen ME480	William Nicodem
July 2005	1976 CR250M	Graeme Bliss
August 2005	1979 CR250R	Ian Fleming
September 2005	1979 CR125R	Dan Troesken
October 2005	1976 Honda MT125	Carl Richey
November 2005	1979 Mugen ME360	Stephane Tirot
December 2005	1979 CR250R	Jon Forsell

January 2006	1979 CR125R	Jay Blevins
February 2006	1978 MT125R	Terry Gates
March 2006	1980 Mugen ME125R	James Jorgensen
April 2006	1978 CR250R	Les Shanks
May 2006	1977 CR125M	Phillip Palanzo
June 2006	1983 CR250R	Larry Kane
July 2006	1974 C&J CR/XL450	Dal Smilie
August 2006	1981 Mugen ME460	Henk Harms
September 2006	1975 CR125M1	Mark Lafferty
October 2006	1979 CR250R	Shane Wilson
November 2006	1974 MR50 CR Replica	Mick Varsava
December 2006	1974 CR250M	Pat Stalionis

Bike of the Month - December 2006 1974 Honda CR250M Elsinore Pat Stalionis Hunt Valley, MD

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Bike of the Month - December 2006
1974 Honda CR250M Elsinore
Pat Stalionis
Hunt Valley, MD